Ian Heywood

5.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
120 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Ian Heywood is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Ian Heywood has authored 120 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 50 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 13 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Ian Heywood's work include Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (48 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (45 papers) and Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (38 papers). Ian Heywood is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (48 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (45 papers) and Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (38 papers). Ian Heywood collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, South Africa and Australia. Ian Heywood's co-authors include M. J. Jarvis, R. P. Fender, Danail Obreschkow, Steve Rawlings, A. K. Tzioumis, M. Giustini, H.-R. Klöckner, F. Yusef‐Zadeh, Barry Sandywell and S. Corbel and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews.

In The Last Decade

Ian Heywood

111 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.

Nine-hour X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions from a low-mass black hole galactic nucleus

2019 182 citations R. P. Fender, Ian Heywood et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ian Heywood United Kingdom	22	1.3k	554	170	67	62	120	1.5k
L. M. Winter United States	22	1.5k 1.2×	439 0.8×	174 1.0×	55 0.8×	26 0.4×	42	1.6k
K. Smith United States	15	1.0k 0.8×	229 0.4×	205 1.2×	26 0.4×	15 0.2×	73	1.4k
D. Watson Denmark	35	3.3k 2.6×	692 1.2×	595 3.5×	70 1.0×	10 0.2×	139	3.8k
Stephen C. Russell United States	13	652 0.5×	176 0.3×	115 0.7×	26 0.4×	46 0.7×	48	1.0k
D. K. Duncan United States	23	2.4k 1.9×	201 0.4×	720 4.2×	28 0.4×	50 0.8×	65	3.0k
William Alston United Kingdom	23	1.4k 1.1×	616 1.1×	44 0.3×	17 0.3×	37 0.6×	64	1.7k
D. L. Kaplan United States	32	2.9k 2.3×	748 1.4×	135 0.8×	21 0.3×	30 0.5×	143	3.2k
Kimberly A. Weaver United States	26	2.0k 1.6×	791 1.4×	204 1.2×	16 0.2×	7 0.1×	77	2.3k
Chris Clarkson South Africa	30	2.8k 2.2×	1.4k 2.5×	155 0.9×	15 0.2×	17 0.3×	106	3.2k
H. L. Shipman United States	21	1.1k 0.9×	130 0.2×	337 2.0×	57 0.9×	17 0.3×	96	1.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ian Heywood

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Ian Heywood. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Ian Heywood 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 Ian Heywood. Ian Heywood is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Jarvis, M. J., Anastasia A Ponomareva, Harry Desmond, et al.. (2025). MIGHTEE-HI: the radial acceleration relation with resolved stellar mass measurements. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(3). 2366–2392. 2 indexed citations

Smirnov, O., Ian Heywood, M. Geyer, et al.. (2025). Mining the time axis with TRON – I. Millisecond pulsars in Omega Centauri, Terzan 5, and 47 Tucanae detected through MeerKAT interferometric imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 538(1). L62–L68. 2 indexed citations

Smirnov, O., Aaron Golden, B. Ngcebetsha, et al.. (2025). Mining the time axis with TRON – II. MeerKAT detects a stellar radio flare from a distant RS CVn candidate. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 538(1). L89–L93. 3 indexed citations

Brienza, M., K. Rajpurohit, E. Churazov, et al.. (2025). Non-thermal filaments and AGN recurrent activity in the galaxy group Nest200047: A LOFAR, uGMRT, MeerKAT, and VLA radio spectral analysis. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 696. A239–A239. 4 indexed citations

Koribalski, B., A. Veronica, Klaus Dolag, et al.. (2024). MeerKAT discovery of a double radio relic and odd radio circle: connecting cluster and galaxy merger shocks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(3). 3357–3372. 10 indexed citations

Hilton, Matt, Ian Heywood, Ian Smail, et al.. (2024). MeerKAT observations of starburst galaxies and AGNs within the core of XMMXCS J2215.9−1738 at z = 1.46. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(2). 2842–2859. 2 indexed citations

Dutta, Sushant, et al.. (2023). Search and Characterization of Remnant Radio Galaxies in the XMM-LSS Deep Field. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(2). 176–176. 4 indexed citations

Heywood, Ian. (2023). A new pulsar candidate in 47 Tucanae discovered with MeerKAT imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 525(1). L76–L81. 7 indexed citations

Yusef‐Zadeh, F., M. Wardle, Richard G. Arendt, et al.. (2023). Detection of large-scale synchrotron radiation from the molecular envelope of the Sgr B cloud complex at the Galactic centre. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 1275–1282. 7 indexed citations

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Cotton, W. D., F. Camilo, W. Becker, et al.. (2022). The Curious Case of the “Heartworm” Nebula. The Astrophysical Journal. 934(1). 78–78. 1 indexed citations

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Jarvis, M. J., Ian Heywood, Anastasia A Ponomareva, et al.. (2022). MIGHTEE – H i. The relation between the H i gas in galaxies and the cosmic web. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(2). 2168–2177. 17 indexed citations

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Norris, R. P., J. D. Collier, Roland M. Crocker, et al.. (2022). MeerKAT uncovers the physics of an odd radio circle. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(1). 1300–1316. 29 indexed citations

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Heywood, Ian, et al.. (2021). The Galactic center chimneys: the base of the multiphase outflow of the Milky Way. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 28 indexed citations

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Ponomareva, Anastasia A, Wanga Mulaudzi, Natasha Maddox, et al.. (2021). MIGHTEE-H i: the baryonic Tully–Fisher relation over the last billion years. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508(1). 1195–1205. 27 indexed citations

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Heywood, Ian, E. J. Murphy, Eric F. Jiménez-Andrade, et al.. (2021). The VLA Frontier Fields Survey: Deep, High-resolution Radio Imaging of the MACS Lensing Clusters at 3 and 6 GHz. The Astrophysical Journal. 910(2). 105–105. 6 indexed citations

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Heywood, Ian. (2020). oxkat: Semi-automated imaging of MeerKAT observations. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 13 indexed citations

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Pasini, T., M. Brüggen, F. de Gasperin, et al.. (2020). The relation between the diffuse X-ray luminosity and the radio power of the central AGN in galaxy groups. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(2). 2163–2174. 10 indexed citations

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Tremou, Evangelia, Ian Heywood, S. D. Vergani, et al.. (2019). GRB 190114C: MeerKAT radio observation.. GCN. 23760. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Fender, Rob, Ian Heywood, P. A. Woudt, & J. C. A. Miller‐Jones. (2018). MeerKAT detection of H1743-322 at 1.3 GHz. ATel. 12046. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Heywood, Ian. (1997). Beyond chorley. Current geographic information issues. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 4 indexed citations

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