John Kormendy

20.3k citations
102 papers · 12.1k indexed · 5 hit papers · h-index 41

Impact in

  • Instrumentation top 0.05%
    • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
    • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
    • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
    • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

Papers in

    • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 66
    • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 70
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 50
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 27
    • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 9
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 6
    • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories 5

John Kormendy

99 papers receiving 11.7k citations

Hit Papers

THEM-σ ANDM-LRELATIONS IN GALACTIC BULGES, AND DETERMINATIONS OF THEIR INTRINSIC SCATTER 2009 · 904 citations
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Peers

John Kormendy
Comparison fields: 5 of 73
  • Instrumentation 4.7k
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 11.9k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 1.9k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 309
  • Global and Planetary Change 507
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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside John Kormendy, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
#Work
1 201932
2 201619
3 20120
4 201172
5 2011147
6 2009239
7
Black Hole Mass Determinations From Orbit Superposition Models are Reliable
20041
8
Supermassive Black Holes in Disk Galaxies
20001
9
The M -- L bulge Correlation
20000
10 20001
11
The Central Structure of Elliptical Galaxies and the Stellar-Dynamical Search for Supermassive Black Holes
19992
12 199995
13
Spectroscopic Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in NGC 4486B
19961
14 199677
15 1992101
16 19916
17 1985238
18
Morphology and dynamics of galaxies : twelfth advanced course of the Swiss Society of Astronomy and Astrophysics (member society of the Swiss National Academy of Science)
19824
19 197734
20 197723

About John Kormendy

John Kormendy is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Theoretical Computer Science, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 102 papers that have together received 12.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (70 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (66 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (50 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (27 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (12 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (9 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (6 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (4.7k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (11.9k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (1.9k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (309 citations) and Global and Planetary Change (507 citations). John Kormendy has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Frequent co-authors include D. O. Richstone, R. Bender, Tod R. Lauer, Scott Tremaine, Alan Dressler, Karl Gebhardt, Carl J. Grillmair, Richard F. Green, S. M. Faber and John Magorrian. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, The Astronomical Journal, Nature, Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

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