Joel Pfeffer

2.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
52 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Joel Pfeffer is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel Pfeffer has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 52 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 34 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Joel Pfeffer's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (47 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (34 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (30 papers). Joel Pfeffer is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (47 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (34 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (30 papers). Joel Pfeffer collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Germany and Australia. Joel Pfeffer's co-authors include N. Bastian, Robert A. Crain, J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Marta Reina-Campos, Holger Baumgardt, Meghan E Hughes, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, M. Hilker, Ricardo P. Schiavon and Jon A. Holtzman and has published in prestigious journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters and UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia).

In The Last Decade

Joel Pfeffer

51 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

  1. The formation and assembly history of the Milky Way revealed by its globular cluster population
    2018 259 citations J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Joel Pfeffer et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  2. The origin of accreted stellar halo populations in the Milky Way using APOGEE,Gaia, and the EAGLE simulations
    2018 201 citations J. Ted Mackereth, Ricardo P. Schiavon et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  3. Kraken reveals itself – the merger history of the Milky Way reconstructed with the E-MOSAICS simulations
    2020 173 citations J. M. Diederik Kruijssen, Joel Pfeffer 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
Joel Pfeffer United Kingdom 23 1.8k 1.0k 65 40 40 52 1.9k
T. Ruiz-Lara Spain 22 1.2k 0.6× 663 0.7× 37 0.6× 21 0.5× 67 1.7× 45 1.2k
Vincenzo Pota United States 20 1.2k 0.7× 838 0.8× 55 0.8× 29 0.7× 66 1.6× 28 1.3k
Sabine Bellstedt Australia 19 983 0.5× 623 0.6× 48 0.7× 40 1.0× 103 2.6× 60 1.0k
P. Papaderos Portugal 25 1.8k 1.0× 867 0.9× 34 0.5× 22 0.6× 70 1.8× 93 1.8k
C. Kehrig Spain 23 1.2k 0.6× 449 0.4× 42 0.6× 19 0.5× 96 2.4× 51 1.2k
M. Lyubenova Germany 26 1.4k 0.8× 874 0.9× 46 0.7× 28 0.7× 78 1.9× 62 1.5k
Jacob A. Arnold United States 17 1.1k 0.6× 762 0.8× 47 0.7× 20 0.5× 38 0.9× 24 1.1k
A. Buzzoni Italy 22 1.1k 0.6× 592 0.6× 25 0.4× 24 0.6× 65 1.6× 67 1.2k
Ling Zhu China 24 1.1k 0.6× 663 0.7× 47 0.7× 38 0.9× 76 1.9× 67 1.2k
Joanna Woo Canada 18 1.2k 0.6× 754 0.7× 59 0.9× 27 0.7× 83 2.1× 27 1.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joel Pfeffer

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All Works

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Gannon, Jonah S., Duncan A. Forbes, Jean P. Brodie, et al.. (2025). Analysis of Galaxies at the Extremes: Failed Galaxy Progenitors in the MAGNETICUM Simulations. The Open Journal of Astrophysics. 8.
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Newton, Oliver, J. Davies, Joel Pfeffer, et al.. (2025). The formation and disruption of globular cluster populations in simulations of present-day L* galaxies with controlled assembly histories. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(2). 591–607. 2 indexed citations
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Oman, Kyle A., Carlos S. Frenk, Robert A. Crain, Mark R. Lovell, & Joel Pfeffer. (2024). A warm dark matter cosmogony may yield more low-mass galaxy detections in 21-cm surveys than a cold dark matter one. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(1). 67–78. 3 indexed citations
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Buzzo, Maria Luísa, Duncan A. Forbes, T. H. Jarrett, et al.. (2024). The multiple classes of ultra-diffuse galaxies: can we tell them apart?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 536(3). 2536–2557. 6 indexed citations
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Buzzo, Maria Luísa, Duncan A. Forbes, T. H. Jarrett, et al.. (2024). Constraining the stellar populations of ultra-diffuse galaxies in the MATLAS survey using spectral energy distribution fitting. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(4). 3210–3234. 16 indexed citations
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Lovell, Mark R., et al.. (2024). The impact of free-streaming on dwarf galaxy counts in low-density regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(2). 1296–1306. 1 indexed citations
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Mason, A., Robert A. Crain, Ricardo P. Schiavon, et al.. (2024). Realistic simulated galaxies form [α/Fe]–[Fe/H] knees due to a sustained decline in their star formation rates. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(1). 184–200. 6 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Joel, Maria Luísa Buzzo, Jonah S. Gannon, et al.. (2024). Origin of the correlation between stellar kinematics and globular cluster system richness in ultradiffuse galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(4). 4914–4928. 6 indexed citations
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Forbes, Duncan A., Aaron J. Romanowsky, Jonah S. Gannon, et al.. (2024). The PIPER survey. II. The globular cluster systems of low surface brightness galaxies in the Perseus cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(1). 783–799. 10 indexed citations
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Adamo, Angela, Christopher Usher, Joel Pfeffer, & Adélaïde Claeyssens. (2023). The ages and metallicities of the globular clusters in the Sparkler. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 525(1). L6–L10. 11 indexed citations
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Drinkwater, M. J., Holger Baumgardt, Patrick Côté, et al.. (2023). Supermassive black holes in a mass-limited galaxy sample. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(1). 1095–1111. 1 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Joel, Kenji Bekki, W. J. Couch, B. Koribalski, & Duncan A. Forbes. (2022). The age gradients of galaxies in EAGLE: outside-in quenching as the origin of young bulges in cluster galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 511(1). 1072–1084. 7 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Joel, Kenji Bekki, W. J. Couch, et al.. (2022). The galaxy morphology–density relation in the EAGLE simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(4). 5260–5278. 7 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Joel, Kenji Bekki, Duncan A. Forbes, W. J. Couch, & B. Koribalski. (2021). Using the EAGLE silations to elucidate the origin of disc surface brightness profile breaks as a function of mass and environment. UWA Profiles and Research Repository (University of Western Australia). 5 indexed citations
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Norris, Mark A., et al.. (2020). An EAGLE’s view of ex situ galaxy growth. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(1). 81–93. 52 indexed citations
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Pfeffer, Joel, C. Lardo, N. Bastian, Sara Saracino, & Sebastian Kamann. (2020). The accreted nuclear clusters of the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 500(2). 2514–2524. 57 indexed citations
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Hughes, Meghan E, Joel Pfeffer, Marie Martig, et al.. (2019). The [α/Fe]–[Fe/H] relation in the E-MOSAICS simulations: its connection to the birth place of globular clusters and the fraction of globular cluster field stars in the bulge. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(3). 4012–4022. 30 indexed citations
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Mackereth, J. Ted, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Joel Pfeffer, et al.. (2018). The origin of accreted stellar halo populations in the Milky Way using APOGEE,Gaia, and the EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 482(3). 3426–3442. 201 indexed citations breakdown →
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Usher, Christopher, Joel Pfeffer, N. Bastian, et al.. (2018). The origin of the ‘blue tilt’ of globular cluster populations in the E-MOSAICS simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 480(3). 3279–3301. 36 indexed citations
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Hughes, Meghan E, Joel Pfeffer, Marie Martig, et al.. (2018). Fossil stellar streams and their globular cluster populations in the E-MOSAICS simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 482(2). 2795–2806. 34 indexed citations

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