Ian Smail

53.5k citations
339 papers · 19.4k · 7 hit papers · h-index 74

Impact in

  • Instrumentation top 0.01%
    • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
    • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
    • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
    • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology

Papers in

    • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 318
    • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 131
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 110
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 73
    • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology 41
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 41
    • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 175

Ian Smail

332 papers receiving 18.9k citations

Ian Smail's Hit Papers

A survey of molecular gas in luminous sub-millimetre galaxies 2013 · 224 citations
2240+9+19Years since publication200400600

Peers

Ian Smail
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  • Instrumentation 9.2k
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 19.1k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 3.1k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 447
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 695
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Co-authors

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

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All Works

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1
Evolution sincez= 0.5 of the Morphology‐Density Relation for Clusters of Galaxies
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1997677
2
A Deep Submillimeter Survey of Lensing Clusters: A New Window on Galaxy Formation and Evolution
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1997606
3
The Star Formation Histories of Galaxies in Distant Clusters
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1999461
4
Submillimeter Galaxies atz∼ 2: Evidence for Major Mergers and Constraints on Lifetimes, IMF, and CO‐H2Conversion Factor
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2008384
5 1999335
6 2003313
7
An interferometric CO survey of luminous submillimetre galaxies
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2005280
8
High‐Resolution Millimeter Imaging of Submillimeter Galaxies
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2006273
9 1996269
10 2002245
11 1997241
12 2015239
13 1996231
14 2012231
15
A survey of molecular gas in luminous sub-millimetre galaxies
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2013224
16 2005224
17 2003221
18 1999218
19 1998207
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On the effect of the cosmic microwave background in high-redshift (sub-)millimeter observations
2013204

About Ian Smail

Ian Smail is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 339 papers that have together received 19.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (318 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (175 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (131 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (110 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (73 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (52 papers), Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (41 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (41 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (9.2k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (19.1k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (3.1k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (447 citations) and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics (695 citations). Ian Smail has collaborated with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Germany. Frequent co-authors include R. J. Ivison, A. W. Blain, Jean‐Paul Kneib, Richard S. Ellis, S. C. Chapman, W. J. Couch, A. M. Swinbank, R. M. Sharples, David Sobral and P. N. Best. Their work appears in journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters and The Astronomical Journal.

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