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Charles C. Steidel

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
155
Citations
95728
World Ranking
241
National Ranking
142

Charles C. Steidel 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 Charles C. Steidel sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 532 publications — 60th percentile

60% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Charles C. Steidel 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 Charles C. Steidel sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 155 D-Index — 94th percentile

94% 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

  • 2006 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2002 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1994 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Charles C. Steidel is affiliated with the California Institute of Technology in the United States. Their research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with an extensive focus on subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Computational Mechanics.

Steidel's work addresses a variety of topics, including:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
  • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Scientific Research and Discoveries

Among their recent publications are:

  • "Precision measures of the primordial abundance of deuterium" (2024), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) at La Trobe University
  • "The COS Legacy Archive Spectroscopy Survey (CLASSY) Treasury Atlas*" (2022), published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
  • "The MOSDEF Survey: The First Direct Measurements of the Nebular Dust Attenuation Curve at High Redshift*" (2020), published in The Astrophysical Journal
  • "The Effects of Stellar Population and Gas Covering Fraction on the Emergent Lyα Emission of High-redshift Galaxies*" (2022), published in The Astrophysical Journal
  • "The Keck Baryonic Structure Survey: using foreground/background galaxy pairs to trace the structure and kinematics of circumgalactic neutral hydrogen at z ∼ 2" (2020), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Yuguang Chen
  • Naveen A. Reddy
  • Alice E. Shapley
  • Gwen C. Rudie
  • Allison L. Strom

Steidel has contributed significantly to several publication venues with notable numbers of publications in:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Their career has been recognized with several awards, including:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2006)
  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation (2002)
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1994)

Best Publications

  • Type Ia Supernova Discoveries at z>1 From the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for Past Deceleration and Constraints on Dark Energy Evolution

    Adam G. Riess;Louis-Gregory Strolger;John Tonry;Stefano Casertano

  • Type Ia supernova discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution

    Adam G. Riess;Louis-Gregory Strolger;John Tonry;Stefano Casertano

  • HIGH-REDSHIFT GALAXIES IN THE HUBBLE DEEP FIELD : COLOUR SELECTION AND STAR FORMATION HISTORY TO Z 4

    Piero Madau;Henry C. Ferguson;Mark E. Dickinson;Mauro Giavalisco

  • Lyman Break Galaxies at z>4 and the Evolution of the UV Luminosity Density at High Redshift

    Charles C. Steidel;Kurt L. Adelberger;Mauro Giavalisco;Mark Dickinson

  • Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Population of Normal Star-forming Galaxies at Redshifts z > 3*

    Charles C. Steidel;Charles C. Steidel;Mauro Giavalisco;Max Pettini;Mark Dickinson

  • Rest-Frame Ultraviolet Spectra of z ∼ 3 Lyman Break Galaxies*

    Alice E. Shapley;Charles C. Steidel;Max Pettini;Kurt L. Adelberger

  • The Structure and Kinematics of the Circum-Galactic Medium from Far-UV Spectra of z~2-3 Galaxies

    C. C. Steidel;D. K. Erb;A. E. Shapley;M. Pettini

  • The Farthest Known Supernova: Support for an Accelerating Universe and a Glimpse of the Epoch of Deceleration*

    Adam G. Riess;Peter E. Nugent;Ronald L. Gilliland;Brian P. Schmidt

  • The Mass-Metallicity Relation at z≳2*

    Dawn K. Erb;Dawn K. Erb;Alice E. Shapley;Alice E. Shapley;Max Pettini;Charles C. Steidel

  • THE SINS SURVEY: SINFONI INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY OF z ∼ 2 STAR-FORMING GALAXIES*

    N. M. Förster Schreiber;R. Genzel;N. Bouché;G. Cresci

  • THE STRUCTURE AND KINEMATICS OF THE CIRCUMGALACTIC MEDIUM FROM FAR-ULTRAVIOLET SPECTRA OF z ≃ 2-3 GALAXIES*

    Charles C. Steidel;Dawn K. Erb;Alice E. Shapley;Alice E. Shapley;Max Pettini;Max Pettini

  • Spectral constraints on the redshift of the optical counterpart to the γ-ray burst of 8 May 1997

    M. R. Metzger;S. G. Djorgovski;S. R. Kulkarni;C. C. Steidel

  • The Rest-Frame Optical Spectra of Lyman Break Galaxies: Star Formation, Extinction, Abundances, and Kinematics*

    Max Pettini;Alice E. Shapley;Charles C. Steidel;Jean-Gabriel Cuby

  • The farthest known supernova: Support for an accelerating universe and a glimpse of the epoch of deceleration

    Adam G. Riess;Peter E. Nugent;Brian P. Schmidt;John Tonry

  • A Steep Faint-End Slope of the UV Luminosity Function at z ~ 2-3: Implications for the Global Stellar Mass Density and Star Formation in Low-Mass Halos

    Naveen A. Reddy;Charles C. Steidel

  • Lyman Alpha Imaging of a Proto-Cluster Region at =3.09

    C.C. Steidel;K.L. Adelberger;A.E. Shapley;M. Pettini

  • Lyman Break Galaxies at Redshift z ~ 3: Survey Description and Full Data Set*

    Charles C. Steidel;Kurt L. Adelberger;Alice E. Shapley;Max Pettini

  • Lyα Imaging of a Proto-Cluster Region at ⟨z⟩ = 3.09*

    Charles C. Steidel;Kurt L. Adelberger;Alice E. Shapley;Max Pettini

  • A SURVEY OF STAR-FORMING GALAXIES IN THE 1.4 z 2.5 REDSHIFT DESERT: OVERVIEW

    Charles C. Steidel;Alice E. Shapley;Alice E. Shapley;M. A. X. Pettini;Kurt L. Adelberger

  • From Rings to Bulges: Evidence for Rapid Secular Galaxy Evolution at z ~ 2 from Integral Field Spectroscopy in the SINS Survey

    R. Genzel;A. Burkert;N. Bouché;G. Cresci

Frequent Co-Authors

Dawn K. Erb
Dawn K. Erb University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Alice E. Shapley
Alice E. Shapley University of California, Los Angeles
Naveen A. Reddy
Naveen A. Reddy University of California, Riverside
Max Pettini
Max Pettini University of Cambridge
Mark Dickinson
Mark Dickinson National Optical Astronomy Observatory
Mauro Giavalisco
Mauro Giavalisco University of Massachusetts Amherst
Wallace L. W. Sargent
Wallace L. W. Sargent California Institute of Technology
Reinhard Genzel
Reinhard Genzel Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics
Michael T. Murphy
Michael T. Murphy Swinburne University of Technology
Dieter Lutz
Dieter Lutz Max Planck Society

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