Travis A. Berger

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
19 papers, 899 citations indexed

About

Travis A. Berger is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computational Mechanics. According to data from OpenAlex, Travis A. Berger has authored 19 papers receiving a total of 899 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 18 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 10 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Computational Mechanics. Recurrent topics in Travis A. Berger's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (18 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (12 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (10 papers). Travis A. Berger is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (18 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (12 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (10 papers). Travis A. Berger collaborates with scholars based in United States, Australia and Denmark. Travis A. Berger's co-authors include Daniel Huber, Jennifer L. van Saders, Eric Gaidos, Jamie Tayar, Adam L. Kraus, Andrew Vanderburg, Li Zeng, Gongjie Li, A. S. Bonomo and M. I. Petaev and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Travis A. Berger

17 papers receiving 798 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.

Growth model interpretation of planet size distribution

2019 239 citations Li Zeng, S. B. Jacobsen et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The Gaia–Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog. I. Homogeneous Fundamental Properties for 186,301 Kepler Stars

2020 163 citations Travis A. Berger, Daniel Huber et al. The Astronomical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Travis A. Berger United States	8	853	214	57	49	33	19	899
Soko Matsumura United States	19	1.4k 1.6×	223 1.0×	64 1.1×	42 0.9×	26 0.8×	32	1.4k
Darin Ragozzine United States	17	1.2k 1.4×	251 1.2×	83 1.5×	43 0.9×	44 1.3×	39	1.2k
Elisabeth R. Adams United States	16	873 1.0×	215 1.0×	64 1.1×	31 0.6×	38 1.2×	33	894
Gabriel-Dominique Marleau Germany	18	759 0.9×	179 0.8×	58 1.0×	31 0.6×	19 0.6×	43	791
Eric Lopez United States	14	758 0.9×	180 0.8×	64 1.1×	28 0.6×	29 0.9×	25	789
Rebekah I. Dawson United States	15	1.1k 1.3×	270 1.3×	25 0.4×	29 0.6×	36 1.1×	31	1.1k
Fei Dai United States	19	792 0.9×	188 0.9×	41 0.7×	34 0.7×	25 0.8×	43	825
A. Moór Hungary	23	1.3k 1.6×	138 0.6×	38 0.7×	49 1.0×	45 1.4×	80	1.4k
Evan Sinukoff United States	14	1.3k 1.5×	371 1.7×	76 1.3×	88 1.8×	47 1.4×	22	1.4k
D. Gandolfi Italy	20	1.0k 1.2×	305 1.4×	39 0.7×	53 1.1×	22 0.7×	55	1.0k

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19 of 19 papers shown

Eylen, Vincent Van, Daisuke Kawata, Amalie Stokholm, et al.. (2025). A link between rocky planet composition and stellar age. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539(1). 405–421. 5 indexed citations

Angus, Ruth, Travis A. Berger, Yuxi Lu, et al.. (2025). Exoplanet Occurrence Rate with Age for FGK Stars in Kepler. The Astronomical Journal. 169(2). 112–112. 1 indexed citations

Huber, Daniel, D. Slumstrup, Marc Hon, et al.. (2024). Stellar Models are Reliable at Low Metallicity: An Asteroseismic Age for the Ancient Very Metal-poor Star KIC 8144907. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(1). 19–19. 7 indexed citations

Kraus, Adam L., et al.. (2024). Quantifying the Contamination from nearby Stellar Companions in Gaia DR3 Photometry. The Astronomical Journal. 169(1). 29–29. 2 indexed citations

Kraus, Adam L., Daniel Huber, Erik A. Petigura, et al.. (2023). Revising Properties of Planet–Host Binary Systems. III. There Is No Observed Radius Gap for Kepler Planets in Binary Star Systems* . The Astronomical Journal. 165(4). 177–177. 6 indexed citations

Behmard, Aida, Fei Dai, John M. Brewer, Travis A. Berger, & Andrew W. Howard. (2023). Planet engulfment detections are rare according to observations and stellar modelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(2). 2969–2987. 20 indexed citations

Vanderburg, Andrew, S. Rappaport, Daryll M. LaCourse, et al.. (2023). Planetesimals around stars with TESS (PAST) - I. Transient dimming of a binary solar analogue at the end of the planet accretion era. UNC Libraries.

Tayar, Jamie, Jennifer L. van Saders, Travis A. Berger, et al.. (2022). Rotation Distributions around the Kraft Break with TESS and Kepler: The Influences of Age, Metallicity, and Binarity. The Astrophysical Journal. 930(1). 7–7. 26 indexed citations

Thorngren, Daniel, Jonathan J. Fortney, Eric Lopez, Travis A. Berger, & Daniel Huber. (2021). Slow Cooling and Fast Reinflation for Hot Jupiters. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 909(1). L16–L16. 20 indexed citations

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Tayar, Jamie, et al.. (2021). The Dos and Don'ts of Stellar Rotation with TESS. Figshare. 244.

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Shabram, Megan, Natalie M. Batalha, Susan E. Thompson, et al.. (2020). Sensitivity Analyses of Exoplanet Occurrence Rates from Kepler and Gaia. The Astronomical Journal. 160(1). 16–16. 5 indexed citations

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Berger, Travis A., Daniel Huber, Jennifer L. van Saders, et al.. (2020). The Gaia–Kepler Stellar Properties Catalog. I. Homogeneous Fundamental Properties for 186,301 Kepler Stars. The Astronomical Journal. 159(6). 280–280. 163 indexed citations breakdown →

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Chontos, Ashley, Daniel Huber, David W. Latham, et al.. (2019). University of Birmingham Research Portal (University of Birmingham). 3 indexed citations

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Gaidos, Eric, Thomas L. Jacobs, Daryll M. LaCourse, et al.. (2019). Planetesimals around stars with TESS (PAST) – I. Transient dimming of a binary solar analogue at the end of the planet accretion era. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(4). 4465–4476. 15 indexed citations

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Zeng, Li, S. B. Jacobsen, Dimitar Sasselov, et al.. (2019). Growth model interpretation of planet size distribution. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 116(20). 9723–9728. 239 indexed citations breakdown →

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Berger, Travis A., Daniel Huber, Eric Gaidos, & Jennifer L. van Saders. (2018). Revised Radii of Kepler Stars and Planets Using Gaia Data Release 2. The Astrophysical Journal. 866(2). 99–99. 167 indexed citations

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Berger, Travis A., Daniel Huber, Eric Gaidos, & Jennifer L. van Saders. (2018). Precise Properties Of Kepler Stars And Planets In The Gaia Era. Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations

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Meech, K. J., R. Weryk, M. Micheli, et al.. (2017). A brief visit from a red and extremely elongated interstellar asteroid. Nature. 552(7685). 378–381. 216 indexed citations

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Huang, Juan-Chen & Travis A. Berger. (1987). Correction to "Delay Analysis of 0.487 Contention Resolution Algorithms". IEEE Transactions on Communications. 35(5). 566–566. 3 indexed citations

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