Melissa Ness

10.2k total citations
95 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Melissa Ness is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Melissa Ness has authored 95 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 91 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 55 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Melissa Ness's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (90 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (55 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (51 papers). Melissa Ness is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (90 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (55 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (51 papers). Melissa Ness collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Australia. Melissa Ness's co-authors include K. C. Freeman, Ortwin Gerhard, Hans‐Walter Rix, Matthieu Portail, Christopher Wegg, M. Asplund, E. Athanassoula, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn, Geraint F. Lewis and Richard R. Lane and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Melissa Ness

86 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Melissa Ness United States 25 2.4k 1.2k 126 98 57 95 2.5k
G. Catanzaro Italy 22 2.4k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 225 1.8× 64 0.7× 52 0.9× 100 2.5k
Ricardo P. Schiavon United States 30 3.1k 1.3× 1.9k 1.5× 115 0.9× 82 0.8× 94 1.6× 80 3.2k
D. B. Zucker Australia 31 2.8k 1.2× 1.3k 1.1× 238 1.9× 83 0.8× 51 0.9× 81 2.8k
Ivan Minchev Germany 36 3.6k 1.5× 1.5k 1.2× 97 0.8× 73 0.7× 38 0.7× 97 3.7k
V. Silva Aguirre Denmark 27 2.3k 0.9× 1.2k 0.9× 79 0.6× 97 1.0× 59 1.0× 69 2.3k
David L. Nidever United States 28 2.5k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 115 0.9× 101 1.0× 55 1.0× 67 2.5k
Constance M. Rockosi United States 25 2.7k 1.1× 1.5k 1.2× 82 0.7× 93 0.9× 80 1.4× 49 2.7k
P. Jofré Chile 24 1.6k 0.7× 842 0.7× 83 0.7× 77 0.8× 66 1.2× 60 1.7k
A. Vallenari Italy 20 1.7k 0.7× 970 0.8× 69 0.5× 100 1.0× 36 0.6× 84 1.8k
A. Siebert France 31 2.0k 0.9× 841 0.7× 155 1.2× 54 0.6× 40 0.7× 50 2.1k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Melissa Ness

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Melissa Ness

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lu, Yuxi, Louis Amard, Sven Buder, et al.. (2025). Evidence of Truly Young High-α Dwarf Stars. The Astronomical Journal. 169(3). 168–168. 3 indexed citations
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Ting, Yuan-Sen, L. Casagrande, Fan Liu, et al.. (2025). C3PO – IV. Co-natal stars depleted in refractories are magnetically more active – possible imprints of planets. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 538(4). 2408–2420. 1 indexed citations
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Bland‐Hawthorn, Joss, Thor Tepper-García, Oscar Agertz, et al.. (2025). Turbulent Gas-rich Disks at High Redshift: Origin of Thick Stellar Disks Through 3D “Baryon Sloshing”. The Astrophysical Journal. 994(1). 22–22.
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Hawkins, Keith, et al.. (2024). Chemical Doppelgangers in GALAH DR3: The Distinguishing Power of Neutron-capture Elements among Milky Way Disk Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(1). 69–69. 8 indexed citations
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Ness, Melissa, Benjamin T. Montet, Matteo Cantiello, et al.. (2024). Many Roads Lead to Lithium: Formation Pathways For Lithium-rich Red Giants. The Astrophysical Journal. 964(1). 42–42. 11 indexed citations
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Horta, Danny, Yuxi Lu, Melissa Ness, Mariangela Lisanti, & Adrian M. Price-Whelan. (2024). Stellar Mergers or Truly Young? Intermediate-age Stars on Highly Radial Orbits in the Milky Way’s Stellar Halo. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(2). 170–170. 12 indexed citations
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Loebman, Sarah, et al.. (2024). Strong Chemical Tagging in FIRE: Intra- and Intercluster Chemical Homogeneity in Open Clusters in Milky Way–like Galaxy Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(1). 70–70. 3 indexed citations
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Carrillo, Andreia, et al.. (2023). The Relationship between Age, Metallicity, and Abundances for Disk Stars in a Simulated Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal. 942(1). 35–35. 17 indexed citations
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Carrillo, Andreia, et al.. (2023). The individual abundance distributions of disc stars across birth radii in GALAH. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 321–333. 7 indexed citations
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Ness, Melissa, Tobias Buck, Kathryn V. Johnston, et al.. (2022). Tracing Birth Properties of Stars with Abundance Clustering. The Astrophysical Journal. 924(2). 60–60. 10 indexed citations
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Lu, Yuxi, Tobias Buck, Ivan Minchev, & Melissa Ness. (2022). Reliability and limitations of inferring birth radii in the Milky Way disc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 515(1). L34–L38. 24 indexed citations
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Lu, Yuxi, Melissa Ness, Tobias Buck, Joel Zinn, & Kathryn V. Johnston. (2022). Similarities behind the high- and low-α disc: small intrinsic abundance scatter and migrating stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512(2). 2890–2910. 11 indexed citations
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Gerhard, Ortwin, et al.. (2021). A2A: 21 000 bulge stars from the ARGOS survey with stellar parameters on the APOGEE scale. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 12 indexed citations
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Simion, Iulia T., Juntai Shen, S. E. Koposov, et al.. (2021). Mapping the tilt of the Milky Way bulge velocity ellipsoids with ARGOS and Gaia DR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(2). 1740–1752. 11 indexed citations
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Lu, Yuxi, Ruth Angus, Marcel A. Agüeros, et al.. (2020). Astraea: Predicting Long Rotation Periods with 27 Day Light Curves. The Astronomical Journal. 160(4). 168–168. 14 indexed citations
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Buck, Tobias, Melissa Ness, Aura Obreja, Andrea V. Macciò, & Aaron A. Dutton. (2019). Stars behind Bars II: A Cosmological Formation Scenario for the Milky Way’s Central Stellar Structure. The Astrophysical Journal. 874(1). 67–67. 19 indexed citations
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Buck, Tobias, Melissa Ness, Andrea V. Macciò, Aura Obreja, & Aaron A. Dutton. (2018). Stars Behind Bars. I. The Milky Way's Central Stellar Populations. The Astrophysical Journal. 861(2). 88–88. 43 indexed citations
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Pérez, A. E. García, Melissa Ness, A. C. Robin, et al.. (2018). The Bulge Metallicity Distribution from the APOGEE Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 852(2). 91–91. 29 indexed citations
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Hogg, David W., Andrew R. Casey, Melissa Ness, et al.. (2016). Chemical Tagging can Work: Identificaton of Stellar Phase-Space Structures Purely by Chemical-Abudance Similarity. Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences). 51 indexed citations
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Ness, Melissa, Gail Zasowski, Jennifer A. Johnson, et al.. (2016). APOGEE KINEMATICS. I. OVERVIEW OF THE KINEMATICS OF THE GALACTIC BULGE AS MAPPED BY APOGEE. The Astrophysical Journal. 819(1). 2–2. 43 indexed citations

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