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Kathryn V. Johnston

Kathryn V. Johnston

Columbia University
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
76
Citations
19469
World Ranking
3335
National Ranking
1577

Kathryn V. Johnston publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kathryn V. Johnston sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 234 publications — 7th percentile

7% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Kathryn V. Johnston D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Kathryn V. Johnston sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Overview

Kathryn V. Johnston is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their primary research field is Physics and Astronomy, with a specialization in Astronomy and Astrophysics, supported by extensive work in Instrumentation, Computational Mechanics, Endocrinology, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

Their research focuses on multiple interconnected topics, including stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; astronomy and astrophysical research; galaxies formation, evolution, and phenomena; astrophysics and star formation studies; astro and planetary science; gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; and astronomical observations and instrumentation.

Kathryn V. Johnston's publications are commonly found in several high-profile venues such as:

  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • eLife

Selected recent papers showcase a range of topics across galactic structure and kinematics:

  • Quantifying the Impact of the Large Magellanic Cloud on the Structure of the Milky Way's Dark Matter Halo Using Basis Function Expansions, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Multiple phase spirals suggest multiple origins in Gaia DR3, 2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters
  • Resolving local and global kinematic signatures of satellite mergers with billion particle simulations, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Clustering of Orbital Poles Induced by the LMC: Hints for the Origin of Planes of Satellites, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Orbital Torus Imaging: Using Element Abundances to Map Orbits and Mass in the Milky Way, 2021, The Astrophysical Journal

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Adrian M. Price-Whelan
  • John Douglas Hunt
  • Emily C. Cunningham
  • Melissa Ness
  • Danny Horta

Best Publications

  • LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

    Paul A. Abell;Julius Allison;Scott F. Anderson

  • Tracing Galaxy Formation with Stellar Halos. I. Methods

    James S. Bullock;Kathryn V. Johnston

  • The accretion origin of the Milky Way's stellar halo

    Eric F. Bell;Daniel B. Zucker;Vasily Belokurov;Sanjib Sharma

  • A 2MASS All-Sky View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: IV. Modeling the Sagittarius Tidal Tails

    David R. Law;Kathryn V. Johnston;Steven R. Majewski

  • The Accretion Origin of the Milky Way’s Stellar Halo

    Eric F. Bell;Daniel B. Zucker;Vasily Belokurov;Sanjib Sharma

  • A Two Micron All-Sky Survey View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy. IV. Modeling the Sagittarius Tidal Tails

    David R. Law;David R. Law;Kathryn V. Johnston;Steven R. Majewski

  • The Disruption of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy

    Kathryn V. Johnston;David N. Spergel;Lars Hernquist

  • TRACING GALAXY FORMATION WITH STELLAR HALOS II: RELATING SUBSTRUCTURE IN PHASE- AND ABUNDANCE-SPACE TO ACCRETION HISTORIES

    Kathryn V. Johnston;James S. Bullock;Sanjib Sharma;Andreea Font

  • Fossil Signatures of Ancient Accretion Events in the Halo

    Kathryn V. Johnston;Lars Hernquist;Michael Bolte

  • A 2MASS All-Sky View of the Sagittarius Dwarf Galaxy: III. Constraints on the Flattening of the Galactic Halo

    Kathryn V. Johnston;David R. Law;Steven R. Majewski

  • Lambda-Cold Dark Matter, Stellar Feedback, and the Galactic Halo Abundance Pattern

    Brant Robertson;James S. Bullock;Andreea S. Font;Kathryn V. Johnston

  • A Prescription for Building the Milky Way's Halo from Disrupted Satellites

    Kathryn V. Johnston

  • Chemical Abundance Distributions of Galactic Halos and their Satellite Systems in a Lambda CDM Universe

    Andreea S. Font;Kathryn V. Johnston;James S. Bullock;Brant Robertson

  • Galaxia: A Code to Generate a Synthetic Survey of the Milky Way

    Sanjib Sharma;Joss Bland-Hawthorn;Joss Bland-Hawthorn;Kathryn V. Johnston;James Binney

  • BROKEN AND UNBROKEN: THE MILKY WAY AND M31 STELLAR HALOS

    A. J. Deason;A. J. Deason;V. Belokurov;N. W. Evans;K. V. Johnston

  • Tidal Streams as Probes of the Galactic Potential

    Kathryn V. Johnston;Hong Sheng Zhao;David N. Spergel;Lars Hernquist

  • A TWO MICRON ALL SKY SURVEY VIEW OF THE SAGITTARIUS DWARF GALAXY. III. CONSTRAINTS ON THE FLATTENING OF THE GALACTIC HALO

    Kathryn V. Johnston;David R. Law;David R. Law;Steven R. Majewski

  • Exploring Halo Substructure with Giant Stars XI: The Tidal Tails of the Carina Dwarf Spheroidal and the Discovery of Magellanic Cloud Stars in the Carina Foreground

    Ricardo R. Munoz;Steven R. Majewski;Simone Zaggia;William E. Kunkel

  • Λ Cold Dark Matter, Stellar Feedback, and the Galactic Halo Abundance Pattern

    Brant Robertson;James S. Bullock;Andreea S. Font;Kathryn V. Johnston

  • Footprints of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the Gaia data set

    Chervin F. P. Laporte;Ivan Minchev;Kathryn V. Johnston;Facundo A. Gómez

Frequent Co-Authors

James S. Bullock
James S. Bullock University of California, Irvine
Steven R. Majewski
Steven R. Majewski University of Virginia
Puragra Guhathakurta
Puragra Guhathakurta University of California, Santa Cruz
David W. Hogg
David W. Hogg Max Planck Society
Carl J. Grillmair
Carl J. Grillmair California Institute of Technology
Brant Robertson
Brant Robertson University of California, Santa Cruz
David N. Spergel
David N. Spergel Princeton University
Roeland P. van der Marel
Roeland P. van der Marel Space Telescope Science Institute
Sergey E. Koposov
Sergey E. Koposov University of Edinburgh
Timothy C. Beers
Timothy C. Beers University of Notre Dame

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