Ruari Mackenzie

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 478 citations indexed

About

Ruari Mackenzie is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ruari Mackenzie has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 478 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 23 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 7 papers in Instrumentation and 2 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ruari Mackenzie's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (21 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (7 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (7 papers). Ruari Mackenzie is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (21 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (7 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (7 papers). Ruari Mackenzie collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Japan. Ruari Mackenzie's co-authors include Jorryt Matthee, S. J. Lilly, Daichi Kashino, Robert A. Simcoe, Anna–Christina Eilers, Rongmon Bordoloi, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Minghao Yue, Rohan P. Naidu and T. Shanks and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Ruari Mackenzie

22 papers receiving 383 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.

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
Ruari Mackenzie Switzerland	13	446	150	95	22	14	25	478
Ting-Wen Lan United States	10	340 0.8×	111 0.7×	70 0.7×	23 1.0×	11 0.8×	14	349
Matthew D A Orkney United Kingdom	10	364 0.8×	186 1.2×	69 0.7×	17 0.8×	7 0.5×	16	396
Jonathan R. Hargis United States	9	494 1.1×	250 1.7×	140 1.5×	12 0.5×	12 0.9×	16	518
Luca Di Mascolo Germany	11	311 0.7×	86 0.6×	91 1.0×	22 1.0×	6 0.4×	28	339
C. Vlahakis United Kingdom	11	391 0.9×	96 0.6×	63 0.7×	22 1.0×	8 0.6×	24	405
Adam Tomczak United States	15	506 1.1×	323 2.2×	55 0.6×	13 0.6×	10 0.7×	29	512
Tim Rawle United States	14	420 0.9×	235 1.6×	49 0.5×	25 1.1×	15 1.1×	37	444
O. Vega Mexico	13	614 1.4×	229 1.5×	76 0.8×	17 0.8×	10 0.7×	35	632
Shi Shao China	10	386 0.9×	191 1.3×	100 1.1×	10 0.5×	6 0.4×	23	412
Lukas Leisman United States	13	478 1.1×	244 1.6×	71 0.7×	25 1.1×	7 0.5×	21	492

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Wang, Weichen, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Antonio Pensabene, et al.. (2025). A giant disk galaxy two billion years after the Big Bang. Nature Astronomy. 9(5). 710–719. 4 indexed citations

Matthee, Jorryt, Gabriele Pezzulli, T. Urrutia, et al.. (2025). A weak Ly α halo for an extremely bright little red dot. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 705. A147–A147. 1 indexed citations

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, 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

Matthee, Jorryt, Rohan P. Naidu, Lukas J. Furtak, et al.. (2025). Environmental Evidence for Overly Massive Black Holes in Low-mass Galaxies and a Black Hole–Halo Mass Relation at z ∼ 5. The Astrophysical Journal. 988(2). 246–246. 5 indexed citations

Yue, Minghao, Anna–Christina Eilers, Robert A. Simcoe, et al.. (2024). EIGER. V. Characterizing the Host Galaxies of Luminous Quasars at z ≳ 6. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(2). 176–176. 46 indexed citations breakdown →

Bordoloi, Rongmon, Robert A. Simcoe, Jorryt Matthee, et al.. (2024). EIGER IV. The Cool 10⁴ K Circumgalactic Environment of High-redshift Galaxies Reveals Remarkably Efficient Intergalactic Medium Enrichment. The Astrophysical Journal. 963(1). 28–28. 11 indexed citations

Matthee, Jorryt, Rohan P. Naidu, Ruari Mackenzie, et al.. (2024). Anatomy of an ionized bubble: NIRCam grism spectroscopy of the z = 6.6 double-peaked Lyman-α emitter COLA1 and its environment. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 689. A44–A44. 13 indexed citations

Eilers, Anna–Christina, Ruari Mackenzie, Elia Pizzati, et al.. (2024). EIGER. VI. The Correlation Function, Host Halo Mass, and Duty Cycle of Luminous Quasars at z ≳ 6. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(2). 275–275. 25 indexed citations

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Jiménez-Andrade, Eric F., Sebastiano Cantalupo, B. Magnelli, et al.. (2023). The Ly α, C iv, and He iinebulae around J1000+0234: a galaxy pair at the centre of a galaxy overdensity atz = 4.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(2). 2326–2341. 3 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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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

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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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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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Ansarinejad, Behzad, Ruari Mackenzie, T. Shanks, & N. Metcalfe. (2020). Cross-correlating Planck with VST ATLAS LRGs: a new test for the ISW effect in the Southern hemisphere. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(4). 4830–4844. 3 indexed citations

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Matthee, Jorryt, Gabriele Pezzulli, Ruari Mackenzie, et al.. (2020). The nature of CR7 revealed with MUSE: a young starburst powering extended Ly α emission at z = 6.6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(2). 3043–3059. 12 indexed citations

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Mackenzie, Ruari, Gabriele Pezzulli, Sebastiano Cantalupo, et al.. (2020). Revealing the impact of quasar luminosity on giant Ly α nebulae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(1). 494–509. 24 indexed citations

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Brok, Jakob S. den, Sebastiano Cantalupo, Ruari Mackenzie, et al.. (2020). Probing the AGN unification model at redshift z ∼ 3 with MUSE observations of giant Ly α nebulae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495(2). 1874–1887. 14 indexed citations

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Mackenzie, Ruari, Michele Fumagalli, Tom Theuns, et al.. (2019). Linking gas and galaxies at high redshift: MUSE surveys the environments of six damped Lyα systems at z ≈ 3. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(4). 5070–5096. 38 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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