R Begley

2.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
24 papers, 852 citations indexed

About

R Begley is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, R Begley has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 852 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 15 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in R Begley's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (16 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (14 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (11 papers). R Begley is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (16 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (14 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (11 papers). R Begley collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. R Begley's co-authors include Fergus Cullen, R. J. McLure, D J McLeod, Adam C. Carnall, Callum T. Donnan, M. L. Hamadouche, J. S. Dunlop, D. Magee, R. A. A. Bowler and B. Milvang‐Jensen and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

R Begley

23 papers receiving 711 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.

The evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ≃ 8 – 15 from deep JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging

2022 249 citations Callum T. Donnan, D J McLeod et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658

2023 96 citations Adam C. Carnall, R. J. McLure et al. Nature profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
R Begley United Kingdom	12	654	380	69	65	52	24	852
Olivier Daigle Canada	16	476 0.7×	281 0.7×	38 0.6×	111 1.7×	75 1.4×	39	630
Abdurrouf Indonesia	10	826 1.3×	421 1.1×	54 0.8×	39 0.6×	28 0.5×	41	980
John Canfield United States	8	711 1.1×	269 0.7×	46 0.7×	86 1.3×	22 0.4×	8	832
Olivier Hernandez Canada	18	907 1.4×	451 1.2×	111 1.6×	38 0.6×	21 0.4×	44	977
E. Pedretti United States	21	1.0k 1.6×	384 1.0×	28 0.4×	81 1.2×	87 1.7×	80	1.3k
Kentaro Motohara Japan	20	1.4k 2.2×	554 1.5×	253 3.7×	124 1.9×	50 1.0×	104	1.6k
Yoshiki Matsuoka Japan	17	932 1.4×	317 0.8×	228 3.3×	100 1.5×	61 1.2×	79	1.2k
Larry Bradley United States	17	986 1.5×	454 1.2×	153 2.2×	31 0.5×	9 0.2×	41	1.1k
Sébastien Blais-Ouellette Canada	10	165 0.3×	88 0.2×	34 0.5×	83 1.3×	116 2.2×	28	416
Ikuru Iwata Japan	15	854 1.3×	362 1.0×	126 1.8×	78 1.2×	15 0.3×	49	899

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R Begley

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Hamadouche, M. L., R. J. McLure, Adam C. Carnall, et al.. (2025). JWST PRIMER: strong evidence for the environmental quenching of low-mass galaxies out to z≃ 2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 541(1). 463–475. 2 indexed citations

Cullen, Fergus, Adam C. Carnall, D. Scholte, et al.. (2025). The JWST EXCELS survey: an extremely metal-poor galaxy at z = 8.271 hosting an unusual population of massive stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(3). 2176–2194. 8 indexed citations

Dunlop, J. S., R. J. McLure, D J McLeod, et al.. (2025). JWST PRIMER: a deep JWST study of all ALMA-detected galaxies in PRIMER COSMOS – dust-obscured star formation history back to z ≃ 7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545(2). 1 indexed citations

Arellano-Córdova, Karla Z., Fergus Cullen, Adam C. Carnall, et al.. (2025). The JWST EXCELS survey: direct estimates of C, N, and O abundances in two relatively metal-rich galaxies at z ≃ 5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(4). 2991–3007. 5 indexed citations

Begley, R, R. J. McLure, Fergus Cullen, et al.. (2025). The JWST EXCELS survey: A spectroscopic investigation of the ionizing properties of star-forming galaxies at 1<z<8. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545(1).

Stanton, T M, Fergus Cullen, Adam C. Carnall, et al.. (2025). The JWST EXCELS survey: tracing the chemical enrichment pathways of high-redshift star-forming galaxies with O, Ar, and Ne abundances. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537(2). 1735–1748. 8 indexed citations

Begley, R, R. J. McLure, Fergus Cullen, et al.. (2025). The evolution of [O iii] + Hβ equivalent width from z ≃ 3−8: implications for the production and escape of ionizing photons during reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537(4). 3245–3264. 15 indexed citations

Mason, Charlotte, et al.. (2024). Inferring the distribution of the ionising photon escape fraction. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A57–A57. 3 indexed citations

Gazagnes, Simon, Fergus Cullen, Valentin Mauerhofer, et al.. (2024). Comparing the VANDELS Sample to a Zoom-in Radiative Hydrodynamical Simulation: Using the Si ii and C ii Line Spectra as Tracers of Galaxy Evolution and Lyman Continuum Leakage. The Astrophysical Journal. 969(1). 50–50. 4 indexed citations

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Cullen, Fergus, D J McLeod, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2024). The ultraviolet continuum slopes of high-redshift galaxies: evidence for the emergence of dust-free stellar populations at z > 10. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(1). 997–1020. 31 indexed citations

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Carnall, Adam C., R. J. McLure, J. S. Dunlop, et al.. (2023). A massive quiescent galaxy at redshift 4.658. Nature. 619(7971). 716–719. 96 indexed citations breakdown →

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Carnall, Adam C., D J McLeod, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2023). A surprising abundance of massive quiescent galaxies at 3 <z< 5 in the first data fromJWSTCEERS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(3). 3974–3985. 69 indexed citations

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Cullen, Fergus, R. J. McLure, D J McLeod, et al.. (2023). The ultraviolet continuum slopes (β) of galaxies at z ≃ 8-16 from JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(1). 14–23. 54 indexed citations

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Hamadouche, M. L., Adam C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2023). The connection between stellar mass, age, and quenching time-scale in massive quiescent galaxies atz≃ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(4). 5400–5409. 3 indexed citations

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McLeod, D J, Callum T. Donnan, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2023). The galaxy UV luminosity function at z ≃ 11 from a suite of public JWST ERS, ERO, and Cycle-1 programs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 5004–5022. 56 indexed citations

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Begley, R, Fergus Cullen, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2023). Connecting the escape fraction of Lyman-alpha and Lyman-continuum photons in star-forming galaxies at z ≃ 4–5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 4040–4051. 9 indexed citations

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Carnall, Adam C., R Begley, D J McLeod, et al.. (2022). A first look at the SMACS0723 JWST ERO: spectroscopic redshifts, stellar masses, and star-formation histories. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 518(1). L45–L50. 50 indexed citations

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Hamadouche, M. L., Adam C. Carnall, R. J. McLure, et al.. (2022). A combined VANDELS and LEGA-C study: the evolution of quiescent galaxy size, stellar mass, and age from z = 0.6 to z = 1.3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512(1). 1262–1274. 20 indexed citations

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Donnan, Callum T., D J McLeod, J. S. Dunlop, et al.. (2022). The evolution of the galaxy UV luminosity function at redshifts z ≃ 8 – 15 from deep JWST and ground-based near-infrared imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(4). 6011–6040. 249 indexed citations breakdown →

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Hanson, Ben, et al.. (2019). Experimental and Computational Investigation of the IDDSI Flow Test of Liquids Used in Dysphagia Management. Annals of Biomedical Engineering. 47(11). 2296–2307. 31 indexed citations

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