Tim Cunningham

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
26 papers, 758 citations indexed

About

Tim Cunningham is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tim Cunningham has authored 26 papers receiving a total of 758 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Tim Cunningham's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (19 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (11 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (9 papers). Tim Cunningham is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (19 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (11 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (9 papers). Tim Cunningham collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Tim Cunningham's co-authors include Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Mark Hollands, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, B. T. Gänsicke, Elena Cukanovaite, Silvia Toonen, R. Raddi, D. Koester, T. R. Marsh and S. Geier and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

In The Last Decade

Tim Cunningham

24 papers receiving 661 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.

AGaiaData Release 2 catalogue of white dwarfs and a comparison with SDSS

2018 249 citations N. P. Gentile Fusillo, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Tim Cunningham United Kingdom	14	723	322	28	26	26	26	758
Elena Cukanovaite United Kingdom	11	791 1.1×	358 1.1×	50 1.8×	42 1.6×	28 1.1×	15	839
Jeffrey D. Cummings United States	13	741 1.0×	338 1.0×	33 1.2×	35 1.3×	24 0.9×	21	771
G. Tautvaišienė Lithuania	15	640 0.9×	292 0.9×	28 1.0×	58 2.2×	13 0.5×	56	668
K. Brogaard Denmark	16	893 1.2×	550 1.7×	38 1.4×	39 1.5×	9 0.3×	31	921
Kevin C. Schlaufman United States	18	925 1.3×	386 1.2×	28 1.0×	46 1.8×	14 0.5×	43	956
Teruyuki Hirano Japan	16	836 1.2×	232 0.7×	20 0.7×	24 0.9×	13 0.5×	47	856
Vincent Van Eylen United Kingdom	13	573 0.8×	207 0.6×	19 0.7×	23 0.9×	21 0.8×	28	587
A. Ulla Spain	13	438 0.6×	206 0.6×	43 1.5×	11 0.4×	23 0.9×	39	482
P. Arriagada Chile	10	754 1.0×	282 0.9×	21 0.8×	34 1.3×	17 0.7×	13	769
J. E. S. Costa Brazil	9	672 0.9×	293 0.9×	30 1.1×	31 1.2×	31 1.2×	20	697

Countries citing papers authored by Tim Cunningham

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tim Cunningham

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tim Cunningham

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

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Bédard, Antoine, Boris Gaensicke, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, et al.. (2025). A hot white dwarf merger remnant revealed by an ultraviolet detection of carbon. Nature Astronomy. 9(9). 1347–1355. 1 indexed citations

Giordano, Nicholas A., Beth Ann Swan, Theodore M. Johnson, et al.. (2025). Effects of a Workplace Well-Being Program on Professional Quality of Life Among Health Care Personnel. The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. 51(9). 548–557. 1 indexed citations

Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel, et al.. (2025). Exogeological inferences from white dwarf pollutants: the impact of stellar physics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(2). 2098–2119.

Roberts, Ella, et al.. (2025). Comparison of methods used to derive the Galactic star formation history from white dwarf samples. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 538(4). 2548–2561. 1 indexed citations

Cimiotti, Jeannie P., et al.. (2025). The Impact of Financial Hardship on the Well-Being of Nurses. 43(2). 77–77.

Cunningham, Tim, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Evan B. Bauer, et al.. (2025). The dearth of high-mass hydrogen-atmosphere metal-polluted white dwarfs within 40 pc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539(3). 2021–2038. 3 indexed citations

Munday, James, Rüdiger Pakmor, Ingrid Pelisoli, et al.. (2025). A super-Chandrasekhar mass type Ia supernova progenitor at 49 pc set to detonate in 23 Gyr. Nature Astronomy. 9(6). 872–882. 4 indexed citations

Cunningham, Tim, Ilaria Caiazzo, Jim Fuller, et al.. (2024). Expansion Properties of the Young Supernova Type Iax Remnant Pa 30 Revealed. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 975(1). L7–L7. 2 indexed citations

Fusillo, N. P. Gentile, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, R. C. Bohlin, et al.. (2024). A network of cooler white dwarfs as infrared standards for flux calibration. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 534(3). 2758–2782. 3 indexed citations

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Munday, James, Ingrid Pelisoli, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, et al.. (2024). The DBL Survey I: discovery of 34 double-lined double white dwarf binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(2). 2534–2556. 13 indexed citations

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Rebassa–Mansergas, A., J. Maldonado, R. Raddi, et al.. (2023). Main-sequence companions to white dwarfs – II. The age–activity–rotation relation from a sample of Gaia common proper motion pairs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(3). 4787–4800. 9 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Tim, et al.. (2023). Initial-final mass relation from white dwarfs within 40 pc. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 3602–3611. 23 indexed citations

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Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel, B. Klein, D. Koester, et al.. (2023). The 40 pc sample of white dwarfs from Gaia. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 8687–8705. 46 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Tim, P. J. Wheatley, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, et al.. (2022). A white dwarf accreting planetary material determined from X-ray observations. Nature. 602(7896). 219–222. 37 indexed citations

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Tremblay, Pier-Emmanuel, B. T. Gänsicke, D. Koester, et al.. (2022). Spectral analysis of ultra-cool white dwarfs polluted by planetary debris. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(3). 4557–4574. 20 indexed citations

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Rebassa–Mansergas, A., J. Maldonado, R. Raddi, et al.. (2021). Constraining the solar neighbourhood age–metallicity relation from white dwarf–main sequence binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(3). 3165–3176. 35 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Tim, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, Evan B. Bauer, et al.. (2021). Horizontal spreading of planetary debris accreted by white dwarfs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(2). 1646–1667. 32 indexed citations

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Raddi, R., Santiago Torres, A. Rebassa–Mansergas, et al.. (2021). Kinematic properties of white dwarfs. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 658. A22–A22. 26 indexed citations

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Cunningham, Tim, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, N. P. Gentile Fusillo, Mark Hollands, & Elena Cukanovaite. (2020). From hydrogen to helium: the spectral evolution of white dwarfs as evidence for convective mixing. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492(3). 3540–3552. 35 indexed citations

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Fusillo, N. P. Gentile, Pier-Emmanuel Tremblay, B. T. Gänsicke, et al.. (2018). AGaiaData Release 2 catalogue of white dwarfs and a comparison with SDSS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 482(4). 4570–4591. 249 indexed citations breakdown →

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