Kevin Heng

12.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
113 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Kevin Heng is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Kevin Heng has authored 113 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 30 papers in Atmospheric Science and 20 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Kevin Heng's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (73 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (54 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (34 papers). Kevin Heng is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (73 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (54 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (34 papers). Kevin Heng collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United Kingdom and United States. Kevin Heng's co-authors include Daniel Kitzmann, Simon L. Grimm, Chloe Fisher, Peter J. Phillipps, Shang‐Min Tsai, Adam P. Showman, João M. Mendonça, J. R. Lyons, F. Pont and Caroline Dorn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Kevin Heng

109 papers receiving 3.4k 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.

  1. A map of the large day–night temperature gradient of a super-Earth exoplanet
    2016 148 citations Brice-Olivier Demory, Kevin Heng et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kevin Heng Switzerland 34 3.1k 762 561 373 224 113 3.7k
M. Güdel Switzerland 48 7.2k 2.3× 422 0.6× 411 0.7× 446 1.2× 307 1.4× 271 7.5k
Jack J. Lissauer United States 48 8.5k 2.7× 469 0.6× 890 1.6× 347 0.9× 195 0.9× 223 8.7k
A. Lazarian United States 49 7.8k 2.5× 530 0.7× 222 0.4× 416 1.1× 2.1k 9.4× 238 8.0k
Jacob L. Bean United States 37 4.1k 1.3× 611 0.8× 1.4k 2.5× 405 1.1× 146 0.7× 154 4.4k
A. Vidal‐Madjar France 49 7.6k 2.4× 1.3k 1.7× 1.5k 2.7× 745 2.0× 328 1.5× 245 8.0k
Frank H. Shu United States 57 13.0k 4.2× 1.0k 1.3× 645 1.1× 2.3k 6.3× 697 3.1× 148 13.3k
D. Saumon United States 44 5.5k 1.8× 569 0.7× 1.8k 3.2× 417 1.1× 272 1.2× 110 6.9k
Kevin B. Stevenson United States 28 2.7k 0.9× 644 0.8× 843 1.5× 376 1.0× 42 0.2× 102 3.1k
Richard Klein United States 36 4.1k 1.3× 376 0.5× 224 0.4× 496 1.3× 505 2.3× 101 4.6k
Heather A. Knutson United States 43 5.8k 1.9× 832 1.1× 1.9k 3.4× 445 1.2× 84 0.4× 139 6.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kevin Heng

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kevin Heng

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fisher, Chloe, et al.. (2025). Near-instantaneous Atmospheric Retrievals and Model Comparison with FASTER. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 984(1). L32–L32. 2 indexed citations
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Tian, Meng, et al.. (2025). Inferring the interior oxygen fugacity of rocky exoplanets from observations: Assessing biases by atmospheric chemistry. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 698. A76–A76. 3 indexed citations
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Heng, Kevin, James E. Owen, & Meng Tian. (2025). The Gradient of Mean Molecular Weight across the Radius Valley. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(1). 28–28. 3 indexed citations
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Morris, Brett M., Kevin Heng, & Daniel Kitzmann. (2024). Observations of scattered light from exoplanet atmospheres. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 685. A104–A104. 1 indexed citations
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Heng, Kevin, et al.. (2024). The quantum yield of O(1S) in CO2 photolysis retrieved from the Martian atmosphere. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A319–A319. 3 indexed citations
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Li, Liming, Sherry Li, Kevin Heng, et al.. (2023). The Bolometric Bond Albedo of Enceladus. Icarus. 394. 115429–115429. 3 indexed citations
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Tian, Meng, et al.. (2023). Diverse Carbonates in Exoplanet Oceans Promote the Carbon Cycle. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 942(1). L20–L20. 2 indexed citations
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Deitrick, Russell, et al.. (2022). Meta-modelling the climate of dry tide-locked rocky planets. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 663. A79–A79. 2 indexed citations
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Kopparla, Pushkar, Russell Deitrick, Kevin Heng, João M. Mendonça, & Mark Hammond. (2021). General Circulation Model Errors Are Variable across Exoclimate Parameter Spaces. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(1). 39–39. 1 indexed citations
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Brandeker, A., Y. Alibert, V. Bourrier, et al.. (2021). Is it raining lava in the evening on 55 Cancri e. 2084. 2 indexed citations
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Heng, Kevin, et al.. (2020). Atmospheric stability and collapse on tidally locked rocky planets. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 8 indexed citations
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Seidel, J. V., M. Lendl, V. Bourrier, et al.. (2020). Hot Exoplanet Atmospheres Resolved with Transit Spectroscopy (HEARTS). Astronomy and Astrophysics. 643. A45–A45. 21 indexed citations
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Hoeijmakers, H. J., Samuel H. C. Cabot, Lily Zhao, et al.. (2020). High-resolution transmission spectroscopy of MASCARA-2 b with EXPRES. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations
14.
Dorn, Caroline & Kevin Heng. (2018). Secondary Atmospheres on HD 219134 b and c. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 17 indexed citations
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Ven, Glenn van de, Kevin Heng, D. Kupko, et al.. (2017). An Integral View of Balmer-dominated Shocks in Supernova Remnants. reroDoc Digital Library.
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Tsai, Shang‐Min, et al.. (2017). VULCAN: An Open-source, Validated Chemical Kinetics Python Code for Exoplanetary Atmospheres. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 228(2). 20–20. 132 indexed citations
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Tsai, Shang‐Min, et al.. (2017). VULCAN: Chemical Kinetics For Exoplanetary Atmospheres. ascl. 1 indexed citations
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Heng, Kevin. (2017). Exoplanetary Atmospheres. Princeton University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Kopparapu, Ravi, Eric Wolf, Giada Arney, et al.. (2017). Habitable Moist Atmospheres on Terrestrial Planets near the Inner Edge of the Habitable Zone around M Dwarfs. The Astrophysical Journal. 845(1). 5–5. 106 indexed citations
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Fromang, S., Jérémy Leconte, & Kevin Heng. (2016). Shear-driven instabilities and shocks in the atmospheres of hot Jupiters. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 33 indexed citations

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