M. Schwarzschild

6.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
89 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

M. Schwarzschild is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, M. Schwarzschild has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 72 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 43 papers in Instrumentation and 9 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in M. Schwarzschild's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (54 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (43 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (18 papers). M. Schwarzschild is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (54 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (43 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (18 papers). M. Schwarzschild collaborates with scholars based in United States and Egypt. M. Schwarzschild's co-authors include R. Härm, Martin D. Kruskal, Jr. Spitzer Lyman, F. Hoyle, Thornton Page, Jordi Miralda‐Escudé, Joong Hwan Bahng, R. E. Danielson, William C. Saslaw and Allan Sandage and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Physics Today and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

M. Schwarzschild

85 papers receiving 3.1k citations

Hit Papers

Structure and Evolution of Stars 1958 2026 1980 2003 1958 100 200 300 400 500
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. Structure and Evolution of Stars
    1958 575 citations M. Schwarzschild Princeton University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
M. Schwarzschild United States 27 2.9k 761 516 316 256 89 3.4k
Alar Toomre United States 13 4.6k 1.6× 1.3k 1.7× 251 0.5× 367 1.2× 141 0.6× 28 5.2k
Dimitri Mihalas United States 30 3.4k 1.2× 680 0.9× 509 1.0× 115 0.4× 644 2.5× 118 4.5k
Jr. Spitzer Lyman 31 3.0k 1.0× 631 0.8× 419 0.8× 233 0.7× 390 1.5× 43 3.4k
G. de Vaucouleurs United States 32 5.6k 2.0× 2.2k 2.8× 815 1.6× 392 1.2× 199 0.8× 269 6.1k
J. R. Buchler United States 26 1.5k 0.5× 325 0.4× 685 1.3× 314 1.0× 453 1.8× 142 2.4k
Jeremy Goodman United States 39 3.9k 1.4× 393 0.5× 712 1.4× 192 0.6× 422 1.6× 101 4.8k
Peter Bodenheimer United States 48 9.0k 3.1× 948 1.2× 450 0.9× 121 0.4× 203 0.8× 165 9.1k
L. Woltjer United States 17 1.7k 0.6× 114 0.1× 786 1.5× 169 0.5× 212 0.8× 72 2.1k
A. Vidal‐Madjar France 49 7.6k 2.6× 1.5k 2.0× 328 0.6× 133 0.4× 482 1.9× 245 8.0k
Donald E. Osterbrock United States 37 8.7k 3.0× 2.0k 2.7× 1.6k 3.1× 120 0.4× 711 2.8× 200 9.3k

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Fields of papers citing papers by M. Schwarzschild

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of M. Schwarzschild

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Albada, T. S. van, C. G. Kotanyi, & M. Schwarzschild. (1982). A model for elliptical radio galaxies with dust lanes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 198(2). 303–310. 43 indexed citations
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Schwarzschild, M.. (1978). The study of stellar structure.. 1–14. 1 indexed citations
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Harvey, J. W. & M. Schwarzschild. (1975). Photoelectric speckle interferometry of the solar granulation. The Astrophysical Journal. 196. 221–221. 9 indexed citations
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Schwarzschild, M.. (1975). On the scale of photospheric convection in red giants and supergiants. The Astrophysical Journal. 195. 137–137. 192 indexed citations
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Danielson, R. E., B. D. Savage, M. Schwarzschild, & M. G. Tomasko. (1970). High-Resolution Photographs Obtained by Stratoscope II. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 2. 307.
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Schwarzschild, M.. (1970). Stellar Evolution in Globular Clusters. 11. 12. 1 indexed citations
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Danielson, R. E., Blair D. Savage, & M. Schwarzschild. (1968). An Upper Limit to the Angular Diameter of the Nucleus of NGC 4151. The Astrophysical Journal. 154. L117–L117. 13 indexed citations
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Schwarzschild, M.. (1965). Structure and evolution of the stars. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 21 indexed citations
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Danielson, R. E., et al.. (1964). SYMPOSIUM ON INSTRUMENTAL ASTRONOMY: Mars observations from Stratoscope II. The Astronomical Journal. 69. 344–344. 8 indexed citations
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Gaustad, John E. & M. Schwarzschild. (1960). Note on the Brightness Fluctuation in the Solar Granulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 121(3). 260–262. 1 indexed citations
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Schwarzschild, M.. (1959). Photographs of the Solar Granulation Taken from the Stratosphere.. The Astrophysical Journal. 130. 345–345. 40 indexed citations
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Schwarzschild, M.. (1958). Structure and Evolution of Stars. Princeton University Press eBooks. 575 indexed citations breakdown →
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Schwarzschild, M., Robert Howard, & R. Härm. (1957). Inhomogeneous Stellar Models. V. a. Solar Model with Convective Envelope and Inhomogeneous Interior.. The Astrophysical Journal. 125. 233–233. 18 indexed citations
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Hoyle, F. & M. Schwarzschild. (1955). On the Evolution of Type II Stars.. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 2. 1–1. 66 indexed citations
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Schwarzschild, M., Leonard Searle, & R. A. Howard. (1955). On the Colors of Subdwarfs.. The Astrophysical Journal. 122. 353–353. 13 indexed citations
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Kruskal, Martin D. & M. Schwarzschild. (1954). Some instabilities of a completely ionized plasma. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 223(1154). 348–360. 340 indexed citations
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Schwarzschild, M.. (1954). 7. Shock waves in the atmospheres of pulsating stars. Transactions of the International Astronomical Union. 8. 811–812. 1 indexed citations
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Schwarzschild, M. & Lyman Spitzer. (1953). On the evolution of stars and chemical elements in the early phases of a galaxy. Observatory. 73. 77–79. 16 indexed citations
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Schwarzschild, M., et al.. (1953). Inhomogeneous Stellar Models. III. Models with Partially Degenerate Isothermal Cores.. The Astrophysical Journal. 118. 326–326. 4 indexed citations
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Schwarzschild, M.. (1952). Perigalactic and apogalactic distances of high-velocity stars. The Astronomical Journal. 57. 57–57. 8 indexed citations

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