John Bally

21.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
333 papers, 11.3k citations indexed

About

John Bally is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Spectroscopy and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, John Bally has authored 333 papers receiving a total of 11.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 288 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 71 papers in Spectroscopy and 43 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in John Bally's work include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (250 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (149 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (118 papers). John Bally is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (250 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (149 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (118 papers). John Bally collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. John Bally's co-authors include Bo Reipurth, A. A. Stark, David Devine, Doug Johnstone, R. W. Wilson, C. J. Lada, Jon A. Morse, Nathan Smith, Steve Heathcote and Adam Ginsburg and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

John Bally

310 papers receiving 10.9k 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.

The Bell Laboratories H I survey

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Author						Papers	Cites
John Bally	10.6k	2.7k	1.4k	1.1k	825	333	11.3k
D. J. Hollenbach	15.7k 1.5×	3.4k 1.3×	2.1k 1.5×	1.4k 1.3×	1.7k 2.0×	186	16.6k
Frank H. Shu	13.0k 1.2×	2.3k 0.9×	1.0k 0.7×	697 0.6×	694 0.8×	148	13.3k
C. P. Dullemond	10.7k 1.0×	3.7k 1.4×	716 0.5×	535 0.5×	452 0.5×	218	11.4k
Mordecai‐Mark Mac Low	10.6k 1.0×	789 0.3×	827 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	324 0.4×	177	11.0k
J. H. Black	6.8k 0.6×	3.2k 1.2×	2.3k 1.6×	654 0.6×	2.0k 2.4×	240	8.9k
Blair D. Savage	11.4k 1.1×	1.1k 0.4×	1.2k 0.9×	1.8k 1.6×	1.0k 1.3×	218	12.2k
Simon C. O. Glover	8.7k 0.8×	810 0.3×	744 0.5×	1.2k 1.1×	616 0.7×	239	9.1k
C. Henkel	6.9k 0.7×	1.5k 0.5×	739 0.5×	1.4k 1.3×	771 0.9×	386	7.5k
Christopher F. McKee	20.1k 1.9×	2.1k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	4.3k 3.9×	1.2k 1.5×	206	21.2k
T. R. Geballe	6.6k 0.6×	1.4k 0.5×	1.8k 1.3×	410 0.4×	1.2k 1.4×	213	7.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John Bally

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Crowe, S., Jonathan C. Tan, Yichen Zhang, et al.. (2025). The JWST-NIRCam View of Sagittarius C. I. Massive Star Formation and Protostellar Outflows. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(1). 19–19. 1 indexed citations

Bally, John, S. Crowe, Adam Ginsburg, et al.. (2025). The JWST-NIRCam View of Sagittarius C. II. Evidence for Magnetically Dominated H ii Regions in the Central Molecular Zone. The Astrophysical Journal. 983(1). 20–20.

Reipurth, Bo, John Bally, Hsi-Wei Yen, et al.. (2023). The HH 24 Complex: Jets, Multiple Star Formation, and Orphaned Protostars. The Astronomical Journal. 165(5). 209–209. 6 indexed citations

Wright, M. C. H., Tomoya Hirota, Jan Forbrich, et al.. (2023). An Ionized Outflow in Orion-KL Source I?. The Astrophysical Journal. 945(1). 14–14. 2 indexed citations

Foley, Michael M., Alyssa Goodman, Catherine Zucker, et al.. (2023). A 3D View of Orion. I. Barnard's Loop. The Astrophysical Journal. 947(2). 66–66. 14 indexed citations

Haworth, Thomas J., Megan Reiter, C. R. O’dell, et al.. (2023). The VLT MUSE NFM view of outflows and externally photoevaporating discs near the orion bar★. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(3). 4129–4142. 8 indexed citations

Henshaw, Jonathan D., Mark R. Krumholz, Natalie Butterfield, et al.. (2021). A wind-blown bubble in the Central Molecular Zone cloud G0.253+0.016. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 509(4). 4758–4774. 10 indexed citations

Wang, Q. Daniel, G. W. Wilson, M. H. Heyer, et al.. (2021). AzTEC survey of the central molecular zone: data reduction, analysis, and preliminary results. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(2). 2392–2411. 8 indexed citations

Wright, M. C. H., R. L. Plambeck, Tomoya Hirota, et al.. (2020). Observations of the Orion Source I Disk and Outflow Interface. The Astrophysical Journal. 889(2). 155–155. 9 indexed citations

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Factor, Samuel M., A. Meredith Hughes, Kevin Flaherty, et al.. (2017). ALMA Observations of Asymmetric Molecular Gas Emission from a Protoplanetary Disk in the Orion Nebula. The Astronomical Journal. 153(5). 233–233. 6 indexed citations

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Federrath, Christoph, J. M. Rathborne, Steven N. Longmore, et al.. (2016). THE LINK BETWEEN TURBULENCE, MAGNETIC FIELDS, FILAMENTS, AND STAR FORMATION IN THE CENTRAL MOLECULAR ZONE CLOUD G0.253+0.016. The Astrophysical Journal. 832(2). 143–143. 129 indexed citations

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Longmore, Steven N., Ashley T. Barnes, Cara Battersby, et al.. (2016). Using young massive star clusters to understand star formation and feedback in high-redshift-like environments. Liverpool John Moores University. 1 indexed citations

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Ginsburg, Adam, John Bally, Cara Battersby, et al.. (2015). The dense gas mass fraction in the W51 cloud and its protoclusters. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 29 indexed citations

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Bally, John, Adam Ginsburg, Devin W. Silvia, & Allison Youngblood. (2015). The Orion fingers: Near-IR adaptive optics imaging of an explosive protostellar outflow. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 31 indexed citations

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Bally, John, Rita K. Mann, J. A. Eisner, et al.. (2015). ALMA OBSERVATIONS OF THE LARGEST PROTO-PLANETARY DISK IN THE ORION NEBULA, 114–426: A CO SILHOUETTE. The Astrophysical Journal. 808(1). 69–69. 11 indexed citations

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Rathborne, J. M., Steven N. Longmore, James M. Jackson, et al.. (2015). A CLUSTER IN THE MAKING: ALMA REVEALS THE INITIAL CONDITIONS FOR HIGH-MASS CLUSTER FORMATION. The Astrophysical Journal. 802(2). 125–125. 62 indexed citations

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Kendrew, Sarah, Adam Ginsburg, K. Johnston, et al.. (2013). Early-stage Massive Star Formation near the Galactic Centre: Sgr C. White Rose Research Online (University of Leeds, The University of Sheffield, University of York). 24 indexed citations

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Narayanan, Gopal, et al.. (2010). Entrainment Mechanisms for Outflows in the L1551 Star-Forming Region. ScholarWorks@UMassAmherst (University of Massachusetts Amherst). 13 indexed citations

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Hearty, Frederick R., D. Q. Lamb, R. McMillan, et al.. (2006). GRB 060512: detection of NIR afterglow.. GRB Coordinates Network. 5126. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Bally, John, A. A. Stark, R. W. Wilson, & W. D. Langer. (1987). Wide-Field Maping of 13 CO Emission from Molecular Clouds. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 19. 726. 1 indexed citations

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