Shany Danieli

1.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
45 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Shany Danieli is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shany Danieli has authored 45 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 44 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 22 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Shany Danieli's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (38 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (32 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (22 papers). Shany Danieli is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (38 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (32 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (22 papers). Shany Danieli collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Shany Danieli's co-authors include Pieter van Dokkum, Roberto Abraham, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Charlie Conroy, Allison Merritt, Jean P. Brodie, Deborah Lokhorst, Jielai Zhang, Johnny P. Greco and Jenny E. Greene and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Shany Danieli

39 papers receiving 839 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 galaxy lacking dark matter

2018 239 citations Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli et al. profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shany Danieli United States	18	974	526	170	63	28	45	1.0k
Lamiya Mowla United States	16	834 0.9×	487 0.9×	106 0.6×	49 0.8×	19 0.7×	33	878
Nathan Adams United Kingdom	15	762 0.8×	428 0.8×	114 0.7×	40 0.6×	29 1.0×	41	806
Christopher C. Lovell United Kingdom	20	940 1.0×	573 1.1×	116 0.7×	35 0.6×	16 0.6×	54	1.0k
N. C. Amorisco United Kingdom	18	1.1k 1.2×	589 1.1×	229 1.3×	51 0.8×	19 0.7×	29	1.2k
J. T. A. de Jong Netherlands	16	958 1.0×	452 0.9×	145 0.9×	48 0.8×	22 0.8×	28	1000
N. Bourne United Kingdom	21	1.0k 1.1×	432 0.8×	203 1.2×	41 0.7×	16 0.6×	31	1.1k
Л. Н. Макарова Russia	18	1.3k 1.3×	610 1.2×	88 0.5×	52 0.8×	28 1.0×	58	1.3k
Sirio Belli United States	17	1.2k 1.2×	727 1.4×	96 0.6×	42 0.7×	25 0.9×	30	1.2k
Javier Román Spain	15	824 0.8×	503 1.0×	74 0.4×	55 0.9×	41 1.5×	42	870
Johnny P. Greco United States	16	804 0.8×	402 0.8×	89 0.5×	60 1.0×	23 0.8×	30	843

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shany Danieli

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

All Works

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Liu, Qing, Roberto Abraham, P. G. Martin, et al.. (2025). Fuzzy Galaxies or Cirrus? Decomposition of Galactic Cirrus in Deep Wide-field Images. The Astrophysical Journal. 979(2). 175–175. 4 indexed citations

Li, Dayi, Gwendolyn M. Eadie, Patrick Brown, et al.. (2025). Discovery of Two Ultra-diffuse Galaxies with Unusually Bright Globular Cluster Luminosity Functions via a Mark-dependently Thinned Point Process (MATHPOP). The Astrophysical Journal. 984(2). 147–147. 3 indexed citations

Greene, Jenny E., Erin Kado-Fong, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2024). A Nonparametric Morphological Analysis of Hα Emission in Bright Dwarfs Using the Merian Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(2). 273–273.

Greene, Jenny E., et al.. (2023). ELVES. III. Environmental Quenching by Milky Way–mass Hosts. The Astrophysical Journal. 949(2). 94–94. 17 indexed citations

Danieli, Shany, Jenny E. Greene, Scott G. Carlsten, et al.. (2023). ELVES. IV. The Satellite Stellar-to-halo Mass Relation Beyond the Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal. 956(1). 6–6. 25 indexed citations

Greene, Jenny E., Johnny P. Greco, Song Huang, et al.. (2023). Beyond Ultra-diffuse Galaxies. I. Mass–Size Outliers among the Satellites of Milky Way Analogs. The Astrophysical Journal. 955(1). 1–1. 11 indexed citations

Greene, Jenny E., Johnny P. Greco, Rachael L. Beaton, et al.. (2023). Beyond Ultra-diffuse Galaxies. II. Environmental Quenching of Mass–Size Outliers among the Satellites of Milky Way Analogs. The Astrophysical Journal. 955(1). 2–2. 4 indexed citations

Danieli, Shany, Pieter van Dokkum, Sebastian Trujillo-Gomez, et al.. (2022). NGC 5846-UDG1: A Galaxy Formed Mostly by Star Formation in Massive, Extremely Dense Clumps of Gas. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 927(2). L28–L28. 48 indexed citations

Li, Dayi, Gwendolyn M. Eadie, Roberto Abraham, et al.. (2022). Light from the Darkness: Detecting Ultra-diffuse Galaxies in the Perseus Cluster through Over-densities of Globular Clusters with a Log-Gaussian Cox Process. The Astrophysical Journal. 935(1). 3–3. 5 indexed citations

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Liu, Qing, Roberto Abraham, Pieter van Dokkum, et al.. (2022). A Method to Characterize the Wide-angle Point-Spread Function of Astronomical Images. The Astrophysical Journal. 925(2). 219–219. 12 indexed citations

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Lokhorst, Deborah, Roberto Abraham, Imad Pasha, et al.. (2022). A Giant Shell of Ionized Gas Discovered near M82 with the Dragonfly Spectral Line Mapper Pathfinder. The Astrophysical Journal. 927(2). 136–136. 11 indexed citations

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Keim, Michael A., Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2022). Tidal Distortions in NGC1052-DF2 and NGC1052-DF4: Independent Evidence for a Lack of Dark Matter. The Astrophysical Journal. 935(2). 160–160. 24 indexed citations

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Huang, Song, Alexie Leauthaud, John Moustakas, et al.. (2022). Reaching for the Edge I: probing the outskirts of massive galaxies with HSC, DECaLS, SDSS, and Dragonfly. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 515(4). 5335–5357. 19 indexed citations

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Greene, Jenny E., Johnny P. Greco, Andy D. Goulding, et al.. (2022). The Nature of Low-surface-brightness Galaxies in the Hyper Suprime-Cam Survey. The Astrophysical Journal. 933(2). 150–150. 12 indexed citations

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Miller, Tim B., Pieter van Dokkum, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2021). The Dragonfly Wide Field Survey. II. Accurate Total Luminosities and Colors of Nearby Massive Galaxies and Implications for the Galaxy Stellar-mass Function. The Astrophysical Journal. 909(1). 74–74. 7 indexed citations

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Dokkum, Pieter van, Shany Danieli, Aaron J. Romanowsky, Roberto Abraham, & Charlie Conroy. (2019). The Distance to NGC 1042 in the Context of its Proposed Association with the Dark Matter-deficient Galaxies NGC 1052-DF2 and NGC 1052-DF4. Research Notes of the AAS. 3(2). 29–29. 6 indexed citations

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Dokkum, Pieter van, Ana Bonaca, Allison Merritt, et al.. (2019). Dragonfly Imaging of the Galaxy NGC 5907: A Different View of the Iconic Stellar Stream. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 883(2). L32–L32. 23 indexed citations

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Wasserman, Asher, Pieter van Dokkum, Aaron J. Romanowsky, et al.. (2019). Spatially Resolved Stellar Kinematics of the Ultra-diffuse Galaxy Dragonfly 44. II. Constraints on Fuzzy Dark Matter. The Astrophysical Journal. 885(2). 155–155. 35 indexed citations

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Dokkum, Pieter van, Yotam Cohen, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2018). An Enigmatic Population of Luminous Globular Clusters in a Galaxy Lacking Dark Matter. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 856(2). L30–L30. 65 indexed citations

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Dokkum, Pieter van, Yotam Cohen, Shany Danieli, et al.. (2018). A Revised Velocity for the Globular Cluster GC-98 in the Ultra Diffuse Galaxy NGC 1052-DF2. Research Notes of the AAS. 2(2). 54–54. 20 indexed citations

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