R. J. Simpson

3.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

R. J. Simpson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecological Modeling and Ecology. According to data from OpenAlex, R. J. Simpson has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 9 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 8 papers in Ecological Modeling and 7 papers in Ecology. Recurrent topics in R. J. Simpson's work include Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (5 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (4 papers). R. J. Simpson is often cited by papers focused on Species Distribution and Climate Change (8 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (5 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (4 papers). R. J. Simpson collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Netherlands. R. J. Simpson's co-authors include Arfon M. Smith, Chris Lintott, Kevin Page, David De Roure, Margaret Kosmala, Alexandra Swanson, Craig Packer, Kevin Schawinski, Karen L. Masters and R. C. Nichol and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America.

In The Last Decade

R. J. Simpson

23 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

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.

Galaxy Zoo 2: detailed morphological classifications for 304 122 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

2013 421 citations Kyle Willett, Chris Lintott et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna

2015 322 citations Alexandra Swanson, Margaret Kosmala et al. Scientific Data profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. J. Simpson United Kingdom	17	606	331	331	224	191	25	1.5k
Arfon M. Smith United States	18	917 1.5×	277 0.8×	315 1.0×	249 1.1×	439 2.3×	34	1.9k
L. Fortson United States	24	1.6k 2.6×	378 1.1×	426 1.3×	318 1.4×	863 4.5×	62	2.6k
Phil Murray United Kingdom	14	2.0k 3.3×	380 1.1×	415 1.3×	503 2.2×	1.2k 6.1×	20	3.1k
Kate Land United Kingdom	15	2.2k 3.7×	193 0.6×	303 0.9×	387 1.7×	858 4.5×	22	2.9k
Jan Vandenberg United States	15	2.0k 3.3×	381 1.2×	418 1.3×	521 2.3×	1.2k 6.1×	22	3.2k
Dan Andreescu United Kingdom	13	2.0k 3.3×	207 0.6×	394 1.2×	481 2.1×	1.2k 6.1×	17	2.7k
M. Jordan Raddick United States	17	2.3k 3.8×	449 1.4×	479 1.4×	608 2.7×	1.3k 7.0×	27	3.7k
Brooke Simmons United States	31	2.7k 4.4×	600 1.8×	544 1.6×	361 1.6×	1.4k 7.5×	88	4.0k
Frans Snik Netherlands	22	676 1.1×	118 0.4×	101 0.3×	56 0.3×	187 1.0×	101	1.5k
Anže Slosar United States	35	4.7k 7.8×	200 0.6×	433 1.3×	522 2.3×	1.6k 8.2×	102	5.9k

Countries citing papers authored by R. J. Simpson

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Fields of papers citing papers by R. J. Simpson

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. J. Simpson

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Masters, Karen L., et al.. (2020). Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 18 indexed citations

Kendrew, Sarah, R. J. Simpson, Chris Lintott, et al.. (2020). Ten years of .Astronomy: Scientific and cultural impact. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(4). 203.

Jayasinghe, T., Matthew S. Povich, Breanna A. Binder, et al.. (2019). The Milky Way Project second data release: bubbles and bow shocks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(1). 1141–1165. 21 indexed citations

Aye, K. M., Megan E. Schwamb, Ganna Portyankina, et al.. (2018). Planet Four: Probing springtime winds on Mars by mapping the southern polar CO2 jet deposits. Icarus. 319. 558–598. 18 indexed citations

Swanson, Alexandra, Margaret Kosmala, Chris Lintott, et al.. (2015). Snapshot Serengeti, high-frequency annotated camera trap images of 40 mammalian species in an African savanna. Scientific Data. 2(1). 150026–150026. 322 indexed citations breakdown →

Tinati, Ramine, Max Van Kleek, Elena Simperl, et al.. (2015). Designing for Citizen Data Analysis. ePrints Soton (University of Southampton). 4069–4078. 59 indexed citations

Segal, Avi, Kobi Gal, R. J. Simpson, et al.. (2015). Improving Productivity in Citizen Science through Controlled Intervention. 331–337. 25 indexed citations

Luczak–Roesch, Markus, Ramine Tinati, Elena Simperl, et al.. (2014). Why Won't Aliens Talk to Us? Content and Community Dynamics in Online Citizen Science. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media. 8(1). 315–324. 26 indexed citations

Beaumont, Christopher N., Alyssa Goodman, Sarah Kendrew, Jonathan P. Williams, & R. J. Simpson. (2014). THE MILKY WAY PROJECT: LEVERAGING CITIZEN SCIENCE AND MACHINE LEARNING TO DETECT INTERSTELLAR BUBBLES. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 214(1). 3–3. 27 indexed citations

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Simpson, R. J., Kevin Page, & David De Roure. (2014). Zooniverse. 1049–1054. 161 indexed citations

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Johnson, L. Clifton, Anil C. Seth, Julianne J. Dalcanton, et al.. (2013). The Andromeda Project and PHAT Stellar Clusters. 221.

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Willett, Kyle, Chris Lintott, S. P. Bamford, et al.. (2013). Galaxy Zoo 2: detailed morphological classifications for 304 122 galaxies from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 435(4). 2835–2860. 421 indexed citations breakdown →

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Simpson, R. J., Matthew S. Povich, Sarah Kendrew, et al.. (2012). The Milky Way Project First Data Release: a bubblier Galactic disc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 424(4). 2442–2460. 126 indexed citations

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Simpson, R. J., D. Nutter, & D. Ward–Thompson. (2008). The initial conditions of star formation - VIII. An observational study of the Ophiuchus cloud L1688 and implications for the pre-stellar core mass function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 391(1). 205–214. 38 indexed citations

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Simpson, R. J. & R. Tijdeman. (2003). Multi-dimensional versions of a theorem of Fine and Wilf and a formula of Sylvester. Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society. 131(6). 1661–1671. 16 indexed citations

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Simpson, R. J., Craig S. Wilding, & J. Grahame. (1999). Simple Protocol for Extracting Nuclear DNA from Single Embryos of a Marine Snail. BioTechniques. 26(6). 1050–1052. 14 indexed citations

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Brindle, Kevin M., Iain D. Campbell, & R. J. Simpson. (1986). A 1H-NMR study of the activity expressed by lactate dehydrogenase in the human erythrocyte. European Journal of Biochemistry. 158(2). 299–305. 19 indexed citations

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Simpson, R. J., Kevin M. Brindle, & Iain D. Campbell. (1983). Association of aldolase with the membranes in concentrated human erythrocyte lysates. Biochemical Society Transactions. 11(3). 281–282. 3 indexed citations

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Campbell, Iain D., et al.. (1983). 1H n.m.r. studies of the kinetic properties expressed by erythrocyte enzymes in situ and in vitro. Biochemical Society Transactions. 11(3). 280–281. 2 indexed citations

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Simpson, R. J., Kevin M. Brindle, & Iain D. Campbell. (1983). Centrifugal analysis of undiluted packed human erythrocyte lysates studies of the association of glyceraldehyde-phosphate dehydrogenase with the membrane fraction. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - General Subjects. 758(2). 187–190. 9 indexed citations

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