Joel Leja

85 papers and 2.7k indexed citations
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About

Joel Leja is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel Leja has authored 85 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 55 papers in Instrumentation and 6 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Joel Leja’s work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (67 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (55 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (42 papers). Joel Leja is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (67 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (55 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (42 papers). Joel Leja collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Joel Leja's co-authors include Pieter van Dokkum, Katherine E. Whitaker, Erica J. Nelson, Gabriel Brammer, Charlie Conroy, Marijn Franx, Benjamin D. Johnson, Rachel Bezanson, Joshua S. Speagle and Ivelina Momcheva and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joel Leja

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

Fields of papers citing papers by Joel Leja

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Joel Leja. 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 Joel Leja. The network helps show where Joel Leja may publish in the future.

Countries citing papers authored by Joel Leja

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