James Binney

30.7k citations
212 papers · 16.0k indexed · 7 hit papers · h-index 59
Topics
Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (126 papers)Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (91 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (81 papers)
Journals
NatureSHILAP Revista de lepidopterologíaThe Astrophysical Journal

In The Last Decade

James Binney

202 papers receiving 15.2k citations

Hit Papers

Galactic Dynamics19922026200320142008201019922002200950010001.5k2.0k2.5k

Peers

James Binney
Comparison fields: 5 of 128
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 14.2k
  • Instrumentation 4.9k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 2.1k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 1.6k
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 818
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Fields of papers citing papers by James Binney

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of James Binney

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

All Works

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Improved distances to stars common to TGAS and RAVE
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The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Surveybreakdown →
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On the origin of high-velocity clouds
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The Luminosity Function of Main Sequence Stars within 80 Parsecs
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The Theory of Critical Phenomena: An Introduction to the Renormalization Group
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Torus construction in general gravitational potentials
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Spiral Heating of Galactic Discs
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Book-Review - Galactic Dynamics
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Morphology and dynamics of galaxies : twelfth advanced course of the Swiss Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (member society of the Swiss National Academy of Science)
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Book-Review - Galactic Astronomy - ED.2
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Elliptical galaxies: prolate, oblate or triaxial?
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About James Binney

James Binney is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 212 papers that have together received 16.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (126 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (91 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (81 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (4.9k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (14.2k citations) and Nuclear and High Energy Physics (2.1k citations). James Binney has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Frequent co-authors include Scott Tremaine, Ralph Schönrich, Walter Dehnen, Ortwin Gerhard, A. J. Fisher, M. R. Merrifield, Carlo Nipoti, Jason L. Sanders, Michael Aumer and Gavin Tabor. Their work appears in journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

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