Marc Davis

28.2k citations

96 papers · 15.0k indexed · 2 hit papers · h-index 44

Impact in

Instrumentation top 0.05%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.05%
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories

Papers in ⓘ

Astronomy and Astrophysics 89
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 74
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 29
- Cosmology and Gravitation Theories 19
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 14
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 11
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 9
Instrumentation 43
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 43

Co-authors: David J. Schlegel (8 shared papers)Douglas P. Finkbeiner (9 shared papers)S. G. Djorgovski (1 shared paper)Jeffrey A. Newman (31 shared papers)Michael C. Cooper (25 shared papers)Alison L. Coil (26 shared papers)Simon D. M. White (7 shared papers)David C. Koo (21 shared papers)
Journals: The Astrophysical Journal (45 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (14 papers)Nature (9 papers)Physical Review Letters (2 papers)The Astronomical Journal (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Canada

In The Last Decade

Marc Davis

95 papers receiving 14.6k citations

Hit Papers

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Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds 1998 · 8.5k citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

1998 The Astrophysical Journal
1987 The Astrophysical Journal

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1	Maps of Dust Infrared Emission for Use in Estimation of Reddening and Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Foregrounds The Astrophysical Journal ·David J. Schlegel, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis Hit paper breakdown →	1998	8506
2	Fundamental properties of elliptical galaxies The Astrophysical Journal ·S. G. Djorgovski, Marc Davis Hit paper breakdown →	1987	801
3	Extrapolation of Galactic Dust Emission at 100 Microns to Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation Frequencies Using FIRAS The Astrophysical Journal ·Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis, David J. Schlegel	1999	296
4	Science Objectives and Early Results of the DEEP2 Redshift Survey Marc Davis, S. M. Faber, Jeffrey A. Newman, Andrew C. Phillips, Richard S. Ellis, Charles C. Steidel, Christopher J. Conselice, Alison L. Coil, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, David C. Koo, Puragra Guhathakurta, Benjamin J. Weiner, Ricardo P. Schiavon, Christopher N. A. Willmer, N. Kaiser, Gerard A. Luppino, Gregory D. Wirth, Andrew J. Connolly, (unknown), Michael C. Cooper, (unknown)	2002	221
5	Gravitational clustering from scale-free initial conditions Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·G. Efstathiou, Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White, Marc Davis	1988	220
6	A redshift survey of IRAS galaxies. VII - The infrared and redshift data for the 1.936 Jansky sample The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·Michael A. Strauss, J. P. Huchra, Marc Davis, A. Yahil, Karl B. Fisher, J. Tonry	1992	218
7	Gravitational Radiation from a Particle Falling Radially into a Schwarzschild Black Hole Physical Review Letters ·Marc Davis, R. Ruffini, William H. Press, Richard H. Price	1971	216
8	The IRAS 1.2 Jy Survey: Redshift Data The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·Karl B. Fisher, J. P. Huchra, Michael A. Strauss, Marc Davis, A. Yahil, David J. Schlegel	1995	189
9	On the Origin of [Oii] Emission in Red‐Sequence and Poststarburst Galaxies The Astrophysical Journal ·Renbin Yan, Jeffrey A. Newman, S. M. Faber, Nicholas P. Konidaris, David C. Koo, Marc Davis	2006	168
10	Galaxy Correlations as a Function of Morphological Type The Astrophysical Journal ·Marc Davis, Margaret J. Geller	1976	163
11	Extinction of species by periodic comet showers Nature ·Marc Davis, Piet Hut, Richard A. Muller	1984	159
12	The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Evolution of Close Galaxy Pairs and Major-Merger Rates up to z ~ 1.2 The Astrophysical Journal ·Lihwai Lin, David C. Koo, Christopher N. A. Willmer, David R. Patton, Christopher J. Conselice, Renbin Yan, Alison L. Coil, Michael C. Cooper, Marc Davis, S. M. Faber, Brian F. Gerke, Puragra Guhathakurta, Jeffrey A. Newman	2004	154
13	The Assembly History of Field Spheroidals: Evolution of Mass‐to‐Light Ratios and Signatures of Recent Star Formation The Astrophysical Journal ·Tommaso Treu, Richard S. Ellis, Ting Liao, Pieter van Dokkum, P. Tozzi, Alison L. Coil, Jeffrey A. Newman, Michael C. Cooper, Marc Davis	2005	152
14	The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: the role of galaxy environment in the cosmic star formation history Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Michael C. Cooper, Jeffrey A. Newman, Benjamin J. Weiner, Renbin Yan, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Kevin Bundy, Alison L. Coil, Christopher J. Conselice, Marc Davis, S. M. Faber, Brian F. Gerke, Puragra Guhathakurta, David C. Koo, K. G. Noeske	2007	150
15	Dependence of galaxy quenching on halo mass and distance from its centre Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Joanna Woo, Avishai Dekel, S. M. Faber, K. G. Noeske, David C. Koo, Brian F. Gerke, Michael C. Cooper, Samir Salim, Aaron A. Dutton, Jeffrey A. Newman, Benjamin J. Weiner, Kevin Bundy, Christopher N. A. Willmer, Marc Davis, Renbin Yan	2012	141
16	Large-scale structure in a universe with mixed hot and cold dark matter Nature ·Marc Davis, F. J. Summers, David J. Schlegel	1992	131
17	INSPIRALLING SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLES: A NEW SIGNPOST FOR GALAXY MERGERS The Astrophysical Journal ·Julia M. Comerford, Brian F. Gerke, Jeffrey A. Newman, Marc Davis, Renbin Yan, Michael C. Cooper, S. M. Faber, David C. Koo, Alison L. Coil, D. J. Rosario, Aaron A. Dutton	2009	127
18	Local gravity versus local velocity: solutions for β and non-linear bias Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Marc Davis, Adi Nusser, Karen L. Masters, Christopher M. Springob, J. P. Huchra, Gerard Lemson	2011	124
19	Clusters, filaments, and voids in a universe dominated by cold dark matter The Astrophysical Journal ·Simon D. M. White, Carlos S. Frenk, Marc Davis, G. Efstathiou	1987	118
20	The DEEP2 galaxy redshift survey: evolution of the colour–density relation at 0.4 < z < 1.35 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Michael C. Cooper, Jeffrey A. Newman, Alison L. Coil, Darren Croton, Brian F. Gerke, Renbin Yan, Marc Davis, S. M. Faber, Puragra Guhathakurta, David C. Koo, Benjamin J. Weiner, Christopher N. A. Willmer	2007	117

About Marc Davis

Marc Davis is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Ecology, having authored 96 papers that have together received 15.0k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (74 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (43 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (29 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (19 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (14 papers), Scientific Research and Discoveries (11 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (11 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (9 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (5.6k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (14.6k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (2.5k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (531 citations) and Ecology (495 citations). Marc Davis has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Frequent co-authors include David J. Schlegel, Douglas P. Finkbeiner, S. G. Djorgovski, Jeffrey A. Newman, Michael C. Cooper, Alison L. Coil, Simon D. M. White, David C. Koo, Michael A. Strauss and Carlos S. Frenk. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astronomical Journal.

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