Gerard Lemson

5.1k total citations · 3 hit papers
49 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

Gerard Lemson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Gerard Lemson has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 20 papers in Instrumentation and 7 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Gerard Lemson's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (24 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (20 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (8 papers). Gerard Lemson is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (24 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (20 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (8 papers). Gerard Lemson collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Gerard Lemson's co-authors include Simon D. M. White, Qi Guo, Volker Springel, Bruno Henriques, P. Thomas, Guinevere Kauffmann, Raúl E. Angulo, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, G. De Lucia and Cheng Li and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Gerard Lemson

46 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

2011 793 citations Qi Guo, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Galaxy formation in the Planck cosmology – I. Matching the observed evolution of star formation rates, colours and stellar masses

2015 453 citations Bruno Henriques, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The EAGLE simulation of galaxy formation: public release of halo and galaxy catalogues

2016 403 citations Stuart McAlpine, John Helly et al. Liverpool John Moores University profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gerard Lemson Germany	21	3.3k	1.8k	539	233	182	49	3.4k
Nelson Padilla Chile	34	3.3k 1.0×	1.7k 0.9×	644 1.2×	242 1.0×	194 1.1×	137	3.4k
Robert J. Thacker Canada	18	3.6k 1.1×	1.7k 0.9×	629 1.2×	250 1.1×	284 1.6×	32	3.9k
Hugh Couchman Canada	8	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 0.8×	593 1.1×	157 0.7×	284 1.6×	10	3.3k
P. Norberg United Kingdom	36	3.5k 1.1×	1.9k 1.0×	582 1.1×	410 1.8×	198 1.1×	91	3.5k
Andrew Hearin United States	25	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	383 0.7×	315 1.4×	136 0.7×	48	2.6k
Elmo Tempel Estonia	31	2.9k 0.9×	1.4k 0.8×	605 1.1×	289 1.2×	219 1.2×	116	3.0k
A. S. G. Robotham Australia	37	4.0k 1.2×	2.3k 1.3×	575 1.1×	293 1.3×	191 1.0×	153	4.1k
Željko Ivezić United States	26	3.7k 1.1×	1.6k 0.9×	469 0.9×	326 1.4×	116 0.6×	38	3.8k
Benedikt Diemer United States	21	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.7×	459 0.9×	155 0.7×	145 0.8×	48	2.6k
Joshua A. Frieman United States	21	2.4k 0.7×	985 0.5×	489 0.9×	256 1.1×	178 1.0×	23	2.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gerard Lemson

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Zhu, Xiaowei, Luis A. Martínez‐Tossas, Michael Schnaubelt, et al.. (2025). JHTDB-wind: a web-accessible large-eddy simulation database of a wind farm with virtual sensor querying. Wind energy science. 10(12). 2821–2840.

Platais, I., J. Sahlmann, L. Girardi, et al.. (2024). Discovery of Astrometric Accelerations by Dark Companions in the Globular Cluster ω Centauri. The Astrophysical Journal. 963(1). 60–60. 2 indexed citations

Mitschang, A. W., et al.. (2024). Turning Visions Into Reality: Lessons Learned From Building a Search and Discovery Platform. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 2 indexed citations

Beaton, Rachael L., Suzanne Werner, A. W. Mitschang, et al.. (2022). APOGEE-centric Ananke Simulations in a SciServer SQL Database. Research Notes of the AAS. 6(6). 125–125. 1 indexed citations

Haine, Thomas W. N., Renske Gelderloos, Gerard Lemson, et al.. (2021). Is Computational Oceanography Coming of Age?. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. 102(8). E1481–E1493. 10 indexed citations

Taghizadeh-Popp, Manuchehr, et al.. (2020). SciServer: a Collaborative Workspace for Data Analysis, Sharing and Storage in the Cloud. 522. 279. 1 indexed citations

Raddick, M. Jordan, et al.. (2019). SciServerCompute: Bring Analysis Close to the Data. ASPC. 521. 749. 2 indexed citations

Lemson, Gerard, et al.. (2017). SciServer: An Online Collaborative Environment for Big Data in Research and Education. 229. 2 indexed citations

Budavári, Tamás, et al.. (2017). Probabilistic cross-identification of galaxies with realistic clustering. Astronomy and Computing. 20. 83–86. 1 indexed citations

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Henriques, Bruno, Simon D. M. White, P. Thomas, et al.. (2017). Galaxy formation in the Planck cosmology – IV. Mass and environmental quenching, conformity and clustering. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 469(3). 2626–2645. 66 indexed citations

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McAlpine, Stuart, John Helly, Matthieu Schaller, et al.. (2016). The EAGLE simulation of galaxy formation: public release of halo and galaxy catalogues. Liverpool John Moores University. 403 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lemson, Gerard, M. Meneghetti, G. Meylan, Margarita Petkova, & S. Pires. (2014). A PCA-based automated finder for galaxy-scale strong lenses. 24 indexed citations

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Overzier, Roderik, Gerard Lemson, Raúl E. Angulo, et al.. (2012). The Millennium Run Observatory: first light. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 428(1). 778–803. 39 indexed citations

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Guo, Qi, Simon D. M. White, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, et al.. (2011). From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 413(1). 101–131. 793 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lee, Jounghun, Volker Springel, Ue‐Li Pen, & Gerard Lemson. (2008). Quantifying the cosmic web - I. The large-scale halo ellipticity-ellipticity and ellipticity-direction correlations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 389(3). 1266–1274. 43 indexed citations

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Demleitner, Markus, Gerard Lemson, T. Rauch, et al.. (2007). The German Astrophysical Virtual Observatory (GAVO): Archives and Applications, Status and Services. 328(7). 713. 1 indexed citations

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Kemper, Alfons, et al.. (2006). Grid-Based Data Stream Processing in e-Science. 30–30. 14 indexed citations

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Reiser, Angelika, Alfons Kemper, H. M. Adorf, et al.. (2004). Datenstrom-Management für e-Science mit StreamGlobe.. Datenbank-Spektrum. 11. 14–22. 1 indexed citations

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Somerville, Rachel S., Gerard Lemson, Yair Sigad, et al.. (2001). Non-linear stochastic galaxy biasing in cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 320(3). 289–306. 92 indexed citations

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Somerville, Rachel S., Gerard Lemson, Tsafrir Kolatt, & Avishai Dekel. (2000). Evaluating approximations for halo merging histories. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 316(3). 479–490. 41 indexed citations

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