Sphesihle Makhathini

1.2k total citations
22 papers, 235 citations indexed

About

Sphesihle Makhathini is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Aerospace Engineering. According to data from OpenAlex, Sphesihle Makhathini has authored 22 papers receiving a total of 235 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 22 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 10 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 6 papers in Aerospace Engineering. Recurrent topics in Sphesihle Makhathini's work include Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (20 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (12 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (10 papers). Sphesihle Makhathini is often cited by papers focused on Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (20 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (12 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (10 papers). Sphesihle Makhathini collaborates with scholars based in South Africa, Italy and Germany. Sphesihle Makhathini's co-authors include O. Smirnov, Kshitij Thorat, A. J. T. Ramaila, G. I. G. Józsa, P. Serra, F. M. Maccagni, M. Ramatsoku, D. Kleiner, S. V. White and P. Kamphuis and has published in prestigious journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Galaxies.

In The Last Decade

Sphesihle Makhathini

18 papers receiving 215 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sphesihle Makhathini South Africa 8 217 130 24 22 9 22 235
Kshitij Thorat South Africa 9 311 1.4× 191 1.5× 36 1.5× 23 1.0× 7 0.8× 22 332
H. W. Edler Germany 8 173 0.8× 123 0.9× 35 1.5× 8 0.4× 5 0.6× 17 190
A. D. Kapińska Australia 11 239 1.1× 178 1.4× 24 1.0× 8 0.4× 5 0.6× 22 257
Saul A. Kohn United States 6 112 0.5× 59 0.5× 15 0.6× 41 1.9× 11 1.2× 8 118
Ayan Acharyya United States 9 244 1.1× 57 0.4× 68 2.8× 17 0.8× 8 0.9× 15 257
A. R. Offringa Netherlands 6 103 0.5× 65 0.5× 17 0.7× 29 1.3× 9 1.0× 9 113
A. Stewart Australia 11 288 1.3× 160 1.2× 23 1.0× 19 0.9× 11 1.2× 18 317
Yingkang Zhang China 11 236 1.1× 191 1.5× 14 0.6× 10 0.5× 13 1.4× 29 254
F. Levrier France 3 229 1.1× 146 1.1× 21 0.9× 17 0.8× 7 0.8× 3 241
R. Pizzo Netherlands 10 255 1.2× 172 1.3× 13 0.5× 32 1.5× 6 0.7× 19 264

Countries citing papers authored by Sphesihle Makhathini

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sphesihle Makhathini

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sphesihle Makhathini

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Ramatsoku, M., et al.. (2025). MeerKAT HI imaging of the jellyfish galaxy ESO 137-001. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 694. A159–A159.
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Smirnov, O., Sphesihle Makhathini, Jonathan S. Kenyon, et al.. (2025). Africanus IV. The Stimela2 framework: Scalable and repeatable workflows, from local to cloud compute. Astronomy and Computing. 52. 100959–100959. 2 indexed citations
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Ramaila, A. J. T., et al.. (2024). A spectropolarimetric study of the radio galaxy Pictor A using MeerKAT. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(2). 1626–1641.
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Прохоров, Д. А., ¶. Marchegiani, A. Chen, et al.. (2022). A study of the lobes of the radio galaxy Hydra A using MeerKAT observations. Proceedings Of Science. 17–17. 1 indexed citations
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White, S. V., Ian Heywood, Kshitij Thorat, et al.. (2022). MeerKAT follow-up of enigmatic GLEAM 4-Jy (G4Jy) sources. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(3). 4290–4309. 5 indexed citations
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Lal, D., B. L. Fanaroff, T. Venturi, et al.. (2021). Viewing Classical Radio Galaxies with the Upgraded GMRT and MeerKAT—A Progress Report. Galaxies. 9(4). 87–87. 2 indexed citations
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Asad, K. M. B., J. N. Girard, M. S. de Villiers, et al.. (2021). Primary beam effects of radio astronomy antennas – II. Modelling MeerKAT L-band beams. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 502(2). 2970–2983. 33 indexed citations
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Fanaroff, B. L., D. Lal, T. Venturi, et al.. (2021). A new look at old friends – I. Imaging classical radio galaxies with uGMRT and MeerKAT. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(4). 6003–6016. 13 indexed citations
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Maccagni, F. M., M. Murgia, P. Serra, et al.. (2020). The flickering nuclear activity of Fornax A. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 26 indexed citations
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Ramatsoku, M., M. Murgia, V. Vacca, et al.. (2020). Collimated synchrotron threads linking the radio lobes of ESO 137-006. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 44 indexed citations
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Józsa, G. I. G., S. V. White, Kshitij Thorat, et al.. (2020). CARACal: Containerized Automated Radio Astronomy Calibration pipeline. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 7 indexed citations
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Parekh, Viral, Kshitij Thorat, Ruta Kale, et al.. (2020). MeerKAT’s discovery of a radio relic in the bimodal merging cluster A2384. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499(1). 404–414. 8 indexed citations
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Atemkeng, Marcellin, O. Smirnov, C. Tasse, Griffin Foster, & Sphesihle Makhathini. (2020). Fast algorithms to approximate the position-dependent point spread function responses in radio interferometric wide-field imaging. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499(1). 292–303.
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Heywood, Ian, et al.. (2020). VLA imaging of the XMM-LSS/VIDEO deep field at 1–2 GHz. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 496(3). 3469–3481. 15 indexed citations
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Ramatsoku, M., P. Serra, Bianca M. Poggianti, et al.. (2019). GASP – XVII. H i imaging of the jellyfish galaxy JO206: gas stripping and enhanced star formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(4). 4580–4591. 44 indexed citations
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Girard, J. N., O. Smirnov, K. M. B. Asad, et al.. (2019). Primary beam effects of radio astronomy antennas – I. Modelling the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) L-band beam using holography. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(3). 4107–4121. 14 indexed citations
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Makhathini, Sphesihle. (2018). Advanced radio interferometric simulation and data reduction techniques. 3 indexed citations
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Miller, L., et al.. (2016). Radio weak lensing shear measurement in the visibility domain – I. Methodology. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 463(2). 1881–1890. 7 indexed citations
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Makhathini, Sphesihle, M. J. Jarvis, O. Smirnov, & Ian Heywood. (2015). Morphological classification of radio sources for galaxy evolution and cosmology with the SKA. 7 indexed citations

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