Katherine E. Whitaker

12.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
99 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Katherine E. Whitaker is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Katherine E. Whitaker has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 92 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 65 papers in Instrumentation and 7 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Katherine E. Whitaker's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (88 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (65 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (36 papers). Katherine E. Whitaker is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (88 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (65 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (36 papers). Katherine E. Whitaker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Netherlands and Germany. Katherine E. Whitaker's co-authors include Pieter van Dokkum, Gabriel Brammer, Marijn Franx, Erica J. Nelson, Ivo Labbé, Joel Leja, Rachel Bezanson, Mariska Kriek, Ivelina Momcheva and Danilo Marchesini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Geophysical Research Letters.

In The Last Decade

Katherine E. Whitaker

93 papers receiving 3.2k 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.

THE GROWTH OF MASSIVE GALAXIES SINCEz= 2

2010 467 citations Pieter van Dokkum, Katherine E. Whitaker et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
CONSTRAINING THE LOW-MASS SLOPE OF THE STAR FORMATION SEQUENCE AT 0.5 <z< 2.5

2014 459 citations Katherine E. Whitaker, Marijn Franx et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang

2023 281 citations Ivo Labbé, Pieter van Dokkum et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Katherine E. Whitaker United States	30	3.3k	2.1k	264	199	168	99	3.5k
N. R. Napolitano Italy	38	4.0k 1.2×	2.4k 1.1×	350 1.3×	273 1.4×	212 1.3×	169	4.2k
David A. Wake United States	28	2.9k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	361 1.4×	199 1.0×	137 0.8×	53	2.9k
Tomotsugu Goto Taiwan	29	3.1k 0.9×	1.7k 0.8×	345 1.3×	287 1.4×	182 1.1×	128	3.2k
M. Arnaboldi Germany	37	3.9k 1.2×	2.3k 1.1×	268 1.0×	138 0.7×	116 0.7×	165	4.0k
M. Barden Germany	22	3.3k 1.0×	1.8k 0.8×	250 0.9×	227 1.1×	185 1.1×	34	3.5k
S. Phillipps United Kingdom	35	3.7k 1.1×	2.1k 1.0×	304 1.2×	230 1.2×	186 1.1×	206	3.8k
A. Pasquali Germany	36	4.5k 1.3×	2.6k 1.2×	302 1.1×	257 1.3×	179 1.1×	153	4.5k
S. Mei France	35	4.2k 1.3×	2.4k 1.1×	329 1.2×	251 1.3×	185 1.1×	84	4.3k
Sandro Tacchella United States	34	3.3k 1.0×	1.9k 0.9×	293 1.1×	90 0.5×	122 0.7×	117	3.5k
Daniel Ceverino United States	34	4.0k 1.2×	2.2k 1.0×	341 1.3×	86 0.4×	159 0.9×	68	4.1k

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Hamadouche, M. L., R. J. McLure, Adam C. Carnall, et al.. (2025). JWST PRIMER: strong evidence for the environmental quenching of low-mass galaxies out to z≃ 2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(1). 463–475. 2 indexed citations

Allen, Natalie, Pascal A. Oesch, Sune Toft, et al.. (2025). Galaxy size and mass build-up in the first 2 Gyr of cosmic history from multi-wavelength JWST NIRCam imaging. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 698. A30–A30. 10 indexed citations

Momcheva, Ivelina, Katherine E. Whitaker, Sam E. Cutler, et al.. (2025). The Evolution of Half-mass Radii and Color Gradients for Young and Old Quiescent Galaxies at 0.5 < z < 3 with JWST/PRIMER. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(1). 106–106.

Nelson, Erica J., Tim B. Miller, Rachel Bezanson, et al.. (2024). JWST Reveals Bulge-dominated Star-forming Galaxies at Cosmic Noon. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 974(2). L28–L28. 3 indexed citations

Chemerynska, Iryna, Hakim Atek, Pratika Dayal, et al.. (2024). The Extreme Low-mass End of the Mass–Metallicity Relation at z ∼ 7. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 976(1). L15–L15. 11 indexed citations

Rizzo, Francesca, Filippo Fraternali, Francesco Valentino, et al.. (2023). The ALMA-ALPAKA survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 679. A129–A129. 25 indexed citations

Mathews, Elijah P., Joel Leja, Joshua S. Speagle, et al.. (2023). As Simple as Possible but No Simpler: Optimizing the Performance of Neural Net Emulators for Galaxy SED Fitting. The Astrophysical Journal. 954(2). 132–132. 8 indexed citations

Pope, Alexandra, Jed McKinney, Patrick S. Kamieneski, et al.. (2023). ALMA Reveals a Stable Rotating Gas Disk in a Paradoxical Low-mass, Ultradusty Galaxy at z = 4.274. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 951(2). L46–L46. 14 indexed citations

Li, Yijia, Joel Leja, Katherine E. Whitaker, et al.. (2023). A Simple Spectroscopic Technique to Identify Rejuvenating Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 952(1). 6–6. 9 indexed citations

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Martorano, Marco, Arjen van der Wel, Eric F. Bell, et al.. (2023). Rest-frame Near-infrared Radial Light Profiles up to z = 3 from JWST/NIRCam: Wavelength Dependence of the Sérsic Index. The Astrophysical Journal. 957(1). 46–46. 12 indexed citations

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Labbé, Ivo, Pieter van Dokkum, Erica J. Nelson, et al.. (2023). A population of red candidate massive galaxies ~600 Myr after the Big Bang. Nature. 616(7956). 266–269. 281 indexed citations breakdown →

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Cutler, Sam E., Katherine E. Whitaker, Lamiya Mowla, et al.. (2022). Diagnosing DASH: A Catalog of Structural Properties for the COSMOS-DASH Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 925(1). 34–34. 18 indexed citations

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Muzzin, Adam, Z. Cemile Marsan, Leo Y. Alcorn, et al.. (2022). Resolved stellar mass maps of galaxies in the Hubble Frontier Fields : evidence for mass dependency in environmental quenching. NPARC. 6 indexed citations

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Bezanson, Rachel, Andrew R. Zentner, Jeffrey A. Newman, et al.. (2022). CLIMBER: Galaxy–Halo Connection Constraints from Next-generation Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal. 925(2). 180–180. 3 indexed citations

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Magdis, G., R. Gobat, Francesco Valentino, et al.. (2021). The interstellar medium of quiescent galaxies and its evolution with time. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 31 indexed citations

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Kado-Fong, Erin, Danilo Marchesini, Z. Cemile Marsan, et al.. (2017). Near-infrared Spectroscopy of Five Ultra-massive Galaxies at 1.7 < z < 2.7. OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries). 5 indexed citations

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Whitaker, Katherine E., Rachel Bezanson, Pieter van Dokkum, et al.. (2017). Predicting Quiescence: The Dependence of Specific Star Formation Rate on Galaxy Size and Central Density at 0.5 < z < 2.5. The Astrophysical Journal. 838(1). 19–19. 69 indexed citations

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Muzzin, Adam, Marijn Franx, C. Schreiber, et al.. (2017). The Mass, Color, and Structural Evolution of Today’s Massive Galaxies Since z ∼ 5. The Astrophysical Journal. 837(2). 147–147. 37 indexed citations

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Nelson, Erica J., Pieter van Dokkum, Ivelina Momcheva, et al.. (2016). SPATIALLY RESOLVED DUST MAPS FROM BALMER DECREMENTS IN GALAXIES AT z ∼ 1.4. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 817(1). L9–L9. 62 indexed citations

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Tal, Tomer, Pieter van Dokkum, Marijn Franx, et al.. (2013). Galaxy Environments over Cosmic Time: The Non-evolving Radial Galaxy Distributions around Massive Galaxies since <i>z</i> = 1.6. Open Research Online (The Open University). 16 indexed citations

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