James Aird

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
66 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

James Aird is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, James Aird has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 25 papers in Instrumentation and 16 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in James Aird's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (57 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (44 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (25 papers). James Aird is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (57 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (44 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (25 papers). James Aird collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. James Aird's co-authors include Alison L. Coil, A. Georgakakis, K. Nandra, John Moustakas, Daniel J. Eisenstein, Richard J. Cool, Guangtun Zhu, Kenneth C. Wong, Michael R. Blanton and Alexander J. Mendez and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

In The Last Decade

James Aird

63 papers receiving 2.4k 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.

PRIMUS: CONSTRAINTS ON STAR FORMATION QUENCHING AND GALAXY MERGING, AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE STELLAR MASS FUNCTION FROMz= 0-1

2013 321 citations John Moustakas, Alison L. Coil et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The evolution of the X-ray luminosity functions of unabsorbed and absorbed AGNs out to z∼ 5

2015 233 citations James Aird, Alison L. Coil et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
James Aird United Kingdom	28	2.5k	1.0k	578	73	51	66	2.6k
Jonathan R. Trump United States	28	2.7k 1.1×	991 1.0×	505 0.9×	76 1.0×	39 0.8×	72	2.8k
J. D. Silverman United States	30	2.3k 0.9×	838 0.8×	501 0.9×	56 0.8×	30 0.6×	101	2.4k
L. Ciesla France	21	1.7k 0.7×	772 0.7×	248 0.4×	75 1.0×	43 0.8×	38	1.8k
A. Saintonge United Kingdom	32	2.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	292 0.5×	109 1.5×	26 0.5×	75	2.9k
Anja von der Linden United States	27	2.5k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	644 1.1×	65 0.9×	33 0.6×	48	2.6k
Gregory B. Poole Australia	25	2.2k 0.9×	885 0.9×	540 0.9×	63 0.9×	32 0.6×	57	2.3k
D. I. Makarov Russia	23	3.1k 1.2×	1.3k 1.2×	464 0.8×	92 1.3×	29 0.6×	82	3.2k
P. Barmby United States	30	2.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.3×	361 0.6×	59 0.8×	39 0.8×	94	2.9k
Elisabete da Cunha United States	28	2.4k 1.0×	966 0.9×	320 0.6×	82 1.1×	35 0.7×	62	2.5k
O. Almaini United Kingdom	32	2.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.5×	463 0.8×	62 0.8×	50 1.0×	85	2.7k

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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

Aird, James, W. N. Brandt, Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo, et al.. (2025). X-ray selected broad absorption line quasars in SDSS-V: BALs and non-BALs span the same range of X-ray properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(3). 2105–2127. 1 indexed citations

Zhang, Haowen, Peter Behroozi, Marta Volonteri, et al.. (2025). Trinity VI: connection between galaxy star formation rates and supermassive black hole accretion rates from z = 0 − 10. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 538(1). 503–517. 2 indexed citations

Aird, James, et al.. (2025). Exploring the X-ray–radio connection for AGNs via measurements of the multidimensional luminosity function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(2). 1779–1798.

Zhang, Haowen, Peter Behroozi, Marta Volonteri, et al.. (2024). Trinity – III. Quasar luminosity functions decomposed by halo, galaxy, and black hole masses as well as Eddington ratios from z = 0–10. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(3). 2777–2793. 5 indexed citations

Roster, W., M. Salvato, Sven Krippendorf, et al.. (2024). PICZL: Image-based photometric redshifts for AGN. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A260–A260. 1 indexed citations

Guainazzi, M., James Aird, F. J. Carrera, et al.. (2024). The NewAthena mission concept in the context of the next decade of X-ray astronomy. Nature Astronomy. 9(1). 36–44. 22 indexed citations

Aird, James, et al.. (2023). The intrinsic X-ray luminosity distribution of an optically selected SDSS quasar population. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 9004–9022. 5 indexed citations

Aird, James, et al.. (2023). The Extragalactic Serendipitous Swift Survey (ExSeSS) – I. Survey definition and measurements of the X-ray number counts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(2). 1620–1632. 5 indexed citations

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Georgakakis, A., D. M. Alexander, A. Ruiz, et al.. (2022). The demographics of obscured AGN from X-ray spectroscopy guided by multiwavelength information. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(2). 2546–2566. 15 indexed citations

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Delvecchio, I., E. Daddi, M. Sargent, et al.. (2022). A super-linear ‘radio-AGN main sequence’ links mean radio-AGN power and galaxy stellar mass since z ∼ 3. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 668. A81–A81. 8 indexed citations

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Delvecchio, I., E. Daddi, James Aird, et al.. (2020). The Evolving AGN Duty Cycle in Galaxies Since z ∼ 3 as Encoded in the X-Ray Luminosity Function. The Astrophysical Journal. 892(1). 17–17. 20 indexed citations

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Delvecchio, I., E. Daddi, Francesco Shankar, et al.. (2019). The galaxy’s gas content regulated by the dark matter halo mass results in a superlinear M BH–M ⋆ Relation. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 11 indexed citations

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Fornasini, Francesca M., Mariska Kriek, Ryan L. Sanders, et al.. (2019). The MOSDEF Survey: The Metallicity Dependence of X-Ray Binary Populations at z ∼ 2. The Astrophysical Journal. 885(1). 65–65. 26 indexed citations

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Kriek, Mariska, Pieter van Dokkum, Ivo Labbé, et al.. (2018). FAST: Fitting and Assessment of Synthetic Templates. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 4 indexed citations

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Stanley, F., D. M. Alexander, C. M. Harrison, et al.. (2017). The mean star formation rates of unobscured QSOs: searching for evidence of suppressed or enhanced star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 472(2). 2221–2240. 62 indexed citations

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Mendez, Alexander J., Alison L. Coil, James Aird, et al.. (2016). PRIMUS + DEEP2: Clustering of X-Ray, Radio, and IR-AGNs at z ~ 0.7. Leicester Research Archive (University of Leicester). 32 indexed citations

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Büchner, Johannes, A. Georgakakis, K. Nandra, et al.. (2015). OBSCURATION-DEPENDENT EVOLUTION OF ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI. The Astrophysical Journal. 802(2). 89–89. 174 indexed citations

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Skibba, Ramin, Alison L. Coil, John Moustakas, et al.. (2014). PRIMUS: Galaxy Clustering as a Function of Luminosity and Color at 0.2 < z < 1. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29 indexed citations

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Brightman, Murray, K. Nandra, M. Salvato, et al.. (2014). Compton thick active galactic nuclei in Chandra surveys. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 443(3). 1999–2017. 56 indexed citations

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