2026 Eric Emsellem: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	125	665	633	55	53	566	59769

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Physics

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59769

Overview

Eric Emsellem is affiliated with the European Southern Observatory in Germany. Their research primarily falls within the broad domain of Physics and Astronomy, with a particular focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. The work further extends to subfields including Instrumentation, Spectroscopy, Computational Mechanics, and Nuclear and High Energy Physics.

Their research covers a range of topics related to galaxies, star formation, and astronomical phenomena. Main topics include:

Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Spectroscopy and Laser Applications
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Astronomical Observations and Instrumentation

Eric Emsellem has contributed to a number of recent papers, with selected examples including:

"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)
"PHANGS-ALMA: Arcsecond CO(2-1) Imaging of Nearby Star-forming Galaxies" (2021), published in IrInSubria (University of Insubria)
"The PHANGS-MUSE survey" (2022), published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
"Distances to PHANGS galaxies: New tip of the red giant branch measurements and adopted distances" (2020), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
"Molecular Gas Properties on Cloud Scales across the Local Star-forming Galaxy Population" (2020), published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

The scientist frequently publishes in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The Astrophysical Journal

Collaborations have been a significant aspect of their work. Frequent co-authors include:

Thomas G. Williams
E. Schinnerer
Adam K. Leroy
Ralf S. Klessen
Kathryn Grasha

Best Publications

Parametric Recovery of Line‐of‐Sight Velocity Distributions from Absorption‐Line Spectra of Galaxies via Penalized Likelihood

Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem

2256
Citations
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

1542
Citations
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

1413
Citations
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

1314
Citations
The SAURON project - IV. The mass-to-light ratio, the virial mass estimator and the Fundamental Plane of elliptical and lenticular galaxies

M Cappellari;R Bacon;M Bureau;MC Damen

1253
Citations
Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

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

1134
Citations
The ATLAS3D project – I. A volume-limited sample of 260 nearby early-type galaxies: science goals and selection criteria

Michele Cappellari;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Davor Krajnović;Richard M. Mcdermid

1075
Citations
The ATLAS3D project – XX. Mass–size and mass–σ distributions of early-type galaxies: bulge fraction drives kinematics, mass-to-light ratio, molecular gas fraction and stellar initial mass function

Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

968
Citations
The MUSE second-generation VLT instrument

R. Bacon;M. Accardo;L. Adjali;H. Anwand

927
Citations
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

905
Citations
The SAURON project—V. Integral-field emission-line kinematics of 48 elliptical and lenticular galaxies

Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Reynier F. Peletier;Reynier F. Peletier;Richard M. McDermid

902
Citations
The SAURON project – IX. A kinematic classification for early‐type galaxies

Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Glenn Van De Ven;Glenn Van De Ven

889
Citations
Astronomical Society of the Pacific Conference Series

P. Serra;Raffaella Morganti;Thomas Oosterloo;K. Alatalo

855
Citations
The ATLAS3D project – III. A census of the stellar angular momentum within the effective radius of early‐type galaxies: unveiling the distribution of fast and slow rotators

Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem;Michele Cappellari;Davor Krajnović;Katherine Alatalo

797
Citations
The SAURON project – I. The panoramic integral-field spectrograph

Roland Bacon;Yannick Copin;G. Monnet;Bryan W. Miller

776
Citations
The SAURON project. II. Sample and early results

P.T. de Zeeuw;M. Bureau;E. Emsellem;R. Bacon

756
Citations
The SAURON project -- X. The orbital anisotropy of elliptical and lenticular galaxies: revisiting the (V/sigma,epsilon) diagram with integral-field stellar kinematics

M. Cappellari;E. Emsellem;R. Bacon;M. Bureau

755
Citations
Systematic variation of the stellar initial mass function in early-type galaxies

Michele Cappellari;Richard M. McDermid;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

727
Citations
The ATLAS3D project XV: benchmark for early-type galaxies scaling relations from 260 dynamical models: mass-to-light ratio, dark matter, fundamental plane and mass plane

Michele Cappellari;Nicholas Scott;Nicholas Scott;Katherine Alatalo;Leo Blitz

713
Citations
The SAURON project — II. Sample and early results

P. Tim de Zeeuw;M. Bureau;Eric Emsellem;R. Bacon

704
Citations