John Kormendy
Impact in
- Instrumentation top 0.05%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.05%
- 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
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- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 66
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- 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
- Co-authors
- D. O. RichstoneR. BenderTod R. LauerScott TremaineAlan DresslerKarl GebhardtCarl J. GrillmairRichard F. Green
- Journals
- The Astrophysical Journal (45 papers)The Astronomical Journal (15 papers)Nature (5 papers)Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics (3 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (3 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesGermanyCanada
In The Last Decade
John Kormendy
99 papers receiving 11.7k citations
Hit Papers
Peers
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
Countries citing papers authored by John Kormendy
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Fields of papers citing papers by John Kormendy
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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.
All Works
| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2019 | 32 | |
| 2 | 2016 | 19 | |
| 3 | 2012 | 0 | |
| 4 | 2011 | 72 | |
| 5 | 2011 | 147 | |
| 6 | 2009 | 239 | |
| 7 | Black Hole Mass Determinations From Orbit Superposition Models are Reliable | 2004 | 1 |
| 8 | Supermassive Black Holes in Disk Galaxies | 2000 | 1 |
| 9 | The M -- L bulge Correlation | 2000 | 0 |
| 10 | 2000 | 1 | |
| 11 | The Central Structure of Elliptical Galaxies and the Stellar-Dynamical Search for Supermassive Black Holes | 1999 | 2 |
| 12 | 1999 | 95 | |
| 13 | Spectroscopic Evidence for a Massive Black Hole in NGC 4486B | 1996 | 1 |
| 14 | 1996 | 77 | |
| 15 | 1992 | 101 | |
| 16 | 1991 | 6 | |
| 17 | 1985 | 238 | |
| 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) | 1982 | 4 |
| 19 | 1977 | 34 | |
| 20 | 1977 | 23 |
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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