Gregory D. Martinez

4.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
35 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Gregory D. Martinez is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Gregory D. Martinez has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 8 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 7 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Gregory D. Martinez's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (16 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (9 papers). Gregory D. Martinez is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (16 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (9 papers). Gregory D. Martinez collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Germany. Gregory D. Martinez's co-authors include Manoj Kaplinghat, James S. Bullock, Marla Geha, Joshua D. Simon, Joe Wolf, Ricardo R. Muñoz, Quinn E. Minor, Tuan Do, A. M. Ghez and Jessica R. Lu and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Gregory D. Martinez

34 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Accurate masses for dispersion-supported galaxies

2010 472 citations Joe Wolf, Gregory D. Martinez et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Testing General Relativity with Stellar Orbits around the Supermassive Black Hole in Our Galactic Center

2017 110 citations Aurélien Hees, Tuan Do et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gregory D. Martinez United States	16	1.3k	613	337	94	46	35	1.5k
D. Munshi United Kingdom	19	1.1k 0.8×	321 0.5×	168 0.5×	44 0.5×	38 0.8×	63	1.1k
J. M. Wrobel United States	24	1.7k 1.3×	810 1.3×	186 0.6×	123 1.3×	36 0.8×	82	1.8k
Emma Ryan‐Weber Australia	22	1.6k 1.2×	428 0.7×	444 1.3×	55 0.6×	8 0.2×	58	1.7k
Harry Desmond United Kingdom	18	926 0.7×	416 0.7×	219 0.6×	54 0.6×	5 0.1×	54	1.0k
Stuart I. Muldrew United Kingdom	15	689 0.5×	190 0.3×	411 1.2×	14 0.1×	41 0.9×	33	802
Masao Mori Japan	19	1.4k 1.1×	365 0.6×	367 1.1×	27 0.3×	9 0.2×	52	1.5k
Teppei Okumura Japan	20	1.2k 0.9×	289 0.5×	457 1.4×	66 0.7×	33 0.7×	67	1.2k
Pau Amaro‐Seoane Germany	27	3.1k 2.4×	590 1.0×	176 0.5×	137 1.5×	4 0.1×	74	3.2k
Tony Mroczkowski United States	19	1.1k 0.8×	342 0.6×	243 0.7×	56 0.6×	5 0.1×	83	1.1k
Silvia Bonoli Spain	24	1.2k 1.0×	217 0.4×	533 1.6×	37 0.4×	6 0.1×	56	1.3k

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Hosek, Matthew W., Tuan Do, Gregory D. Martinez, et al.. (2025). The HST–Gaia Near-infrared Astrometric Reference Frame Near the Milky Way Galactic Center. The Astrophysical Journal. 989(1). 79–79.

Do, Tuan, Gregory D. Martinez, A. M. Ghez, et al.. (2024). New Evidence for a Flux-independent Spectral Index of Sgr A* in the Near-infrared. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(2). 228–228. 3 indexed citations

Campbell, R., M. Morris, Tuan Do, et al.. (2023). The Swansong of the Galactic Center Source X7: An Extreme Example of Tidal Evolution near the Supermassive Black Hole. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(2). 136–136. 9 indexed citations

Do, Tuan, Gunther Witzel, A. M. Ghez, et al.. (2023). Near-infrared Flux Distribution of Sgr A* from 2005–2022: Evidence for an Enhanced Accretion Episode in 2019. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 954(1). L33–L33. 6 indexed citations

Konopacky, Quinn, et al.. (2023). The Orbital Eccentricities of Directly Imaged Companions Using Observable-based Priors: Implications for Population-level Distributions. The Astronomical Journal. 166(2). 48–48. 8 indexed citations

Witzel, Gunther, Gregory D. Martinez, S. P. Willner, et al.. (2021). Rapid Variability of Sgr A* across the Electromagnetic Spectrum. The Astrophysical Journal. 917(2). 73–73. 42 indexed citations

Martinez, Gregory D., Aurélien Hees, A. M. Ghez, et al.. (2019). Improving Orbit Estimates for Incomplete Orbits with a New Approach to Priors: with Applications from Black Holes to Planets. The Astronomical Journal. 158(1). 4–4. 19 indexed citations

Hees, Aurélien, Tuan Do, A. M. Ghez, et al.. (2019). An Adaptive Scheduling Tool to Optimize Measurements to Reach a Scientific Objective: Methodology and Application to Measurements of Stellar Orbits in the Galactic Center. The Astrophysical Journal. 880(2). 87–87. 2 indexed citations

Athron, Peter, Csaba Balázs, A. G. Buckley, et al.. (2019). Combined collider constraints on neutralinos and charginos. The European Physical Journal C. 79(5). 46 indexed citations

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Athron, Peter, Csaba Balázs, Ankit Beniwal, et al.. (2019). Global analyses of Higgs portal singlet dark matter models using GAMBIT. The European Physical Journal C. 79(1). 38–38. 68 indexed citations

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Witzel, Gunther, Breann Sitarski, A. M. Ghez, et al.. (2017). The Post-periapsis Evolution of Galactic Center Source G1: The Second Case of a Resolved Tidal Interaction with a Supermassive Black Hole. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29 indexed citations

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Hees, Aurélien, Tuan Do, A. M. Ghez, et al.. (2017). Testing General Relativity with Stellar Orbits around the Supermassive Black Hole in Our Galactic Center. Physical Review Letters. 118(21). 211101–211101. 110 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chappell, Samantha, A. M. Ghez, Tuan Do, et al.. (2016). The late-type stellar density profile in the Galactic Center: A statistical approach. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 1 indexed citations

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Do, Tuan, A. M. Ghez, M. Morris, et al.. (2016). Observational constraints on the formation and evolution of the Milky Way nuclear star cluster with Keck and Gemini. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 11(S322). 222–230. 2 indexed citations

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Pace, Andrew B., Gregory D. Martinez, Manoj Kaplinghat, & Ricardo R. Muñoz. (2014). Evidence for substructure in Ursa Minor dwarf spheroidal galaxy using a Bayesian object detection method. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 442(2). 1718–1730. 8 indexed citations

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Do, Tuan, Gregory D. Martinez, S. Yelda, et al.. (2013). THREE-DIMENSIONAL STELLAR KINEMATICS AT THE GALACTIC CENTER: MEASURING THE NUCLEAR STAR CLUSTER SPATIAL DENSITY PROFILE, BLACK HOLE MASS, AND DISTANCE. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 779(1). L6–L6. 42 indexed citations

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Orlita, M., C. Faugeras, R. Grill, et al.. (2011). Carrier Scattering from Dynamical Magnetoconductivity in Quasineutral Epitaxial Graphene. Physical Review Letters. 107(21). 216603–216603. 52 indexed citations

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Martinez, Gregory D., Quinn E. Minor, James S. Bullock, et al.. (2011). A COMPLETE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF THE MILKY WAY SATELLITE SEGUE 1: DARK MATTER CONTENT, STELLAR MEMBERSHIP, AND BINARY PROPERTIES FROM A BAYESIAN ANALYSIS. The Astrophysical Journal. 738(1). 55–55. 53 indexed citations

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Simon, Joshua D., Marla Geha, Quinn E. Minor, et al.. (2011). A COMPLETE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEY OF THE MILKY WAY SATELLITE SEGUE 1: THE DARKEST GALAXY. The Astrophysical Journal. 733(1). 46–46. 171 indexed citations

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Naray, Rachel Kuzio de, Gregory D. Martinez, James S. Bullock, & Manoj Kaplinghat. (2010). THE CASE AGAINST WARM OR SELF-INTERACTING DARK MATTER AS EXPLANATIONS FOR CORES IN LOW SURFACE BRIGHTNESS GALAXIES. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 710(2). L161–L166. 54 indexed citations

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