Eric W. Peng

17.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
96 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Eric W. Peng is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Eric W. Peng has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 57 papers in Instrumentation and 10 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Eric W. Peng's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (84 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (70 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (57 papers). Eric W. Peng is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (84 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (70 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (57 papers). Eric W. Peng collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and China. Eric W. Peng's co-authors include Laura Ferrarese, John P. Blakeslee, Andrés Jordán, S. Mei, J. Brinkmann, Christy Tremonti, Timothy M. Heckman, Simon D. M. White, Guinevere Kauffmann and Mark Seibert and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Eric W. Peng

91 papers receiving 6.9k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2004 2.1k citations Eric W. Peng et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The dependence of star formation history and internal structure on stellar mass for 10⁵low-redshift galaxies

2003 766 citations Eric W. Peng et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Eric W. Peng United States	38	7.0k	3.7k	548	275	231	96	7.2k
John P. Blakeslee United States	47	7.2k 1.0×	3.7k 1.0×	677 1.2×	263 1.0×	403 1.7×	140	7.3k
Duncan A. Forbes Australia	50	8.7k 1.2×	5.1k 1.4×	584 1.1×	377 1.4×	267 1.2×	311	8.8k
M. Baes Belgium	38	5.3k 0.8×	1.9k 0.5×	676 1.2×	306 1.1×	236 1.0×	202	5.5k
Christopher C. Hayward United States	47	5.6k 0.8×	2.4k 0.7×	804 1.5×	187 0.7×	138 0.6×	136	5.8k
Julianne J. Dalcanton United States	45	7.3k 1.1×	3.6k 1.0×	734 1.3×	161 0.6×	167 0.7×	182	7.6k
Mark Seibert United States	31	5.5k 0.8×	2.3k 0.6×	697 1.3×	158 0.6×	169 0.7×	67	5.6k
Peter Eisenhardt United States	48	7.7k 1.1×	3.9k 1.1×	1.3k 2.3×	141 0.5×	246 1.1×	168	7.9k
Dawn K. Erb United States	34	5.9k 0.8×	2.8k 0.8×	735 1.3×	203 0.7×	162 0.7×	52	6.0k
Francesco Shankar United Kingdom	38	4.4k 0.6×	2.1k 0.6×	795 1.5×	161 0.6×	139 0.6×	118	4.5k
E. Vanzella Italy	44	6.0k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	898 1.6×	125 0.5×	297 1.3×	103	6.2k

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Lyu, Wanlin, et al.. (2025). Dependence of Metal Enrichment of Nuclear Star Clusters on Galaxy Stellar Mass. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(1). 85–85.

Madau, Piero, et al.. (2024). Searching for Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters through Tidal Disruption Events. The Astrophysical Journal. 963(2). 146–146. 8 indexed citations

Sales, Laura V., et al.. (2024). Imposters among us: globular cluster kinematics and the halo mass of ultra-diffuse galaxies in clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(2). 1827–1838. 3 indexed citations

Cantiello, Michele, John P. Blakeslee, Laura Ferrarese, et al.. (2024). The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). III. A Catalog of Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances and the Three-dimensional Distribution of Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(1). 145–145. 10 indexed citations

Mihos, J. Christopher, Patrick R. Durrell, Elisa Toloba, et al.. (2024). The Globular Cluster System of the Virgo Cluster Ultradiffuse Galaxy VCC 615. The Astrophysical Journal. 978(1). 93–93.

Toloba, Elisa, Laura V. Sales, Sungsoon Lim, et al.. (2023). The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XXXV. First Kinematical Clues of Overly Massive Dark Matter Halos in Several Ultradiffuse Galaxies in the Virgo Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(1). 77–77. 17 indexed citations

Mihos, J. Christopher, Patrick R. Durrell, Elisa Toloba, et al.. (2022). The Distance and Dynamical History of the Virgo Cluster Ultradiffuse Galaxy VCC 615. The Astrophysical Journal. 924(2). 87–87. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Chengze, Eric W. Peng, Patrick Côté, et al.. (2022). The Color Gradients of the Globular Cluster Systems in M87 and M49. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(2). 149–149. 3 indexed citations

Sales, Laura V., Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, et al.. (2022). Modelling globular clusters in the TNG50 simulation: predictions from dwarfs to giant galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(2). 2453–2470. 10 indexed citations

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Fensch, Jérémy, Pierre–Alain Duc, Sungsoon Lim, et al.. (2020). Shedding light on the formation mechanism of shell galaxy NGC 474 with MUSE. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 8 indexed citations

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Sales, Laura V., et al.. (2020). Globular clusters as tracers of the dark matter content of dwarfs in galaxy clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(2). 1661–1677. 26 indexed citations

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Sales, Laura V., et al.. (2020). Simulating the spatial distribution and kinematics of globular clusters within galaxy clusters in illustris. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(4). 5357–5368. 24 indexed citations

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Sales, Laura V., et al.. (2020). The formation of ultradiffuse galaxies in clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(2). 1848–1858. 77 indexed citations

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Zhang, Hong-Xin, Rory Smith, Se-Heon Oh, et al.. (2020). The Blue Compact Dwarf Galaxy VCC 848 Formed by Dwarf–Dwarf Merging: H i Gas, Star Formation, and Numerical Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 900(2). 152–152. 22 indexed citations

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Emsellem, Éric, R. F. J. van der Burg, Jérémy Fensch, et al.. (2019). The ultra-diffuse galaxy NGC 1052-DF2 with MUSE. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 625. A76–A76. 65 indexed citations

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Cantiello, Michele, John P. Blakeslee, Laura Ferrarese, et al.. (2018). The Next Generation Virgo Cluster Survey (NGVS). XVIII. Measurement and Calibration of Surface Brightness Fluctuation Distances for Bright Galaxies in Virgo (and Beyond). The Astrophysical Journal. 856(2). 126–126. 47 indexed citations

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Harris, William E., Warren R. Morningstar, Oleg Y. Gnedin, et al.. (2014). GLOBULAR CLUSTER SYSTEMS IN BRIGHTEST CLUSTER GALAXIES: A NEAR-UNIVERSAL LUMINOSITY FUNCTION?. The Astrophysical Journal. 797(2). 128–128. 59 indexed citations

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Matsui, Elizabeth C., Andrew J. Belli, Meredith C. McCormack, et al.. (2013). Effects of Allergic Phenotype on Respiratory Symptoms and Exacerbations in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine. 188(2). 187–192. 66 indexed citations

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Mieske, Steffen, M. Hilker, Andrés Jordán, et al.. (2008). The nature of UCDs: Internal dynamics from an expanded sample and homogeneous database. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 82 indexed citations

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Ferrarese, Laura, E. Dalla Bontà, Eric W. Peng, et al.. (2006). A Fundamental Relation between Compact Stellar Nuclei, Supermassive Black Holes, and Their Host Galaxies. Research Padua Archive (University of Padua). 165 indexed citations

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