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Alison L. Coil 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 Alison L. Coil sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 401 publications — 38th percentile

38% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Alison L. Coil 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 Alison L. Coil sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 113 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award
  • 2011 - Hellman Fellow
  • 2010 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 2009 - Hellman Fellow

Overview

Alison L. Coil is affiliated with the University of California, San Diego in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the fields of physics and astronomy, with a main focus on astronomy and astrophysics. Additional subfields include instrumentation, nuclear and high energy physics, biomedical engineering, and general health professions.

The scientist's research topics cover various aspects of galaxy formation, evolution, and phenomena. Their work also includes astronomy and astrophysical research, astrophysics and star formation studies, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, astrophysical phenomena and observations, and cosmic phenomena related to astrophysics.

Alison L. Coil has contributed extensively to the academic literature, with notable publications in several prestigious venues. Frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and the UA Campus Repository (The University of Arizona).

Recent papers authored or coauthored by Coil include:

  • The MOSDEF-LRIS Survey: The Interplay Between Massive Stars and Ionized Gas in High-Redshift Star-Forming Galaxies, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The MOSDEF Survey: The First Direct Measurements of the Nebular Dust Attenuation Curve at High Redshift, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal
  • The Effects of Stellar Population and Gas Covering Fraction on the Emergent Lyα Emission of High-redshift Galaxies, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • The MOSDEF-LRIS Survey: The connection between massive stars and ionized gas in individual galaxies at z ∼ 2, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The MOSDEF survey: a comprehensive analysis of the rest-optical emission-line properties of z ∼ 2.3 star-forming galaxies, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Alison L. Coil has collaborated frequently with other researchers in their field. Prominent coauthors include Naveen A. Reddy, Bahram Mobasher, Alice E. Shapley, Mariska Kriek, and Brian Siana. These collaborations contribute to the interdisciplinary and multifaceted nature of their research.

The scientist has been recognized through several awards, including the Hellman Fellowship awarded twice, in 2009 and 2011, and designation as a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2010.

Best Publications

  • Cosmological Results from High-z Supernovae* **

    John L. Tonry;Brian P. Schmidt;Brian Barris;Pablo Candia

  • Star Formation in AEGIS Field Galaxies since z = 1.1: The Dominance of Gradually Declining Star Formation, and the Main Sequence of Star-forming Galaxies

    K. G. Noeske;B. J. Weiner;S. M. Faber;Casey J. Papovich

  • Galaxy Luminosity Functions to z~1: DEEP2 vs. COMBO-17 and Implications for Red Galaxy Formation

    S. M. Faber;C. N. A. Willmer;C. Wolf;D. C. Koo

  • Galaxy luminosity functions to z∼ 1 from DEEP2 and COMBO-17: Implications for red galaxy formation

    S. M. Faber;C. N. A. Willmer;C. Wolf;D. C. Koo

  • The DEIMOS spectrograph for the Keck II Telescope: integration and testing

    Sandra M. Faber;Andrew C. Phillips;Robert I. Kibrick;Barry Alcott

  • The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Design, Observations, Data Reduction, and Redshifts

    Jeffrey A. Newman;Michael C. Cooper;Marc Davis;S. M. Faber

  • The mass assembly history of field galaxies: detection of an evolving mass limit for star forming galaxies

    Kevin Bundy;Richard S. Ellis;Christopher J. Conselice;James E. Taylor

  • Galaxy evolution from halo occupation distribution modeling of deep2 and sdss galaxy clustering

    Zheng Zheng;Alison L. Coil;Idit Zehavi

  • UBIQUITOUS OUTFLOWS IN DEEP2 SPECTRA OF STAR-FORMING GALAXIES AT z = 1.4

    Benjamin J. Weiner;Alison L. Coil;Alison L. Coil;Jason X. Prochaska;Jeffrey A. Newman

  • The All-Wavelength Extended Groth Strip International Survey(AEGIS) Data Sets

    M. Davis;P. Guhathakurta;N. P. Konidaris;J. A. Newman

  • PRIMUS: Constraints on Star Formation Quenching and Galaxy Merging, and the Evolution of the Stellar Mass Function from z = 0-1

    John Moustakas;Alison L. Coil;Alison L. Coil;James Aird;Michael R. Blanton

  • The MOSFIRE Deep Evolution Field (MOSDEF) Survey: Rest-frame Optical Spectroscopy for ~1500 H-selected Galaxies at 1.37 ? z ? 3.8

    Mariska Kriek;Alice E. Shapley;Naveen A. Reddy;Brian Siana

  • The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: The Galaxy Luminosity Function to z ~ 1

    C. N. A. Willmer;S. M. Faber;D. C. Koo;B. J. Weiner

  • Star Formation in AEGIS Field Galaxies since z = 1.1: Staged Galaxy Formation and a Model of Mass-dependent Gas Exhaustion

    K. G. Noeske;S. M. Faber;B. J. Weiner;D. C. Koo

  • Science objectives and early results of the DEEP2 Redshift Survey

    Marc Davis;Sandra M. Faber;Jeffrey Newman;Andrew C. Phillips

  • Demographics and Physical Properties of Gas Out/Inflows at 0.4 < z < 1.4

    Crystal L. Martin;Alice E. Shapley;Alison L. Coil;Katherine A. Kornei

  • The Evolution of Galaxy Mergers and Morphology at z<1.2 in the Extended Groth Strip

    Jennifer M. Lotz;M. Davis;S. M. Faber;P. Guhathakurta

  • The Deep Evolutionary Exploratory Probe 2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: The Galaxy Luminosity Function to z ~ 1*

    C. N. A. Willmer;S. M. Faber;D. C. Koo;B. J. Weiner;B. J. Weiner

  • The evolution of the hard X-ray luminosity function of AGN

    J. Aird;K. Nandra;E. S. Laird;A. Georgakakis

  • THE MOSDEF SURVEY: MEASUREMENTS OF BALMER DECREMENTS AND THE DUST ATTENUATION CURVE AT REDSHIFTS z ∼ 1.4–2.6*

    Naveen A. Reddy;Mariska Kriek;Alice E. Shapley;William R. Freeman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey A. Newman
Jeffrey A. Newman University of Pittsburgh
Michael C. Cooper
Michael C. Cooper University of California, Irvine
David C. Koo
David C. Koo University of California, Santa Cruz
Benjamin J. Weiner
Benjamin J. Weiner University of Arizona
Renbin Yan
Renbin Yan University of Kentucky
Sandra M. Faber
Sandra M. Faber University of California, Santa Cruz
Naveen A. Reddy
Naveen A. Reddy University of California, Riverside
Puragra Guhathakurta
Puragra Guhathakurta University of California, Santa Cruz
Brian Siana
Brian Siana University of California, Riverside
Mariska Kriek
Mariska Kriek University of California, Berkeley

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