Matej Malik

1.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 770 citations indexed

About

Matej Malik is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Matej Malik has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 770 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 12 papers in Atmospheric Science and 7 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Matej Malik's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (19 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (14 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (10 papers). Matej Malik is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (19 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (14 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (10 papers). Matej Malik collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Matej Malik's co-authors include Kevin Heng, Simon L. Grimm, João M. Mendonça, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Shang‐Min Tsai, Jacob L. Bean, Daniel Kitzmann, R. van der Velde, Z. Vekerdy and Zhongbo Su and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Remote Sensing of Environment and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Matej Malik

29 papers receiving 674 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.

TOI-421 b: A Hot Sub-Neptune with a Haze-free, Low Mean Molecular Weight Atmosphere

2025 17 citations Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Matthew C. Nixon et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Matej Malik United States	17	626	249	123	115	58	29	770
João M. Mendonça Denmark	14	516 0.8×	205 0.8×	106 0.9×	76 0.7×	36 0.6×	36	628
Shang‐Min Tsai United States	17	762 1.2×	245 1.0×	103 0.8×	90 0.8×	48 0.8×	43	885
Elspeth K. H. Lee United Kingdom	19	903 1.4×	260 1.0×	132 1.1×	95 0.8×	54 0.9×	43	1.0k
Taylor J. Bell United States	13	517 0.8×	123 0.5×	132 1.1×	49 0.4×	36 0.6×	24	586
Joachim W. Stock Germany	10	527 0.8×	129 0.5×	92 0.7×	77 0.7×	37 0.6×	13	588
Karan Molaverdikhani Germany	13	623 1.0×	161 0.6×	114 0.9×	85 0.7×	61 1.1×	31	699
L. Carone Germany	17	612 1.0×	167 0.7×	112 0.9×	53 0.5×	19 0.3×	38	667
Anjali A. A. Piette United Kingdom	14	574 0.9×	132 0.5×	88 0.7×	75 0.7×	39 0.7×	23	652
Mark Hammond United Kingdom	13	413 0.7×	126 0.5×	58 0.5×	29 0.3×	17 0.3×	30	520
David M. Acreman United Kingdom	18	880 1.4×	257 1.0×	105 0.9×	104 0.9×	41 0.7×	27	1.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matej Malik

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

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Kempton, Eliza M.-R., Matthew C. Nixon, Jegug Ih, et al.. (2025). TOI-421 b: A Hot Sub-Neptune with a Haze-free, Low Mean Molecular Weight Atmosphere. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 984(2). L44–L44. 17 indexed citations breakdown →

Savel, Arjun B., Eliza M.-R. Kempton, Emily Rauscher, et al.. (2023). Diagnosing Limb Asymmetries in Hot and Ultrahot Jupiters with High-resolution Transmission Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(1). 99–99. 16 indexed citations

Rasmussen, Kaitlin C., Matej Malik, Arjun B. Savel, et al.. (2023). A Nondetection of Iron in the First High-resolution Emission Study of the Lava Planet 55 Cnc e. The Astronomical Journal. 166(4). 155–155. 7 indexed citations

Kempton, Eliza M.-R., et al.. (2023). Where are the Water Worlds?: Self-consistent Models of Water-rich Exoplanet Atmospheres. The Astrophysical Journal. 953(1). 57–57. 13 indexed citations

Crossfield, Ian J. M., Matej Malik, Michelle L. Hill, et al.. (2022). GJ 1252b: A Hot Terrestrial Super-Earth with No Atmosphere. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 937(1). L17–L17. 41 indexed citations

Mansfield, Megan, Lindsey S. Wiser, Kevin B. Stevenson, et al.. (2022). Confirmation of Water Absorption in the Thermal Emission Spectrum of the Hot Jupiter WASP-77Ab with HST/WFC3. The Astronomical Journal. 163(6). 261–261. 17 indexed citations

Malik, Matej, Jegug Ih, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, et al.. (2022). The Detectability of Rocky Planet Surface and Atmosphere Composition with the JWST: The Case of LHS 3844b. The Astronomical Journal. 164(6). 258–258. 28 indexed citations

Fu, Guangwei, David K. Sing, Joshua D. Lothringer, et al.. (2022). Strong H₂O and CO Emission Features in the Spectrum of KELT-20b Driven by Stellar UV Irradiation. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 925(1). L3–L3. 17 indexed citations

May, Erin, Thaddeus D. Komacek, Kevin B. Stevenson, et al.. (2021). . arXiv (Cornell University). 35 indexed citations

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Kreidberg, Laura, Renyu Hu, Edwin S. Kite, et al.. (2021). A Search for Signatures of Volcanism and Geodynamics on the Hot Rocky Exoplanet LHS 3844b. 1846. 1 indexed citations

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Diamond-Lowe, Hannah, David Charbonneau, Matej Malik, Eliza M.-R. Kempton, & Y. Beletsky. (2020). Optical Transmission Spectroscopy of the Terrestrial Exoplanet LHS 3844b from 13 Ground-based Transit Observations. The Astronomical Journal. 160(4). 188–188. 21 indexed citations

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Malik, Matej, Daniel Kitzmann, João M. Mendonça, et al.. (2019). Self-luminous and Irradiated Exoplanetary Atmospheres Explored with HELIOS. The Astronomical Journal. 157(5). 170–170. 82 indexed citations

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Pino, Lorenzo, D. Ehrenreich, Romain Allart, et al.. (2018). Diagnosing aerosols in extrasolar giant planets with cross-correlation function of water bands. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 18 indexed citations

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Heng, Kevin, Matej Malik, & Daniel Kitzmann. (2018). Analytical Models of Exoplanetary Atmospheres. VI. Full Solutions for Improved Two-stream Radiative Transfer, Including Direct Stellar Beam. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 237(2). 29–29. 12 indexed citations

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Pino, Lorenzo, D. Ehrenreich, A. Wyttenbach, et al.. (2017). Combining low- to high-resolution transit spectroscopy of HD 189733b. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 612. A53–A53. 26 indexed citations

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Malik, Matej, Farzana Meru, Lucio Mayer, & Michael R. Meyer. (2015). On the gap-opening criterion of migrating planets in protoplanetary disks. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 50 indexed citations

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Malik, Matej, R. van der Velde, Z. Vekerdy, & Zhongbo Su. (2014). Improving modeled snow albedo estimates during the spring melt season. Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres. 119(12). 7311–7331. 21 indexed citations

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Malik, Matej, et al.. (2011). Semi-empirical approach for estimating broadband albedo of snow. Remote Sensing of Environment. 115(8). 2086–2095. 8 indexed citations

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Unwin, Martin, et al.. (2007). GIOVE-A and GIOVE-A2 Orbit Testing Results. Proceedings of the 20th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2007). 467–477. 5 indexed citations

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Falcone, Marco, et al.. (2006). GIOVE-A In Orbit Testing Results. Proceedings of the 19th International Technical Meeting of the Satellite Division of The Institute of Navigation (ION GNSS 2006). 1535–1546. 9 indexed citations

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