R. Luque

4.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
31 papers, 356 citations indexed

About

R. Luque is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Luque has authored 31 papers receiving a total of 356 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 31 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 12 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in R. Luque's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (29 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (18 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (14 papers). R. Luque is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (29 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (18 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (14 papers). R. Luque collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Germany. R. Luque's co-authors include Ε. Πάλλη, A. Rodríguez-Ardila, N. Casasayas-Barris, Francisco Müller-Sánchez, X. Mazzalay, J. A. Fernández-Ontiveros, Jacob L. Bean, M. Stangret, M. Prieto and Madison Brady and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

R. Luque

26 papers receiving 257 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.

Density, not radius, separates rocky and water-rich small planets orbiting M dwarf stars

2022 135 citations R. Luque, Ε. Πάλλη profile →
Reliable Detections of Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets with Photometric JWST Phase Curves

2025 20 citations Mark Hammond, Tim Lichtenberg et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
R. Luque Spain	9	338	89	30	21	17	31	356
A. Wünsche France	8	247 0.7×	83 0.9×	30 1.0×	21 1.0×	14 0.8×	9	264
Adina D. Feinstein United States	10	313 0.9×	109 1.2×	25 0.8×	15 0.7×	15 0.9×	34	347
R. Karjalainen Spain	13	384 1.1×	78 0.9×	50 1.7×	16 0.8×	13 0.8×	23	398
Brett M. Morris United States	12	327 1.0×	125 1.4×	23 0.8×	12 0.6×	17 1.0×	45	347
L. Acuña France	7	186 0.6×	45 0.5×	36 1.2×	23 1.1×	11 0.6×	10	212
Sebastian Zieba Germany	6	282 0.8×	73 0.8×	64 2.1×	44 2.1×	23 1.4×	11	324
Aurora Y. Kesseli United States	12	323 1.0×	100 1.1×	48 1.6×	7 0.3×	22 1.3×	23	364
Jegug Ih United States	12	381 1.1×	79 0.9×	52 1.7×	25 1.2×	21 1.2×	15	413
P. Wilson Cauley United States	17	634 1.9×	122 1.4×	34 1.1×	19 0.9×	5 0.3×	36	651
S. Hoyer United States	13	484 1.4×	161 1.8×	32 1.1×	17 0.8×	21 1.2×	32	497

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. Luque

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

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Luque, R., Jacob L. Bean, Andreas Seifahrt, et al.. (2025). Four Sub-Earth Planets Orbiting Barnard’s Star from MAROON-X and ESPRESSO. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 982(1). L1–L1. 2 indexed citations

Zhang, Michael, Timothy D. Brandt, Roger W. Romani, et al.. (2025). A Carbon-rich Atmosphere on a Windy Pulsar Planet. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 995(2). L64–L64. 1 indexed citations

Xue, Qiao, Michael Zhang, Madison Brady, et al.. (2025). The JWST Rocky Worlds DDT Program Reveals GJ 3929b to Likely Be a Bare Rock. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 995(2). L52–L52.

Brady, Madison, Jacob L. Bean, Guđmundur Stefánsson, et al.. (2025). A Small Brown Dwarf in an Aligned Orbit Around a Young, Fully Convective M Star. The Astronomical Journal. 169(2). 64–64. 5 indexed citations

Bean, Jacob L., R. Luque, Andreas Seifahrt, et al.. (2025). Calibrating the Instrumental Drift in MAROON-X Using an Ensemble Analysis. The Astronomical Journal. 169(5). 253–253. 2 indexed citations

Hammond, Mark, Tim Lichtenberg, Chloe Fisher, et al.. (2025). Reliable Detections of Atmospheres on Rocky Exoplanets with Photometric JWST Phase Curves. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 978(2). L40–L40. 20 indexed citations breakdown →

Luque, R., Qiao Xue, Adina D. Feinstein, et al.. (2025). A Dark, Bare Rock for TOI-1685 b from a JWST NIRSpec G395H Phase Curve. The Astronomical Journal. 170(1). 49–49. 6 indexed citations

Murphy, Joseph M. Akana, R. Luque, & Natalie M. Batalha. (2024). The Impact of Observing Cadence and Undetected Companions on the Accuracy of Planet Mass Measurements from Radial Velocity Monitoring. The Astronomical Journal. 169(1). 25–25. 2 indexed citations

Gan, Tianjun, Sharon X. Wang, Fei Dai, et al.. (2024). The Aligned Orbit of a Hot Jupiter around the M Dwarf TOI-4201. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 969(1). L24–L24. 5 indexed citations

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Burt, Jennifer, M. J. Hooton, Eric E. Mamajek, et al.. (2024). TOI-1685 b Is a Hot Rocky Super-Earth: Updates to the Stellar and Planet Parameters of a Popular JWST Cycle 2 Target. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 971(1). L12–L12. 6 indexed citations

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Murphy, Joseph M. Akana, R. Luque, Natalie M. Batalha, et al.. (2024). HD 119130 b Is Not an “Ultradense” Sub-Neptune. The Astronomical Journal. 169(1). 26–26. 1 indexed citations

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Béjar, V. J. S., N. Lodieu, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, et al.. (2023). Dynamical masses of two young transiting sub-Neptunes orbiting HD 63433. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 671. A163–A163. 4 indexed citations

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Knudstrup, Emil, Simon Albrecht, D. Gandolfi, et al.. (2023). A puffy polar planet. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 671. A164–A164. 3 indexed citations

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Bello-García, A., V. M. Passegger, Joaquín Ordieres‐Meré, et al.. (2023). The CARMENES search for exoplanets around M dwarfs. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 673. A105–A105. 5 indexed citations

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Prinoth, Bibiana, H. J. Hoeijmakers, Stefan Pelletier, et al.. (2023). Time-resolved transmission spectroscopy of the ultra-hot Jupiter WASP-189 b. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 678. A182–A182. 21 indexed citations

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Brady, Madison, Jacob L. Bean, Andreas Seifahrt, et al.. (2023). Measuring the Obliquities of the TRAPPIST-1 Planets with MAROON-X. The Astronomical Journal. 165(3). 129–129. 8 indexed citations

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Πάλλη, Ε., R. Luque, M. R. Zapatero Osorio, et al.. (2021). ESPRESSO mass determination of TOI-263b: an extreme inhabitant of the brown dwarf desert. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations

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Bluhm, P. & R. Luque. (2020). Precise mass and radius of a transiting super-Earth planet orbiting the M dwarf TOI-1235: a planet in the radius gap?. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 1 indexed citations

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Πάλλη, Ε., M. Oshagh, Teruyuki Hirano, et al.. (2020). Transmission spectroscopy and Rossiter-McLaughlin measurements of the young Neptune orbiting AU Mic. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 21 indexed citations

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Kaltenegger, Lisa, Sarah Rugheimer, Antígona Segura, et al.. (2019). The Habitability of GJ 357D: Possible Climate and Observability. Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) (University of Oxford). 3 indexed citations

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