John Kormendy

21.9k citations
102 papers · 12.4k · 5 hit papers · h-index 42

Impact in

  • Instrumentation top 0.05%
    • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
    • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
    • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
    • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research

Papers in

    • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 71
    • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 51
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 27
    • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies 9
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 6
    • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories 5
    • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 67

John Kormendy

98 papers receiving 12.0k citations

John Kormendy's Hit Papers

THEM-σ ANDM-LRELATIONS IN GALACTIC BULGES, AND DETERMINATIONS OF THEIR INTRINSIC SCATTER 2009 · 941 citations
9410+16+32Years since publication50010001.5k2.0k

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John Kormendy
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  • Instrumentation 4.8k
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 12.2k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 2.0k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 315
  • Global and Planetary Change 510
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The 25 scholars most cited alongside John Kormendy, 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
The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centers
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19982375
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The Slope of the Black Hole Mass versus Velocity Dispersion Correlation
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20021594
3
Inward Bound—The Search for Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei
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19951433
4
THEM-σ ANDM-LRELATIONS IN GALACTIC BULGES, AND DETERMINATIONS OF THEIR INTRINSIC SCATTER
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2009941
5 1995380
6
Brightness distributions in compact and normal galaxies. II - Structure parameters of the spheroidal component
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1977374
7 2009243
8 1985242
9 2011226
10 2005221
11 2010219
12 1994206
13 1996180
14 1989169
15 1979164
16 2000156
17 2009156
18 2011156
19 2005155
20 2007151

About John Kormendy

John Kormendy is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Global and Planetary Change, having authored 102 papers that have together received 12.4k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (71 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (67 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (51 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (27 papers), Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing (12 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (9 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (6 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Instrumentation (4.8k citations), Astronomy and Astrophysics (12.2k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (2.0k citations), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (315 citations) and Global and Planetary Change (510 citations). John Kormendy has collaborated with scholars based in United States, Germany and Canada. Frequent co-authors include D. O. Richstone, R. Bender, Tod R. Lauer, Alan Dressler, Scott Tremaine, Karl Gebhardt, Carl J. Grillmair, Richard F. Green, S. M. Faber and John Magorrian. Their work appears in journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, The Astronomical Journal, Nature, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific.

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