M. C. Smith

15.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
57 papers, 2.0k citations indexed

About

M. C. Smith is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Control and Systems Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, M. C. Smith has authored 57 papers receiving a total of 2.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 37 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Control and Systems Engineering. Recurrent topics in M. C. Smith's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (32 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (20 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (15 papers). M. C. Smith is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (32 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (20 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (15 papers). M. C. Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and China. M. C. Smith's co-authors include Vasily Belokurov, N. W. Evans, S. Willenbrock, M. J. Irwin, G. Gilmore, Christos Papageorgiou, Andrew Glover, Stuart Swift, N Houghton and Alis J. Deason and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

M. C. Smith

55 papers receiving 1.9k 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 Milky Way’s Circular Velocity Curve to 60 kpc and an Estimate of the Dark Matter Halo Mass from the Kinematics of ∼2400 SDSS Blue Horizontal‐Branch Stars

2008 428 citations Timothy C. Beers, B. Yanny et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
The biggest splash

2020 201 citations Vasily Belokurov, M. C. Smith et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. C. Smith United Kingdom	21	1.5k	698	252	223	63	57	2.0k
Peng Jiang China	19	1.1k 0.8×	168 0.2×	282 1.1×	44 0.2×	99 1.6×	158	1.5k
R. J. Long United Kingdom	17	667 0.4×	318 0.5×	107 0.4×	104 0.5×	38 0.6×	41	917
Maosheng Xiang China	26	1.7k 1.1×	969 1.4×	107 0.4×	8 0.0×	87 1.4×	168	2.3k
A. Just Germany	25	1.2k 0.8×	337 0.5×	96 0.4×	9 0.0×	76 1.2×	102	1.9k
R. Scalzo Australia	17	904 0.6×	101 0.1×	477 1.9×	6 0.0×	50 0.8×	61	1.2k
Myra Blaylock United States	19	2.2k 1.5×	791 1.1×	298 1.2×	5 0.0×	47 0.7×	52	2.5k
Jorge Moreno United States	27	1.7k 1.2×	975 1.4×	170 0.7×	18 0.1×	83 1.3×	61	2.0k
Youling Yue China	13	603 0.4×	34 0.0×	197 0.8×	14 0.1×	40 0.6×	41	690
E. Livne United States	21	941 0.6×	11 0.0×	511 2.0×	106 0.5×	48 0.8×	36	1.5k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. C. Smith

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

All Works

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Nie, Jundan, Hao Tian, Jing Li, et al.. (2022). Searching Extra-tidal Features around the Globular Cluster Whiting 1. The Astrophysical Journal. 930(1). 23–23. 5 indexed citations

Belokurov, Vasily, Alis J. Deason, Denis Erkal, et al.. (2019). The Pisces Plume and the Magellanic wake. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 488(1). L47–L52. 39 indexed citations

Laporte, Chervin F. P., Vasily Belokurov, S. E. Koposov, M. C. Smith, & V. Hill. (2019). Chemodynamical properties of the Anticentre Stream: a surviving disc fossil from a past satellite interaction. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 492(1). L61–L65. 29 indexed citations

Boeche, C., M. C. Smith, E. K. Grebel, et al.. (2018). LAMOST DR1: Stellar Parameters and Chemical Abundances with SP_Ace. The Astronomical Journal. 155(4). 181–181. 14 indexed citations

Smith, M. C., et al.. (2018). The Lives of Stars: Insights from the TGAS–RAVE–LAMOST Data Set. The Astrophysical Journal. 860(2). 91–91. 5 indexed citations

Fu, Jian-Ning, P. De Cat, & M. C. Smith. (2017). Synergies between spectroscopic and time-series photometric surveys - LAMOST observations for the Kepler field and K2 fields. AAS. 229. 1 indexed citations

Anguiano, Borja, Steven R. Majewski, K. C. Freeman, A. W. Mitschang, & M. C. Smith. (2017). The velocity ellipsoid in the Galactic disc using Gaia DR1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 474(1). 854–865. 11 indexed citations

Zhang, Yanqiong, M. C. Smith, & Jeffrey L. Carlin. (2016). RED RUNAWAYS II: LOW-MASS HILLS STARS IN SDSS STRIPE 82. The Astrophysical Journal. 832(1). 10–10. 8 indexed citations

Smith, M. C., et al.. (2015). LAMOST 1: A DISRUPTED SATELLITE IN THE CONSTELLATION DRACO. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 816(1). L2–L2. 2 indexed citations

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Grabowski, Kathleen, Jeffrey L. Carlin, Heidi Jo Newberg, et al.. (2015). Fixing the reference frame for PPMXL proper motions using extragalactic sources. Research in Astronomy and Astrophysics. 15(6). 849–859. 2 indexed citations

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Belokurov, Vasily, S. E. Koposov, N. W. Evans, et al.. (2013). Precession of the Sagittarius stream. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 437(1). 116–131. 133 indexed citations

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Wyrzykowski, Ł., S. Kozłowski, J. Skowron, et al.. (2010). The OGLE view of microlensing towards the Magellanic Clouds - II. OGLE-II Small Magellanic Cloud data★. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 407(1). 189–200. 24 indexed citations

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Watkins, Laura L., N. W. Evans, Vasily Belokurov, et al.. (2009). Substructure revealed by RR Lyraes in SDSS Stripe 82. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 398(4). 1757–1770. 159 indexed citations

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Vidrih, S., D. M. Bramich, P. C. Hewett, et al.. (2007). New ultracool and halo white dwarf candidates in SDSS Stripe 82. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 382(2). 515–525. 21 indexed citations

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Smith, M. C., G. Ruchti, A. Helmi, & Rosemary F. Ġ. Wyse. (2006). The RAVE Survey: Constraining the Local Galactic Escape Speed. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 2(S235). 137–137. 5 indexed citations

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Kozłowski, S., P. R. Woźniak, Shude Mao, et al.. (2006). Mapping stellar kinematics across the Galactic bar: HST measurements of proper motions in 35 fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 370(1). 435–443. 20 indexed citations

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Smith, M. C., Shude Mao, P. R. Woźniak, et al.. (2002). Optical gravitational lensing experiment: OGLE-1999-BUL-19 – the first multipeak parallax event. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 336(2). 670–684. 12 indexed citations

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Smith, M. C. & S. Willenbrock. (1996). QCD and Yukawa corrections to single-top-quark production viaqq¯→tb¯. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 54(11). 6696–6702. 85 indexed citations

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Vellidis, George, et al.. (1990). DETECTING WETTING FRONT MOVEMENT IN A SANDY SOIL WITH GROUND-PENETRATING RADAR. Transactions of the ASAE. 33(6). 1867–1874. 52 indexed citations

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Smith, M. C., et al.. (1972). Conventional Lecture Versus Discovery Training Methods in The Preparation of Immigrant Bus Conductors. Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology. 3(4). 407–412. 1 indexed citations

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