Mark R. Krumholz

18.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
219 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

Mark R. Krumholz is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Spectroscopy. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark R. Krumholz has authored 219 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 204 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 19 papers in Instrumentation and 17 papers in Spectroscopy. Recurrent topics in Mark R. Krumholz's work include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (173 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (145 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (108 papers). Mark R. Krumholz is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (173 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (145 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (108 papers). Mark R. Krumholz collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Germany. Mark R. Krumholz's co-authors include Christopher F. McKee, Richard Klein, Avishai Dekel, Todd A. Thompson, Christopher D. Matzner, Jason Tumlinson, Desika Narayanan, John C. Forbes, Stella S. R. Offner and Joss Bland‐Hawthorn and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Mark R. Krumholz

205 papers receiving 9.7k citations

Hit Papers

A General Theory of Turbulence‐regulated Star Formation, ... 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2019 2011 2018 100 200 300 400 500
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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.

  1. A General Theory of Turbulence‐regulated Star Formation, from Spirals to Ultraluminous Infrared Galaxies
    2005 598 citations Mark R. Krumholz et al. profile →
  2. Star Clusters Across Cosmic Time
    2019 409 citations Mark R. Krumholz et al. profile →
  3. A UNIVERSAL, LOCAL STAR FORMATION LAW IN GALACTIC CLOUDS, NEARBY GALAXIES, HIGH-REDSHIFT DISKS, AND STARBURSTS
    2011 316 citations Mark R. Krumholz et al. profile →
  4. A unified model for galactic discs: star formation, turbulence driving, and mass transport
    2018 202 citations Mark R. Krumholz, John C. Forbes 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Mark R. Krumholz United States 58 9.9k 1.5k 954 817 562 219 10.2k
Simon C. O. Glover Germany 52 8.7k 0.9× 1.1k 0.7× 810 0.8× 1.2k 1.4× 744 1.3× 239 9.1k
Eve C. Ostriker United States 49 8.5k 0.9× 588 0.4× 924 1.0× 817 1.0× 724 1.3× 122 8.7k
Adam K. Leroy United States 42 8.3k 0.8× 1.6k 1.1× 641 0.7× 840 1.0× 317 0.6× 146 8.5k
Alberto D. Bolatto United States 41 6.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.7× 572 0.6× 873 1.1× 328 0.6× 183 6.5k
Andreas Burkert Germany 57 10.0k 1.0× 2.7k 1.8× 454 0.5× 1.8k 2.2× 332 0.6× 270 10.4k
Christoph Federrath Australia 41 6.3k 0.6× 351 0.2× 696 0.7× 535 0.7× 622 1.1× 186 6.6k
Leo Blitz United States 39 5.9k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 639 0.7× 733 0.9× 401 0.7× 148 6.1k
J. Alves United States 46 6.2k 0.6× 672 0.4× 1.4k 1.4× 245 0.3× 842 1.5× 189 6.5k
Scott J. Kenyon United States 54 11.1k 1.1× 1.4k 0.9× 1.9k 2.0× 400 0.5× 444 0.8× 260 11.3k
J. M. Diederik Kruijssen Germany 45 5.9k 0.6× 1.7k 1.1× 436 0.5× 296 0.4× 193 0.3× 161 6.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Federrath, Christoph, et al.. (2025). Formation of filaments and feathers in disc galaxies: Is self-gravity enough?. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695. A155–A155. 1 indexed citations
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Krumholz, Mark R., C. J. Lada, & Jan Forbrich. (2025). Differential virial analysis: a new technique to determine the dynamical state of molecular clouds. The Open Journal of Astrophysics. 8. 1 indexed citations
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Ellison, Sara L., Hsi-An Pan, Asa F. L. Bluck, et al.. (2023). The ALMaQUEST Survey XI: a strong but non-linear relationship between star formation and dynamical equilibrium pressure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(4). 10201–10220. 13 indexed citations
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Žerjal, M., et al.. (2022). chronostar – II. Kinematic age and substructure of the Scorpius–Centaurus OB2 association. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(3). 3992–4009. 17 indexed citations
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Krumholz, Mark R., et al.. (2022). Cosmic ray interstellar propagation tool using Itô Calculus (criptic): software for simultaneous calculation of cosmic ray transport and observational signatures. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(1). 1355–1380. 10 indexed citations
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Mandelker, Nir, et al.. (2022). The evolution of turbulent galactic discs: gravitational instability, feedback, and accretion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(4). 6177–6195. 21 indexed citations
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Sharda, Piyush, Emily Wisnioski, Mark R. Krumholz, & Christoph Federrath. (2021). The role of gas kinematics in setting metallicity gradients at high redshift. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(1). 1295–1308. 10 indexed citations
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Sharda, Piyush, Christoph Federrath, Mark R. Krumholz, & D. R. G. Schleicher. (2021). Magnetic field amplification in accretion discs around the first stars: implications for the primordial IMF. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(2). 2014–2032. 38 indexed citations
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Henshaw, Jonathan D., Mark R. Krumholz, Natalie Butterfield, et al.. (2021). A wind-blown bubble in the Central Molecular Zone cloud G0.253+0.016. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 509(4). 4758–4774. 10 indexed citations
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Sharda, Piyush, Mark R. Krumholz, Emily Wisnioski, et al.. (2021). On the origin of the mass–metallicity gradient relation in the local Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504(1). 53–64. 30 indexed citations
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Krumholz, Mark R., et al.. (2021). Reconstructing three-dimensional densities from two-dimensional observations of molecular gas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(4). 5997–6009. 7 indexed citations
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Adamo, Angela, Janice C. Lee, L. J. Smith, et al.. (2021). Studying the ISM at ∼10 pc scale in NGC 7793 with MUSE. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 650. A103–A103. 17 indexed citations
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Bian, Fuyan, et al.. (2021). The major mechanism to drive turbulence in star-forming galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(4). 5075–5083. 11 indexed citations
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Haydon, Daniel T, Yusuke Fujimoto, Mélanie Chevance, et al.. (2020). An uncertainty principle for star formation – V. The influence of dust extinction on star formation rate tracer lifetimes and the inferred molecular cloud lifecycle. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(4). 5076–5089. 3 indexed citations
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Krumholz, Mark R., et al.. (2020). Cosmic ray transport in starburst galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(2). 2817–2833. 61 indexed citations
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Armillotta, Lucia, Mark R. Krumholz, & Yusuke Fujimoto. (2018). Mixing of metals during star cluster formation: statistics and implications for chemical tagging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 481(4). 5000–5013. 26 indexed citations
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Federrath, Christoph, Mark R. Krumholz, & Philip F. Hopkins. (2017). Converging on the Initial Mass Function of Stars. Journal of Physics Conference Series. 837. 12007–12007. 24 indexed citations
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Jiménez-Donaire, María J., D. Cormier, Frank Bigiel, et al.. (2017). 13CO/C18O Gradients across the Disks of Nearby Spiral Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 836(2). L29–L29. 21 indexed citations
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Rosen, Anna L., Mark R. Krumholz, Jeffrey S. Oishi, A. T. Lee, & R. Klein. (2016). Hybrid Adaptive Ray-Moment Method (HARM2): A highly parallel method for radiation hydrodynamics on adaptive grids. Journal of Computational Physics. 330. 924–942. 30 indexed citations
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Krumholz, Mark R., R. M. Crutcher, & Charles L. H. Hull. (2013). PROTOSTELLAR DISK FORMATION ENABLED BY WEAK, MISALIGNED MAGNETIC FIELDS. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 767(1). L11–L11. 39 indexed citations

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