Kathryn V. Johnston

10.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
121 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Kathryn V. Johnston is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kathryn V. Johnston has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 50 papers in Instrumentation and 7 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Kathryn V. Johnston's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (103 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (70 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (50 papers). Kathryn V. Johnston is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (103 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (70 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (50 papers). Kathryn V. Johnston collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Kathryn V. Johnston's co-authors include James S. Bullock, Steven R. Majewski, Lars Hernquist, Chervin F. P. Laporte, David R. Law, Facundo A. Gómez, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, Andreea S. Font, Gurtina Besla and Nicolás Garavito-Camargo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Kathryn V. Johnston

112 papers receiving 5.2k citations

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Tracing Galaxy Formation with Stellar Halos. I. Methods

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Kathryn V. Johnston United States	42	5.4k	2.7k	312	184	109	121	5.6k
M. Arnaboldi Germany	37	3.9k 0.7×	2.3k 0.9×	268 0.9×	105 0.6×	158 1.4×	165	4.0k
Victor P. Debattista United Kingdom	41	4.3k 0.8×	2.2k 0.8×	297 1.0×	191 1.0×	155 1.4×	177	4.5k
Desika Narayanan United States	39	4.8k 0.9×	1.8k 0.7×	561 1.8×	112 0.6×	120 1.1×	116	5.0k
Nelson Caldwell United States	39	4.5k 0.8×	2.3k 0.8×	473 1.5×	84 0.5×	109 1.0×	131	4.6k
J. Christopher Mihos United States	33	4.4k 0.8×	2.3k 0.9×	312 1.0×	147 0.8×	180 1.7×	66	4.5k
Sandro Tacchella United States	34	3.3k 0.6×	1.9k 0.7×	293 0.9×	92 0.5×	103 0.9×	117	3.5k
M. R. Merrifield United Kingdom	36	3.9k 0.7×	2.0k 0.8×	403 1.3×	170 0.9×	160 1.5×	142	4.0k
Kenji Bekki Australia	36	5.1k 0.9×	2.6k 1.0×	281 0.9×	73 0.4×	87 0.8×	221	5.2k
Robert J. J. Grand Germany	43	4.8k 0.9×	2.1k 0.8×	678 2.2×	153 0.8×	104 1.0×	134	5.1k
Facundo A. Gómez Germany	46	4.9k 0.9×	2.2k 0.8×	617 2.0×	185 1.0×	82 0.8×	106	5.2k

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Garavito-Camargo, Nicolás, Robyn E. Sanderson, Martin D. Weinberg, et al.. (2025). Shaping the Milky Way: The Interplay of Mergers and Cosmic Filaments. The Astrophysical Journal. 988(2). 190–190. 4 indexed citations

Horta, Danny, Emily C. Cunningham, Robyn E. Sanderson, et al.. (2023). The Observable Properties of Galaxy Accretion Events in Milky Way–like Galaxies in the FIRE-2 Cosmological Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 943(2). 158–158. 20 indexed citations

Johnston, Kathryn V., et al.. (2023). Stream Fanning and Bifurcations: Observable Signatures of Resonances in Stellar Stream Morphology. The Astrophysical Journal. 954(2). 215–215. 6 indexed citations

Myers, Kevin S., et al.. (2023). A randomized multiplex CRISPRi-Seq approach for the identification of critical combinations of genes. eLife. 12. 7 indexed citations

Myers, Kevin S., et al.. (2023). A randomized multiplex CRISPRi-Seq approach for the identification of critical combinations of genes. eLife. 12. 1 indexed citations

Horta, Danny, Emily C. Cunningham, Robyn E. Sanderson, et al.. (2023). The proto-galaxy of Milky Way-mass haloes in the FIRE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(4). 9810–9825. 14 indexed citations

Darragh-Ford, Elise, John Douglas Hunt, Adrian M. Price-Whelan, & Kathryn V. Johnston. (2023). ESCARGOT: Mapping Vertical Phase Spiral Characteristics Throughout the Real and Simulated Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal. 955(1). 74–74. 14 indexed citations

Sánchez, H. Domínguez, Garreth Martin, Ivana Damjanov, et al.. (2023). Identification of tidal features in deep optical galaxy images with convolutional neural networks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(3). 3861–3872. 18 indexed citations

Ness, Melissa, Tobias Buck, Kathryn V. Johnston, et al.. (2022). Tracing Birth Properties of Stars with Abundance Clustering. The Astrophysical Journal. 924(2). 60–60. 10 indexed citations

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Garavito-Camargo, Nicolás, Ekta Patel, Gurtina Besla, et al.. (2021). The Clustering of Orbital Poles Induced by the LMC: Hints for the Origin of Planes of Satellites. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(2). 140–140. 27 indexed citations

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Hunt, John Douglas, Kathryn V. Johnston, Alex R. Pettitt, et al.. (2020). The power of coordinate transformations in dynamical interpretations of Galactic structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(1). 818–828. 15 indexed citations

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Garavito-Camargo, Nicolás, Gurtina Besla, Chervin F. P. Laporte, et al.. (2019). Hunting for the Dark Matter Wake Induced by the Large Magellanic Cloud. The Astrophysical Journal. 884(1). 51–51. 134 indexed citations

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Emerick, Andrew, Greg L. Bryan, Mordecai‐Mark Mac Low, et al.. (2018). Metal Mixing and Ejection in Dwarf Galaxies Are Dependent on Nucleosynthetic Source. The Astrophysical Journal. 869(2). 94–94. 32 indexed citations

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Kado-Fong, Erin, Jenny E. Greene, David Hendel, et al.. (2018). Tidal Features at 0.05 < z < 0.45 in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program: Properties and Formation Channels. The Astrophysical Journal. 866(2). 103–103. 37 indexed citations

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Johnston, Kathryn V.. (2017). Disk Heating, Galactoseismology, and the Formation of Stellar Halos. MDPI (MDPI AG). 8 indexed citations

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Price-Whelan, Adrian M., Kathryn V. Johnston, Monica Valluri, et al.. (2015). Chaotic dispersal of tidal debris. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 455(1). 1079–1098. 53 indexed citations

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Lux, H., Justin I. Read, George Lake, & Kathryn V. Johnston. (2013). Constraining the Milky Way halo shape using thin streams. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 436(3). 2386–2397. 28 indexed citations

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Majewski, Steven R., John N. Bahcall, D. Geisler, et al.. (2002). Taking Measure of the Milky Way. AAS. 198. 15. 1 indexed citations

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Patterson, Richard J., Steven R. Majewski, W. E. Kunkel, et al.. (1999). The Grid Giant Star Survey for the SIM Astrometric Grid. American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts. 195.

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Ostheimer, James C., Steven R. Majewski, W. E. Kunkel, & Kathryn V. Johnston. (1998). A Search for Tidal Star Streams from the Magellanic Clouds. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 191.

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