K. Smith

16.0k citations

83 papers · 1.6k · 2 hit papers · h-index 16

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 36
- Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 28
- Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies 14
- 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)Social Forces (3 papers)Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics (3 papers)The Astrophysical Journal Letters (3 papers)
Partner nations: United States United Kingdom Germany

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K. Smith

73 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	561
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	79
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	55
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	51
6	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	44
7	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	43
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	35
10	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
11	Reconstruction of sequences Discrete Mathematics ·Bennet Manvel, Aaron Meyerowitz, A. J. Schwenk, K. Smith, Paul K. Stockmeyer	1991	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	24
13	Non-abelian hadamard difference sets Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series A ·K. Smith	1995	22
14	Forming Composite Scales and Estimating Their Validity Through Factor Analysis Social Forces ·K. Smith	1974	18
15	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	17
16	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	15
17	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	14
18	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
19	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	14
20	Temporal behaviour of nanofeatures on Au Ultramicroscopy ·H. P. Hagan, Paul A. Campbell, K. Smith, Robert Turner, D.G. Walmsley	1992	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 Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics, having authored 83 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 (14 papers), Coding theory and cryptography (13 papers), Astro and Planetary Science (11 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (9 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (8 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (7 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (1.1k citations), Instrumentation (218 citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (243 citations), Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics (35 citations) and Computational Mechanics (90 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, Social Forces, Journal of Algebraic Combinatorics and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

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