2026 Howard Isaacson: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	115	978	921	518	479	666	58119

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Physics

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Overview

Howard Isaacson is affiliated with the University of California, Berkeley in the United States. Their principal field of study is Physics and Astronomy, with a significant focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics. Their research broadly covers topics related to stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, as well as astro and planetary science.

Isaacson's work often explores varied subfields including instrumentation, aerospace engineering, computational mechanics, and nuclear and high energy physics. The major themes of their research extend into astronomy and astrophysical research, astrophysics and star formation studies, gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, planetary science and exploration, and space science involving extraterrestrial life.

The scientist has frequently published in a number of venues, with the highest number of publications appearing in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The Astronomical Journal
UNC Libraries
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Astrophysical Journal

Some of the recent papers associated with Isaacson include:

A Sun-like star orbiting a black hole, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The California-Kepler Survey. X. The Radius Gap as a Function of Stellar Mass, Metallicity, and Age, 2022, The Astronomical Journal
A unicorn in monoceros: the 3 M⊙ dark companion to the bright, nearby red giant V723 Mon is a non-interacting, mass-gap black hole candidate, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Breakthrough Listen Search for Intelligent Life: Observations of 1327 Nearby Stars Over 1.10-3.45 GHz, 2020, The Astronomical Journal
A super-Earth and a sub-Neptune orbiting the bright, quiet M3 dwarf TOI-1266, 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Isaacson collaborates regularly with a number of frequent co-authors, who include:

Andrew W. Howard
Benjamin J. Fulton
Lauren M. Weiss
Erik A. Petigura
Daniel Huber

Best Publications

Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results

William J. Borucki;David Koch;Gibor Basri;Natalie Batalha

4498
Citations
Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler, III: Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data

Natalie M. Batalha;Jason F. Rowe;Stephen T. Bryson;Thomas Barclay

1758
Citations
Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler, II: Analysis of the first four months of data

William J. Borucki;David G. Koch;Gibor Basri;Natalie Batalha

1658
Citations
Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-type Stars from Kepler

Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Stephen T. Bryson;Jon M. Jenkins

1658
Citations
The California-Kepler Survey. III. A Gap in the Radius Distribution of Small Planets*

Benjamin J. Fulton;Erik A. Petigura;Andrew W. Howard;Howard Isaacson

1294
Citations
Characteristics of planetary candidates observed by Kepler. II. Analysis of the first four months of data

William J. Borucki;David G. Koch;Gibor Basri;Natalie Batalha

1224
Citations
Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. III. Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data

Natalie M. Batalha;Natalie M. Batalha;Jason F. Rowe;Stephen T. Bryson;Thomas Barclay

1091
Citations
Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-Type Stars from Kepler

Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Stephen T. Bryson;Jon M. Jenkins

1040
Citations
Masses, Radii, and Orbits of Small Kepler Planets: The Transition from Gaseous to Rocky Planets

Geoffrey W. Marcy;Howard Isaacson;Andrew W. Howard;Jason F. Rowe

759
Citations
An abundance of small exoplanets around stars with a wide range of metallicities

Lars A. Buchhave;David W. Latham;Anders Johansen;Martin Bizzarro

757
Citations
Validation of Kepler's Multiple Planet Candidates. III: Light Curve Analysis & Announcement of Hundreds of New Multi-planet Systems

Jason F. Rowe;Stephen T. Bryson;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Jack J. Lissauer

747
Citations
The occurrence and mass distribution of close-in super-Earths, Neptunes, and Jupiters.

Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;John Asher Johnson;Debra A. Fischer

669
Citations
Supernova SN 2011fe from an exploding carbon–oxygen white dwarf star

Peter E. Nugent;Peter E. Nugent;Mark Sullivan;S. Bradley Cenko;Rollin C. Thomas

596
Citations
Characteristics of Kepler Planetary Candidates Based on the First Data Set: The Majority are Found to be Neptune-Size and Smaller

William J. Borucki

585
Citations
Masses, Radii, and Orbits of Small Kepler Planets: The Transition From Gaseous to Rocky Planets

Geoffrey W. Marcy;Howard Isaacson;Andrew W. Howard;Jason F. Rowe

579
Citations
Kepler 's First Rocky Planet: Kepler-10b

Natalie M. Batalha;William J. Borucki;Stephen T. Bryson;Lars A. Buchhave

579
Citations
VALIDATION OF KEPLER'S MULTIPLE PLANET CANDIDATES. III. LIGHT CURVE ANALYSIS AND ANNOUNCEMENT OF HUNDREDS OF NEW MULTI-PLANET SYSTEMS

Jason F. Rowe;Jason F. Rowe;Stephen T. Bryson;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Jack J. Lissauer

578
Citations
CHROMOSPHERIC ACTIVITY AND JITTER MEASUREMENTS FOR 2630 STARS ON THE CALIFORNIA PLANET SEARCH

Howard Isaacson;Howard Isaacson;Debra Ann Fischer;Debra Ann Fischer

548
Citations
Emergence and frustration of magnetism with variable-range interactions in a quantum simulator.

R. Islam;C. Senko;W. C. Campbell;S. Korenblit

543
Citations
Planet occurrence within 0.25AU of solar-type stars from Kepler

Andrew W. Howard;Geoffrey W. Marcy;Stephen T. Bryson;Jon M. Jenkins

6
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