Samuel W. Skillman

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 666 citations indexed

About

Samuel W. Skillman is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Ecology and Media Technology. According to data from OpenAlex, Samuel W. Skillman has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 666 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 5 papers in Ecology and 4 papers in Media Technology. Recurrent topics in Samuel W. Skillman's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (6 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (4 papers). Samuel W. Skillman is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (6 papers), Remote Sensing in Agriculture (5 papers) and Remote-Sensing Image Classification (4 papers). Samuel W. Skillman collaborates with scholars based in United States and United Kingdom. Samuel W. Skillman's co-authors include Jürgen Friedrich, Lucas Kruitwagen, K. T. Story, Cameron Hepburn, Eric Hallman, Brian W. O’Shea, Jack O. Burns, Michael L. Norman, Britton Smith and Michael S. Warren and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Samuel W. Skillman

16 papers receiving 622 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.

  1. A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units
    2021 298 citations Lucas Kruitwagen, K. T. Story et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Samuel W. Skillman United States 10 289 187 123 117 95 17 666
Jinsong Deng China 13 499 1.7× 152 0.8× 49 0.4× 14 0.1× 19 0.2× 40 713
Ian M. Hoffman United States 10 210 0.7× 52 0.3× 27 0.2× 15 0.1× 105 1.1× 20 467
Locke D. Spencer Canada 8 143 0.5× 9 0.0× 41 0.3× 68 0.6× 33 0.3× 53 344
Dawei Xu China 15 136 0.5× 26 0.1× 87 0.7× 22 0.2× 4 0.0× 72 809
R. Nakajima Japan 16 469 1.6× 56 0.3× 4 0.0× 15 0.1× 12 0.1× 36 869
M. M. Beheary Egypt 9 101 0.3× 7 0.0× 179 1.5× 306 2.6× 535 5.6× 24 783
G. Alimonti Italy 8 14 0.0× 201 1.1× 28 0.2× 16 0.1× 54 0.6× 22 456
L. Shao China 12 280 1.0× 101 0.5× 142 1.2× 2 0.0× 10 0.1× 28 522

Countries citing papers authored by Samuel W. Skillman

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Fields of papers citing papers by Samuel W. Skillman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Samuel W. Skillman

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

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Kruitwagen, Lucas, et al.. (2021). A global inventory of photovoltaic solar energy generating units. Nature. 598(7882). 604–610. 298 indexed citations breakdown →
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Skillman, Samuel W., et al.. (2019). Visual search over billions of aerial and satellite images. Computer Vision and Image Understanding. 187. 102790–102790. 12 indexed citations
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Skillman, Samuel W., et al.. (2017). A Platform for Scalable Satellite and Geospatial Data Analysis. AGUFM. 2017. 3 indexed citations
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Brumby, Steven P., et al.. (2017). Crop classification using temporal stacks of multispectral satellite imagery. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 10198. 101980G–101980G. 7 indexed citations
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Warren, Michael S., et al.. (2016). Data-Intensive Supercomputing in the Cloud: Global Analytics for Satellite Imagery. 24–31. 7 indexed citations
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Brumby, Steven P., et al.. (2016). Land cover classification in fused multisensor multispectral satellite imagery. 85–88. 5 indexed citations
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Jennings, Elise, Risa H. Wechsler, Samuel W. Skillman, & Michael S. Warren. (2016). Disentangling redshift-space distortions and non-linear bias using the 2D power spectrum. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 457(1). 1076–1088. 9 indexed citations
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Warren, Michael S., et al.. (2016). Building a living atlas of the Earth in the cloud. 81. 1273–1277. 3 indexed citations
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Warren, Michael S., et al.. (2016). Data-intensive supercomputing in the cloud: global analytics for satellite imagery. 24–31. 4 indexed citations
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Warren, Michael S., Steven P. Brumby, Samuel W. Skillman, et al.. (2015). Seeing the Earth in the Cloud: Processing one petabyte of satellite imagery in one day. 1–12. 17 indexed citations
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Warren, Michael S., et al.. (2014). Dark Sky Simulations Collaboration. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3 indexed citations
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Skillman, Samuel W., Hao Xu, Eric Hallman, et al.. (2013). COSMOLOGICAL MAGNETOHYDRODYNAMIC SIMULATIONS OF GALAXY CLUSTER RADIO RELICS: INSIGHTS AND WARNINGS FOR OBSERVATIONS. The Astrophysical Journal. 765(1). 21–21. 88 indexed citations
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Smith, Britton, et al.. (2013). COSMOLOGICAL SIMULATIONS OF ISOTROPIC CONDUCTION IN GALAXY CLUSTERS. The Astrophysical Journal. 778(2). 152–152. 11 indexed citations
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Skillman, Samuel W., Eric Hallman, Brian W. O’Shea, et al.. (2011). GALAXY CLUSTER RADIO RELICS IN ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT COSMOLOGICAL SIMULATIONS: RELIC PROPERTIES AND SCALING RELATIONSHIPS. The Astrophysical Journal. 735(2). 96–96. 48 indexed citations
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Trenti, Michele, Britton Smith, Eric Hallman, Samuel W. Skillman, & J. Michael Shull. (2010). HOW WELL DO COSMOLOGICAL SIMULATIONS REPRODUCE INDIVIDUAL HALO PROPERTIES?. The Astrophysical Journal. 711(2). 1198–1207. 37 indexed citations
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Skillman, Samuel W., Brian W. O’Shea, Eric Hallman, Jack O. Burns, & Michael L. Norman. (2008). Cosmological Shocks in Adaptive Mesh Refinement Simulations and the Acceleration of Cosmic Rays. The Astrophysical Journal. 689(2). 1063–1077. 102 indexed citations

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