Joel R. Primack

38.7k total citations · 14 hit papers
252 papers, 19.8k citations indexed

About

Joel R. Primack is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Joel R. Primack has authored 252 papers receiving a total of 19.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 195 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 92 papers in Instrumentation and 77 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Joel R. Primack's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (161 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (92 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (56 papers). Joel R. Primack is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (161 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (92 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (56 papers). Joel R. Primack collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Spain. Joel R. Primack's co-authors include Rachel S. Somerville, Avishai Dekel, Anatoly Klypin, Andrey V. Kravtsov, James S. Bullock, S. M. Faber, George R. Blumenthal, Risa H. Wechsler, Daniel Ceverino and M. J. Rees and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Joel R. Primack

243 papers receiving 19.1k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Profiles of dark haloes: evolution, scatter and environment

2001 1.4k citations Rachel S. Somerville, Joel R. Primack et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Formation of galaxies and large-scale structure with cold dark matter

1984 902 citations S. M. Faber, Joel R. Primack et al. profile →
Contraction of dark matter galactic halos due to baryonic infall

1986 794 citations S. M. Faber, Joel R. Primack et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Concentrations of Dark Halos from Their Assembly Histories

2002 783 citations Risa H. Wechsler, Joel R. Primack et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Semi-analytic modelling of galaxy formation: the local Universe

1999 644 citations Rachel S. Somerville, Joel R. Primack Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
A Universal Angular Momentum Profile for Galactic Halos

2001 612 citations Avishai Dekel, Joel R. Primack et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
DARK MATTER HALOS IN THE STANDARD COSMOLOGICAL MODEL: RESULTS FROM THE BOLSHOI SIMULATION

2011 596 citations Joel R. Primack et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The Dark Side of the Halo Occupation Distribution

2004 588 citations Risa H. Wechsler, Joel R. Primack et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
A New Nonparametric Approach to Galaxy Morphological Classification

2004 480 citations Joel R. Primack et al. profile →
GRAVITATIONALLY CONSISTENT HALO CATALOGS AND MERGER TREES FOR PRECISION COSMOLOGY

2012 424 citations Peter Behroozi, Risa H. Wechsler et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The shape of dark matter haloes: dependence on mass, redshift, radius and formation

2006 383 citations Joel R. Primack, Risa H. Wechsler et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Compaction and quenching of high-z galaxies in cosmological simulations: blue and red nuggets

2015 330 citations Avishai Dekel, Nir Mandelker et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Extragalactic background light inferred from AEGIS galaxy-SED-type fraction

2017 274 citations A. Domínguez, Joel R. Primack et al. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) profile →
Semi-analytic modelling of the extragalactic background light and consequences for extragalactic gamma-ray spectra

2017 209 citations Rudy C. Gilmore, Rachel S. Somerville et al. idUS (Universidad de Sevilla) profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Star-forming and quiescent central galaxies cluster similarly: implications for the galaxy–halo connection 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla, Joel R. Primack, S. M. Faber, David C. Koo, Peter Behroozi, V. Ávila-Reese	3
2	Filaments of the Slime Mold Cosmic Web and How They Affect Galaxy Evolution 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Joseph N. Burchett, (unknown), (unknown), Daisuke Nagai, S. M. Faber, Joel R. Primack, David C. Koo, Nir Mandelker, Joanna Woo	9
3	Non-monotonic relations of galaxy star formation, radius, and structure at fixed stellar mass 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla, S. M. Faber, Joel R. Primack, V. Ávila-Reese, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), M. Cano-Díaz, David C. Koo, Francesco Shankar, (unknown)	6
4	Formation of giant clumps in high-z disc galaxies by compressive turbulence 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters ·Nir Mandelker, (unknown), Avishai Dekel, F. Bournaud, Mark R. Krumholz, Daniel Ceverino, Joel R. Primack	4
5	Wet compaction to a blue nugget: a critical phase in galaxy evolution 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Sharon Lapiner, Avishai Dekel, Jonathan Freundlich, (unknown), Fangzhou Jiang, Michael Kretschmer, Sandro Tacchella, Daniel Ceverino, Joel R. Primack	40
6	Effects of feedback on galaxies in the VELA simulations: elongation, clumps, and compaction 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Daniel Ceverino, Nir Mandelker, Gregory F. Snyder, Sharon Lapiner, Avishai Dekel, Joel R. Primack, (unknown), (unknown)	9
7	Distinguishing between photoionized and collisionally ionized gas in the circumgalactic medium 2022 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), S. Roca-Fàbrega, Joel R. Primack	6
8	Galaxy correlation function and local density from photometric redshifts using the stochastic order redshift technique (SORT) 2022 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Joel R. Primack, Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla, Nicolás Tejos, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Rachel S. Somerville	2
9	Core formation in high-z massive haloes: heating by post-compaction satellites and response to AGN outflows 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Avishai Dekel, Jonathan Freundlich, Fangzhou Jiang, Sharon Lapiner, Andreas Burkert, Daniel Ceverino, Xiaolong Du, R. Genzel, Joel R. Primack	14
10	Mock light-cones and theory friendly catalogues for the CANDELS survey 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Rachel S. Somerville, (unknown), L. Y. Aaron Yung, Camilla Pacifici, Henry C. Ferguson, Peter Behroozi, (unknown), Risa H. Wechsler, Viraj Pandya, S. M. Faber, Joel R. Primack, Avishai Dekel	31
11	The nature of giant clumps in high-z discs: a deep-learning comparison of simulations and observations 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Avishai Dekel, Nir Mandelker, Gregory F. Snyder, Daniel Ceverino, Joel R. Primack	12
12	Stellar masses of giant clumps in CANDELS and simulated galaxies using machine learning 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Yicheng Guo, (unknown), (unknown), Nir Mandelker, (unknown), Joel R. Primack, Avishai Dekel, Daniel Ceverino, S. M. Faber, David C. Koo, Anton M. Koekemoer, Gregory F. Snyder, Mauro Giavalisco, Haowen Zhang	32
13	O vi traces photoionized streams with collisionally ionized boundaries in cosmological simulations of z ∼ 1 massive galaxies 2020 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), S. Roca-Fàbrega, Nir Mandelker, Joel R. Primack, Jonathan Stern, Daniel Ceverino, Avishai Dekel, Bryan Wang, (unknown)	14
14	Studying the physical properties of tidal features – I. Extracting morphological substructure in CANDELS observations and VELA simulations 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, Daniel H. McIntosh, (unknown), (unknown), Henry C. Ferguson, (unknown), Yicheng Guo, Anton M. Koekemoer, (unknown), Elizabeth J. McGrath, Raymond C. Simons, Gregory F. Snyder, (unknown), Eric F. Bell, Daniel Ceverino, Nimish P. Hathi, Camilla Pacifici, Joel R. Primack, Marc Rafelski, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez	11
15	The global star formation law by supernova feedback 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Avishai Dekel, Kartick C. Sarkar, Fangzhou Jiang, F. Bournaud, Mark R. Krumholz, Daniel Ceverino, Joel R. Primack	22
16	Structural and Star-forming Relations since z similar to 3: Connecting Compact Star-forming and Quiescent Galaxies 2017 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Guillermo Barro, S. M. Faber, David C. Koo, Avishai Dekel, Jerome J. Fang, Jonathan R. Trump, Pablo G. Pérez‐González, Camilla Pacifici, Joel R. Primack, Rachel S. Somerville, Haojing Yan, Yicheng Guo, Fengshan Liu, Daniel Ceverino, Dale D. Kocevski, Elizabeth J. McGrath	70
17	Semi-analytic modelling of the extragalactic background light and consequences for extragalactic gamma-ray spectra breakdown → 2017 ·idUS (Universidad de Sevilla) ·Rudy C. Gilmore, Rachel S. Somerville, Joel R. Primack, A. Domínguez	209
18	Extragalactic background light inferred from AEGIS galaxy-SED-type fraction breakdown → 2017 ·LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas) ·A. Domínguez, Joel R. Primack, F. Prada, (unknown), Rudy C. Gilmore, S. M. Faber	274
19	“In a Beginning…” Quantum Cosmology and Kabbalah 2016 ·Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University) ·Joel R. Primack, (unknown)	0
20	EVOLUTION OF INTRINSIC SCATTER IN THE SFR–STELLAR MASS CORRELATION AT 0.5 < z < 3 2016 ·eScholarship (California Digital Library) ·Peter Kurczynski, Eric Gawiser, Viviana Acquaviva, Eric F. Bell, Avishai Dekel, D. F. de Mello, Henry C. Ferguson, Jonathan P. Gardner, Norman A. Grogin, Yicheng Guo, Philip F. Hopkins, Anton M. Koekemoer, David C. Koo, Seong-Kook Lee, Bahram Mobasher, Joel R. Primack, Marc Rafelski, Emmaris Soto, Harry I. Teplitz	50

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