P. N. Best

20.7k citations

165 papers · 6.4k indexed · 1 hit paper · h-index 44

Impact in

Instrumentation top 0.2%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.2%
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
- Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae

Papers in

Instrumentation 52
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 52
Astronomy and Astrophysics 160
- Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 145
- Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology 70
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 37
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 31
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 28
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 18

Co-authors: H. J. A. Röttgering Ian Smail David Sobral Timothy M. Heckman Guinevere Kauffmann J. E. Geach M. S. Longair J. P. Stott
Journals: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (96 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysics (20 papers)The Astrophysical Journal (5 papers)New Astronomy Reviews (3 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters (3 papers)
Partner nations: United Kingdom Netherlands Germany

In The Last Decade

P. N. Best

162 papers receiving 6.1k citations

Hit Papers

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The host galaxies of radio-loud active galactic nuclei: mass dependences, gas cooling and active galactic nuclei feedback 2005 · 462 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

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it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2005 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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1	The host galaxies of radio AGN: New views from combining LoTSS and MaNGA observations Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Gaoxiang Jin, Guinevere Kauffmann, P. N. Best, Shravya Shenoy, K. Małek	2025	2
2	A novel Bayesian approach for decomposing the radio emission of quasars – II. Link between quasar radio emission and black hole mass Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·B. H. Yue, K. J. Duncan, P. N. Best, M I Arnaudova, L. K. Morabito, (unknown), H. J. A. Röttgering, Shravya Shenoy, D J B Smith	2025	4
3	A hidden active galactic nucleus population: the first radio luminosity functions constructed by physical process Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters ·L. K. Morabito, R. Kondapally, P. N. Best, B. H. Yue, J. M. G. H. J. de Jong, Frits Sweijen, M. Bondi, Dominik J. Schwarz, D. J. B. Smith, R. J. van Weeren, H. J. A. Röttgering, T. W. Shimwell, I. Prandoni	2024	7
4	The LOFAR two metre sky survey data release 2: probabilistic spectral source classifications and faint radio source demographics Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Alyssa B. Drake, D. J. B. Smith, M. J. Hardcastle, P. N. Best, R. Kondapally, M I Arnaudova, S. Das, Shravya Shenoy, K. J. Duncan, H. J. A. Röttgering, C. Tasse	2024	8
5	A first vocal repertoire characterization of long-finned pilot whales ( Globicephala melas ) in the Mediterranean Sea: a machine learning approach Royal Society Open Science ·Marion Poupard, P. N. Best, Jay Morgan, Gianni Pavan, Hervé Glotin	2024	0
6	The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey: The nature of the faint source population and SFR–radio luminosity relation using `prospector` Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·S. Das, D. J. B. Smith, P. Haskell, M. J. Hardcastle, P. N. Best, K. J. Duncan, M I Arnaudova, Shravya Shenoy, R. Kondapally, R. K. Cochrane, Alyssa B. Drake, G. Gürkan, K. Małek, L. K. Morabito, I. Prandoni	2024	11
7	Radio spectral properties of star-forming galaxies between 150 and 5000 MHz in the ELAIS-N1 field Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Fangxia An, M. Vaccari, P. N. Best, E F Ocran, C. H. Ishwara‐Chandra, A. R. Taylor, S. K. Leslie, H. J. A. Röttgering, R. Kondapally, P. Haskell, J. D. Collier, Matteo Bonato	2024	3
8	A multi-band AGN-SFG classifier for extragalactic radio surveys using machine learning Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Juan Karsten, L. Wang, Berta Margalef-Bentabol, P. N. Best, R. Kondapally, Antonio La Marca, R. Morganti, H. J. A. Röttgering, M. Vaccari, J. Sabater	2023	1
9	Cosmic evolution of radio-AGN feedback: confronting models with data Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·R. Kondapally, P. N. Best, Mojtaba Raouf, Nicole Thomas, Romeel Davé, Stanislav S. Shabala, H. J. A. Röttgering, M. J. Hardcastle, Matteo Bonato, R. K. Cochrane, K. Małek, L. K. Morabito, I. Prandoni, D. J. B. Smith	2023	15
10	Cosmic evolution of low-excitation radio galaxies in the LOFAR two-metre sky survey deep fields Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·R. Kondapally, P. N. Best, R. K. Cochrane, J. Sabater, K. J. Duncan, M. J. Hardcastle, P. Haskell, B. Mingo, H. J. A. Röttgering, D. J. B. Smith, W. L. Williams, Matteo Bonato, G. Calistro Rivera, F. Gao, Catherine Hale, K. Małek, G. K. Miley, I. Prandoni, Lingyu Wang	2022	35
11	Accretion mode versus radio morphology in the LOFAR Deep Fields Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·B. Mingo, J. H. Croston, P. N. Best, K. J. Duncan, M. J. Hardcastle, R. Kondapally, I. Prandoni, J. Sabater, T. W. Shimwell, W. L. Williams, R. D. Baldi, Matteo Bonato, M. Bondi, Pratik Dabhade, G. Gürkan, J. Ineson, M. Magliocchetti, G. K. Miley, J C S Pierce, H. J. A. Röttgering	2022	38
12	The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey Deep Fields Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Matteo Bonato, I. Prandoni, G. de Zotti, P. N. Best, M. Bondi, G. Calistro Rivera, R. K. Cochrane, G. Gürkan, P. Haskell, R. Kondapally, M. Magliocchetti, S. K. Leslie, K. Małek, H. J. A. Röttgering, D. J. B. Smith, C. Tasse, Lingyu Wang	2021	17
13	Resolving a dusty, star-forming SHiZELS galaxy at z = 2.2 with HST, ALMA, and SINFONI on kiloparsec scales Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·R. K. Cochrane, P. N. Best, Ian Smail, E. Ibar, Cheng Cheng, A. M. Swinbank, Juan Molina, David Sobral, U Dudzevičiūtė	2021	23
14	A kpc-scale-resolved study of unobscured and obscured star formation activity in normal galaxies at z = 1.5 and 2.2 from ALMA and HiZELS Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Cheng Cheng, E. Ibar, Ian Smail, Juan Molina, David Sobral, Andrés Escala, P. N. Best, R. K. Cochrane, Steven Gillman, A. M. Swinbank, R. J. Ivison, Jiasheng Huang, T. M. Hughes, Eric Villard, Michele Cirasuolo	2020	7
15	Coherent radio emission from a quiescent red dwarf indicative of star–planet interaction Nature Astronomy ·H. K. Vedantham, J. R. Callingham, T. W. Shimwell, C. Tasse, Benjamin Pope, Megan Bedell, I. A. G. Snellen, P. N. Best, M. J. Hardcastle, M. Haverkorn, A. P. Mechev, S. P. O’Sullivan, H. J. A. Röttgering, G. J. White	2020	72
16	Revisiting the Fanaroff–Riley dichotomy and radio-galaxy morphology with the LOFAR Two-Metre Sky Survey (LoTSS) Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·B. Mingo, J. H. Croston, M. J. Hardcastle, P. N. Best, K. J. Duncan, R. Morganti, H. J. A. Röttgering, J. Sabater, T. W. Shimwell, W. L. Williams, M. Brienza, G. Gürkan, V. H. Mahatma, L. K. Morabito, I. Prandoni, M. Bondi, J. Ineson, S. Mooney	2019	129
17	Deep LOFAR 150 MHz imaging of the Boötes field: Unveiling the faint low-frequency sky Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·E. Retana-Montenegro, H. J. A. Röttgering, T. W. Shimwell, R. J. van Weeren, I. Prandoni, G. Brunetti, P. N. Best, M. Brüggen	2018	13
18	The Far-Infrared Radio Correlation at low radio frequency with LOFAR/H-ATLAS Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·S. Read, D. J. B. Smith, G. Gürkan, M. J. Hardcastle, W. L. Williams, P. N. Best, E. Brinks, G. Calistro Rivera, K. T. Chyży, K. J. Duncan, L. Dunne, M. J. Jarvis, L. K. Morabito, I. Prandoni, H. J. A. Röttgering, J. Sabater, S. Viaene	2018	28
19	The growth of typical star-forming galaxies and their supermassive black holes across cosmic time sincez∼ 2 Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·João Calhau, David Sobral, Andra Stroe, P. N. Best, Ian Smail, Bret Lehmer, C. M. Harrison, A. P. Thomson	2016	9
20	The most distant radio galaxies : proceedings of the colloquium, Amsterdam, 15-17 October 1997 H. J. A. Röttgering, P. N. Best, M. D. Lehnert	1999	20

About P. N. Best

P. N. Best is a scholar working on Instrumentation, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Developmental Biology and Computational Mechanics, having authored 165 papers that have together received 6.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (145 papers), Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (70 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (69 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (52 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (37 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (31 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (28 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (18 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (2.3k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (6.1k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (2.1k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (112 citations) and Ecology (209 citations). P. N. Best has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany. Frequent co-authors include H. J. A. Röttgering, Ian Smail, David Sobral, Timothy M. Heckman, Guinevere Kauffmann, J. E. Geach, M. S. Longair, J. P. Stott, J. Sabater and J. Brinchmann. Their work appears in journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics, The Astrophysical Journal, New Astronomy Reviews and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters.

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