Hugh Couchman

5.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
10 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Hugh Couchman is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Hugh Couchman has authored 10 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 7 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Instrumentation and 1 paper in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Hugh Couchman's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (7 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (5 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (5 papers). Hugh Couchman is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (7 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (5 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (5 papers). Hugh Couchman collaborates with scholars based in Canada, Germany and United Kingdom. Hugh Couchman's co-authors include F. R. Pearce, Simon D. M. White, Carlos S. Frenk, Adrian Jenkins, J. M. Colberg, P. Thomas, J. A. Peacock, Robert J. Thacker, Volker Springel and Naoki Yoshida and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Hugh Couchman

8 papers receiving 3.2k citations

Hit Papers

Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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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.

  1. Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars
    2005 2.9k citations Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Hugh Couchman Canada 8 3.1k 1.5k 593 284 157 10 3.3k
Robert J. Thacker Canada 18 3.6k 1.2× 1.7k 1.1× 629 1.1× 284 1.0× 250 1.6× 32 3.9k
Gerard Lemson Germany 21 3.3k 1.1× 1.8k 1.2× 539 0.9× 182 0.6× 233 1.5× 49 3.4k
Nelson Padilla Chile 34 3.3k 1.1× 1.7k 1.1× 644 1.1× 194 0.7× 242 1.5× 137 3.4k
L. da Costa Brazil 38 3.8k 1.2× 1.9k 1.3× 525 0.9× 320 1.1× 185 1.2× 125 4.1k
C. Porciani Germany 31 4.0k 1.3× 1.6k 1.1× 1.0k 1.7× 384 1.4× 201 1.3× 77 4.2k
Rupert A. C. Croft United States 34 3.6k 1.2× 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 1.8× 217 0.8× 122 0.8× 116 3.8k
Joshua A. Frieman United States 21 2.4k 0.8× 985 0.6× 489 0.8× 178 0.6× 256 1.6× 23 2.5k
Changbom Park South Korea 28 2.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 593 1.0× 342 1.2× 190 1.2× 138 2.8k
Tamás Budavári United States 23 3.5k 1.1× 1.3k 0.9× 816 1.4× 136 0.5× 313 2.0× 92 3.9k
Francisco Prada Spain 29 4.0k 1.3× 1.6k 1.1× 1.3k 2.1× 265 0.9× 173 1.1× 89 4.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Hugh Couchman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Hugh Couchman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Hugh Couchman. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Hugh Couchman. The network helps show where Hugh Couchman may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Hugh Couchman

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Hugh Couchman. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Hugh Couchman based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Hugh Couchman. Hugh Couchman is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

10 of 10 papers shown
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Stinson, Gregory S., Andrea V. Macciò, Chris B. Brook, et al.. (2013). MaGICC-WDM: the effects of warm dark matter in hydrodynamical simulations of disc galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 437(1). 293–304. 19 indexed citations
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Kannan, Rahul, G. S. Stinson, Andrea V. Macciò, et al.. (2013). The MaGICC volume: reproducing statistical properties of high-redshift galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 437(4). 3529–3539. 46 indexed citations
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Pilkington, K., C. G. Few, B. K. Gibson, et al.. (2012). Metallicity Gradients in Disks: Do Galaxies Form Inside-Out?. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 104 indexed citations
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Thacker, Robert J., et al.. (2012). Observations and simulations of the CMB temperature anisotropy at very small angular scales. AIP conference proceedings. 252–260.
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Bailin, Jeremy, G. S. Stinson, Hugh Couchman, et al.. (2010). CONSEQUENCES OF COSMIC MICROWAVE BACKGROUND-REGULATED STAR FORMATION. The Astrophysical Journal. 715(1). 194–201. 10 indexed citations
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Couchman, Hugh. (2008). Computational Astrophysics. 83–83. 11 indexed citations
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Springel, Volker, Simon D. M. White, Adrian Jenkins, et al.. (2005). Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars. Nature. 435(7042). 629–636. 2935 indexed citations breakdown →
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Springel, Volker, Simon D. M. White, J. M. Colberg, et al.. (1998). Genus statistics of the Virgo N-body simulations and the 1.2-Jy redshift survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 298(4). 1169–1188. 16 indexed citations
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Thomas, P., J. M. Colberg, Hugh Couchman, et al.. (1998). The structure of galaxy clusters in various cosmologies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 296(4). 1061–1071. 135 indexed citations
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Pearce, F. R., P. Thomas, Hugh Couchman, et al.. (1997). Simulating the universe.. 234–239. 1 indexed citations

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