Sean McCauliff

6.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 974 citations indexed

About

Sean McCauliff is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sean McCauliff has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 974 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 12 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Sean McCauliff's work include Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (12 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (11 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (6 papers). Sean McCauliff is often cited by papers focused on Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (12 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (11 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (6 papers). Sean McCauliff collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Denmark. Sean McCauliff's co-authors include Jon M. Jenkins, Joseph D. Twicken, Forrest R. Girouard, Jeffrey C. Smith, Todd C. Klaus, Peter Tenenbaum, Martin C. Stumpe, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, M. N. Fanelli and Jeffrey E. Van Cleve and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

In The Last Decade

Sean McCauliff

18 papers receiving 887 citations

Hit Papers

The TESS science processing operations center 2012 2026 2016 2021 2016 2012 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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. The TESS science processing operations center
    2016 380 citations Jon M. Jenkins, Joseph D. Twicken et al. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE profile →
  2. KeplerPresearch Data Conditioning II - A Bayesian Approach to Systematic Error Correction
    2012 349 citations Jeffrey C. Smith, Martin C. Stumpe et al. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sean McCauliff United States 8 930 465 80 34 31 19 974
Forrest R. Girouard United States 8 1.0k 1.1× 492 1.1× 89 1.1× 41 1.2× 24 0.8× 21 1.1k
Todd C. Klaus United States 11 774 0.8× 372 0.8× 50 0.6× 33 1.0× 27 0.9× 24 808
J. De Ridder Belgium 20 1.0k 1.1× 573 1.2× 116 1.4× 32 0.9× 30 1.0× 50 1.1k
Jeffrey C. Smith United States 13 1.3k 1.4× 638 1.4× 125 1.6× 41 1.2× 20 0.6× 45 1.4k
Jeffrey L. Coughlin United States 15 602 0.6× 301 0.6× 54 0.7× 23 0.7× 27 0.9× 36 640
Haotong Zhang China 16 1.0k 1.1× 569 1.2× 88 1.1× 45 1.3× 8 0.3× 80 1.1k
R. D. Haywood United States 11 553 0.6× 203 0.4× 42 0.5× 46 1.4× 14 0.5× 27 604
Yonghui Hou China 18 1.0k 1.1× 512 1.1× 114 1.4× 28 0.8× 13 0.4× 68 1.1k
M. Gebran France 11 696 0.7× 357 0.8× 50 0.6× 19 0.6× 13 0.4× 31 727
J. D. Hartman United States 24 1.7k 1.8× 628 1.4× 83 1.0× 50 1.5× 7 0.2× 59 1.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sean McCauliff

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sean McCauliff

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Sean McCauliff. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Sean McCauliff. The network helps show where Sean McCauliff may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sean McCauliff

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

All Works

19 of 19 papers shown
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Smith, Jeffrey C., Martin C. Stumpe, Jon M. Jenkins, et al.. (2017). Kepler Data Processing Handbook: Presearch Data Conditioning. 8. 3 indexed citations
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Jenkins, Jon M., Peter Tenenbaum, Shawn Seader, et al.. (2017). Kepler Data Processing Handbook: Transiting Planet Search. 9. 6 indexed citations
3.
Clarke, Bruce, Douglas A. Caldwell, Elisa V. Quintana, et al.. (2017). Kepler Data Processing Handbook: Pixel Level Calibrations. 5. 1 indexed citations
4.
Jenkins, Jon M., Joseph D. Twicken, Sean McCauliff, et al.. (2016). The TESS science processing operations center. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 9913. 99133E–99133E. 380 indexed citations breakdown →
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McCauliff, Sean, Jon M. Jenkins, Christopher J. Burke, et al.. (2015). AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION OFKEPLERPLANETARY TRANSIT CANDIDATES. The Astrophysical Journal. 806(1). 6–6. 49 indexed citations
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Jenkins, Jon M., Sean McCauliff, J. Catanzarite, et al.. (2013). Likely Planet Candidates Identified by Machine Learning Applied to Four Years of Kepler Data. 223. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Jeffrey C., Martin C. Stumpe, J. Van Cleve, et al.. (2012). Removing the Noise and Systematics while Preserving the Signal - An Empirical Bayesian Approach to Kepler Light Curve Systematic Error Correction. AAS. 220.
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Jenkins, Jon M., Sean McCauliff, Christopher J. Burke, et al.. (2012). Auto-Vetting Transiting Planet Candidates Identified by the Kepler Pipeline. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 8(S293). 94–99. 3 indexed citations
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Schweitzer, J.S., et al.. (2012). STOCHASTIC BRIGHTNESS VARIATIONS IN THE CENTRAL STAR OF PLANETARY NEBULA NGC 6826. The Astrophysical Journal. 756(1). 9–9. 4 indexed citations
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Smith, Jeffrey C., Martin C. Stumpe, Jeffrey E. Van Cleve, et al.. (2012). KeplerPresearch Data Conditioning II - A Bayesian Approach to Systematic Error Correction. Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 124(919). 1000–1014. 349 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hekker, S., Sarbani Basu, Dennis Stello, et al.. (2011). Asteroseismic inferences on red giants in open clusters NGC 6791, NGC 6819, and NGC 6811 usingKepler. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 530. A100–A100. 35 indexed citations
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Jenkins, Jon M., Hema Chandrasekaran, Sean McCauliff, et al.. (2010). Transiting planet search in the Kepler pipeline. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7740. 77400D–77400D. 57 indexed citations
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Klaus, Todd C., Miles T. Cote, Sean McCauliff, et al.. (2010). The Kepler Science Operations Center pipeline framework extensions. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7740. 774018–774018. 5 indexed citations
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Wu, Hayley, Joseph D. Twicken, Peter Tenenbaum, et al.. (2010). Data validation in the Kepler Science Operations Center pipeline. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7740. 774019–774019. 21 indexed citations
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McCauliff, Sean, Miles T. Cote, Forrest R. Girouard, et al.. (2010). The Kepler DB: a database management system for arrays, sparse arrays, and binary data. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7740. 77400M–77400M. 10 indexed citations
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Quintana, Elisa V., Jon M. Jenkins, Bruce Clarke, et al.. (2010). Pixel-level calibration in the Kepler Science Operations Center pipeline. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7740. 77401X–77401X. 32 indexed citations
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Clarke, Bruce, Christopher S. Allen, Steve Bryson, et al.. (2010). A framework for propagation of uncertainties in the Kepler data analysis pipeline. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7740. 774020–774020. 6 indexed citations
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Klaus, Todd C., Sean McCauliff, Miles T. Cote, et al.. (2010). Kepler Science Operations Center pipeline framework. Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE. 7740. 774017–774017. 7 indexed citations
19.
Madhvanath, Sriganesh, et al.. (1999). Extracting patron data from check images. 519–522. 4 indexed citations

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