2026 James E. Gunn: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Best Scientists	225	110	79	736	276462
Physics	225	6	5	719	283048

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Best Scientists

225

110

736

276462

Physics

225

719

283048

Best Scientists

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225

Citations

276462

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110

National Ranking

Physics

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225

Citations

283048

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National Ranking

Research.com Recognitions

2025 - Research.com Best Scientists Award
2008 - US President's National Medal of Science "For his brilliant design of many of the most influential telescopes and instruments in astronomy, and in particular for the crucial role those technological marvels played in the creation of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which has cataloged 200 million stars, galaxies, and quasars; discovered the most distant known quasars; and probed the epoch of formation of the first stars and galaxies.", Presented by President Barack H. Obama in the East Room of the White House on October 7, 2009.
1988 - Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics, American Astronomical Society
1983 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Social Sciences
1983 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
1977 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1977 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
1972 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

James E. Gunn was affiliated with Princeton University in the United States and contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research work spanned a broad range of topics and subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Biomedical Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics included Astronomy and Astrophysical Research, Adaptive Optics and Wavefront Sensing, Stellar, Planetary, and Galactic Studies, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Gamma-ray Bursts and Supernovae, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, and Paleontology and Evolutionary Biology.

Frequent publication venues for James E. Gunn included Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX, arXiv (Cornell University), The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, Cretaceous Research, and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Their coauthors who appeared most commonly in collaborations were Robert H. Lupton, P. A. Price, Shiang-Yu Wang, Michael A. Strauss, and Hisanori Furusawa.

Some recent papers by James E. Gunn were:

SEGUE-2: Old Milky Way Stars Near and Far, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Subaru High-z Exploration of Low-luminosity Quasars (SHELLQs). XVI. 69 New Quasars at 5.8 < z < 7.0, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Quasar Luminosity Function at z = 7, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
A new fully marine, short-snouted lepisosteid gar from the Upper Cretaceous (Turonian) of North Africa, 2023, Cretaceous Research
Prime Focus Spectrograph (PFS) for the Subaru Telescope: its start of the last development phase, 2022, Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX

Throughout their career, James E. Gunn received several awards including the US President's National Medal of Science in 2008 for instrumental contributions to telescope and instrument design, the Dannie Heineman Prize for Astrophysics awarded by the American Astronomical Society in 1988, and Fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, Royal Society of Canada, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. They were also a member of the National Academy of Sciences since 1977.

Best Publications

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary

D. G. York

15186
Citations
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical summary

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

12112
Citations
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

6145
Citations
On the Infall of Matter into Clusters of Galaxies and Some Effects on Their Evolution

James E. Gunn;J. Richard Gott

6103
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Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP

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

5345
Citations
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

5180
Citations
The Sloan digital sky survey photometric system

M. Fukugita;T. Ichikawa;J. E. Gunn;M. Doi

4728
Citations
Secondary standard stars for absolute spectrophotometry

J. B. Oke;J. E. Gunn

3849
Citations
Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

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

3515
Citations
The Eleventh and Twelfth Data Releases of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Final Data from SDSS-III

Shadab Alam;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;F. Anders

3189
Citations
Sloan digital sky survey: Early data release

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

3126
Citations
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

3091
Citations
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

3023
Citations
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

3013
Citations
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

2986
Citations
The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

James E. Gunn;Walter A. Siegmund;Edward J. Mannery

2925
Citations
Composite Quasar Spectra From the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Daniel E. Vanden Berk

2679
Citations
The 2.5 m Telescope of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

James E. Gunn;Walter A. Siegmund;Edward J. Mannery;Russell E. Owen

2588
Citations
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

2519
Citations
THE PROPAGATION OF UNCERTAINTIES IN STELLAR POPULATION SYNTHESIS MODELING. I. THE RELEVANCE OF UNCERTAIN ASPECTS OF STELLAR EVOLUTION AND THE INITIAL MASS FUNCTION TO THE DERIVED PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF GALAXIES

Charlie Conroy;James E. Gunn;Martin White

2494
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