W. N. Brandt

58.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
406 papers, 16.8k citations indexed

About

W. N. Brandt is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, W. N. Brandt has authored 406 papers receiving a total of 16.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 395 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 150 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 52 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in W. N. Brandt's work include Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (334 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (310 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (147 papers). W. N. Brandt is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (334 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (310 papers) and Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (147 papers). W. N. Brandt collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. W. N. Brandt's co-authors include D. M. Alexander, Donald P. Schneider, F. E. Bauer, G. P. Garmire, A. C. Fabian, C. Vignali, A. E. Hornschemeier, G. Chartas, Bret Lehmer and Bin Luo and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

W. N. Brandt

384 papers receiving 16.0k 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.

The reversal of the star formation-density relation in the distant universe

2007 835 citations D. M. Alexander, W. N. Brandt et al. Astronomy and Astrophysics profile →
The Chandra Deep Field North Survey. XIII. 2 Ms Point-Source Catalogs

2003 447 citations D. M. Alexander, F. E. Bauer et al. profile →
Broad line emission from iron K- and L-shell transitions in the active galaxy 1H 0707-495

2009 375 citations Abderahmen Zoghbi, W. N. Brandt et al. profile →
Fitting AGN/Galaxy X-Ray-to-radio SEDs with CIGALE and Improvement of the Code

2022 109 citations Guang Yang, W. N. Brandt et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
W. N. Brandt United States	68	16.5k	5.6k	3.1k	573	355	406	16.8k
R. F. Mushotzky United States	65	14.5k 0.9×	5.9k 1.0×	1.6k 0.5×	554 1.0×	366 1.0×	396	14.9k
W. Forman United States	60	15.4k 0.9×	5.3k 0.9×	3.4k 1.1×	445 0.8×	126 0.4×	365	15.9k
C. Jones United States	57	14.2k 0.9×	5.3k 0.9×	3.3k 1.0×	497 0.9×	127 0.4×	324	14.8k
K. Nandra United States	52	10.0k 0.6×	3.7k 0.7×	1.3k 0.4×	517 0.9×	512 1.4×	239	10.4k
M. Elvis United States	57	11.8k 0.7×	4.7k 0.8×	1.4k 0.4×	417 0.7×	203 0.6×	351	12.1k
R. Genzel Germany	81	19.9k 1.2×	3.5k 0.6×	4.3k 1.4×	1.3k 2.3×	553 1.6×	429	20.5k
Mitchell C. Begelman United States	67	15.7k 1.0×	7.5k 1.3×	890 0.3×	580 1.0×	566 1.6×	238	16.4k
Julian H. Krolik United States	56	10.0k 0.6×	3.4k 0.6×	857 0.3×	404 0.7×	457 1.3×	197	10.4k
Luis C. Ho United States	69	19.7k 1.2×	4.5k 0.8×	5.8k 1.8×	882 1.5×	141 0.4×	455	20.1k
J. Michael Shull United States	55	12.3k 0.7×	3.1k 0.6×	1.9k 0.6×	1.0k 1.8×	97 0.3×	224	13.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of W. N. Brandt

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20 of 20 papers shown

Aird, James, W. N. Brandt, Paola Rodríguez Hidalgo, et al.. (2025). X-ray selected broad absorption line quasars in SDSS-V: BALs and non-BALs span the same range of X-ray properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(3). 2105–2127. 1 indexed citations

Zou, Fan, W. N. Brandt, Chien‐Ting Chen, et al.. (2024). Investigating the Star Formation Rates of Active Galactic Nucleus Hosts Relative to the Star-forming Main Sequence. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(2). 156–156. 9 indexed citations

Shemmer, Ohad, M. S. Brotherton, Adam D. Myers, et al.. (2023). Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph–Distant Quasar Survey: Augmented Spectroscopic Catalog and a Prescription for Correcting UV-based Quasar Redshifts. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(2). 95–95. 5 indexed citations

Shemmer, Ohad, M. S. Brotherton, Adam D. Myers, et al.. (2023). Gemini Near Infrared Spectrograph–Distant Quasar Survey: Prescriptions for Calibrating UV-based Estimates of Supermassive Black Hole Masses in High-redshift Quasars. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(2). 96–96. 4 indexed citations

Nyland, Kristina, Mark Lacy, W. N. Brandt, et al.. (2023). Multi-band Tractor Forced Photometry and Redshifts in the CDFS and XMM-LSS Fields. Research Notes of the AAS. 7(2). 33–33. 5 indexed citations

Zou, Fan, W. N. Brandt, Chien‐Ting Chen, et al.. (2022). Spectral Energy Distributions in Three Deep-drilling Fields of the Vera C. Rubin Observatory Legacy Survey of Space and Time: Source Classification and Galaxy Properties. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 262(1). 15–15. 26 indexed citations

Vito, Fabio, M. Mignoli, R. Gilli, et al.. (2022). An X-ray fading, UV brightening QSO at z ≈ 6. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 663. A159–A159. 7 indexed citations

Shemmer, Ohad, W. N. Brandt, M. Paolillo, et al.. (2021). Exploratory X-Ray Monitoring of Luminous Radio-quiet Quasars at High Redshift: Extended Time-series Analyses and Stacked Imaging Spectroscopy. The Astrophysical Journal. 923(1). 111–111. 2 indexed citations

Cunha, Elisabete da, Jacqueline Hodge, Caitlin M. Casey, et al.. (2021). Measurements of the Dust Properties in z ≃ 1–3 Submillimeter Galaxies with ALMA. The Astrophysical Journal. 919(1). 30–30. 24 indexed citations

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Kammoun, Elias, J. M. Mïller, Michael Koss, et al.. (2020). A Hard Look at Local, Optically Selected, Obscured Seyfert Galaxies*. The Astrophysical Journal. 901(2). 161–161. 15 indexed citations

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Brandt, W. N., Patrick B. Hall, Bin Luo, et al.. (2017). X-Ray Insights into the Nature of Quasars with Redshifted Broad Absorption Lines. The Astrophysical Journal. 839(2). 101–101. 4 indexed citations

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Heinz, Sebastian, Lía Corrales, Randall K. Smith, et al.. (2016). A JOINT CHANDRA AND SWIFT VIEW OF THE 2015 X-RAY DUST-SCATTERING ECHO OF V404 CYGNI. The Astrophysical Journal. 825(1). 15–15. 25 indexed citations

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Xue, Yongquan, Bin Luo, W. N. Brandt, et al.. (2016). THE 2 Ms CHANDRA DEEP FIELD-NORTH SURVEY AND THE 250 Ks EXTENDED CHANDRA DEEP FIELD-SOUTH SURVEY: IMPROVED POINT-SOURCE CATALOGS. The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series. 224(2). 15–15. 88 indexed citations

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Luo, Bin, W. N. Brandt, & F. E. Bauer. (2014). A New Highly Variable X-ray Source at z ~ 1.5 in the Chandra Deep Field-South Survey. The astronomer's telegram. 6625. 1.

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Iwasawa, K., C. Vignali, A. Comastri, et al.. (2014). The XMM deep survey in the CDF-S VIII. X-ray properties of the two brightest sources. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations

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Iwasawa, K., R. Gilli, C. Vignali, et al.. (2013). The XMM deep survey in the CDF-S II. A 9–20 keV selection of heavily obscured active galaxies at z > 1.7. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 30 indexed citations

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Basu‐Zych, Antara, Bret Lehmer, A. E. Hornschemeier, et al.. (2013). The X-Ray Star Formation Story as Told by Lyman Break Galaxies in the 4 Ms CDF-S. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 52 indexed citations

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Fontanot, Fabio, S. Cristiani, Pierluigi Monaco, et al.. (2006). The luminosity function of high-redshift quasi-stellar objects. A combined analysis of GOODS and SDSS. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 64 indexed citations

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Gliozzi, M., R. M. Sambruna, & W. N. Brandt. (2003). On the origin of the X-rays and the nature of accretion in NGC 4261. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 31 indexed citations

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Ericson, Lars, et al.. (1973). Full-scale containment experiments performed in the Marviken power plant. 113. 395–408. 2 indexed citations

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