2026 John C Wheeler: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	123	734	695	403	376	785	48508

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Research.com Recognitions

1990 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his work on the thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of phase transitions and critical phenomena in molecularly complex solutions

Overview

John C Wheeler is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Physics and Astronomy, with a significant concentration in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Other subfields include Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Oncology, and Computational Mechanics.

Their work covers multiple main topics, notably Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Astro and Planetary Science, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research.

Recent publications by John C Wheeler include:

A WC/WO star exploding within an expanding carbon-oxygen-neon nebula (2022, Nature)
From Discovery to the First Month of the Type II Supernova 2023ixf: High and Variable Mass Loss in the Final Year before Explosion (2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters)
Early Spectroscopy and Dense Circumstellar Medium Interaction in SN 2023ixf (2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters)
A JWST Survey of the Supernova Remnant Cassiopeia A (2024, The Astrophysical Journal Letters)
ASASSN-15LH: A SUPERLUMINOUS ULTRAVIOLET REBRIGHTENING OBSERVED by SWIFT and HUBBLE (2024, OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University))

Frequent collaborators in their research include J. Vinkó, D. A. Howell, C. McCully, Lifan Wang, and D. Hiramatsu.

John C Wheeler has published extensively in multiple venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

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

In 1990, John C Wheeler was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation for their work on the thermodynamics and statistical mechanics of phase transitions and critical phenomena in molecularly complex solutions.

Best Publications

First-year Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II (SDSS-II) Supernova Results: Hubble Diagram and Cosmological Parameters

Richard Kessler;Andrew Becker;David Cinabro;Jake Vanderplas

999
Citations
SN 2006gy: Discovery of the most luminous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like Eta Carinae

Nathan Smith;Weidong Li;Ryan J. Foley;J. Craig Wheeler

805
Citations
Abundance Ratios as a Function of Metallicity

J. Craig Wheeler;Christopher Sneden;James W. Truran

717
Citations
First-Year Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Results: Hubble Diagram and Cosmological Parameters

Richard Kessler;Andrew C. Becker;David Cinabro;Jake Vanderplas

715
Citations
Sn 2006gy : Discovery of the most luminous supernova ever recorded, powered by the death of an extremely massive star like η carinae

Nathan Smith;Weidong Li;Ryan J. Foley;J. Craig Wheeler

668
Citations
The sloan digital sky survey-II supernova survey: technical summary

Joshua A. Frieman;Joshua A. Frieman;Bruce Bassett;Andrew Becker;Changsu Choi

657
Citations
The Magnetorotational Instability in Core-Collapse Supernova Explosions

Shizuka Akiyama;J. Craig Wheeler;David L. Meier;Itamar Lichtenstadt

616
Citations
The Sloan Digital Sky Survey-II Supernova Survey: Technical Summary

Joshua A. Frieman;B. Bassett;A. Becker;C. Choi

603
Citations
Type Ia Supernovae: Influence of the Initial Composition on the Nucleosynthesis, Light Curves, and Spectra and Consequences for the Determination of ΩM and Λ

P. Höflich;P. Höflich;P. Höflich;John C Wheeler;John C Wheeler;F. K. Thielemann;F. K. Thielemann

476
Citations
Type Ia Supernovae: Influence of the Initial Composition on the Nucleosynthesis, Light Curves, Spectra and Consequences for the Determination of Omega_M & Lambda

Peter Hoeflich;F. K. Thielemann;J. Craig Wheeler

445
Citations
Asymmetric Supernovae, Pulsars, Magnetars, and Gamma-Ray Bursts

J. Craig Wheeler;Insu Yi;Insu Yi;Peter Höflich;Lifan Wang

436
Citations
Spectropolarimetry of Supernovae

Lifan Wang;J. Craig Wheeler

435
Citations
Jet-Induced Explosions of Core Collapse Supernovae

A. M. Khokhlov;P. A. Hoeflich;E. S. Oran;J. C. Wheeler

423
Citations
SN?2005ap: A Most Brilliant Explosion

Robert M. Quimby;Greg Aldering;J. Craig Wheeler;Peter Höflich

410
Citations
Jet-induced Explosions of Core Collapse Supernovae

A. M. Khokhlov;P. A. Höflich;E. S. Oran;John C Wheeler

409
Citations
Accretion Disks in Compact Stellar Systems

J. Craig Wheeler

384
Citations
Delayed detonation models for normal and subluminous type Ia sueprnovae: Absolute brightness, light curves, and molecule formation

P. Hoflich;A. M. Khokhlov;J. C. Wheeler

361
Citations
Bipolar Supernova Explosions

Lifan Wang;Lifan Wang;D. Andrew Howell;D. Andrew Howell;Peter Höflich;J. Craig Wheeler

358
Citations
A Wolf–Rayet-like progenitor of SN 2013cu from spectral observations of a stellar wind

Avishay Gal-Yam;I. Arcavi;E. O. Ofek;S. Ben-Ami

350
Citations
The Supernova Gamma-Ray Burst Connection

J. Craig Wheeler;Peter Hoeflich;Lifan Wang

145
Citations