Peter McGill

717 total citations · 1 hit paper
22 papers, 238 citations indexed

About

Peter McGill is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter McGill has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 238 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 20 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 papers in Instrumentation and 2 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Peter McGill's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (18 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (9 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (9 papers). Peter McGill is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (18 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (9 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (9 papers). Peter McGill collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Peter McGill's co-authors include Luis Welbanks, Leigh C. Smith, Vasily Belokurov, Nikku Madhusudhan, Michael R. Line, N. W. Evans, Bernard Deconinck, R. L. Smart, Jessica R. Lu and N. W. Evans and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Peter McGill

19 papers receiving 197 citations

Hit Papers

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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 high internal heat flux and large core in a warm Neptune exoplanet
    2024 53 citations Luis Welbanks, Taylor J. Bell et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Peter McGill United States 10 196 68 27 27 22 22 238
Brett M. Morris United States 12 327 1.7× 125 1.8× 27 1.0× 23 0.9× 7 0.3× 45 347
Daniel Jontof‐Hutter United States 12 443 2.3× 112 1.6× 16 0.6× 29 1.1× 16 0.7× 22 459
Katherine M. Deck United States 14 561 2.9× 136 2.0× 13 0.5× 29 1.1× 54 2.5× 23 600
E. Pompei Chile 12 422 2.2× 189 2.8× 40 1.5× 16 0.6× 6 0.3× 36 450
Lucia Armillotta United States 12 482 2.5× 83 1.2× 13 0.5× 25 0.9× 9 0.4× 16 511
S. Hoyer United States 13 484 2.5× 161 2.4× 23 0.9× 32 1.2× 5 0.2× 32 497
Ehsan Kourkchi United States 10 334 1.7× 92 1.4× 11 0.4× 10 0.4× 14 0.6× 19 366
K. F. Huber Germany 12 357 1.8× 203 3.0× 40 1.5× 26 1.0× 5 0.2× 18 401
Orly Gnat Israel 11 477 2.4× 68 1.0× 35 1.3× 23 0.9× 6 0.3× 16 497
J. Budaj Slovakia 13 584 3.0× 168 2.5× 17 0.6× 63 2.3× 7 0.3× 36 605

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter McGill

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter McGill

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Meyers, J., M. Schneider, Julia Ebert, et al.. (2025). SSAPy - Space Situational Awareness for Python. The Journal of Open Source Software. 10(111). 8147–8147.
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McGill, Peter, et al.. (2025). On Finding Black Holes in Photometric Microlensing Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal. 981(2). 183–183. 5 indexed citations
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Welbanks, Luis, Matthew C. Nixon, Peter McGill, et al.. (2025). Challenges in the detection of gases in exoplanet atmospheres. Nature Astronomy. 10(2). 234–247.
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Welbanks, Luis, et al.. (2025). Enabling Robust Exoplanet Atmospheric Retrievals with Gaussian Processes. The Astrophysical Journal. 989(2). 201–201. 2 indexed citations
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McGill, Peter, Scott Perkins, William A. Dawson, et al.. (2024). Astrometric Microlensing by Primordial Black Holes with the Roman Space Telescope. The Astrophysical Journal. 965(2). 138–138. 8 indexed citations
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Ho, Ming-Feng, Scott Perkins, Simeon Bird, et al.. (2024). Investigating the mixing between two black hole populations in LIGO-Virgo-KAGRA GWTC-3. Physical review. D. 110(6). 1 indexed citations
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Nixon, Matthew C., Luis Welbanks, Peter McGill, & Eliza M.-R. Kempton. (2024). Methods for Incorporating Model Uncertainty into Exoplanet Atmospheric Analysis. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(2). 156–156. 10 indexed citations
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Perkins, Scott, Peter McGill, William A. Dawson, et al.. (2024). Disentangling the Black Hole Mass Spectrum with Photometric Microlensing Surveys. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(2). 179–179. 6 indexed citations
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Dawson, William A., Michael S. Medford, Jessica R. Lu, et al.. (2024). Primordial Black Hole Dark Matter Simulations Using PopSyCLE. The Astrophysical Journal. 970(2). 169–169. 2 indexed citations
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McGill, Peter, N. W. Evans, Leigh C. Smith, et al.. (2024). Spatially resolved microlensing time-scale distributions across the Galactic bulge with the VVV survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(2). 1308–1320. 4 indexed citations
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Welbanks, Luis, Taylor J. Bell, Thomas G. Beatty, et al.. (2024). A high internal heat flux and large core in a warm Neptune exoplanet. Nature. 630(8018). 836–840. 53 indexed citations breakdown →
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Welbanks, Luis, Peter McGill, Michael R. Line, & Nikku Madhusudhan. (2023). On the Application of Bayesian Leave-one-out Cross-validation to Exoplanet Atmospheric Analysis. The Astronomical Journal. 165(3). 112–112. 31 indexed citations
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Challener, Ryan C., Luis Welbanks, & Peter McGill. (2023). Bringing 2D Eclipse Mapping out of the Shadows with Leave-one-out Cross Validation. The Astronomical Journal. 166(6). 251–251. 9 indexed citations
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McGill, Peter, Jay Anderson, Stefano Casertano, et al.. (2022). First semi-empirical test of the white dwarf mass–radius relationship using a single white dwarf via astrometric microlensing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(1). 259–280. 21 indexed citations
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Martin, Emily C., et al.. (2022). A Search for Predicted Astrometric Microlensing Events by Nearby Brown Dwarfs*. The Astronomical Journal. 164(6). 253–253. 6 indexed citations
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McGill, Peter, Andrew Everall, Douglas Boubert, & Leigh C. Smith. (2020). Predictions of Gaia’s prize microlensing events are flawed. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 498(1). L6–L10. 13 indexed citations
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Sahu, K. C., Jay Anderson, Andrea Bellini, et al.. (2019). Accurate Mass Determination of the Nearby Single White Dwarf L145-141 (LAWD 37) through Astrometric Microlensing. 15705.
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McGill, Peter, Leigh C. Smith, N. W. Evans, Vasily Belokurov, & P. W. Lucas. (2019). Ongoing astrometric microlensing events from VVV and Gaia. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 487(1). L7–L12. 13 indexed citations
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McGill, Peter, Leigh C. Smith, N. W. Evans, Vasily Belokurov, & Z. H. Zhang. (2018). Microlens mass determination forGaia’s predicted photometric events. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(3). 4210–4220. 8 indexed citations
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McGill, Peter, Leigh C. Smith, N. W. Evans, Vasily Belokurov, & R. L. Smart. (2018). A predicted astrometric microlensing event by a nearby white dwarf. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 478(1). L29–L33. 17 indexed citations

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