Robert A. Simcoe

9.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
92 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

Robert A. Simcoe is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert A. Simcoe has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 33 papers in Instrumentation and 17 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Robert A. Simcoe's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (57 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (31 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (29 papers). Robert A. Simcoe is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (57 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (31 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (29 papers). Robert A. Simcoe collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Italy. Robert A. Simcoe's co-authors include Michael Rauch, W. L. W. Sargent, Joseph F. Hennawi, Xiaohui Fan, Eduardo Bañados, Adam J. Burgasser, J. X. Prochaska, Frederick B. Davies, Anna–Christina Eilers and George D. Becker and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Robert A. Simcoe

86 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

An 800-million-solar-mass black hole in a significantly neutral Universe at a redshift of 7.5

2017 665 citations Eduardo Bañados, Bram Venemans et al. Nature profile →
Quasars and the Intergalactic Medium at Cosmic Dawn

2023 138 citations Eduardo Bañados, Robert A. Simcoe et al. profile →
EIGER. V. Characterizing the Host Galaxies of Luminous Quasars at z ≳ 6

2024 46 citations Minghao Yue, Anna–Christina Eilers et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert A. Simcoe United States	33	3.4k	1.0k	789	135	99	92	3.6k
A. Georgakakis Greece	31	3.9k 1.2×	1.3k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	109 0.8×	61 0.6×	113	4.1k
Dale D. Kocevski United States	30	3.1k 0.9×	1.3k 1.3×	673 0.9×	107 0.8×	67 0.7×	73	3.3k
Joakim Rosdahl France	34	3.0k 0.9×	833 0.8×	528 0.7×	95 0.7×	71 0.7×	70	3.2k
M. Yoshida Japan	31	3.2k 0.9×	1.1k 1.0×	690 0.9×	168 1.2×	121 1.2×	143	3.3k
Jean‐Charles Cuillandre France	35	3.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.2×	369 0.5×	185 1.4×	81 0.8×	156	3.3k
Roberto Decarli Germany	35	4.0k 1.2×	1.1k 1.1×	944 1.2×	110 0.8×	79 0.8×	147	4.2k
Desika Narayanan United States	39	4.8k 1.4×	1.8k 1.8×	561 0.7×	120 0.9×	82 0.8×	116	5.0k
M. S. Oey United States	33	4.7k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	714 0.9×	112 0.8×	65 0.7×	94	4.8k
Jayaram N. Chengalur India	31	3.0k 0.9×	763 0.7×	807 1.0×	135 1.0×	50 0.5×	126	3.1k
M. Boquien France	34	4.3k 1.3×	1.6k 1.5×	500 0.6×	130 1.0×	83 0.8×	133	4.5k

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Karambelkar, Viraj, Robert Stein, M. M. Kasliwal, et al.. (2025). WINTER on S250206dm: A Near-infrared Search for an Electromagnetic Counterpart to a Gravitational-wave Event. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 137(7). 74203–74203.

Eilers, Anna–Christina, Minghao Yue, Jorryt Matthee, et al.. (2025). The Light Echo of a High-redshift Quasar Mapped with Lyα Tomography. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 991(2). L40–L40. 1 indexed citations

Karambelkar, Viraj, M. M. Kasliwal, Kishalay De, et al.. (2025). The Slow Brightening of WNTR23bzdiq/WTP19aalzlk: Possible Onset of Common Envelope Evolution in an Asymptotic Giant Branch Star?. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(1). 109–109.

Yue, Minghao, Anna–Christina Eilers, Jorryt Matthee, et al.. (2025). Escape Fractions from Unattenuated Ly α Emitters around Luminous z > 6 Quasars. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 993(1). L12–L12.

Eilers, Anna–Christina, Robert A. Simcoe, R. A. Meyer, et al.. (2025). An Extremely Metal-poor Lyα Emitter Candidate at z = 6 Revealed through Absorption Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 987(2). L33–L33. 1 indexed citations

Masterson, Rebecca, et al.. (2024). A Model-based Approach for Verification of the Large Lenslet Array Magellan Spectrograph (LLAMAS). 588. 1–15.

Eilers, Anna–Christina, et al.. (2024). Evidence for episodic black hole growth of reionization-era quasars observed with Magellan/FIRE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(4). 3511–3520. 3 indexed citations

Kashino, Daichi, S. J. Lilly, Robert A. Simcoe, et al.. (2023). Compact [C ii] emitters around a C iv absorption complex at redshift 5.7. Nature. 617(7960). 261–264. 3 indexed citations

Eilers, Anna–Christina, Robert A. Simcoe, Minghao Yue, et al.. (2023). EIGER. III. JWST/NIRCam Observations of the Ultraluminous High-redshift Quasar J0100+2802. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(1). 68–68. 28 indexed citations

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Yue, Minghao, Anna–Christina Eilers, Robert A. Simcoe, et al.. (2023). Detecting and Characterizing Young Quasars. III. The Impact of Gravitational Lensing Magnification. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(2). 105–105. 3 indexed citations

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Qu, Zhijie, Hsiao‐Wen Chen, Gwen C. Rudie, et al.. (2023). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) – VI. Connecting physical properties of the cool circumgalactic medium to galaxies at z ≈ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(1). 512–528. 18 indexed citations

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Panagiotou, Christos, Kishalay De, Erin Kara, et al.. (2023). A Luminous Dust-obscured Tidal Disruption Event Candidate in a Star-forming Galaxy at 42 Mpc. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 948(1). L5–L5. 13 indexed citations

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Matthee, Jorryt, Ruari Mackenzie, Robert A. Simcoe, et al.. (2023). EIGER. II. First Spectroscopic Characterization of the Young Stars and Ionized Gas Associated with Strong Hβ and [O iii] Line Emission in Galaxies at z = 5–7 with JWST. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(1). 67–67. 70 indexed citations

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Kashino, Daichi, S. J. Lilly, Jorryt Matthee, et al.. (2023). EIGER. I. A Large Sample of [O iii]-emitting Galaxies at 5.3 < z < 6.9 and Direct Evidence for Local Reionization by Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(1). 66–66. 67 indexed citations

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Qu, Zhijie, Hsiao‐Wen Chen, Gwen C. Rudie, et al.. (2022). The Cosmic Ultraviolet Baryon Survey (CUBS) V: on the thermodynamic properties of the cool circumgalactic medium at z ≲ 1. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 516(4). 4882–4897. 28 indexed citations

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Biscoveanu, S., Geoffrey Mo, Viraj Karambelkar, et al.. (2022). An Infrared Search for Kilonovae with the WINTER Telescope. I. Binary Neutron Star Mergers. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(2). 152–152. 18 indexed citations

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Andika, I.T, K. Jahnkę, Masafusa Onoue, et al.. (2020). Probing the Nature of High-redshift Weak Emission Line Quasars: A Young Quasar with a Starburst Host Galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal. 903(1). 34–34. 25 indexed citations

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Lusso, Elisabeta, Michele Fumagalli, Matteo Fossati, et al.. (2019). The MUSE Ultra Deep Field (MUDF) – I. Discovery of a group of Lyα nebulae associated with a bright z ≈ 3.23 quasar pair. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 485(1). L62–L67. 24 indexed citations

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Becker, George D., Anson D’Aloisio, Frederick B. Davies, Joseph F. Hennawi, & Robert A. Simcoe. (2019). Studying the Reionization Epoch with QSO Absorption Lines. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 51(3). 440. 3 indexed citations

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Filippenko, A. V., et al.. (2003). Supernovae 2001co, 2003H, 2003dg, and 2003dr. International Astronomical Union Circular. 8159. 2. 1 indexed citations

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