S. Michael Fall

16.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
148 papers, 8.4k citations indexed

About

S. Michael Fall is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, S. Michael Fall has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 8.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 111 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 56 papers in Instrumentation and 11 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in S. Michael Fall's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (71 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (62 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (56 papers). S. Michael Fall is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (71 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (62 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (56 papers). S. Michael Fall collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. S. Michael Fall's co-authors include S. Charlot, G. Efstathiou, Qing Zhang, Bradley C. Whitmore, D. Lynden–Bell, Yichuan C. Pei, R. A. W. Elson, M. J. Rees, F. Schweizer and Bryan W. Miller and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

S. Michael Fall

143 papers receiving 8.1k 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.

A Simple Model for the Absorption of Starlight by Dust in Galaxies

2000 940 citations S. Michael Fall et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Formation and rotation of disc galaxies with haloes

1980 749 citations S. Michael Fall et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The structure and evolution of normal galaxies

1981 395 citations S. Michael Fall, D. Lynden–Bell Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
S. Michael Fall United States	45	8.0k	3.4k	652	293	265	148	8.4k
Martha P. Haynes United States	53	9.4k 1.2×	4.6k 1.3×	1.3k 2.0×	426 1.5×	242 0.9×	239	9.7k
Roger L. Davies United Kingdom	42	6.9k 0.9×	3.8k 1.1×	656 1.0×	193 0.7×	136 0.5×	139	7.2k
Ortwin Gerhard Germany	54	9.6k 1.2×	4.4k 1.3×	896 1.4×	359 1.2×	173 0.7×	207	9.8k
Puragra Guhathakurta United States	54	8.4k 1.0×	4.3k 1.3×	708 1.1×	169 0.6×	195 0.7×	239	8.6k
Peter Eisenhardt United States	48	7.7k 1.0×	3.9k 1.1×	1.3k 1.9×	156 0.5×	243 0.9×	168	7.9k
Gustavo Bruzual France	28	9.3k 1.2×	5.4k 1.6×	719 1.1×	220 0.8×	326 1.2×	119	9.5k
R. Brent Tully United States	47	6.6k 0.8×	2.5k 0.7×	1.2k 1.9×	285 1.0×	103 0.4×	161	6.8k
S. J. Lilly Switzerland	42	6.7k 0.8×	3.4k 1.0×	1.1k 1.7×	157 0.5×	220 0.8×	148	6.9k
Julianne J. Dalcanton United States	45	7.3k 0.9×	3.6k 1.0×	734 1.1×	225 0.8×	125 0.5×	182	7.6k
Dennis Zaritsky United States	48	8.6k 1.1×	4.2k 1.2×	1.3k 2.1×	316 1.1×	237 0.9×	227	8.9k

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Marasco, Antonino, S. Michael Fall, Enrico M. Di Teodoro, & Pavel E. Mancera Piña. (2025). Photometric versus dynamical stellar masses and their impact on scaling relations in nearby disc galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695. L23–L23. 2 indexed citations

Fall, P.A., et al.. (2025). VLC Technology in Remote Patient Monitoring Systems: A Survey. 1–9. 1 indexed citations

Fall, S. Michael & Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez. (2023). Negligible Effects of Baryons on the Angular Momentum Scaling Relations of Galactic Dark Matter Halos. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 949(1). L14–L14. 1 indexed citations

Pulsoni, C., Ortwin Gerhard, S. Michael Fall, et al.. (2023). The extended Planetary Nebula Spectrograph (ePN.S) early-type galaxy survey: The specific angular momentum of ETGs. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674. A96–A96. 3 indexed citations

Teodoro, Enrico M. Di, Lorenzo Posti, S. Michael Fall, et al.. (2022). Dark matter halos and scaling relations of extremely massive spiral galaxies from extended H i rotation curves. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(4). 6340–6354. 19 indexed citations

Teodoro, Enrico M. Di, Lorenzo Posti, Patrick Ogle, S. Michael Fall, & T. H. Jarrett. (2021). Rotation curves and scaling relations of extremely massive spiral galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 507(4). 5820–5831. 26 indexed citations

Posti, Lorenzo & S. Michael Fall. (2021). Dynamical evidence for a morphology-dependent relation between the stellar and halo masses of galaxies. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 6 indexed citations

Capelo, Pedro R., et al.. (2017). Galactic Angular Momentum in Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations. I. Disk and Bulge Components and the Galaxy–Halo Connection. The Astrophysical Journal. 835(2). 289–289. 33 indexed citations

Fall, S. Michael. (2015). Formation, Evolution, and Survival of Massive Star Clusters. 29. 2222214. 9 indexed citations

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Whitmore, Bradley C., Rupali Chandar, & S. Michael Fall. (2007). Star Cluster Demographics: A General Framework and Application to the Antennae Galaxies. AAS. 210. 2 indexed citations

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Fall, S. Michael, et al.. (2005). REVIEW OF BROWN TREESNAKE PROBLEMS AND CONTROL PROGRAMS. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 52(4). 739–48. 4 indexed citations

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Khare, Pushpa, Varsha P. Kulkarni, J. T. Lauroesch, et al.. (2005). Evolution of metals and dust in the universe. Bulletin of the Astronomical Society of India. 33(2). 219. 1 indexed citations

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Fall, S. Michael. (2002). Origin of Galactic Disks. ASPC. 275. 389–396. 1 indexed citations

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Møller, P., S. J. Warren, S. Michael Fall, P. Jakobsen, & J. P. U. Fynbo. (2000). SPSF subtraction II: The extended Lyα emission of a radio quiet QSO.. Msngr. 99. 33–35. 2 indexed citations

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Livio, Mario, S. Michael Fall, & Piero Madau. (1998). The Hubble Deep Field : proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland, May 6-9, 1997. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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Fall, S. Michael. (1990). CONTROL OF COYOTE PREDATION ON LIVESTOCK-PROGRESS IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT. Insecta mundi. 14(14). 245–251. 8 indexed citations

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Elson, R. A. W., S. Michael Fall, & K. C. Freeman. (1988). The Stellar Content of Rich Young Clusters in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 20. 965. 1 indexed citations

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Fall, S. Michael & D. Lynden–Bell. (1981). The structure and evolution of normal galaxies. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 395 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fall, S. Michael. (1980). Dynamical aspects of galaxy clustering. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 296(1419). 339–345. 1 indexed citations

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Fall, S. Michael. (1978). On the evolution of galaxy clustering and cosmological N-body simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 185(2). 165–177. 10 indexed citations

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