Leigh Brookshaw

1.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
18 papers, 724 citations indexed

About

Leigh Brookshaw is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Computational Mechanics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Leigh Brookshaw has authored 18 papers receiving a total of 724 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 4 papers in Computational Mechanics and 2 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Leigh Brookshaw's work include Astro and Planetary Science (10 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (5 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (4 papers). Leigh Brookshaw is often cited by papers focused on Astro and Planetary Science (10 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (5 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (4 papers). Leigh Brookshaw collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and France. Leigh Brookshaw's co-authors include Paul J. Thomas, Carl Sagan, Christopher F. Chyba, M. Tavani, S. C. Marsden, Brad Carter, Matthew W. Mengel, Belinda Nicholson, A. A. Vidotto and P. Petit and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Leigh Brookshaw

18 papers receiving 685 citations

Hit Papers

Cometary Delivery of Organic Molecules to the Early Earth 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 100 200 300 400
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. Cometary Delivery of Organic Molecules to the Early Earth
    1990 410 citations Christopher F. Chyba, Paul J. Thomas et al. Science profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Leigh Brookshaw Australia 9 509 176 73 66 63 18 724
G. G. Managadze Russia 12 318 0.6× 47 0.3× 124 1.7× 53 0.8× 25 0.4× 47 471
B. C. Clark United States 12 1.1k 2.2× 33 0.2× 94 1.3× 210 3.2× 105 1.7× 29 1.2k
I. L. ten Kate Netherlands 15 604 1.2× 15 0.1× 51 0.7× 142 2.2× 73 1.2× 54 803
Yoko Kebukawa Japan 18 1.0k 2.0× 20 0.1× 142 1.9× 452 6.8× 54 0.9× 84 1.2k
Hikaru Yabuta Japan 14 671 1.3× 19 0.1× 79 1.1× 230 3.5× 70 1.1× 49 851
A. H. Delsemme United States 19 989 1.9× 19 0.1× 108 1.5× 155 2.3× 196 3.1× 72 1.1k
Hsiang‐Wen Hsu United States 16 810 1.6× 21 0.1× 21 0.3× 69 1.0× 90 1.4× 43 940
A. D. Morse United Kingdom 14 546 1.1× 23 0.1× 137 1.9× 136 2.1× 64 1.0× 53 672
E. Kochavi Israel 6 363 0.7× 14 0.1× 41 0.6× 37 0.6× 152 2.4× 8 488
Nozair Khawaja Germany 11 534 1.0× 17 0.1× 93 1.3× 118 1.8× 102 1.6× 32 585

Countries citing papers authored by Leigh Brookshaw

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Fields of papers citing papers by Leigh Brookshaw

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Leigh Brookshaw

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

All Works

18 of 18 papers shown
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Carter, Brad, et al.. (2021). The winds of young Solar-type stars in the Hyades. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(2). 2309–2335. 14 indexed citations
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Nesvorný, David, Jonathan Horner, Rachel King, et al.. (2020). Stability of Jovian Trojans and their collisional families. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495(4). 4085–4097. 18 indexed citations
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Nicholson, Belinda, A. A. Vidotto, Matthew W. Mengel, et al.. (2016). Temporal variability of the wind from the star τ Boötis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 459(2). 1907–1915. 29 indexed citations
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Brookshaw, Leigh, et al.. (2011). A flexible, extensible online testing system for mathematics. Australasian Journal of Educational Technology. 27(6). 5 indexed citations
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Brookshaw, Leigh. (2003). Smooth particle hydrodynamics in cylindrical coordinates. ANZIAM Journal. 44. 114–114. 29 indexed citations
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Mosqueira, I., P. R. Estrada, & Leigh Brookshaw. (1999). Hydrodynamical Simulations of Narrow Planetary Rings. I. Scaling. Icarus. 139(2). 260–285. 4 indexed citations
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Brookshaw, Leigh. (1994). Solving the Heat Diffusion Equation in SPH (Invited paper). Memorie della Societa Astronomica Italiana. 65. 1033. 1 indexed citations
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Brookshaw, Leigh, et al.. (1994). Deformation of Large Bolides During Atmospheric Passage: Comparison of SPH and Analytic Models. Lunar and Planetary Science Conference. 1397. 1 indexed citations
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Brookshaw, Leigh & M. Tavani. (1993). Wind-driven angular momentum loss in binary systems. I - Ballistic case. The Astrophysical Journal. 410. 719–719. 29 indexed citations
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Tavani, M. & Leigh Brookshaw. (1993). Hidden slow pulsars in binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 413. L39–L39. 3 indexed citations
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Bernstein, Ira B., Leigh Brookshaw, & Peter Fox. (1992). A numerical method for solving systems of linear ordinary differential equations with rapidly oscillating solutions. Journal of Computational Physics. 98(2). 269–284. 1 indexed citations
12.
Tavani, M. & Leigh Brookshaw. (1992). The origin of planets orbiting millisecond pulsars. Nature. 356(6367). 320–322. 8 indexed citations
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Tavani, M. & Leigh Brookshaw. (1991). Outflow hydrodynamics in the eclipsing millisecond pulsar binaries PSR 1957 + 20 and PSR 1744 - 24A. The Astrophysical Journal. 381. L21–L21. 13 indexed citations
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Chyba, Christopher F., Paul J. Thomas, Leigh Brookshaw, & Carl Sagan. (1990). Cometary Delivery of Organic Molecules to the Early Earth. Science. 249(4967). 366–373. 410 indexed citations breakdown →
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Chyba, Christopher F., Carl Sagan, Leigh Brookshaw, & Paul J. Thomas. (1989). Impact delivery of prebiotic organics to the early earth. Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres. 19(3-5). 467–468. 2 indexed citations
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Thomas, Paul J., Christopher F. Chyba, Leigh Brookshaw, & Carl Sagan. (1989). Impact Delivery of Organic Molecules to the Early Earth and Implications for the Terrestrial Origins of Life. 698. 1117. 1 indexed citations
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Brookshaw, Leigh. (1986). The Roche Problem for Stratified Polytropes. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 6(4). 461–464. 3 indexed citations
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Brookshaw, Leigh. (1985). A Method of Calculating Radiative Heat Diffusion in Particle Simulations. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 6(2). 207–210. 153 indexed citations

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