Thomas Barclay

16.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
122 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Thomas Barclay is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Barclay has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 84 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 35 papers in Instrumentation and 12 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Thomas Barclay's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (75 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (35 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (33 papers). Thomas Barclay is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (75 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (35 papers) and Astro and Planetary Science (33 papers). Thomas Barclay collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Thomas Barclay's co-authors include Elisa V. Quintana, Jon M. Jenkins, Martin Still, Joshua Pepper, Joseph D. Twicken, Jim Gray, Jeffrey C. Smith, Geert Barentsen, Susan E. Thompson and Zarka Cvetanovic and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Lancet and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Barclay

105 papers receiving 2.5k 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.

KeplerPresearch Data Conditioning II - A Bayesian Approach to Systematic Error Correction

2012 349 citations Jeffrey C. Smith, Jon M. Jenkins et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Barclay United States	25	2.3k	935	232	155	128	122	2.7k
R. J. Hanisch United States	19	1.0k 0.4×	354 0.4×	88 0.4×	136 0.9×	24 0.2×	105	1.7k
Katrin Heitmann United States	34	2.2k 1.0×	471 0.5×	331 1.4×	41 0.3×	49 0.4×	95	3.1k
Tamás Budavári United States	23	3.5k 1.6×	1.3k 1.4×	77 0.3×	103 0.7×	58 0.5×	92	3.9k
C. Morisset Mexico	25	2.1k 0.9×	528 0.6×	61 0.3×	46 0.3×	27 0.2×	132	2.4k
E. A. Valentijn Australia	24	1.7k 0.8×	796 0.9×	55 0.2×	85 0.5×	16 0.1×	105	1.9k
Shirley Ho United States	32	3.2k 1.4×	795 0.9×	46 0.2×	80 0.5×	50 0.4×	106	3.8k
Hugh Couchman Canada	8	3.1k 1.4×	1.5k 1.6×	47 0.2×	39 0.3×	30 0.2×	10	3.3k
G. Bruce Berriman United States	28	1.1k 0.5×	284 0.3×	2.4k 10.3×	98 0.6×	19 0.1×	92	3.9k
Greg L. Bryan United States	46	6.6k 2.9×	1.4k 1.5×	188 0.8×	295 1.9×	9 0.1×	173	7.2k
R. Szabó Hungary	26	1.4k 0.6×	543 0.6×	80 0.3×	118 0.8×	11 0.1×	131	1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Barclay

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Newton, Elisabeth, Allison Youngblood, Girish M. Duvvuri, et al.. (2025). Far-ultraviolet Flares and Variability of the Young M Dwarf AU Mic: A Nondetection of Planet C in Transit at Lyα. The Astronomical Journal. 169(6). 321–321. 1 indexed citations

Mandell, Avi M., et al.. (2024). The VSPEC Collection: A suite of utilities to model spectroscopic phase curves of 3D exoplanet atmospheres in the presence of stellar variability. Astronomy and Computing. 50. 100890–100890. 1 indexed citations

Barnes, Rory, Emily A. Gilbert, Elisa V. Quintana, et al.. (2024). Atmospheric Escape From Three Terrestrial Planets in the L 98-59 System. The Astrophysical Journal. 961(1). 115–115. 8 indexed citations

Cieplak, Agnieszka M., Jeremy D. Schnittman, John G. Baker, et al.. (2024). Short-period Heartbeat Binaries from TESS Full-frame Images. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 276(1). 17–17. 3 indexed citations

Paudel, Rishi R., Thomas Barclay, Allison Youngblood, et al.. (2024). A Multiwavelength Survey of Nearby M Dwarfs: Optical and Near-ultraviolet Flares and Activity with Contemporaneous TESS, Kepler/K2, Swift, and HST Observations. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(1). 24–24. 10 indexed citations

Kostov, Veselin B., Brian P. Powell, S. Rappaport, et al.. (2023). 101 eclipsing quadruple star candidates discovered in TESS full frame images. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 3995–4017. 6 indexed citations

Fausnaugh, Michael, Rahul Jayaraman, R. Vanderspek, et al.. (2023). Observations of GRB 230307A by TESS. Research Notes of the AAS. 7(3). 56–56. 6 indexed citations

Kostov, Veselin B., Brian P. Powell, S. Rappaport, et al.. (2022). Ninety-seven Eclipsing Quadruple Star Candidates Discovered in TESS Full-frame Images. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 259(2). 66–66. 20 indexed citations

Barclay, Thomas, Veselin B. Kostov, Knicole D. Colón, et al.. (2021). Stellar Surface Inhomogeneities as a Potential Source of the Atmospheric Signal Detected in the K2-18b Transmission Spectrum. The Astronomical Journal. 162(6). 300–300. 27 indexed citations

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Zasche, P., H. Lehmann, Joshua Pepper, et al.. (2020). CzeV1731: The unique doubly eclipsing quadruple system. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations

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Bouma, Luke G., Joshua N. Winn, G. Ricker, et al.. (2020). PTFO 8-8695: Two Stars, Two Signals, No Planet. The Astronomical Journal. 160(2). 86–86. 8 indexed citations

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Dragomir, Diana, Joshua Pepper, Thomas Barclay, et al.. (2020). Securing the Legacy of TESS through the Care and Maintenance of TESS Planet Ephemerides. The Astronomical Journal. 159(5). 219–219. 6 indexed citations

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Burke, Christopher J., Michael Fausnaugh, R. Vanderspek, et al.. (2020). TESS-Point: High precision TESS pointing tool. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 3 indexed citations

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Dotson, Jessie, Geert Barentsen, Christina Hedges, et al.. (2019). Lightkurve v1.0: Kepler, K2, and TESS time series analysis in Python. 233. 1 indexed citations

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Colón, Knicole D., Daniel Angerhausen, Thomas Barclay, et al.. (2019). Testing the Hypothesis of a Low Metallicity Atmosphere for the Extremely Inflated Sub-Saturn-Mass Planet KELT-11b. 15926. 2 indexed citations

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Cardoso, José Vinícius de Miranda, Christina Hedges, Michael Gully-Santiago, et al.. (2018). Lightkurve: Kepler and TESS time series analysis in Python. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 174 indexed citations

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Mullally, Fergal, Thomas Barclay, & Geert Barentsen. (2016). K2fov: Field of view software for NASA's K2 mission. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 5 indexed citations

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Barbary, K., Thomas Barclay, Rahul Biswas, et al.. (2016). SNCosmo: Python library for supernova cosmology. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 13 indexed citations

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Still, Martin & Thomas Barclay. (2012). PyKE: Reduction and analysis of Kepler Simple Aperture Photometry data. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 37 indexed citations

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Barclay, Thomas, Susan E. Thompson, Susan E. Mullally, et al.. (2012). Heartbeat Stars: A Class Of Tidally Excited Eccentric Binaries. 219. 1 indexed citations

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