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John Kormendy

Active 1977–2019

37
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27,434
Citations
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Citations

Citations per year for John Kormendy1987: 1 citations1989: 1 citations1990: 1 citations1993: 3 citations1994: 5 citations1995: 1 citations1996: 6 citations1997: 12 citations1998: 35 citations1999: 30 citations2000: 60 citations2001: 65 citations2002: 83 citations2003: 90 citations2004: 112 citations2005: 123 citations2006: 161 citations2007: 120 citations2008: 121 citations2009: 196 citations2010: 151 citations2011: 190 citations2012: 142 citations2013: 174 citations2014: 111 citations2015: 96 citations2016: 127 citations2017: 69 citations2018: 49 citations2019: 66 citations2020: 70 citations2021: 55 citations2022: 31 citations2023: 46 citations2024: 23 citations2025: 21 citations2026: 4 citations1988: no citations, so this year is not shown1991–1992: no citations, so these years are not shown

Citation sources

Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 846 citing papers, 24.4% of this breakdownGermany: 374 citing papers, 10.8% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 362 citing papers, 10.5% of this breakdownFrance: 236 citing papers, 6.8% of this breakdownItaly: 171 citing papers, 4.9% of this breakdownCanada: 149 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownNetherlands: 132 citing papers, 3.8% of this breakdownAustralia: 129 citing papers, 3.7% of this breakdownSpain: 112 citing papers, 3.2% of this breakdownJapan: 96 citing papers, 2.8% of this breakdownChina: 93 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownChile: 85 citing papers, 2.5% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Physics and Astronomy96.5%
  • Computer Science1.8%
  • Environmental Science0.4%
  • Engineering0.3%
  • Mathematics0.2%
  • Other0.8%

Topics

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena28.5%
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research15.4%
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations12.2%
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies5.9%
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae4.8%
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies4.7%
  • Other28.5%

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  1. Coevolution (Or Not) of Supermassive Black Holes and Host Galaxies

    Authors: John Kormendy, Luis C. Ho - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 2013 cited by 4,139

  2. Inward Bound—The Search for Supermassive Black Holes in Galactic Nuclei

    Authors: John Kormendy, D. O. Richstone - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 1995 cited by 2,562

  3. Secular Evolution and the Formation of Pseudobulges in Disk Galaxies

    Authors: John Kormendy, Robert C. Kennicutt - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 2004 cited by 1,715

  4. The Demography of Massive Dark Objects in Galaxy Centers

    Authors: John Magorrian, Scott Tremaine, D. O. Richstone, R. Bender, Gary Bower, Alan Dressler, S. M. Faber, Karl Gebhardt, Richard F. Green, Carl J. Grillmair, John Kormendy, Tod R. Lauer - The Astronomical Journal 1998 cited by 4,053

  5. THEM-σ ANDM-LRELATIONS IN GALACTIC BULGES, AND DETERMINATIONS OF THEIR INTRINSIC SCATTER

    Authors: Kayhan Gültekin, D. O. Richstone, Karl Gebhardt, Tod R. Lauer, Scott Tremaine, M. C. Aller, R. Bender, Alan Dressler, S. M. Faber, A. V. Filippenko, Richard F. Green, Luis C. Ho, John Kormendy, John Magorrian, Jason Pinkney, C. Siopis - The Astrophysical Journal 2009 cited by 1,539

  6. Brightness distributions in compact and normal galaxies. II - Structure parameters of the spheroidal component

    Authors: John Kormendy - The Astrophysical Journal 1977 cited by 645

  7. Brightness distributions in compact and normal galaxies. III - Decomposition of observed profiles into spheroid and disk components

    Authors: John Kormendy - The Astrophysical Journal 1977 cited by 224

  8. Observational constraints on driving mechanisms for spiral density waves

    Authors: John Kormendy, Colin Norman - The Astrophysical Journal 1979 cited by 216

  9. The Slope of the Black Hole Mass versus Velocity Dispersion Correlation

    Authors: Scott Tremaine, Karl Gebhardt, R. Bender, Gary Bower, Alan Dressler, S. M. Faber, A. V. Filippenko, Richard F. Green, Carl J. Grillmair, Luis C. Ho, John Kormendy, Tod R. Lauer, John Magorrian, Jason Pinkney, D. O. Richstone - The Astrophysical Journal 2002 cited by 2,633

  10. Axisymmetric Dynamical Models Of The Central Regions Of Galaxies

    Authors: Karl Gebhardt, Douglas Richstone, Scott Tremaine, Tod R. Lauer, Ralf Bender, Gary Bower, Alan Dressler, S. M. Faber, Alexei V. Filippenko, Richard Green, Carl Grillmair, Luis C. Ho, John Kormendy, John Magorrian, Jason Pinkney - The Astrophysical Journal 2002 cited by 399

  11. OUR MILKY WAY AS A PURE-DISK GALAXY—A CHALLENGE FOR GALAXY FORMATION

    Authors: Juntai Shen, R. Michael Rich, John Kormendy, Christian Howard, R. De Pietri, Andrea Kunder - The Astrophysical Journal Letters 2010 cited by 364

  12. A REVISED PARALLEL-SEQUENCE MORPHOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION OF GALAXIES: STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF S0 AND SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES

    Authors: John Kormendy, R. Bender - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2011 cited by 363

  13. A morphological survey of bar, lens, and ring components in galaxies Secular evolution in galaxy structure

    Authors: John Kormendy - The Astrophysical Journal 1979 cited by 282

  14. STRUCTURE AND FORMATION OF ELLIPTICAL AND SPHEROIDAL GALAXIES

    Authors: John Kormendy, David B. Fisher, Mark E. Cornell, Ralf Bender - The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series 2009 cited by 904

  15. The Centers of Early-Type Galaxies with HST. IV. Central Parameter Relations.

    Authors: S. M. Faber, Scott Tremaine, Edward A. Ajhar, Yong-ik Byun, Alan Dressler, Karl Gebhardt, Carl Grillmair, John Kormendy, Tod R. Lauer, Douglas Richstone - The Astronomical Journal 1997 cited by 770

  16. The Centers of Early-Type Galaxies with HST.I.An Observational Survey

    Authors: Tod R. Lauer, Edward A. Ajhar, Yong‐Ik Byun, Alan Dressler, S. M. Faber, Carl J. Grillmair, John Kormendy, D. Richstone, Scott Tremaine - The Astronomical Journal 1995 cited by 647

  17. Black Hole Mass Estimates from Reverberation Mapping and from Spatially Resolved Kinematics

    Authors: Karl Gebhardt, John Kormendy, Luis C. Ho, Ralf Bender, Gary Bower, Alan Dressler, S. M. Faber, Alexei V. Filippenko, Richard Green, Carl Grillmair, Tod R. Lauer, John Magorrian, Jason Pinkney, Douglas Richstone, Scott Tremaine - The Astrophysical Journal 2000 cited by 465

  18. Families of ellipsoidal stellar systems and the formation of dwarf elliptical galaxies

    Authors: John Kormendy - The Astrophysical Journal 1985 cited by 434

  19. The Masses of Nuclear Black Holes in Luminous Elliptical Galaxies and Implications for the Space Density of the Most Massive Black Holes

    Authors: Tod R. Lauer, S. M. Faber, Douglas Richstone, Karl Gebhardt, Scott Tremaine, Marc Postman, Alan Dressler, M. C. Aller, Alexei V. Filippenko, Richard Green, Luis C. Ho, John Kormendy, John Magorrian, Jason Pinkney - The Astrophysical Journal 2006 cited by 412

  20. The role of black holes in galaxy formation and evolution

    Authors: Andrea Cattaneo, S. M. Faber, James Binney, Avishai Dekel, John Kormendy, R. F. Mushotzky, Arif Babul, P. N. Best, M. Brüggen, A. C. Fabian, Carlos S. Frenk, A. Khalatyan, H. Netzer, Andisheh Mahdavi, Joseph Silk, Matthias Steinmetz, L. Wisotzki - Nature 2009 cited by 409

  21. The Centers of Early-Type Galaxies withHubble Space Telescope. V. New WFPC2 Photometry

    Authors: Tod R. Lauer, S. M. Faber, Karl Gebhardt, D. O. Richstone, Scott Tremaine, Edward A. Ajhar, M. C. Aller, R. Bender, Alan Dressler, A. V. Filippenko, Richard F. Green, Carl J. Grillmair, Luis C. Ho, John Kormendy, John Magorrian, Jason Pinkney, C. Siopis - The Astronomical Journal 2005 cited by 371

  22. A family of models for spherical stellar systems

    Authors: Scott Tremaine, D. O. Richstone, Yong-Ik Byun, Alan Dressler, S. M. Faber, Carl J. Grillmair, John Kormendy, Tod R. Lauer - The Astronomical Journal 1994 cited by 336

  23. A Proposed Revision of the Hubble Sequence for Elliptical Galaxies

    Authors: John Kormendy, R. Bender - The Astrophysical Journal 1996 cited by 326

  24. Surface Photometry and the Structure of Elliptical Galaxies

    Authors: John Kormendy, S. G. Djorgovski - Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics 1989 cited by 312