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Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca

Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
75
Citations
25737
World Ranking
3378
National Ranking
299

Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 277 publications — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Overview

Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca is affiliated with the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom. Their primary field of study is Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition among other subfields.

The researcher has contributed extensively to the study of galaxies, their formation, evolution, and related phenomena. Their work also spans broader areas of astronomy and astrophysical research, stellar and planetary studies, astrophysics and star formation studies, as well as advanced vision and imaging techniques. Additional topics covered in their research include gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, and the impact of light on environment and health.

Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca has published research in various scientific venues, with a significant number of publications appearing in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. Other frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters, The Astrophysical Journal, and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Frequent collaborators include M. R. Merrifield, Ulrike Kuchner, Richard R. Lane, Niv Drory, and Meghan E. Gray, indicating active cooperation with other researchers in related fields.

  • M. R. Merrifield
  • Ulrike Kuchner
  • Richard R. Lane
  • Niv Drory
  • Meghan E. Gray

Among recent significant publications are:

  • The Seventeenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: Complete Release of MaNGA, MaStar, and APOGEE-2 Data (2022), published in the Repository of the Academy's Library (Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
  • The wide-field, multiplexed, spectroscopic facility WEAVE: Survey design, overview, and simulated implementation (2023), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Optimizing automatic morphological classification of galaxies with machine learning and deep learning using Dark Energy Survey imaging (2020), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Identifying strong lenses with unsupervised machine learning using convolutional autoencoder (2020), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Mapping and characterization of cosmic filaments in galaxy cluster outskirts: strategies and forecasts for observations from simulations (2020), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Best Publications

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

    Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

    Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti

  • A recipe for galaxy formation

    Shaun Cole;Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca;Carlos S. Frenk;Julio F. Navarro

  • Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Kevin Bundy;Matthew A. Bershady;David R. Law;Renbin Yan

  • The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida

  • The Current Star Formation Rate of the Local Universe

    J. Gallego;J. Zamorano;A. Aragon-Salamanca;M. Rego

  • The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

    D. S. Aguado;Romina Ahumada;Andres Almeida;Scott F. Anderson

  • The evolution of the star formation activity in galaxies and its dependence on environment

    B. M. Poggianti;A. von der Linden;G. De Lucia;V. Desai

  • The 13th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

    Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida;Friedrich Anders

  • The environmental history of group and cluster galaxies in a LambdaCDM Universe

    Gabriella De Lucia;Simone Weinmann;Bianca Poggianti;Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca

  • The evolution of the star formation activity in galaxies and its dependence on environment

    Bianca M. Poggianti;Anja von der Linden;Gabriella De Lucia;Vandana Desai

  • Evidence for systematic evolution in the properties of galaxies in distant clusters

    Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca;Richard S. Ellis;Warrick J. Couch;David Carter

  • The environmental history of group and cluster galaxies in a Λ cold dark matter universe

    Gabriella De Lucia;Simone Weinmann;Bianca M. Poggianti;Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca

  • Wide field spectroscopy and the distant universe

    S. J. Maddox;A. Aragon-Salamanca

  • The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent quenching of star-formation in cluster infall

    Christian Wolf;Alfonso Aragon-Salamanca;Michael Balogh;Marco Barden

  • The fifteenth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First release of MaNGA-derived quantities, data visualization tools, and stellar library

    D. S. Aguado;Romina Ahumada;Andrés Almeida;Scott F. Anderson

  • The build-up of the colour-magnitude relation in galaxy clusters since z ~ 0.8

    Gabriella De Lucia;Bianca M. Poggianti;Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca;Simon D. M. White

  • The STAGES view of red spirals and dusty red galaxies: Mass-dependent quenching of star formation in cluster infall

    Christian Wolf;Alfonso Aragón-Salamanca;Michael Balogh;Marco Barden

Frequent Co-Authors

Pascale Jablonka
Pascale Jablonka École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne
Dennis Zaritsky
Dennis Zaritsky University of Arizona
Bo Milvang-Jensen
Bo Milvang-Jensen University of Copenhagen
Steven P. Bamford
Steven P. Bamford University of Nottingham
Roberto P. Saglia
Roberto P. Saglia Max Planck Society
Bianca M. Poggianti
Bianca M. Poggianti National Institute for Astrophysics
Karen L. Masters
Karen L. Masters Haverford College
Dmitry Bizyaev
Dmitry Bizyaev New Mexico State University
Christian Wolf
Christian Wolf Australian National University
Niv Drory
Niv Drory The University of Texas at Austin

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