L. Fortson

15.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
62 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

L. Fortson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Ecological Modeling. According to data from OpenAlex, L. Fortson has authored 62 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 17 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 15 papers in Ecological Modeling. Recurrent topics in L. Fortson's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (17 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (15 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (13 papers). L. Fortson is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (17 papers), Species Distribution and Climate Change (15 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (13 papers). L. Fortson collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Netherlands. L. Fortson's co-authors include Chris Lintott, Karen L. Masters, Brooke Simmons, Kevin Schawinski, R. C. Nichol, William C. Keel, Kyle Willett, S. P. Bamford, Sugata Kaviraj and Ramin Skibba and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

L. Fortson

59 papers receiving 2.4k 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 green valley is a red herring: Galaxy Zoo reveals two evolutionary pathways towards quenching of star formation in early- and late-type galaxies★

2014 433 citations Brooke Simmons, L. Fortson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Galaxy Zoo 2: detailed morphological classifications for 304 122 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2013 421 citations Kyle Willett, Chris Lintott et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of L. Fortson

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of L. Fortson. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of L. Fortson 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 L. Fortson. L. Fortson is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Unleashing the Power of the Zooniverse: The 2021 Survey of Volunteers 2024 ·SSRN Electronic Journal ·Corey Jackson, Liz Dowthwaite, (unknown), Laura Trouille, L. Fortson, Chris Lintott, Brooke Simmons, (unknown)	0
2	Understanding Confusion: A Case Study of Training a Machine Model to Predict and Interpret Consensus From Volunteer Labels 2024 ·Citizen Science Theory and Practice ·(unknown), Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, (unknown), L. Fortson, (unknown), C. J. Hansen, Glenn S. Orton	1
3	Transfer learning for galaxy feature detection: Finding giant star-forming clumps in low-redshift galaxies using Faster Region-based Convolutional Neural Network 2024 ·Open Research Online (The Open University) ·Jürgen Popp, H. J. Dickinson, S. Serjeant, Mike Walmsley, (unknown), L. Fortson, Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, Vihang Mehta, (unknown), Sandor Kruk, Brooke Simmons	1
4	Jovian Vortex Hunter: A Citizen Science Project to Study Jupiter’s Vortices 2024 ·The Planetary Science Journal ·(unknown), (unknown), L. Fortson, C. J. Hansen, Chris Lintott, Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, (unknown), Glenn S. Orton	2
5	Solar Jet Hunter: A citizen science initiative to identify and characterize coronal jets at 304 Å 2024 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Sophie Musset, (unknown), Raman Sankar, (unknown), C. Kapsiak, (unknown), (unknown), Lindsay Glesener, L. Fortson, Gregory D. Fleishman, Navdeep K. Panesar, (unknown), M. Jeunon, N. E. Hurlburt	4
6	Low-metallicity Galaxies from the Dark Energy Survey 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Claudia Scarlata, Vihang Mehta, Evan D. Skillman, Matthew Hayes, Kristen B. W. McQuinn, L. Fortson, Katherine Chworowsky, L. Clarke	3
7	Galaxy Zoo DESI: Detailed morphology measurements for 8.7M galaxies in the DESI Legacy Imaging Surveys 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Mike Walmsley, Tobias Géron, Sandor Kruk, Anna M. M. Scaife, Chris Lintott, Karen L. Masters, (unknown), H. J. Dickinson, L. Fortson, (unknown), Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, (unknown), Jürgen Popp, Brooke Simmons, Elisabeth Baeten, Christine Macmillan	23
8	Galaxy Zoo: Clump Scout – Design and first application of a two-dimensional aggregation tool for citizen science 2022 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·H. J. Dickinson, (unknown), Vihang Mehta, Claudia Scarlata, L. Fortson, S. Serjeant, Coleman Krawczyk, Sandor Kruk, Chris Lintott, Kameswara Bharadwaj Mantha, Brooke Simmons, Mike Walmsley	4
9	Gems of the Galaxy Zoos—A Wide-ranging Hubble Space Telescope Gap-filler Program* 2022 ·The Astronomical Journal ·William C. Keel, (unknown), O. Ivy Wong, Julie Banfield, Chris Lintott, Karen L. Masters, Brooke Simmons, Claudia Scarlata, Carolin N. Cardamone, Rebecca Smethurst, L. Fortson, (unknown), Sandor Kruk, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown)	11
10	Galaxy Zoo DECaLS: Detailed visual morphology measurements from volunteers and deep learning for 314 000 galaxies 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Mike Walmsley, Chris Lintott, Tobias Géron, Sandor Kruk, Coleman Krawczyk, Kyle Willett, S. P. Bamford, L. S. Kelvin, L. Fortson, Yarin Gal, William C. Keel, Karen L. Masters, Vihang Mehta, Brooke Simmons, Rebecca Smethurst, Lewis Smith, Elisabeth Baeten, Christine Macmillan	111
11	Citizen science, computing, and conservation: How can “Crowd AI” change the way we tackle large-scale ecological challenges? 2021 ·Meredith S. Palmer, (unknown), Marco Willi, L. Fortson, Craig Packer	13
12	Zooniverse Project Builder Platform 2020 ·American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts ·Laura Trouille, Chris Lintott, L. Fortson	2
13	Galaxy Zoo: probabilistic morphology through Bayesian CNNs and active learning 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Mike Walmsley, Lewis Smith, Chris Lintott, Yarin Gal, S. P. Bamford, H. J. Dickinson, L. Fortson, Sandor Kruk, Karen L. Masters, Claudia Scarlata, Brooke Simmons, Rebecca Smethurst, Darryl Wright	86
14	Galaxy Nurseries: Crowdsourced Analysis of Slitless Spectroscopic Data 2018 ·Research Notes of the AAS ·H. J. Dickinson, Claudia Scarlata, L. Fortson, Micaela B. Bagley, Vihang Mehta, (unknown), Ivano Baronchelli, (unknown), Nimish P. Hathi, Alaina Henry, Matthew A. Malkan, Marc Rafelski, Harry I. Teplitz, Anita Zanella, Chris Lintott	0
15	Identifying animal species in camera trap images using deep learning and citizen science 2018 ·Methods in Ecology and Evolution ·Marco Willi, Ross T. Pitman, Anabelle W. Cardoso, Christina Locke, Alexandra Swanson, Amy Boyer, (unknown), L. Fortson	231
16	Recommendations for the Creation of a Center for Citizen Science 2018 ·Journal of Extension ·Robert Blair, L. Fortson, (unknown), (unknown)	2
17	Luminous and high-frequency peaked blazars: the origin of the gamma-ray emission from PKS 1424+240 2017 ·DESY Publication Database (PUBDB) (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron) ·M. Cerruti, W. Benbow, X. Chen, J. Dumm, L. Fortson, K. Shahinyan	14
18	Science with the Cherenkov Telescope Array 2015 ·AAS ·L. Fortson	1
19	25 by '25: extension's role in rural energy development. 2006 ·TigerPrints (Clemson University) ·L. Fortson	9
20	Casa-Blanca: A Large non-imaging Cerenkov Detector at Casa-Mia 1997 ·International Cosmic Ray Conference ·Martin Cassidy, L. Fortson, (unknown), (unknown), D. Kieda, E. C. Loh, R. A. Ong, Paul Sommers	1

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