K. Smith

14.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
73 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

K. Smith is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Artificial Intelligence and Electrical and Electronic Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, K. Smith has authored 73 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 19 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 17 papers in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. Recurrent topics in K. Smith's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (26 papers), graph theory and CDMA systems (16 papers) and Coding theory and cryptography (13 papers). K. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (26 papers), graph theory and CDMA systems (16 papers) and Coding theory and cryptography (13 papers). K. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Australia. K. Smith's co-authors include S. J. Smartt, J. Tonry, A. Rest, L. Denneau, B. Stalder, H. Weiland, A. Heinze, C. W. Stubbs, H. Flewelling and D. R. Young and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

K. Smith

62 papers receiving 1.2k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

ATLAS: A High-cadence All-sky Survey System

2018 518 citations J. Tonry, L. Denneau et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
K. Smith United States	15	1.0k	229	205	109	97	73	1.4k
Timothy A. McKay United States	25	2.3k 2.2×	402 1.8×	1.1k 5.4×	47 0.4×	38 0.4×	68	2.7k
Frank J. Masci United States	22	1.8k 1.7×	364 1.6×	536 2.6×	25 0.2×	51 0.5×	96	1.9k
Stephen C. Russell United States	13	652 0.6×	176 0.8×	115 0.6×	62 0.6×	37 0.4×	48	1.0k
Jessica L. Rosenberg United States	20	804 0.8×	134 0.6×	359 1.8×	26 0.2×	8 0.1×	59	927
Dustin Lang United States	17	966 0.9×	96 0.4×	361 1.8×	132 1.2×	72 0.7×	49	1.4k
Ryan S. Lynch United States	18	1.1k 1.0×	227 1.0×	24 0.1×	93 0.9×	31 0.3×	76	1.5k
Richard I. Anderson Switzerland	26	1.3k 1.3×	273 1.2×	470 2.3×	36 0.3×	22 0.2×	111	1.9k
P. Greenfield United States	16	525 0.5×	171 0.7×	142 0.7×	35 0.3×	34 0.4×	62	737
Ian Heywood United Kingdom	22	1.3k 1.2×	554 2.4×	170 0.8×	20 0.2×	20 0.2×	120	1.5k
David R. Law United States	26	2.7k 2.6×	184 0.8×	1.4k 6.7×	17 0.2×	34 0.4×	132	3.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of K. Smith

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20 of 20 papers shown

Fitzsimmons, A., L. Denneau, Robert J. Siverd, et al.. (2025). Dust Production Rates in Jupiter-family Comets. II. Trends and Population Insights from ATLAS Photometry of 116 JFCs. The Planetary Science Journal. 6(7). 172–172.

Fulton, M., S. J. Smartt, M. E. Huber, et al.. (2025). Results from the Pan-STARRS search for kilonovae: contamination by massive stellar outbursts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(2). 541–559.

Rest, A., C. D. Kilpatrick, J. Jencson, et al.. (2025). ATClean: A Novel Method for Detecting Low-luminosity Transients and Application to Pre-explosion Counterparts from SN 2023ixf. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(2). 114–114. 3 indexed citations

Green, Rhys E., Mark A. Taggart, Deborah J. Pain, et al.. (2024). Outcomes from monitoring the fourth year of a five-year voluntary transition from hunting with lead to non-lead shotgun ammunition in Britain. 21. 6–12. 1 indexed citations

Fitzsimmons, A., L. Denneau, Robert J. Siverd, et al.. (2024). Dust Production Rates in Jupiter-family Comets: A Two Year Study withATLAS Photometry. The Planetary Science Journal. 5(1). 25–25. 5 indexed citations

Watson, C. A., T. R. Marsh, Matteo Brogi, et al.. (2024). Doppler tomography as a tool for characterizing exoplanet atmospheres – II. An analysis of HD 179949 b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(3). 3800–3814. 3 indexed citations

Lawrence, A., et al.. (2024). Enabling science from the Rubin alert stream with Lasair. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 3(1). 362–371. 5 indexed citations

Schwamb, Megan E., A. Fitzsimmons, Michael S. P. Kelley, et al.. (2024). Analyzing the Onset of Cometary Activity by the Jupiter-family Comet 2023 RN₃. The Astronomical Journal. 168(6). 286–286. 1 indexed citations

Smith, K., et al.. (2024). Training a convolutional neural network for real–bogus classification in the ATLAS survey. Research Portal (Queen's University Belfast). 3(1). 385–399. 4 indexed citations

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Schwamb, Megan E., Susan Benecchi, A. Verbiscer, et al.. (2023). Phase Curves of Kuiper Belt Objects, Centaurs, and Jupiter-family Comets from the ATLAS Survey. The Planetary Science Journal. 4(4). 75–75. 7 indexed citations

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Srivastav, Shubham, S. J. Smartt, M. E. Huber, et al.. (2023). The Luminous Type Ia Supernova 2022ilv and Its Early Excess Emission. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 943(2). L20–L20. 12 indexed citations

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Schwamb, Megan E., A. Fitzsimmons, Michael S. P. Kelley, et al.. (2021). New or Increased Cometary Activity in (2060) 95P/Chiron. Research Notes of the AAS. 5(9). 211–211. 3 indexed citations

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Srivastav, Shubham, S. J. Smartt, G. Leloudas, et al.. (2020). The Lowest of the Low: Discovery of SN 2019gsc and the Nature of Faint Iax Supernovae. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 892(2). L24–L24. 8 indexed citations

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Gáll, Erwin, R. Kotak, B. Leibundgut, et al.. (2018). An updated Type II supernova Hubble diagram. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 13 indexed citations

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Arcavi, I., G. Hosseinzadeh, P. J. Brown, et al.. (2017). Constraints on the Progenitor of SN 2016gkg from Its Shock-cooling Light Curve. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 837(1). L2–L2. 30 indexed citations

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Inserra, C., R. Scalzo, M. Fraser, et al.. (2013). SN2012ca: a stripped envelope core-collapse SN interacting with dense circumstellar medium. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 437(1). L51–L55. 13 indexed citations

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Fraser, M., R. Kotak, A. Pastorello, et al.. (2013). First observations of the reappearance of SN 2009ip with PESSTO. ATel. 4953. 1. 1 indexed citations

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Monard, L. A. G., A. Morales-Garoffolo, N. Elias–Rosa, et al.. (2013). Supernova 2013L in ESO 216-39 = Psn J11452955-5035531. 3392. 1. 2 indexed citations

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Schmidt, Bernhard & K. Smith. (2012). Circulant weighing matrices whose order and weight are products of powers of 2 and 3. Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A. 120(1). 275–287. 6 indexed citations

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Valenti, S., E. Kankare, L. Magill, et al.. (2010). Discovery two new supernovae in the Pan-STARRS1 3Pi faint galaxy supernova survey. The astronomer's telegram. 2981. 1. 1 indexed citations

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