Frederick J. Vrba

7.4k citations

135 papers · 4.8k · 1 hit paper · h-index 32

Impact in

Instrumentation top 2%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astronomy and Astrophysics top 2%
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

Papers in

Astronomy and Astrophysics 114
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 77
- Astro and Planetary Science 45
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 43
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 34
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 15
Instrumentation 31
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 31

Co-authors: S. E. Strom (3 shared papers)Lynne A. Hillenbrand (4 shared papers)Jocelyn B. Keene (1 shared paper)C. B. Luginbuhl (25 shared papers)Robert D. Mathieu (4 shared papers)H. H. Guetter (18 shared papers)Keivan Guadalupe Stassun (7 shared papers)Arne A. Henden (22 shared papers)
Journals: The Astronomical Journal (39 papers)The Astrophysical Journal (37 papers)Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (6 papers)Astronomy and Astrophysics (3 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (2 papers)
Partner nations: United States Spain France

In The Last Decade

Frederick J. Vrba

128 papers receiving 4.5k citations

Frederick J. Vrba's Hit Papers

align trajectories log scale

Herbig Ae/Be stars - Intermediate-mass stars surrounded by massive circumstellar accretion disks 1992 · 449 citations

What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

1992 The Astrophysical Journal

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Frederick J. Vrba

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Frederick J. Vrba's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Frederick J. Vrba with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Frederick J. Vrba more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Frederick J. Vrba

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Frederick J. Vrba. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Frederick J. Vrba. The network helps show where Frederick J. Vrba may publish in the future.

Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Frederick J. Vrba, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

Border = papers with Frederick J. Vrba Line = papers co-authored together Frederick J. Vrba links everyone, so they are left out of the graph.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

20 of 20 papers shown

Showing the 20 most-cited of 135 papers — load more, or switch the sort, to bring in the rest.

#	Work
1	Herbig Ae/Be stars - Intermediate-mass stars surrounded by massive circumstellar accretion disks The Astrophysical Journal ·Lynne A. Hillenbrand, S. E. Strom, Frederick J. Vrba, Jocelyn B. Keene Hit paper breakdown →	1992	449
2	Astrometry and Photometry for Cool Dwarfs and Brown Dwarfs The Astronomical Journal ·C. C. Dahn, Hugh C. Harris, Frederick J. Vrba, H. H. Guetter, B. Canzian, Arne A. Henden, S. E. Levine, C. B. Luginbuhl	2002	378
3	CSI 2264: SIMULTANEOUS OPTICAL AND INFRARED LIGHT CURVES OF YOUNG DISK-BEARING STARS IN NGC 2264 WITH CoRoT and SPITZER —EVIDENCE FOR MULTIPLE ORIGINS OF VARIABILITY The Astronomical Journal ·Ann Marie Cody, John R. Stauffer, A. Baglin, Giuseppina Micela, Luisa Rebull, Ettore Flaccomio, María Morales-Calderón, Suzanne Aigrain	2014	290
4	Preliminary Parallaxes of 40 L and T Dwarfs from the US Naval Observatory Infrared Astrometry Program The Astronomical Journal ·Frederick J. Vrba, Arne A. Henden, C. B. Luginbuhl, H. H. Guetter, Jeffrey A. Munn, B. Canzian, Adam J. Burgasser, J. Davy Kirkpatrick	2004	260
5	U.S. Naval Observatory CCD parallaxes of faint stars. I - Program description and first results The Astronomical Journal ·David G. Monet, C. C. Dahn, Frederick J. Vrba, Hugh C. Harris, Jeffrey R. Pier, C. B. Luginbuhl, Harold D. Ables	1992	225
6	THE BROWN DWARF KINEMATICS PROJECT (BDKP). III. PARALLAXES FOR 70 ULTRACOOL DWARFS The Astrophysical Journal ·Jacqueline K. Faherty, Adam J. Burgasser, Frederick Walter, N. van der Bliek, Michael M. Shara, Kelle L. Cruz, Andrew A. West, Frederick J. Vrba	2012	171
7	X-ray sources in regions of star formation. III - Naked T Tauri stars associated with the Taurus-Auriga complex The Astronomical Journal ·Frederick Walter, A. N. Brown, Robert D. Mathieu, Philip C. Myers, Frederick J. Vrba	1988	163
8	The Rotation Period Distribution of Pre–Main-Sequence Stars in and around the Orion Nebula The Astronomical Journal ·Keivan Guadalupe Stassun, Robert D. Mathieu, Tsevi Mazeh, Frederick J. Vrba	1999	162
9	Rotation in the Pleiades with K2. I. Data and first results University of Southern Queensland ePrints (University of Southern Queensland) ·Jérôme Bouvier, Jeff A. Valenti, D. Barrado, Hervé Bouy, David Ciardi, Marc H. Pinsonneault, Keivan Guadalupe Stassun, Giuseppina Micela	2016	161
10	YSOVAR: THE FIRST SENSITIVE, WIDE-AREA, MID-INFRARED PHOTOMETRIC MONITORING OF THE ORION NEBULA CLUSTER The Astrophysical Journal ·María Morales-Calderón, John R. Stauffer, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Robert Gutermuth, Inseok Song, Luisa Rebull, Peter P. Plavchan, John M. Carpenter	2011	150
11	Periodic Bursts of Coherent Radio Emission from an Ultracool Dwarf The Astrophysical Journal ·Gregg Hallinan, S. Bourke, Caoilfhionn Lane, Antoaneta Antonova, Robert T. Zavala, W. Brisken, R. P. Boyle, Frederick J. Vrba	2007	141
12	X-ray sources in regions of star formation. 5: The low mass stars of the Upper Scorpius association The Astronomical Journal ·Frederick Walter, Frederick J. Vrba, R. D. Mathieu, Alex J. Brown, Philip C. Myers	1994	106
13	CSI 2264: CHARACTERIZING ACCRETION-BURST DOMINATED LIGHT CURVES FOR YOUNG STARS IN NGC 2264 The Astronomical Journal ·John R. Stauffer, Ann Marie Cody, A. Baglin, Silvia Alencar, Luisa Rebull, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Laura Venuti, Neal J. Turner	2014	105
14	Preliminary Trigonometric Parallaxes of 184 Late-T and Y Dwarfs and an Analysis of the Field Substellar Mass Function into the “Planetary” Mass Regime The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·J. Davy Kirkpatrick, Emily C. Martin, Richard L. Smart, Alfred J. Cayago, Charles Beichman, Federico Marocco, Christopher R. Gelino, Jacqueline K. Faherty	2019	98
15	CSI 2264: Probing the inner disks of AA Tauri-like systems in NGC 2264 Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Pauline McGinnis, Silvia Alencar, Marcelo Medeiros Guimarães, Alana Sousa, John R. Stauffer, Jérôme Bouvier, Luisa Rebull, Nancy Fonseca	2015	93
16	YOUNG STELLAR OBJECT VARIABILITY (YSOVAR): LONG TIMESCALE VARIATIONS IN THE MID-INFRARED The Astronomical Journal ·Luisa Rebull, Ann Marie Cody, Kevin R. Covey, Hans Moritz Günther, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Peter P. Plavchan, Katja Poppenhaeger, John R. Stauffer	2014	70
17	Dynamical Mass Constraints on Low‐Mass Pre–Main‐Sequence Stellar Evolutionary Tracks: An Eclipsing Binary in Orion with a 1.0 M ⊙ Primary and a 0.7 M ⊙ Secondary The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series ·Keivan Guadalupe Stassun, Robert D. Mathieu, Luiz Paulo R. Vaz, N. S. Stroud, Frederick J. Vrba	2004	68
18	The magnetic evolution of the Taurus molecular clouds. I - Large-scale properties The Astrophysical Journal ·Mark Heyer, Frederick J. Vrba, Ronald L. Snell, F. P. Schloerb, S. E. Strom, Paul Goldsmith, Karen M. Strom	1987	65
19	The Discovery of an Embedded Cluster of High-Mass Stars near SGR 1900+14 The Astrophysical Journal ·Frederick J. Vrba, Arne A. Henden, C. B. Luginbuhl, H. H. Guetter, Dieter Hartmann, Sylvio Klose	2000	65
20	Rotation in the Pleiades with K2. II. Multiperiod stars University of Southern Queensland ePrints (University of Southern Queensland) ·Luisa Rebull, John R. Stauffer, Jérôme Bouvier, Ann Marie Cody, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, David R. Soderblom, Jeff A. Valenti, D. Barrado	2016	60

About Frederick J. Vrba

Frederick J. Vrba is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Engineering and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, having authored 135 papers that have together received 4.8k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (77 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (45 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (43 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (34 papers), Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation (32 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (31 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (15 papers) and Calibration and Measurement Techniques (11 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (1.1k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (4.7k citations), Spectroscopy (402 citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (174 citations) and Computational Mechanics (257 citations). Frederick J. Vrba has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Spain and France. Frequent co-authors include S. E. Strom, Lynne A. Hillenbrand, Jocelyn B. Keene, C. B. Luginbuhl, Robert D. Mathieu, H. H. Guetter, Keivan Guadalupe Stassun, Arne A. Henden, Frederick Walter and Adam J. Burgasser. Their work appears in journals such as The Astronomical Journal, The Astrophysical Journal, Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific, Astronomy and Astrophysics and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Frederick J. Vrba

Impact in

Papers in i

In The Last Decade

Frederick J. Vrba

Frederick J. Vrba's Hit Papers

Peers

Countries citing papers authored by Frederick J. Vrba

Fields of papers citing papers by Frederick J. Vrba

All Works

About Frederick J. Vrba

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Papers in