John Asher Johnson

32.4k citations

130 papers · 7.6k indexed · 6 hit papers · h-index 46

Impact in

Instrumentation top 0.2%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.2%
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics

Papers in ⓘ

Instrumentation 50
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 50
Astronomy and Astrophysics 114
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 113
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 75
- Astro and Planetary Science 64
- Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics 6
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 5

Co-authors: Geoffrey W. Marcy (48 shared papers)Andrew W. Howard (48 shared papers)Debra A. Fischer (37 shared papers)Jason T. Wright (30 shared papers)Joshua N. Winn (18 shared papers)Timothy D. Morton (16 shared papers)Howard Isaacson (29 shared papers)Rebekah I. Dawson (6 shared papers)
Journals: The Astrophysical Journal (54 papers)The Astronomical Journal (12 papers)Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (8 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (6 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (5 papers)
Partner nations: United States France United Kingdom

In The Last Decade

John Asher Johnson

127 papers receiving 7.1k citations

Hit Papers

6 papers align trajectories log scale

Origins of Hot Jupiters 2018 · 267 citations

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics
2017 The Astronomical Journal
2015 Nature
2014 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
2012 The Astrophysical Journal
2006 The Astrophysical Journal

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1	The California-Kepler Survey. III. A Gap in the Radius Distribution of Small Planets* The Astronomical Journal ·Benjamin J. Fulton, Erik A. Petigura, Andrew W. Howard, Howard Isaacson, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Phillip A. Cargile, Leslie Hebb, Lauren M. Weiss, John Asher Johnson, Timothy D. Morton, Evan Sinukoff, Ian J. M. Crossfield, Lea A. Hirsch Hit paper breakdown →	2017	650
2	Catalog of Nearby Exoplanets The Astrophysical Journal ·R. Paul Butler, Jason T. Wright, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Debra A. Fischer, Steven S. Vogt, C. G. Tinney, H. R. A. Jones, Brad Carter, John Asher Johnson, C. McCarthy, A. J. Penny Hit paper breakdown →	2006	480
3	HOT STARS WITH HOT JUPITERS HAVE HIGH OBLIQUITIES The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Joshua N. Winn, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Simon Albrecht, John Asher Johnson	2010	300
4	The Occurrence and Mass Distribution of Close-in Super-Earths, Neptunes, and Jupiters Science ·Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, John Asher Johnson, Debra A. Fischer, Jason T. Wright, Howard Isaacson, Jeff A. Valenti, Jay Anderson, Doug Lin, Shigeru Ida	2010	299
5	OBLIQUITIES OF HOT JUPITER HOST STARS: EVIDENCE FOR TIDAL INTERACTIONS AND PRIMORDIAL MISALIGNMENTS The Astrophysical Journal ·Simon Albrecht, Joshua N. Winn, John Asher Johnson, Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, P. Arriagada, Jeffrey D. Crane, Stephen A. Shectman, Ian B. Thompson, Teruyuki Hirano, G. Á. Bakos, J. D. Hartman Hit paper breakdown →	2012	296
6	A disintegrating minor planet transiting a white dwarf Nature ·Andrew Vanderburg, John Asher Johnson, S. Rappaport, Allyson Bieryla, Jonathan Irwin, John Arban Lewis, David Kipping, Warren R. Brown, P. Dufour, David R. Ciardi, Ruth Angus, Laura Schaefer, David W. Latham, David Charbonneau, Charles Beichman, Jason D. Eastman, Nate McCrady, Robert A. Wittenmyer, Jason T. Wright Hit paper breakdown →	2015	289
7	Origins of Hot Jupiters Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Rebekah I. Dawson, John Asher Johnson Hit paper breakdown →	2018	267
8	A Technique for Extracting Highly Precise Photometry for the Two-WheeledKeplerMission Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ·Andrew Vanderburg, John Asher Johnson Hit paper breakdown →	2014	251
9	TEN NEW AND UPDATED MULTIPLANET SYSTEMS AND A SURVEY OF EXOPLANETARY SYSTEMS The Astrophysical Journal ·Jason T. Wright, Shubekshya Upadhyay, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Debra A. Fischer, Eric B. Ford, John Asher Johnson	2009	179
10	FRIENDS OF HOT JUPITERS. I. A RADIAL VELOCITY SEARCH FOR MASSIVE, LONG-PERIOD COMPANIONS TO CLOSE-IN GAS GIANT PLANETS The Astrophysical Journal ·Heather A. Knutson, Benjamin J. Fulton, Benjamin T. Montet, Melodie M. Kao, Henry Ngo, Andrew W. Howard, Justin R. Crepp, Sasha Hinkley, G. Á. Bakos, Konstantin Batygin, John Asher Johnson, Timothy D. Morton, Philip S. Muirhead	2014	157
11	The California-Kepler Survey. I. High-resolution Spectroscopy of 1305 Stars Hosting Kepler Transiting Planets^* The Astronomical Journal ·Erik A. Petigura, Andrew W. Howard, Geoffrey W. Marcy, John Asher Johnson, Howard Isaacson, Phillip A. Cargile, Leslie Hebb, Benjamin J. Fulton, Lauren M. Weiss, Timothy D. Morton, Joshua N. Winn, Leslie A. Rogers, Evan Sinukoff, Lea A. Hirsch, Ian J. M. Crossfield	2017	149
12	Measurement of Spin‐Orbit Alignment in an Extrasolar Planetary System The Astrophysical Journal ·Joshua N. Winn, R. W. Noyes, Matthew J. Holman, David Charbonneau, Yasuhiro Ohta, Atsushi Taruya, Yasushi Suto, Norio Narita, Edwin L. Turner, John Asher Johnson, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt	2005	149
13	Retired A Stars and Their Companions: Exoplanets Orbiting Three Intermediate‐Mass Subgiants The Astrophysical Journal ·John Asher Johnson, Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Jason T. Wright, Peter Driscoll, R. Paul Butler, S. Hekker, S. Reffert, Steven S. Vogt	2007	141
14	Five Planets Orbiting 55 Cancri The Astrophysical Journal ·Debra A. Fischer, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Steven S. Vogt, G. Laughlin, Gregory W. Henry, David Abouav, Kathryn M. G. Peek, Jason T. Wright, John Asher Johnson, C. McCarthy, Howard Isaacson	2008	139
15	THE MASS OF KOI-94d AND A RELATION FOR PLANET RADIUS, MASS, AND INCIDENT FLUX The Astrophysical Journal ·Lauren M. Weiss, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Jason F. Rowe, Andrew W. Howard, Howard Isaacson, Jonathan J. Fortney, Neil Miller, Brice-Olivier Demory, Debra A. Fischer, Elisabeth R. Adams, A. K. Dupree, Steve B. Howell, Rea Kolbl, John Asher Johnson, Elliott P. Horch, Mark E. Everett, Daniel C. Fabrycky, Sara Seager	2013	137
16	Five New Multicomponent Planetary Systems The Astrophysical Journal ·Steven S. Vogt, R. Paul Butler, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Debra A. Fischer, Gregory W. Henry, G. Laughlin, Jason T. Wright, John Asher Johnson	2005	129
17	HAT‐P‐1b: A Large‐Radius, Low‐Density Exoplanet Transiting One Member of a Stellar Binary The Astrophysical Journal ·G. Á. Bakos, R. W. Noyes, G. Kovács, David W. Latham, Dimitar Sasselov, Guillermo Torres, Debra A. Fischer, R. P. Stefanik, B. Sato, John Asher Johnson, András Pál, Geoffrey W. Marcy, R. Paul Butler, Gilbert A. Esquerdo, K. Z. Stanek, J. Lazar, I. Papp, P. Sári, Brigitta Sipőcz	2007	122
18	A holistic approach to carbon-enhanced metal-poor stars Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·T. Masseron, John Asher Johnson, B. Plez, S. Van Eck, F. Primas, S. Goriely, A. Jorissen	2010	111
19	ON THE LOW FALSE POSITIVE PROBABILITIES OFKEPLERPLANET CANDIDATES The Astrophysical Journal ·Timothy D. Morton, John Asher Johnson	2011	110
20	RETIRED A STARS AND THEIR COMPANIONS. III. COMPARING THE MASS–PERIOD DISTRIBUTIONS OF PLANETS AROUND A-TYPE STARS AND SUN-LIKE STARS The Astrophysical Journal ·Brendan P. Bowler, John Asher Johnson, Geoffrey W. Marcy, Gregory W. Henry, Kathryn M. G. Peek, Debra A. Fischer, K. I. Clubb, Michael C. Liu, S. Reffert, Christian Schwab, T. Lowe	2009	106

About John Asher Johnson

John Asher Johnson is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, General Psychology, Computational Mechanics and Ecological Modeling, having authored 130 papers that have together received 7.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (113 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (75 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (64 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (50 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (6 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (6 papers), Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (6 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (2.4k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (7.1k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (229 citations), Geophysics (192 citations) and Spectroscopy (177 citations). John Asher Johnson has collaborated with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Frequent co-authors include Geoffrey W. Marcy, Andrew W. Howard, Debra A. Fischer, Jason T. Wright, Joshua N. Winn, Timothy D. Morton, Howard Isaacson, Rebekah I. Dawson, R. Paul Butler and Andrew Vanderburg. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, The Astronomical Journal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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