K. Smith

16.0k citations

86 papers · 1.6k · 2 hit papers · h-index 17

Impact in

Astronomy and Astrophysics top 2%
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
- Astro and Planetary Science
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
- Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Instrumentation top 5%
- Astronomy and Astrophysical Research

Papers in

Astronomy and Astrophysics 37
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 28
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 15
- Astro and Planetary Science 11
- Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research 9
- Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 8
Artificial Intelligence 19
- Coding theory and cryptography 13

Co-authors: S. J. Smartt (26 shared papers)J. Tonry (14 shared papers)A. Rest (8 shared papers)L. Denneau (9 shared papers)B. Stalder (4 shared papers)A. Heinze (6 shared papers)H. Weiland (5 shared papers)C. W. Stubbs (1 shared paper)
Journals: Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (10 papers)Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A (4 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (3 papers)Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (3 papers)Social Forces (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

In The Last Decade

K. Smith

76 papers receiving 1.4k citations

K. Smith's Hit Papers

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A First Catalog of Variable Stars Measured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) 2018 · 205 citations

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if any of the following hold:

it has ≥500 total citations;
it reaches ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (the threshold is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it);
it reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

2018 The Astronomical Journal
2018 Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific

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1	ATLAS: A High-cadence All-sky Survey System Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific ·J. Tonry, L. Denneau, A. Heinze, B. Stalder, K. Smith, S. J. Smartt, C. W. Stubbs, H. Weiland, A. Rest Hit paper breakdown →	2018	564
2	A First Catalog of Variable Stars Measured by the Asteroid Terrestrial-impact Last Alert System (ATLAS) The Astronomical Journal ·A. Heinze, J. Tonry, L. Denneau, H. Flewelling, B. Stalder, A. Rest, K. Smith, S. J. Smartt, H. Weiland Hit paper breakdown →	2018	205
3	The fastest unbound star in our Galaxy ejected by a thermonuclear supernova Science ·S. Geier, Felix Fürst, E. Ziegerer, Thomas Kupfer, U. Heber, A. Irrgang, Bo Wang, Zheng-Wei Liu, Zhanwen Han, Branimir Sesar, D. Levitan, R. Kotak, E. A. Magnier, K. Smith, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, H. Flewelling, N. Kaiser, R. J. Wainscoat, C. Waters	2015	80
4	Females' Coping Styles and Control Over Poker Machine Gambling Journal of Gambling Studies ·Evelyn D. Scannell, Martina M. Quirk, K. Smith, Robyn Maddern, M. Dickerson	2000	58
5	Lasair: The Transient Alert Broker for LSST:UK Research Notes of the AAS ·K. Smith, R. Williams, D. R. Young, A. Ibsen, S. J. Smartt, A. Lawrence, D. Morris, S. Voutsinas, M. Nicholl	2019	52
6	The host galaxy and late-time evolution of the superluminous supernova PTF12dam Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·T. W. Chen, S. J. Smartt, Anders Jerkstrand, M. Nicholl, Fabio Bresolin, R. Kotak, J. Polshaw, A. Rest, Rolf‐Peter Kudritzki, Zheng Zheng, N. Elias–Rosa, K. Smith, C. Inserra, D. E. Wright, E. Kankare, T. Kangas, M. Fraser	2015	46
7	The changing reality of research education in Australia and implications for supervision: a review of the literature Teaching in Higher Education ·Kath Engebretson, K. Smith, Denis McLaughlin, Carmel Seibold, Gill Terrett, Elizabeth Ryan	2008	46
8	Machine learning for transient discovery in Pan-STARRS1 difference imaging Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·D. E. Wright, S. J. Smartt, K. Smith, Paul W. Miller, R. Kotak, A. Rest, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, H. Flewelling, K. W. Hodapp, M. E. Huber, Robert Jedicke, N. Kaiser, N. Metcalfe, P. A. Price, J. Tonry, R. J. Wainscoat, C. Waters	2015	38
9	Complexity in the light curves and spectra of slow-evolving superluminous supernovae Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·C. Inserra, M. Nicholl, T. W. Chen, Anders Jerkstrand, S. J. Smartt, T. Krühler, J. P. Anderson, C. Baltay, M. Della Valle, M. Fraser, A. Gal‐Yam, L. Galbany, E. Kankare, K. Maguire, D. Rabinowitz, K. Smith, S. Valenti, D. R. Young	2017	37
10	Reconstruction of sequences Discrete Mathematics ·Bennet Manvel, Aaron Meyerowitz, A. J. Schwenk, K. Smith, Paul K. Stockmeyer	1991	34
11	Constraints on the Progenitor of SN 2016gkg from Its Shock-cooling Light Curve The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·I. Arcavi, G. Hosseinzadeh, P. J. Brown, S. J. Smartt, S. Valenti, L. Tartaglia, Anthony L. Piro, José Luis Sánchez de la Rosa, B. Nicholls, Berto Monard, D. A. Howell, C. McCully, David J. Sand, J. Tonry, L. Denneau, B. Stalder, Ari Heinze, A. Rest, K. Smith, D. W. Bishop	2017	30
12	On Type IIn/Ia-CSM supernovae as exemplified by SN 2012ca Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·C. Inserra, M. Fraser, S. J. Smartt, S. Benetti, T. W. Chen, M. Childress, A. Gal‐Yam, D. A. Howell, T. Kangas, G. Pignata, J. Polshaw, M. Sullivan, K. Smith, S. Valenti, D. R. Young, S. Parker, Tom Seccull, M. McCrum	2016	26
13	Non-abelian hadamard difference sets Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A ·K. Smith	1995	25
14	Imaging of surface plasmon launch and propagation using a photon scanning tunneling microscope Ultramicroscopy ·P. Dawson, K. Smith, F. de Fornel, J. P. Goudonnet	1995	19
15	Forming Composite Scales and Estimating Their Validity Through Factor Analysis Social Forces ·K. Smith	1974	19
16	A supernova distance to the anchor galaxy NGC 4258 Astronomy and Astrophysics ·J. Polshaw, R. Kotak, K. C. Chambers, S. J. Smartt, S. Taubenberger, M. Kromer, Erwin Gáll, W. Hillebrandt, M. E. Huber, K. Smith, R. J. Wainscoat	2015	17
17	Magnetically modulated accretion in T Tauri stars Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·C. J. Clarke, Philip J. Armitage, K. Smith, J. E. Pringle	1995	16
18	An updated Type II supernova Hubble diagram Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Erwin Gáll, R. Kotak, B. Leibundgut, S. Taubenberger, W. Hillebrandt, M. Kromer, W. S. Burgett, K. C. Chambers, H. Flewelling, M. E. Huber, N. Kaiser, R. P. Kudritzki, E. A. Magnier, N. Metcalfe, K. Smith, J. Tonry, R. J. Wainscoat, C. Waters	2018	15
19	Temporal behaviour of nanofeatures on Au Ultramicroscopy ·H. P. Hagan, Paul A. Campbell, K. Smith, Robert Turner, D.G. Walmsley	1992	15
20	The Luminous Type Ia Supernova 2022ilv and Its Early Excess Emission The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Shubham Srivastav, S. J. Smartt, M. E. Huber, G. Dimitriadis, K. C. Chambers, M. Fulton, T. Moore, F. P. Callan, J. H. Gillanders, K. Maguire, M. Nicholl, Luke J. Shingles, Stuart Sim, K. Smith, J. P. Anderson, Thomas de Boer, T. W. Chen, Hua Gao, D. R. Young	2023	14

About K. Smith

K. Smith is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Artificial Intelligence, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation, having authored 86 papers that have together received 1.6k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (28 papers), graph theory and CDMA systems (16 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (15 papers), Coding theory and cryptography (13 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (11 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (9 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (8 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (8 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (1.1k citations), Instrumentation (220 citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (248 citations), Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics (40 citations) and Computational Mechanics (91 citations). K. Smith has collaborated with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Germany. Frequent co-authors include S. J. Smartt, J. Tonry, A. Rest, L. Denneau, B. Stalder, A. Heinze, H. Weiland, C. W. Stubbs, H. Flewelling and D. R. Young. Their work appears in journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A, The Astrophysical Journal Letters, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics and Social Forces.

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