M. J. Drinkwater

18.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
134 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

M. J. Drinkwater is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, M. J. Drinkwater has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 63 papers in Instrumentation and 11 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in M. J. Drinkwater's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (97 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (63 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (47 papers). M. J. Drinkwater is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (97 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (63 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (47 papers). M. J. Drinkwater collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. M. J. Drinkwater's co-authors include Michael D. Gregg, W. J. Couch, Kenji Bekki, John K. Webb, Christopher W. Churchill, V. V. Flambaum, John D. Barrow, S. Phillipps, J. B. Jones and Matthew Colless and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

M. J. Drinkwater

127 papers receiving 3.5k 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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
M. J. Drinkwater Australia	31	3.1k	1.3k	721	235	149	134	3.7k
R. L. Davies United States	23	2.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.9×	225 0.3×	93 0.4×	57 0.4×	52	2.5k
S. Perlmutter United States	27	2.6k 0.8×	391 0.3×	1.4k 1.9×	229 1.0×	233 1.6×	83	3.5k
F. Pozzi Italy	26	1.2k 0.4×	447 0.3×	309 0.4×	360 1.5×	36 0.2×	90	2.9k
Peter Erwin Germany	33	2.9k 0.9×	1.5k 1.1×	215 0.3×	174 0.7×	88 0.6×	90	3.7k
Thomas Ott Germany	36	5.0k 1.6×	609 0.5×	1.4k 2.0×	489 2.1×	165 1.1×	162	5.7k
Ian S. McLean United States	36	5.7k 1.8×	1.8k 1.4×	463 0.6×	519 2.2×	75 0.5×	257	6.3k
J. J. Mohr United States	33	3.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	934 1.3×	129 0.5×	179 1.2×	106	4.0k
L. K. Hunt Italy	40	5.6k 1.8×	1.5k 1.1×	901 1.2×	217 0.9×	53 0.4×	161	6.2k
W. Voges Germany	42	6.9k 2.2×	2.0k 1.5×	2.2k 3.1×	226 1.0×	206 1.4×	187	7.4k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Drinkwater, M. J., et al.. (2023). The formation pathways of compact elliptical galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(1). 1192–1209. 9 indexed citations

Pfeffer, Joel, Kenji Bekki, W. J. Couch, et al.. (2022). The galaxy morphology–density relation in the EAGLE simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(4). 5260–5278. 7 indexed citations

Peletier, R. F., Nicholas Scott, Steffen Mieske, et al.. (2022). The SAMI–Fornax Dwarfs Survey – II. The Stellar Mass Fundamental Plane and the dark matter fraction of dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(4). 4714–4735. 13 indexed citations

Scott, Nicholas, R. F. Peletier, Julia J. Bryant, et al.. (2020). The SAMI–Fornax Dwarfs Survey I: sample, observations, and the specific stellar angular momentum of dwarf elliptical galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(2). 1571–1582. 27 indexed citations

Baumgardt, Holger, Sarah M. Sweet, M. J. Drinkwater, et al.. (2019). No evidence for intermediate-mass black holes in the globular clusters ω Cen and NGC 6624. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(4). 5340–5351. 61 indexed citations

Kafle, Prajwal R., A. S. G. Robotham, Simon P. Driver, et al.. (2018). Galaxy tagging: photometric redshift refinement and group richness enhancement. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 479(3). 3746–3758. 5 indexed citations

Kafle, Prajwal R., A. S. G. Robotham, Claudia del P. Lagos, et al.. (2016). Galaxy And Mass Assembly (GAMA): the absence of stellar mass segregation in galaxy groups and consistent predictions from GALFORM and EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 463(4). 4194–4209. 9 indexed citations

Floyd, Michael W., M. J. Drinkwater, & David W. Aha. (2015). Trust-guided behavior adaptation using case-based reasoning. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 4261–4267. 4 indexed citations

Sweet, Sarah M., M. J. Drinkwater, G. R. Meurer, et al.. (2015). Kinematics of dwarf galaxies in gas-rich groups, and the survival and detectability of tidal dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 455(3). 2508–2528. 4 indexed citations

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Sweet, Sarah M., M. J. Drinkwater, G. R. Meurer, et al.. (2014). CHOIRS H I GALAXY GROUPS: THE METALLICITY OF DWARF GALAXIES. The Astrophysical Journal. 782(1). 35–35. 24 indexed citations

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Floyd, Michael W., M. J. Drinkwater, & David W. Aha. (2014). Case-Based Behavior Adaptation Using an Inverse Trust Metric. National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 2 indexed citations

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Drinkwater, M. J. & E. A. Evstigneeva. (2008). Formation of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies: tests of the galaxy threshing scenario in Fornax. Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex). 12 indexed citations

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Hilker, M., Holger Baumgardt, L. Infante, et al.. (2007). Weighing Ultracompact Dwarf Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster. The Messenger. 129. 49–52. 2 indexed citations

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Proust, Dominique, H. Quintana, E. R. Carrasco, et al.. (2006). Structure and dynamics of the Shapley Supercluster - Velocity catalogue, general morphology and mass. SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository. 48 indexed citations

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Hilker, M., Holger Baumgardt, L. Infante, et al.. (2006). Dynamical masses of ultra-compact dwarf galaxies in Fornax. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 60 indexed citations

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Proust, Dominique, H. Quintana, E. R. Carrasco, et al.. (2006). The Shapley supercluster : the largest matter concentration in the local Universe. Msngr. 124. 30. 2 indexed citations

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Drinkwater, M. J., Michael D. Gregg, M. Hilker, et al.. (2003). A class of compact dwarf galaxies from disruptive processes in galaxy clusters. Nature. 423(6939). 519–521. 160 indexed citations

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Drinkwater, M. J.. (2000). Superclusters--the Largest Structures in the Universe?. Science. 287(5456). 1217–1218. 4 indexed citations

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Webb, John K., V. V. Flambaum, Christopher W. Churchill, M. J. Drinkwater, & John D. Barrow. (1998). Evidence for Time Variation of the Fine Structure Constant. arXiv (Cornell University). 17 indexed citations

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Drinkwater, M. J. & Robert W. Schmidt. (1996). The Large-scale Distribution of Radio Sources. Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia. 13(2). 127–131. 2 indexed citations

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