2026 Charles C. Steidel: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	155	241	230	142	136	532	95728

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Physics

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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

6196
Citations
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

5608
Citations
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

2993
Citations
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

2148
Citations
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

1903
Citations
Rest-Frame Ultraviolet Spectra of z ∼ 3 Lyman Break Galaxies*

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

1740
Citations
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

1612
Citations
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

1309
Citations
The Mass-Metallicity Relation at z≳2*

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

1285
Citations
THE SINS SURVEY: SINFONI INTEGRAL FIELD SPECTROSCOPY OF z ∼ 2 STAR-FORMING GALAXIES*

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

1279
Citations
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

1181
Citations
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

1167
Citations
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

1036
Citations
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

1031
Citations
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

968
Citations
Lyman Alpha Imaging of a Proto-Cluster Region at =3.09

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

959
Citations
Lyman Break Galaxies at Redshift z ~ 3: Survey Description and Full Data Set*

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

926
Citations
Lyα Imaging of a Proto-Cluster Region at ⟨z⟩ = 3.09*

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

766
Citations
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

750
Citations
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

748
Citations