Julien de Wit

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
41 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Julien de Wit is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Julien de Wit has authored 41 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 19 papers in Instrumentation and 5 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Julien de Wit's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (36 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (23 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (19 papers). Julien de Wit is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (36 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (23 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (19 papers). Julien de Wit collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Belgium. Julien de Wit's co-authors include M. Gillon, Sara Seager, Brice-Olivier Demory, D. Queloz, Adam J. Burgasser, A. H. M. J. Triaud, Nikole K. Lewis, Susan M. Lederer, L. Delrez and Emmanuël Jehin and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Julien de Wit

36 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Temperate Earth-sized planets transiting a nearby ultracool dwarf star

2016 309 citations M. Gillon, Emmanuël Jehin et al. Nature profile →
A map of the large day–night temperature gradient of a super-Earth exoplanet

2016 148 citations Brice-Olivier Demory, M. Gillon et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Julien de Wit United States	14	1.2k	318	261	147	50	41	1.3k
Emily Rauscher United States	22	1.3k 1.1×	295 0.9×	233 0.9×	96 0.7×	25 0.5×	56	1.4k
Tiffany Kataria United States	22	1.5k 1.3×	409 1.3×	329 1.3×	171 1.2×	51 1.0×	54	1.7k
Roxana Lupu United States	20	1.0k 0.8×	190 0.6×	288 1.1×	162 1.1×	105 2.1×	37	1.2k
Ryan C. Terrien United States	12	1.2k 1.0×	331 1.0×	203 0.8×	103 0.7×	42 0.8×	38	1.3k
Jacob Lustig‐Yaeger United States	12	720 0.6×	177 0.6×	188 0.7×	102 0.7×	35 0.7×	39	801
Joshua D. Lothringer United States	18	895 0.7×	236 0.7×	173 0.7×	84 0.6×	26 0.5×	53	950
H. J. Hoeijmakers Switzerland	18	846 0.7×	222 0.7×	179 0.7×	164 1.1×	19 0.4×	43	973
Benjamin Drummond United Kingdom	21	1.0k 0.8×	218 0.7×	339 1.3×	140 1.0×	13 0.3×	25	1.1k
Ruth Murray‐Clay United States	24	2.3k 1.9×	347 1.1×	220 0.8×	200 1.4×	97 1.9×	53	2.4k
Rory Barnes United States	24	1.9k 1.5×	332 1.0×	218 0.8×	65 0.4×	86 1.7×	66	2.0k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Julien de Wit

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Julien de Wit. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Julien de Wit based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Julien de Wit. Julien de Wit is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Rivkin, A. S., Thomas Mueller, Eric MacLennan, et al.. (2025). JWST Observations of Potentially Hazardous Asteroid 2024 YR4. Research Notes of the AAS. 9(4). 70–70. 3 indexed citations

Désert, Jean-Michel, Nikole K. Lewis, Ryan C. Challener, et al.. (2025). Spectroscopically Resolved Partial Phase Curve of the Rapid Heating and Cooling of the Highly Eccentric Hot Jupiter HAT-P-2b with WFC3. The Astronomical Journal. 169(2). 96–96. 1 indexed citations

Костогрыз, Н. М., A. I. Shapiro, Astrid Veronig, et al.. (2025). Flares on TRAPPIST-1 Reveal the Spectrum of Magnetic Features on Its Surface. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 989(2). L53–L53. 1 indexed citations

Niraula, Prajwal, Julien de Wit, Robert J. Hargreaves, Iouli E. Gordon, & Clara Sousa‐Silva. (2025). The Detection-versus-retrieval Challenge: Titan as an Exoplanet. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 995(2). L66–L66.

Wiesenfeld, L., Prajwal Niraula, Julien de Wit, et al.. (2025). Ab Initio Quantum Dynamics as a Scalable Solution to the Exoplanet Opacity Challenge: A Case Study of CO₂ in a Hydrogen Atmosphere. The Astrophysical Journal. 981(2). 148–148. 1 indexed citations

Berardo, David, Julien de Wit, & Benjamin V. Rackham. (2024). Empirically Constraining the Spectra of Stellar Surface Features Using Time-resolved Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 961(1). L18–L18. 7 indexed citations

Wit, Julien de, et al.. (2023). Revisiting Orbital Evolution in HAT-P-2 b and Confirmation of HAT-P-2 c. The Astronomical Journal. 166(4). 136–136. 6 indexed citations

Brož, M., Josef Ďurech, Marin Ferrais, et al.. (2023). 2021 occultations and transits of Linus orbiting (22) Kalliope. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 676. A60–A60. 1 indexed citations

Niraula, Prajwal, Julien de Wit, Iouli E. Gordon, Robert J. Hargreaves, & Clara Sousa‐Silva. (2023). Origin and Extent of the Opacity Challenge for Atmospheric Retrievals of WASP-39 b. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 950(2). L17–L17. 11 indexed citations

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Berardo, David & Julien de Wit. (2022). Tidal Distortions as a Bottleneck on Constraining Exoplanet Compositions. The Astrophysical Journal. 941(2). 155–155. 2 indexed citations

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Burdanov, Artem, Julien de Wit, M. Gillon, et al.. (2022). SPECULOOS Northern Observatory: Searching for Red Worlds in the Northern Skies. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 134(1040). 105001–105001. 4 indexed citations

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Berardo, David & Julien de Wit. (2022). On the Effects of Planetary Oblateness on Exoplanet Studies. The Astrophysical Journal. 935(2). 178–178. 10 indexed citations

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Wit, Julien de, et al.. (2022). Constraining the interiors of asteroids through close encounters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(3). 3459–3475. 4 indexed citations

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Kataria, Tiffany, Nikole K. Lewis, Robert T. Zellem, et al.. (2020). Evaluating Climate Variability of the Canonical Hot-Jupiters HD 189733b and HD 209458b through Multi-epoch Eclipse Observations. The Astronomical Journal. 159(2). 51–51. 11 indexed citations

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Wit, Julien de, Hannah R. Wakeford, Nikole K. Lewis, et al.. (2018). Atmospheric reconnaissance of the habitable-zone Earth-sized planets orbiting TRAPPIST-1. Nature Astronomy. 2(3). 214–219. 107 indexed citations

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Wakeford, Hannah R., Nikole K. Lewis, J. Fowler, et al.. (2018). Disentangling the Planet from the Star in Late-Type M Dwarfs: A Case Study of TRAPPIST-1g. The Astronomical Journal. 157(1). 11–11. 44 indexed citations

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Demory, Brice-Olivier, M. Gillon, Julien de Wit, et al.. (2016). A map of the large day–night temperature gradient of a super-Earth exoplanet. Nature. 532(7598). 207–209. 148 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gillon, M., Emmanuël Jehin, Susan M. Lederer, et al.. (2016). Temperate Earth-sized planets transiting a nearby ultracool dwarf star. Nature. 533(7602). 221–224. 309 indexed citations breakdown →

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Lewis, Nikole K., Jonathan Langton, Gregory Laughlin, et al.. (2016). DIRECT MEASURE OF RADIATIVE AND DYNAMICAL PROPERTIES OF AN EXOPLANET ATMOSPHERE. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 13 indexed citations

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Wit, Julien de, Hannah R. Wakeford, M. Gillon, et al.. (2016). A combined transmission spectrum of the Earth-sized exoplanets TRAPPIST-1 b and c. Nature. 537(7618). 69–72. 96 indexed citations

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