Nathan J. Secrest

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
48 papers, 750 citations indexed

About

Nathan J. Secrest is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Nathan J. Secrest has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 750 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 13 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 11 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Nathan J. Secrest's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (32 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (23 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (16 papers). Nathan J. Secrest is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (32 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (23 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (16 papers). Nathan J. Secrest collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Canada. Nathan J. Secrest's co-authors include Shobita Satyapal, M. Rameez, S. Sarkar, J. Colin, N. P. Abel, Sara L. Ellison, В. В. Макаров, Roya Mohayaee, Laura Blecha and M. Gliozzi and has published in prestigious journals such as Reviews of Modern Physics, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Nathan J. Secrest

41 papers receiving 658 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.

A test of the cosmological principle with quasars

2021 173 citations Nathan J. Secrest, M. Rameez et al. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford) profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nathan J. Secrest United States	14	714	240	171	31	27	48	750
Luca Graziani Italy	23	1.0k 1.5×	241 1.0×	251 1.5×	17 0.5×	36 1.3×	44	1.1k
Gerrit Schellenberger United States	14	805 1.1×	327 1.4×	198 1.2×	18 0.6×	19 0.7×	37	837
C. J. Riseley Italy	17	517 0.7×	356 1.5×	77 0.5×	21 0.7×	16 0.6×	40	551
M. E. Ramos-Ceja Germany	13	529 0.7×	213 0.9×	167 1.0×	35 1.1×	14 0.5×	38	550
Pratika Dayal Netherlands	16	670 0.9×	198 0.8×	255 1.5×	14 0.5×	20 0.7×	41	728
J. Donnert Italy	14	677 0.9×	374 1.6×	136 0.8×	30 1.0×	9 0.3×	19	719
Felipe Andrade-Santos United States	17	697 1.0×	314 1.3×	173 1.0×	8 0.3×	20 0.7×	35	718
V. Cuciti Italy	18	718 1.0×	517 2.2×	96 0.6×	13 0.4×	14 0.5×	33	759
Pauli Pihajoki Finland	12	378 0.5×	156 0.7×	66 0.4×	24 0.8×	23 0.9×	18	432
B. S. Frank South Africa	11	339 0.5×	125 0.5×	104 0.6×	15 0.5×	19 0.7×	24	376

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20 of 20 papers shown

Макаров, В. В., et al.. (2025). Correlation of long-term optical color variability of radio-loud quasars with their VLBI astrometric characteristics. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695. A135–A135.

Satyapal, Shobita, et al.. (2025). The CLASS Quasar Catalog: Coronal Line Activity in Type 1 SDSS Quasars. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 280(2). 57–57.

Pfeifle, Ryan W., T. E. Clarke, Kimberly A. Weaver, et al.. (2025). The First Triple Radio Active Galactic Nucleus in an Ongoing Galaxy Merger. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 995(2). L58–L58.

Secrest, Nathan J., et al.. (2025). Forty years of the Ellis–Baldwin test. Nature Reviews Physics. 7(2). 68–70.

Pfeifle, Ryan W., Kimberly A. Weaver, Nathan J. Secrest, Barry Rothberg, & David R. Patton. (2025). Super-size Me: The Big Multi-AGN Catalog (The Big MAC) Data Release 1: The Source Catalog. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 281(1). 25–25. 2 indexed citations

Satyapal, Shobita, N. P. Abel, Torsten Boeker, et al.. (2025). Local Analogs of Primordial Galaxies: In Search of Intermediate-mass Black Holes with JWST NIRSpec. The Astrophysical Journal. 987(1). 99–99. 3 indexed citations

Secrest, Nathan J.. (2025). The Ellis–Baldwin test. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences. 383(2290). 20240027–20240027. 1 indexed citations

Clarke, T. E., Kristina Nyland, Nathan J. Secrest, et al.. (2024). VaDAR: Varstrometry for Dual AGN Using Radio Interferometry. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(2). 233–233. 3 indexed citations

Canalizo, Gabriela, et al.. (2024). A Closer Look at Dwarf Galaxies Exhibiting Mid-infrared Variability: Active Galactic Nuclei Confirmation and Comparison With Nonvariable Dwarf Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(1). 60–60. 4 indexed citations

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Johnson, Megan, Nathan J. Secrest, M. Gliozzi, et al.. (2024). FRAMEx. V. Radio Spectral Shape at Central Subparsec Region of Active Galactic Nuclei. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(1). 109–109. 4 indexed citations

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Pfeifle, Ryan W., Shobita Satyapal, Cláudio Ricci, et al.. (2023). NuSTAR Observes Two Bulgeless Galaxies: No Hard X-Ray AGN Detected in NGC 4178 or J0851+3926. The Astrophysical Journal. 943(2). 109–109. 2 indexed citations

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Pfeifle, Ryan W., Barry Rothberg, Kimberly A. Weaver, et al.. (2023). The Messy Nature of Fiber Spectra: Star–Quasar Pairs Masquerading as Dual Type 1 AGNs. The Astrophysical Journal. 945(2). 167–167. 3 indexed citations

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Glikman, Eilat, Cristian E. Rusu, Geoff C.-F. Chen, et al.. (2023). A Highly Magnified Gravitationally Lensed Red QSO at z = 2.5 with a Significant Flux Ratio Anomaly. The Astrophysical Journal. 943(1). 25–25. 7 indexed citations

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Reefe, Michael, Shobita Satyapal, Nathan J. Secrest, et al.. (2023). Nuclear Activity in the Low-metallicity Dwarf Galaxy SDSS J0944-0038 : A Glimpse into the Primordial Universe. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 946(2). L38–L38. 10 indexed citations

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Reefe, Michael, et al.. (2023). CLASS Survey Description: Coronal-line Needles in the SDSS Haystack. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 265(1). 21–21. 9 indexed citations

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Secrest, Nathan J., et al.. (2023). FRAMEx. IV. Mechanical Feedback from the Active Galactic Nucleus in NGC 3079. The Astrophysical Journal. 958(1). 61–61. 3 indexed citations

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Макаров, В. В., Megan Johnson, & Nathan J. Secrest. (2023). Radio-optical Reference Catalog, Version 1. The Astronomical Journal. 166(1). 8–8. 3 indexed citations

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Secrest, Nathan J., et al.. (2022). A Challenge to the Standard Cosmological Model. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 937(2). L31–L31. 92 indexed citations

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Satyapal, Shobita, Sara L. Ellison, Nathan J. Secrest, et al.. (2022). Galaxy pairs in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey – XV. Properties of ionized outflows. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 514(4). 4828–4844. 10 indexed citations

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Secrest, Nathan J., et al.. (2021). A test of the cosmological principle with quasars. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 173 indexed citations breakdown →

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