Simon J. Murphy

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
121 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Simon J. Murphy is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon J. Murphy has authored 121 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 113 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 55 papers in Instrumentation and 16 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Simon J. Murphy's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (111 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (80 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (55 papers). Simon J. Murphy is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (111 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (80 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (55 papers). Simon J. Murphy collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Denmark and United Kingdom. Simon J. Murphy's co-authors include T. R. Bedding, D. W. Kurtz, Hiromoto Shibahashi, M. S. Bessell, Hideyuki Saio, P. Lawton, D. Sheppard, J. Odom, J. E. P. Connerney and J. R. Espley and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Simon J. Murphy

113 papers receiving 3.3k 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.

The MAVEN Magnetic Field Investigation

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Simon J. Murphy Australia	32	3.3k	1.3k	283	220	119	121	3.5k
W. J. Chaplin United Kingdom	40	4.6k 1.4×	1.7k 1.3×	171 0.6×	233 1.1×	107 0.9×	211	4.7k
Dennis Stello Australia	35	5.2k 1.6×	2.4k 1.8×	321 1.1×	95 0.4×	188 1.6×	127	5.4k
B. Mosser France	36	3.6k 1.1×	1.8k 1.4×	186 0.7×	97 0.4×	305 2.6×	143	3.8k
F. Baudin France	34	2.7k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	125 0.4×	110 0.5×	132 1.1×	107	2.7k
K. G. Strassmeier Germany	30	3.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.8×	224 0.8×	154 0.7×	38 0.3×	251	3.9k
P. Eggenberger Switzerland	38	6.1k 1.8×	2.4k 1.8×	165 0.6×	83 0.4×	117 1.0×	149	6.3k
Pablo Marchant Belgium	27	4.5k 1.4×	1.0k 0.8×	168 0.6×	65 0.3×	255 2.1×	61	4.7k
A. Miglio United Kingdom	36	3.4k 1.0×	1.9k 1.4×	178 0.6×	36 0.2×	117 1.0×	138	3.5k
Joseph D. Twicken United States	24	2.4k 0.7×	839 0.6×	154 0.5×	76 0.3×	43 0.4×	54	2.5k
D. B. Guenther Canada	29	2.7k 0.8×	916 0.7×	125 0.4×	44 0.2×	71 0.6×	126	2.8k

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Yu, Jie, Charlotte Gehan, S. Hekker, et al.. (2025). Enhanced magnetic activity in rapidly rotating binary stars. Nature Astronomy. 9(7). 1045–1052. 2 indexed citations

Torres, Guillermo, A. Tkachenko, K. Pavlovski, et al.. (2025). Orbital and Physical Properties of the Pleiades Binary 27 Tau (Atlas). The Astrophysical Journal. 990(2). 107–107.

Hon, Marc, et al.. (2024). A New Catalog of 100,000 Variable TESS A-F Stars Reveals a Correlation between δ Scuti Pulsator Fraction and Stellar Rotation. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(2). 137–137. 9 indexed citations

Bedding, T. R., Benjamin T. Montet, Daniel Hey, et al.. (2024). Identifying 850 δ Scuti pulsators in a narrow Gaia colour range with TESS 10-min full-frame images. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(2). 2464–2473. 8 indexed citations

Li, Gang, C. Aerts, T. R. Bedding, et al.. (2024). Asteroseismology of the young open cluster NGC 2516. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 686. A142–A142. 18 indexed citations

Li, Yaguang, T. R. Bedding, Daniel Huber, et al.. (2024). Realistic Uncertainties for Fundamental Properties of Asteroseismic Red Giants and the Interplay between Mixing Length, Metallicity, and ν max . The Astrophysical Journal. 974(1). 77–77. 7 indexed citations

Antoci, V., Hideyuki Saio, Matteo Cantiello, et al.. (2023). Rotational modulation in A and F stars: magnetic stellar spots or convective core rotation?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(1). 216–232. 10 indexed citations

Kraus, Adam L., et al.. (2022). SPYGLASS. III. The Fornax–Horologium Association and Its Traceback History within the Austral Complex. The Astrophysical Journal. 941(2). 143–143. 23 indexed citations

Kraus, Adam L., et al.. (2022). SPYGLASS. II. The Multigenerational and Multiorigin Star Formation History of Cepheus Far North. The Astrophysical Journal. 941(1). 49–49. 15 indexed citations

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Li, Yaguang, T. R. Bedding, Simon J. Murphy, et al.. (2022). Discovery of post-mass-transfer helium-burning red giants using asteroseismology. Nature Astronomy. 6(6). 673–680. 35 indexed citations

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Bowman, D. M., Jeroen Hermans, J. Daszyńska‐Daszkiewicz, et al.. (2021). KIC 5950759: a high-amplitude δ Sct star with amplitude and frequency modulation near the terminal age main sequence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504(3). 4039–4053. 21 indexed citations

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Li, Gang, et al.. (2021). TIC 308396022: δ Scuti–γ Doradus hybrid with large-amplitude radial fundamental mode and regular g-mode period spacing. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 655. A63–A63. 10 indexed citations

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Murphy, Simon J., Meridith Joyce, T. R. Bedding, T. R. White, & Mihkel Kama. (2021). A precise asteroseismic age and metallicity for HD 139614: a pre-main-sequence star with a protoplanetary disc in Upper Centaurus–Lupus. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(2). 1633–1646. 45 indexed citations

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Li, Yaguang, T. R. Bedding, Dennis Stello, et al.. (2020). Testing the intrinsic scatter of the asteroseismic scaling relations with Kepler red giants. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(3). 3162–3172. 20 indexed citations

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Murphy, Simon J., Hideyuki Saio, Masahide Takada‐Hidai, et al.. (2020). On the first δ Sct–roAp hybrid pulsator and the stability of p and g modes in chemically peculiar A/F stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(3). 4272–4286. 28 indexed citations

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Hey, Daniel, Simon J. Murphy, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, et al.. (2020). Maelstrom: A Python package for identifying companions to pulsating stars from their light travel time variations. The Journal of Open Source Software. 5(51). 2125–2125. 3 indexed citations

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Derekas, A., Simon J. Murphy, G. Dálya, et al.. (2019). Spectroscopic confirmation of the binary nature of the hybrid pulsator KIC 5709664 found with the frequency modulation method. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 486(2). 2129–2136. 2 indexed citations

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Hey, Daniel, Daniel L. Holdsworth, T. R. Bedding, et al.. (2019). Six new rapidly oscillating Ap stars in the Kepler long-cadence data using super-Nyquist asteroseismology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(1). 18–36. 12 indexed citations

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Murphy, Simon J., Maxwell Moe, D. W. Kurtz, et al.. (2018). VizieR Online Data Catalog: Orbital parameters of 341 new binaries (Murphy+, 2018). 1 indexed citations

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Deacon, N. R., Joshua E. Schlieder, & Simon J. Murphy. (2016). A nearby young M dwarf with a wide, possibly planetary-mass companion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 457(3). 3191–3199. 18 indexed citations

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