Fergus Cullen

5.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Fergus Cullen is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Fergus Cullen has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 57 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 30 papers in Instrumentation and 6 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Fergus Cullen's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (51 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (29 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (26 papers). Fergus Cullen is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (51 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (29 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (26 papers). Fergus Cullen collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Fergus Cullen's co-authors include R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, D J McLeod, Adam C. Carnall, Callum T. Donnan, R Begley, M. L. Hamadouche, R. A. A. Bowler, D. Magee and J. S. Dunlop and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Fergus Cullen

57 papers receiving 1.5k 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 evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ≃ 8 – 15 from deep JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging

2022 249 citations Callum T. Donnan, D J McLeod et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658

2023 96 citations Adam C. Carnall, R. J. McLure et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Fergus Cullen United Kingdom	23	1.7k	867	165	69	45	62	1.7k
Adam C. Carnall United Kingdom	20	1.7k 1.0×	928 1.1×	169 1.0×	62 0.9×	40 0.9×	46	1.8k
Michael V. Maseda Netherlands	25	1.7k 1.0×	790 0.9×	262 1.6×	75 1.1×	75 1.7×	84	1.8k
Hanae Inami United States	25	1.5k 0.9×	671 0.8×	272 1.6×	81 1.2×	70 1.6×	55	1.6k
Gergö Popping Germany	25	1.7k 1.0×	738 0.9×	221 1.3×	73 1.1×	29 0.6×	69	1.8k
Marc Rafelski United States	25	1.7k 1.0×	613 0.7×	319 1.9×	59 0.9×	39 0.9×	91	1.8k
Kyle B. Westfall United States	21	1.8k 1.1×	876 1.0×	136 0.8×	95 1.4×	30 0.7×	48	1.8k
L. Chemin France	25	1.7k 1.0×	831 1.0×	151 0.9×	46 0.7×	23 0.5×	53	1.8k
Yuichi Harikane Japan	23	2.0k 1.2×	898 1.0×	322 2.0×	69 1.0×	50 1.1×	73	2.2k
A. Verma United Kingdom	26	2.2k 1.3×	813 0.9×	238 1.4×	93 1.3×	28 0.6×	47	2.2k
Alaina Henry United States	21	1.7k 1.0×	779 0.9×	229 1.4×	53 0.8×	82 1.8×	59	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fergus Cullen

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Shapley, Alice E., Ryan L. Sanders, Naveen A. Reddy, et al.. (2025). The AURORA Survey: Tracing Galactic Outflows at z ≳ 2.5 with JWST/NIRSpec Near-ultraviolet Absorption Lines. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(2). 170–170.

Hamadouche, M. L., R. J. McLure, Adam C. Carnall, et al.. (2025). JWST PRIMER: strong evidence for the environmental quenching of low-mass galaxies out to z≃ 2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(1). 463–475. 2 indexed citations

Cullen, Fergus, Adam C. Carnall, D. Scholte, et al.. (2025). The JWST EXCELS survey: an extremely metal-poor galaxy at z = 8.271 hosting an unusual population of massive stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(3). 2176–2194. 8 indexed citations

Donnan, Callum T., J. S. Dunlop, R. J. McLure, D J McLeod, & Fergus Cullen. (2025). No evidence (yet) for increased star-formation efficiency at early times. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539(3). 2409–2423. 5 indexed citations

Shapley, Alice E., Evan D. Skillman, Erik Aver, et al.. (2025). The AURORA Survey: Robust Helium Abundances at High Redshift Reveal a Subpopulation of Helium-enhanced Galaxies in the Early Universe. The Astrophysical Journal. 996(1). 68–68.

Mason, Charlotte, et al.. (2024). Inferring the distribution of the ionising photon escape fraction. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A57–A57. 3 indexed citations

Carnall, Adam C., R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, et al.. (2023). A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658. Nature. 619(7971). 716–719. 96 indexed citations breakdown →

Carnall, Adam C., D J McLeod, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2023). A surprising abundance of massive quiescent galaxies at 3 <z< 5 in the first data fromJWSTCEERS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(3). 3974–3985. 69 indexed citations

Cullen, Fergus, R. J. McLure, D J McLeod, et al.. (2023). The ultraviolet continuum slopes (β) of galaxies at z ≃ 8-16 from JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(1). 14–23. 54 indexed citations

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Wofford, Aida, S. Charlot, Gustavo Bruzual, et al.. (2023). Extreme broad He ii emission at high and low redshifts: the dominant role of VMS in NGC 3125-A1 and CDFS131717. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523(3). 3949–3966. 16 indexed citations

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Shapley, Alice E., Ryan L. Sanders, Samir Salim, et al.. (2022). The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field Survey: Implications of the Lack of Evolution in the Dust Attenuation–Mass Relation to z ∼ 2*. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(2). 145–145. 20 indexed citations

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Hayden-Pawson, Connor, Mirko Curti, R. Maiolino, et al.. (2022). The KLEVER survey: nitrogen abundances at z ∼ 2 and probing the existence of a fundamental nitrogen relation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512(2). 2867–2889. 22 indexed citations

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Calabrò, Antonello, L. Guaita, L. Pentericci, et al.. (2022). The environmental dependence of the stellar and gas-phase mass–metallicity relation at 2 < z < 4. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 664. A75–A75. 9 indexed citations

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Saxena, Aayush, Richard S. Ellis, Antonello Calabrò, et al.. (2021). The VANDELS Survey: new constraints on the high-mass X-ray binary populations in normal star-forming galaxies at 3 < z < 5.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(4). 4798–4812. 9 indexed citations

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Dutta, Rajeshwari, Michele Fumagalli, Matteo Fossati, et al.. (2021). Metal-enriched halo gas across galaxy overdensities over the last 10 billion years. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508(3). 4573–4599. 33 indexed citations

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Bowler, R. A. A., Fergus Cullen, R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, & A. Avison. (2021). The discovery of rest-frame UV colour gradients and a diversity of dust morphologies in bright z ≃ 7 Lyman-break galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 510(4). 5088–5101. 23 indexed citations

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Fontanot, Fabio, Antonello Calabrò, M. Talia, et al.. (2021). The evolution of the mass–metallicity relations from the VANDELS survey and the gaea semi-analytic model. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504(3). 4481–4492. 21 indexed citations

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Stott, J. P., R. M. Bielby, Fergus Cullen, et al.. (2020). Quasar Sightline and Galaxy Evolution (QSAGE) survey – II. Galaxy overdensities around UV luminous quasars at z = 1–2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(3). 3083–3096. 10 indexed citations

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Saxena, Aayush, L. Pentericci, D. Schaerer, et al.. (2020). X-ray properties of He ii λ 1640 emitting galaxies in VANDELS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 496(3). 3796–3807. 19 indexed citations

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Michałowski, M. J., Christopher C. Hayward, J. S. Dunlop, et al.. (2014). Determining the stellar masses of submillimetre galaxies: the critical importance of star formation histories. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 45 indexed citations

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