Luis Welbanks

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Luis Welbanks is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atmospheric Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Luis Welbanks has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13 papers in Instrumentation and 9 papers in Atmospheric Science. Recurrent topics in Luis Welbanks's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (38 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (32 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (17 papers). Luis Welbanks is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (38 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (32 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (17 papers). Luis Welbanks collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Luis Welbanks's co-authors include Nikku Madhusudhan, Anjali A. A. Piette, Siddharth Gandhi, Fernand Spiegelman, N. F. Allard, Thierry Leininger, I. Hubený, Vivien Parmentier, Matthew C. Nixon and Samuel H. C. Cabot and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Luis Welbanks

45 papers receiving 881 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.

A high internal heat flux and large core in a warm Neptune exoplanet

2024 53 citations Luis Welbanks, Taylor J. Bell et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luis Welbanks United States	21	980	252	236	131	71	50	1.1k
Natasha E. Batalha United States	20	963 1.0×	241 1.0×	331 1.4×	126 1.0×	86 1.2×	66	1.1k
Patricio E. Cubillos Austria	19	982 1.0×	237 0.9×	196 0.8×	102 0.8×	49 0.7×	52	1.1k
Tiffany Kataria United States	22	1.5k 1.6×	409 1.6×	329 1.4×	171 1.3×	98 1.4×	54	1.7k
Roxana Lupu United States	20	1.0k 1.1×	190 0.8×	288 1.2×	162 1.2×	41 0.6×	37	1.2k
Siddharth Gandhi United Kingdom	19	1.0k 1.0×	317 1.3×	268 1.1×	237 1.8×	58 0.8×	46	1.1k
Joshua D. Lothringer United States	18	895 0.9×	236 0.9×	173 0.7×	84 0.6×	54 0.8×	53	950
Emily Rauscher United States	22	1.3k 1.3×	295 1.2×	233 1.0×	96 0.7×	48 0.7×	56	1.4k
Jasmina Blecic United States	15	780 0.8×	218 0.9×	211 0.9×	139 1.1×	36 0.5×	25	891
H. J. Hoeijmakers Switzerland	18	846 0.9×	222 0.9×	179 0.8×	164 1.3×	52 0.7×	43	973
Benjamin Drummond United Kingdom	21	1.0k 1.0×	218 0.9×	339 1.4×	140 1.1×	55 0.8×	25	1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luis Welbanks

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

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Nixon, Matthew C., Arjun B. Savel, Jegug Ih, et al.. (2025). Magma Ocean Interactions Can Explain JWST Observations of the Sub-Neptune TOI-270 d. The Astrophysical Journal. 995(1). 95–95.

Mukherjee, Sagnick, Everett Schlawin, Taylor J. Bell, et al.. (2025). A JWST Panchromatic Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Warm Neptune Archetype GJ 436b. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 982(2). L39–L39. 9 indexed citations

Ahrer, Eva-Maria, Jonathan Brande, Laura Kreidberg, et al.. (2025). Mapping the SO ₂ Shoreline in Gas Giant Exoplanets. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(2). 184–184.

Cloutier, Ryan, N. M. Brown, Jacob L. Bean, et al.. (2025). Aligned Stellar Obliquities for Two Hot Jupiter-hosting M Dwarfs Revealed by MAROON-X: Implications for Hot Jupiter Formation. The Astronomical Journal. 170(6). 313–313.

Welbanks, Luis, Matthew C. Nixon, Peter McGill, et al.. (2025). Challenges in the detection of gases in exoplanet atmospheres. Nature Astronomy. 10(2). 234–247.

Fu, Guangwei, Kevin B. Stevenson, David K. Sing, et al.. (2025). Statistical Trends in JWST Transiting Exoplanet Atmospheres. The Astrophysical Journal. 986(1). 1–1. 6 indexed citations

Nixon, Matthew C., Luis Welbanks, Peter McGill, & Eliza M.-R. Kempton. (2024). Methods for Incorporating Model Uncertainty into Exoplanet Atmospheric Analysis. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(2). 156–156. 10 indexed citations

Smith, Peter, Michael R. Line, Jacob L. Bean, et al.. (2024). A Combined Ground-based and JWST Atmospheric Retrieval Analysis: Both IGRINS and NIRSpec Agree that the Atmosphere of WASP-77A b Is Metal-poor. The Astronomical Journal. 167(3). 110–110. 22 indexed citations

Beatty, Thomas G., Luis Welbanks, Everett Schlawin, et al.. (2024). Sulfur Dioxide and Other Molecular Species in the Atmosphere of the Sub-Neptune GJ 3470 b. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 970(1). L10–L10. 33 indexed citations

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Fu, Guangwei, Luis Welbanks, Drake Deming, et al.. (2024). Hydrogen sulfide and metal-enriched atmosphere for a Jupiter-mass exoplanet. Nature. 632(8026). 752–756. 28 indexed citations

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Wang, Sharon X., et al.. (2024). A Revisit of the Mass–Metallicity Trends in Transiting Exoplanets. The Astronomical Journal. 167(4). 167–167. 10 indexed citations

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Wiser, Lindsey S., Michael R. Line, Luis Welbanks, et al.. (2024). Lessons from Hubble and Spitzer: 1D Self-consistent Model Grids for 19 Hot Jupiter Emission Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(1). 33–33. 2 indexed citations

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Gandhi, Siddharth, Rico Landman, I. A. G. Snellen, et al.. (2024). Revealing H2O dissociation in WASP-76 b through combined high- and low-resolution transmission spectroscopy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(3). 2885–2894. 6 indexed citations

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Ahrer, Eva-Maria, P. J. Wheatley, Siddharth Gandhi, et al.. (2023). LRG-BEASTS: evidence for clouds in the transmission spectrum of HATS-46 b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(4). 5636–5644. 5 indexed citations

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Welbanks, Luis, Peter McGill, Michael R. Line, & Nikku Madhusudhan. (2023). On the Application of Bayesian Leave-one-out Cross-validation to Exoplanet Atmospheric Analysis. The Astronomical Journal. 165(3). 112–112. 31 indexed citations

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Welbanks, Luis & Nikku Madhusudhan. (2021). Aurora: A Generalized Retrieval Framework for Exoplanetary Transmission Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal. 913(2). 114–114. 40 indexed citations

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Welbanks, Luis, Avi M. Mandell, Nikku Madhusudhan, et al.. (2021). The Hubble PanCET Program: A Metal-rich Atmosphere for the Inflated Hot Jupiter HAT-P-41b. The Astronomical Journal. 161(2). 51–51. 17 indexed citations

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Cabot, Samuel H. C., Nikku Madhusudhan, Luis Welbanks, Anjali A. A. Piette, & Siddharth Gandhi. (2020). Detection of neutral atomic species in the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-121b. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(1). 363–377. 61 indexed citations

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Evans, T. M., Ian J. M. Crossfield, Tansu Daylan, et al.. (2019). Atmospheric characterization of two temperate mini-Neptunes formed in the same protoplanetary nebula. 15814.

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Welbanks, Luis, Nikku Madhusudhan, N. F. Allard, et al.. (2019). Mass–Metallicity Trends in Transiting Exoplanets from Atmospheric Abundances of H₂O, Na, and K. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 887(1). L20–L20. 144 indexed citations

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