John C. Forbes

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
98 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

John C. Forbes is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Infectious Diseases and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, John C. Forbes has authored 98 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 51 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 16 papers in Infectious Diseases and 13 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in John C. Forbes's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (37 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (32 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (30 papers). John C. Forbes is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (37 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (32 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (30 papers). John C. Forbes collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. John C. Forbes's co-authors include Mark R. Krumholz, Ariane Alimenti, Deborah Money, Blakesley Burkhart, Avishai Dekel, Roland M. Crocker, Andreas Burkert, Nathan Goldbaum, David R. Burdge and Neven Čaplar and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Nature Communications and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

John C. Forbes

93 papers receiving 2.0k citations

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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.

A unified model for galactic discs: star formation, turbulence driving, and mass transport

2018 202 citations Mark R. Krumholz, Blakesley Burkhart et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
John C. Forbes United States	27	1.3k	444	418	267	218	98	2.2k
Charlotte Welker France	21	991 0.8×	322 0.7×	602 1.4×	239 0.9×	30 0.1×	49	1.7k
Hugo van Woerden United Kingdom	28	864 0.7×	151 0.3×	178 0.4×	84 0.3×	40 0.2×	121	2.3k
Jennifer A. Johnson United States	37	2.7k 2.1×	98 0.2×	1.3k 3.0×	226 0.8×	28 0.1×	100	3.5k
M. L. Stevens United States	29	1.7k 1.3×	170 0.4×	26 0.1×	34 0.1×	43 0.2×	160	2.7k
Robert H. Rubin United States	28	687 0.5×	273 0.6×	77 0.2×	920 3.4×	42 0.2×	64	2.2k
R. Evans United Kingdom	18	312 0.2×	46 0.1×	72 0.2×	107 0.4×	152 0.7×	46	903
Deborah A. Levine United States	22	450 0.3×	90 0.2×	118 0.3×	560 2.1×	178 0.8×	71	1.8k
L. Magrini Italy	36	1.7k 1.3×	36 0.1×	697 1.7×	462 1.7×	108 0.5×	169	4.1k
Nicole P. Vogt United States	26	1.9k 1.5×	26 0.1×	1.2k 2.8×	71 0.3×	28 0.1×	62	2.9k
F. Favata Italy	28	2.7k 2.1×	168 0.4×	309 0.7×	113 0.4×	15 0.1×	171	3.2k

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Alves, J., Cameren Swiggum, Josefa E. Großschedl, et al.. (2025). The Solar System’s passage through the Radcliffe wave during the middle Miocene. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 694. A167–A167. 2 indexed citations

Hopken, Matthew W., Crystal M. Gigante, Amy T. Gilbert, et al.. (2024). Genetic Tracking of a Rabid Coyote (Canis latrans) Detected beyond a Rabies Enzootic Area in West Virginia, USA. Journal of Wildlife Diseases. 60(3). 745–752.

Emami, Razieh, Xuejian Shen, Lars Hernquist, et al.. (2024). Gas Morphology of Milky Way–like Galaxies in the TNG50 Simulation: Signals of Twisting and Stretching. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(2). 193–193.

Hassan, Sultan, Eve C. Ostriker, Chang‐Goo Kim, et al.. (2024). Toward Implementation of the Pressure-regulated, Feedback-modulated Model of Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations: Methods and Application to TNG. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(1). 151–151. 4 indexed citations

Sharda, Piyush, Mark R. Krumholz, John C. Forbes, et al.. (2024). The interplay between feedback, accretion, transport, and winds in setting gas-phase metal distribution in galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(2). 2232–2256. 13 indexed citations

Smith, Matthew C, Drummond B. Fielding, Greg L. Bryan, et al.. (2023). Arkenstone – I. A novel method for robustly capturing high specific energy outflows in cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 1216–1243. 24 indexed citations

Großschedl, Josefa E., J. Alves, N. Miret-Roig, et al.. (2023). The star formation history of the Sco-Cen association. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 678. A71–A71. 50 indexed citations

Lintott, Chris, et al.. (2023). The Galactic Interstellar Object Population: A Framework for Prediction and Inference. The Astronomical Journal. 166(6). 241–241. 6 indexed citations

Forbes, John C., et al.. (2023). The Global Structure of Molecular Clouds. I. Trends with Mass and Star Formation Rate. The Astrophysical Journal. 956(2). 114–114. 2 indexed citations

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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

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Forbes, John C., Razieh Emami, Rachel S. Somerville, et al.. (2023). Gas Accretion Can Drive Turbulence in Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(2). 107–107. 17 indexed citations

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Forbes, John C., et al.. (2022). Where to Find Overmassive Brown Dwarfs: New Benchmark Systems for Binary Evolution. The Astrophysical Journal. 932(2). 91–91. 3 indexed citations

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Genel, Shy, Greg L. Bryan, Chang‐Goo Kim, et al.. (2022). First Results from SMAUG: Insights into Star Formation Conditions from Spatially Resolved ISM Properties in TNG50. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(2). 139–139. 6 indexed citations

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Forbes, John C., et al.. (2022). Empirical Dust Attenuation Model Leads to More Realistic UVJ Diagram for TNG100 Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 939(1). 29–29. 6 indexed citations

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Sharda, Piyush, Mark R. Krumholz, Emily Wisnioski, et al.. (2021). On the origin of the mass–metallicity gradient relation in the local Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504(1). 53–64. 30 indexed citations

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Forbes, John C., et al.. (2021). Touching the Stars: Using High-resolution 3D Printing to Visualize Stellar Nurseries. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 918(1). L3–L3. 4 indexed citations

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Fielding, Drummond B., Stephanie Tonnesen, Miao Li, et al.. (2020). First Results from SMAUG: Uncovering the Origin of the Multiphase Circumgalactic Medium with a Comparative Analysis of Idealized and Cosmological Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 903(1). 32–32. 54 indexed citations

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Forbes, John C., Mark R. Krumholz, & Joshua S. Speagle. (2019). Towards a radially resolved semi-analytic model for the evolution of disc galaxies tuned with machine learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(3). 3581–3606. 30 indexed citations

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Chen, Howard, John C. Forbes, & Abraham Loeb. (2018). Habitable Evaporated Cores and the Occurrence of Panspermia Near the Galactic Center. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 855(1). L1–L1. 21 indexed citations

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Cenko, S. B., D. A. Perley, J. S. Bloom, et al.. (2011). GRB 110328A / Swift J164449.3+573451: Keck/DEIMOS optical spectroscopy.. GCN. 11874. 1.

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