Marina Kounkel

4.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
56 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Marina Kounkel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Marina Kounkel has authored 56 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 55 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 18 papers in Instrumentation and 6 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Marina Kounkel's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (50 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (47 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (21 papers). Marina Kounkel is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (50 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (47 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (21 papers). Marina Kounkel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Chile and Mexico. Marina Kounkel's co-authors include Kevin R. Covey, Keivan G. Stassun, Gisela N. Ortiz-León, Sergio A. Dzib, Laurent Loinard, Lee Hartmann, John Tobin, C. Jordi, F. Anders and M. Romero-Gómez and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

In The Last Decade

Marina Kounkel

48 papers receiving 1.2k 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.

Painting a portrait of the Galactic disc with its stellar clusters

2020 333 citations T. Cantat-Gaudin, F. Anders et al. Astronomy and Astrophysics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Marina Kounkel United States	17	1.3k	344	232	89	49	56	1.3k
S. H. P. Alencar Brazil	29	2.3k 1.8×	198 0.6×	242 1.0×	60 0.7×	59 1.2×	73	2.3k
D. Froebrich United Kingdom	22	1.5k 1.2×	246 0.7×	331 1.4×	152 1.7×	35 0.7×	73	1.5k
C. Román-Zúñiga Mexico	18	1.0k 0.8×	170 0.5×	213 0.9×	110 1.2×	22 0.4×	64	1.1k
P. A. B. Galli France	18	878 0.7×	170 0.5×	189 0.8×	67 0.8×	18 0.4×	40	905
Stefan Meingast Austria	17	849 0.7×	196 0.6×	106 0.5×	62 0.7×	16 0.3×	39	904
Jessy Jose India	17	869 0.7×	211 0.6×	112 0.5×	42 0.5×	36 0.7×	62	887
W. J. de Wit Chile	21	1.4k 1.1×	250 0.7×	278 1.2×	88 1.0×	25 0.5×	73	1.4k
A. Carmona France	20	1.2k 0.9×	115 0.3×	402 1.7×	108 1.2×	35 0.7×	70	1.2k
M. Sewiło United States	21	1.3k 1.0×	278 0.8×	219 0.9×	100 1.1×	30 0.6×	55	1.3k
M. Kun Hungary	19	964 0.7×	112 0.3×	154 0.7×	50 0.6×	17 0.3×	61	980

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Marina Kounkel

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

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Flaherty, Kevin, et al.. (2025). The Influence of Tight Binaries on Protoplanetary Disk Masses. The Astronomical Journal. 170(6). 330–330. 1 indexed citations

Leigh, Nathan W. C., J. V. Da Fonseca Pinto, Jeremy J. Webb, et al.. (2025). A systematic method to identify runaways from star clusters produced from single-binary interactions. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 697. A183–A183.

Dzib, Sergio A., Laurent Loinard, Gisela N. Ortiz-León, et al.. (2025). Dynamical mass of the Serpens intermediate-mass young stellar system EC 95 with DYNAMO–VLBA. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(3). 2830–2843.

Dzib, Sergio A., Laurent Loinard, Gisela N. Ortiz-León, et al.. (2024). Dynamical Mass of the Ophiuchus Intermediate-mass Stellar System S1 with DYNAMO-VLBA. The Astronomical Journal. 167(3). 108–108. 2 indexed citations

Kounkel, Marina & Keivan G. Stassun. (2024). Two Young Eclipsing Binaries in Orion with Temperatures and Radii Affected by Spots and Third Bodies. The Astronomical Journal. 168(3). 134–134.

Limbach, Mary Anne, Melinda Soares-Furtado, Andrew Vanderburg, et al.. (2023). The TEMPO Survey. I. Predicting Yields of Transiting Exosatellites, Moons, and Planets from a 30 days Survey of Orion with the Roman Space Telescope. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 135(1043). 14401–14401. 6 indexed citations

Kounkel, Marina, Eleonora Zari, Kevin R. Covey, et al.. (2023). ABYSS. I. Targeting Strategy for the APOGEE and BOSS Young Star Survey in SDSS-V. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 266(1). 10–10. 7 indexed citations

Kounkel, Marina, Kevin R. Covey, Brian Hutchinson, et al.. (2022). APOGEE Net: An Expanded Spectral Model of Both Low-mass and High-mass Stars. The Astronomical Journal. 163(4). 152–152. 23 indexed citations

Megeath, S. T., Robert Gutermuth, & Marina Kounkel. (2022). Low Mass Stars as Tracers of Star and Cluster Formation. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 134(1034). 42001–42001. 16 indexed citations

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Kounkel, Marina, Keivan G. Stassun, Kevin R. Covey, & Lee Hartmann. (2022). A gravitational and dynamical framework of star formation: the Orion nebula. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(1). 161–174. 13 indexed citations

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Kounkel, Marina, Keivan G. Stassun, Luke G. Bouma, et al.. (2022). Untangling the Galaxy. IV. Empirical Constraints on Angular Momentum Evolution and Gyrochronology for Young Stars in the Field. The Astronomical Journal. 164(4). 137–137. 22 indexed citations

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Kounkel, Marina, et al.. (2022). Searching for young runaways across the sky. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(2). 1946–1957. 7 indexed citations

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Borissova, J., R. Kurtev, J. Alonso-García, et al.. (2021). The G 305 Star-forming Region. II. Irregular Variable Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 914(1). 28–28. 2 indexed citations

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Habel, Nolan, S. T. Megeath, William J. Fischer, et al.. (2021). An HST Survey of Protostellar Outflow Cavities: Does Feedback Clear Envelopes?. The Astrophysical Journal. 911(2). 153–153. 20 indexed citations

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Lewis, Hannah M., Borja Anguiano, Steven R. Majewski, et al.. (2021). Analysis of Previously Classified White Dwarf–Main-sequence Binaries Using Data from the APOGEE Survey. The Astronomical Journal. 161(3). 143–143. 3 indexed citations

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Cantat-Gaudin, T., F. Anders, A. Castro-Ginard, et al.. (2020). VizieR Online Data Catalog: Portrait Galactic disc (Cantat-Gaudin+, 2020). 1 indexed citations

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Ortiz-León, Gisela N., Laurent Loinard, Sergio A. Dzib, et al.. (2018). The Gould’s Belt Distances Survey (GOBELINS). V. Distances and Kinematics of the Perseus Molecular Cloud. The Astrophysical Journal. 865(1). 73–73. 79 indexed citations

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Galli, P. A. B., Laurent Loinard, Gisela N. Ortiz-León, et al.. (2018). The Gould's Belt Distances Survey (GOBELINS). IV. Distance, Depth, and Kinematics of the Taurus Star-forming Region. The Astrophysical Journal. 859(1). 33–33. 64 indexed citations

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Ortiz-León, Gisela N., Sergio A. Dzib, Marina Kounkel, et al.. (2017). The Gould's Belt Distances Survey (GOBELINS). III. The Distance to the Serpens/Aquila Molecular Complex. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 43 indexed citations

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Ortiz-León, Gisela N., Laurent Loinard, Marina Kounkel, et al.. (2017). THE GOULD’S BELT DISTANCES SURVEY (GOBELINS). I. TRIGONOMETRIC PARALLAX DISTANCES AND DEPTH OF THE OPHIUCHUS COMPLEX. The Astrophysical Journal. 834(2). 141–141. 75 indexed citations

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