John Kormendy
Impact in
- Instrumentation top 0.05%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
- Astronomy and Astrophysics top 0.05%
- 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
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- 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
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- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research 67
- Co-authors
- D. O. Richstone (21 shared papers)R. Bender (28 shared papers)Tod R. Lauer (27 shared papers)Alan Dressler (19 shared papers)Scott Tremaine (20 shared papers)Karl Gebhardt (21 shared papers)Carl J. Grillmair (14 shared papers)Richard F. Green (11 shared papers)
- Journals
- The Astrophysical Journal (45 papers)The Astronomical Journal (15 papers)Nature (5 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (3 papers)Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific (3 papers)
- Partner nations
- United StatesGermanyCanada
In The Last Decade
John Kormendy
98 papers receiving 12.0k citations
John Kormendy's Hit Papers
Peers
Comparison fields: 5 of 73
- 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
Countries citing papers authored by John Kormendy
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Fields of papers citing papers by John Kormendy
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Co-authors
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.
All Works
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| # | Work | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centers Hit paper breakdown → | 1998 | 2375 |
| 2 | The Slope of the Black Hole Mass versus Velocity Dispersion Correlation Hit paper breakdown → | 2002 | 1594 |
| 3 | Inward Bound—The Search for Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei Hit paper breakdown → | 1995 | 1433 |
| 4 | THEM-σ ANDM-LRELATIONS IN GALACTIC BULGES, AND DETERMINATIONS OF THEIR INTRINSIC SCATTER Hit paper breakdown → | 2009 | 941 |
| 5 | 1995 | 380 | |
| 6 | Brightness distributions in compact and normal galaxies. II - Structure parameters of the spheroidal component Hit paper breakdown → | 1977 | 374 |
| 7 | 2009 | 243 | |
| 8 | 1985 | 242 | |
| 9 | 2011 | 226 | |
| 10 | 2005 | 221 | |
| 11 | 2010 | 219 | |
| 12 | 1994 | 206 | |
| 13 | 1996 | 180 | |
| 14 | 1989 | 169 | |
| 15 | 1979 | 164 | |
| 16 | 2000 | 156 | |
| 17 | 2009 | 156 | |
| 18 | 2011 | 156 | |
| 19 | 2005 | 155 | |
| 20 | 2007 | 151 |
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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