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Brian Yanny

Brian Yanny

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
153
Citations
151653
World Ranking
262
National Ranking
154

Brian Yanny 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 Brian Yanny sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 492 publications — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Brian Yanny 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 Brian Yanny sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 153 D-Index — 93rd percentile

93% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Brian Yanny is a researcher primarily affiliated with Fermilab in the United States. Their work is concentrated within the fields of Physics and Astronomy, contributing extensively to Astronomy and Astrophysics as well as related subfields such as Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Their research topics encompass a range of subjects including Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena; Cosmology and Gravitation Theories; Astronomy and Astrophysical Research; Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; CCD and CMOS Imaging Sensors; and Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing.

Brian Yanny has published research in several prominent scientific journals and preprint archives. Frequent venues include:

  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Their recent papers feature studies focused on cosmology, calibration methods, and imaging techniques related to the Dark Energy Survey. Notable publications include:

  • Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear and robustness to data calibration, 2022, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: Cosmology from cosmic shear and robustness to modeling uncertainty, 2022, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
  • Dark Energy Survey Year 3 Results: Photometric Data Set for Cosmology, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • Dark Energy Survey Year 3 results: redshift calibration of the weak lensing source galaxies, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Dark Energy Survey Y3 results: blending shear and redshift biases in image simulations, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Their frequent collaborators include R. A. Gruendl, A. Carnero Rosell, D. Gruen, J. Carretero, and L. N. da Costa, each having significantly co-authored multiple publications with them.

Best Publications

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary

    Donald G. York;J. Adelman;John E. Anderson;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Seventh Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Kevork N. Abazajian;Jennifer K. Adelman-Mccarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam

  • Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

    Max Tegmark;Max Tegmark;Michael Abram Strauss;Michael R. Blanton;Kevork Abazajian

  • Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Idit Zehavi;David W. Hogg;Roman Scoccimarro

  • Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

    C. Stoughton;R. H. Lupton;M. Bernardi;M. R. Blanton

  • Sloan digital sky survey: Early data release

    Chris Stoughton;Robert H. Lupton;Mariangela Bernardi;Michael R. Blanton;Michael R. Blanton

  • The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Carlos Allende Prieto

  • The fourth data release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • SDSS-III: Massive Spectroscopic Surveys of the Distant Universe, the Milky Way Galaxy, and Extra-Solar Planetary Systems

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • The Fifth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy;Marcel A. Agüeros;Sahar S. Allam;Sahar S. Allam;Kurt S.J. Anderson

  • SDSS-III: MASSIVE SPECTROSCOPIC SURVEYS OF THE DISTANT UNIVERSE, THE MILKY WAY, AND EXTRA-SOLAR PLANETARY SYSTEMS

    Daniel J. Eisenstein;Daniel J. Eisenstein;David H. Weinberg;Eric Agol;Hiroaki Aihara

  • THE THREE-DIMENSIONAL POWER SPECTRUM OF GALAXIES FROM THE SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY

    Max Tegmark;Michael R. Blanton;Michael A. Strauss;Fiona Hoyle

  • Composite Quasar Spectra from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

    Daniel E. Vanden Berk;Gordon T. Richards;Amanda Bauer;Michael A. Strauss

  • Spectroscopic Target Selection in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: The Main Galaxy Sample

    Michael A. Strauss;David H. Weinberg;Robert H. Lupton;Vijay K. Narayanan

  • The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An

  • Cosmological constraints from the SDSS luminous red galaxies

    Max Tegmark;Daniel J. Eisenstein;Michael A. Strauss;David H. Weinberg

  • The Eighth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Data from SDSS-III

    Hiroaki Aihara;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Deokkeun An;Scott F. Anderson

  • The ninth data release of the sloan digital sky survey: First spectroscopic data from the sdss-iii baryon oscillation spectroscopic survey

    Christopher P. Ahn;Rachael Alexandroff;Carlos Allende Prieto;Scott F. Anderson

  • The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Quasar Catalog V. Seventh Data Release

    Donald P. Schneider;Gordon T. Richards;Patrick B. Hall;Michael A. Strauss

  • SEGUE: A Spectroscopic Survey of 240,000 stars with g=14-20

    Brian Yanny;Constance Rockosi;Heidi Jo Newberg

Frequent Co-Authors

Joshua A. Frieman
Joshua A. Frieman University of Chicago
Donald P. Schneider
Donald P. Schneider Pennsylvania State University
Marcelle Soares-Santos
Marcelle Soares-Santos Brandeis University
Timothy C. Beers
Timothy C. Beers University of Notre Dame
Robert H. Lupton
Robert H. Lupton Princeton University
Robert A. Gruendl
Robert A. Gruendl University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
B. Flaugher
B. Flaugher Fermilab
K. Honscheid
K. Honscheid The Ohio State University
Donald G. York
Donald G. York University of Chicago

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