James S. Bullock

37.3k total citations · 16 hit papers
204 papers, 22.7k citations indexed

About

James S. Bullock is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, James S. Bullock has authored 204 papers receiving a total of 22.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 194 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 106 papers in Instrumentation and 45 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in James S. Bullock's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (183 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (106 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (90 papers). James S. Bullock is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (183 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (106 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (90 papers). James S. Bullock collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Switzerland. James S. Bullock's co-authors include Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Manoj Kaplinghat, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Joel R. Primack, Risa H. Wechsler, Avishai Dekel, Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Andrew R. Zentner, Kathryn V. Johnston and Philip F. Hopkins and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

James S. Bullock

198 papers receiving 21.8k citations

Hit Papers

Profiles of dark haloes: evolution, scatter and environment 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2014 2017 2011 2002 400 800 1.2k
What are hit papers?

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. Profiles of dark haloes: evolution, scatter and environment
    2001 1.4k citations James S. Bullock et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  2. Galaxies on FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments): stellar feedback explains cosmologically inefficient star formation
    2014 1.0k citations Philip F. Hopkins, Dušan Kereš et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  3. Small-Scale Challenges to the ΛCDM Paradigm
    2017 933 citations James S. Bullock, Michael Boylan-Kolchin profile →
  4. Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes
    2011 895 citations Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock et al. profile →
  5. Concentrations of Dark Halos from Their Assembly Histories
    2002 783 citations James S. Bullock et al. profile →
  6. A Universal Angular Momentum Profile for Galactic Halos
    2001 612 citations James S. Bullock et al. profile →
  7. Tracing Galaxy Formation with Stellar Halos. I. Methods
    2005 611 citations James S. Bullock et al. profile →
  8. Cosmological simulations with self-interacting dark matter – I. Constant-density cores and substructure
    2013 517 citations James S. Bullock, Shea Garrison-Kimmel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  9. The Milky Way’s bright satellites as an apparent failure of ΛCDM
    2012 495 citations Michael Boylan-Kolchin, James S. Bullock et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  10. THE UNIVERSAL STELLAR MASS-STELLAR METALLICITY RELATION FOR DWARF GALAXIES
    2013 480 citations Evan N. Kirby, Puragra Guhathakurta et al. profile →
  11. Accurate masses for dispersion-supported galaxies
    2010 472 citations James S. Bullock, Marla Geha et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  12. The shape of dark matter haloes: dependence on mass, redshift, radius and formation
    2006 383 citations James S. Bullock et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  13. Cosmological simulations with self-interacting dark matter – II. Halo shapes versus observations
    2013 364 citations James S. Bullock et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  14. Cold dark matter: Controversies on small scales
    2015 296 citations James S. Bullock et al. profile →
  15. Forged in fire: cusps, cores and baryons in low-mass dwarf galaxies
    2015 290 citations José Oñorbe, Michael Boylan-Kolchin et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  16. Not so lumpy after all: modelling the depletion of dark matter subhaloes by Milky Way-like galaxies 
    2017 233 citations Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Andrew Wetzel 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
James S. Bullock United States 76 21.7k 9.1k 7.0k 1.1k 783 204 22.7k
Julio F. Navarro Canada 72 23.9k 1.1× 11.0k 1.2× 6.0k 0.9× 1.6k 1.5× 643 0.8× 246 24.8k
Andrey V. Kravtsov United States 63 17.7k 0.8× 7.4k 0.8× 4.8k 0.7× 1.3k 1.2× 765 1.0× 181 18.7k
Thomas Quinn United States 70 19.1k 0.9× 6.2k 0.7× 4.2k 0.6× 1.2k 1.1× 586 0.7× 222 20.0k
Tom Theuns United Kingdom 76 18.1k 0.8× 8.0k 0.9× 4.2k 0.6× 701 0.6× 554 0.7× 246 18.6k
Joop Schaye Netherlands 85 24.7k 1.1× 10.5k 1.2× 6.3k 0.9× 850 0.8× 689 0.9× 419 25.5k
Adrian Jenkins United Kingdom 66 21.2k 1.0× 9.3k 1.0× 6.4k 0.9× 1.7k 1.5× 613 0.8× 129 22.2k
Philip F. Hopkins United States 92 25.3k 1.2× 9.6k 1.1× 4.5k 0.6× 944 0.9× 1.2k 1.6× 374 27.0k
Rüdiger Pakmor Germany 71 22.3k 1.0× 8.6k 0.9× 4.7k 0.7× 765 0.7× 539 0.7× 296 23.5k
Avishai Dekel United States 74 20.7k 1.0× 10.7k 1.2× 3.0k 0.4× 1.0k 0.9× 519 0.7× 257 21.1k
Daniel J. Eisenstein United States 63 15.8k 0.7× 5.4k 0.6× 4.5k 0.6× 1.0k 1.0× 388 0.5× 213 16.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Klein, Courtney, et al.. (2024). Size–mass relations for simulated low-mass galaxies: mock imaging versus intrinsic properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(1). 538–548. 6 indexed citations
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Bullock, James S., Jorge Moreno, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, et al.. (2024). Hooks & Bends in the radial acceleration relation: discriminatory tests for dark matter and MOND. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(2). 1349–1362. 5 indexed citations
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Hafen, Zachary, Sameer Sameer, Cameron Hummels, et al.. (2024). The Halo21 absorption modelling challenge: lessons from ‘observing’ synthetic circumgalactic absorption spectra. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(1). 39–60. 5 indexed citations
4.
Hopkins, Philip F., Alexander B. Gurvich, Xuejian Shen, et al.. (2023). What causes the formation of discs and end of bursty star formation?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(2). 2241–2286. 57 indexed citations
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Bullock, James S., Alexander B. Gurvich, Zachary Hafen, et al.. (2023). Born this way: thin disc, thick disc, and isotropic spheroid formation in FIRE-2 Milky Way–mass galaxy simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523(4). 6220–6238. 36 indexed citations
6.
Hafen, Zachary, Jonathan Stern, James S. Bullock, et al.. (2022). Hot-mode accretion and the physics of thin-disc galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 514(4). 5056–5073. 71 indexed citations
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Rohr, Eric, Robert Feldmann, James S. Bullock, et al.. (2021). The galaxy–halo size relation of low-mass galaxies in FIRE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 510(3). 3967–3985. 13 indexed citations
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Bullock, James S., Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Jorge Moreno, et al.. (2020). A relationship between stellar metallicity gradients and galaxy age in dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(4). 5121–5134. 36 indexed citations
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Wheeler, Coral, Philip F. Hopkins, Andrew B. Pace, et al.. (2019). Be it therefore resolved: cosmological simulations of dwarf galaxies with 30 solar mass resolution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(3). 4447–4463. 143 indexed citations
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Graus, Andrew S, et al.. (2019). How low does it go? Too few Galactic satellites with standard reionization quenching. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(4). 4585–4595. 30 indexed citations
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Sales, Laura V., Andrew Wetzel, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, et al.. (2019). Dark and luminous satellites of LMC-mass galaxies in the FIRE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(4). 5348–5364. 29 indexed citations
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Kelley, Tyler, James S. Bullock, Shea Garrison-Kimmel, et al.. (2019). Phat ELVIS: The inevitable effect of the Milky Way’s disc on its dark matter subhaloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(3). 4409–4423. 78 indexed citations
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Garrison-Kimmel, Shea, Andrew Wetzel, Philip F. Hopkins, et al.. (2019). Star formation histories of dwarf galaxies in the FIRE simulations: dependence on mass and Local Group environment. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(4). 4574–4588. 96 indexed citations
14.
Fitts, Alex, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Brandon Bozek, et al.. (2019). Dwarf galaxies in CDM, WDM, and SIDM: disentangling baryons and dark matter physics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(1). 962–977. 59 indexed citations
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Samuel, Jenna, Andrew Wetzel, Erik Tollerud, et al.. (2019). A profile in FIRE: resolving the radial distributions of satellite galaxies in the Local Group with simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(1). 1471–1490. 87 indexed citations
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Weisz, Daniel R., Andrew A. Cole, Andrew E. Dolphin, et al.. (2019). Star formation at the edge of the Local Group: a rising star formation history in the isolated galaxy WLM. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(4). 5538–5550. 33 indexed citations
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Hopkins, Philip F., Dušan Kereš, José Oñorbe, et al.. (2014). Galaxies on FIRE (Feedback In Realistic Environments): stellar feedback explains cosmologically inefficient star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 445(1). 581–603. 1007 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gilbert, Karoline M., Rachael L. Beaton, James S. Bullock, et al.. (2013). The SPLASH Survey: Surface Brightness Profile and Metallicity Gradient of Andromeda's Stellar Halo. AAS. 221. 1 indexed citations
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Guhathakurta, Puragra, Rachael L. Beaton, James S. Bullock, et al.. (2010). The SPLASH Survey: Spectroscopy of Newly Discovered Tidal Streams in the Outer Halo of the Andromeda Galaxy. 215.
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Zentner, Andrew R. & James S. Bullock. (2002). Inflation, CDM, and the central density problem. arXiv (Cornell University).

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