2026 Kristen Menou: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	80	3036	2883	75	74	189	21003

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Physics

3036

2883

189

21003

Kristen Menou 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 Kristen Menou sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 189 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kristen Menou 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 Kristen Menou sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 80 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Kristen Menou is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy with a notable focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics.

Their work extensively covers topics such as:

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Astro and Planetary Science
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics
Atmospheric Ozone and Climate
Planetary Science and Exploration

Kristen Menou frequently publishes in several venues, including:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Astrophysical Journal
Icarus
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Frequent collaborators in their research include:

Adiv Paradise
Evelyn Macdonald
Christopher Lee
Mohamad Ali-Dib
Bo Lin Fan

Selected recent publications of Kristen Menou encompass the following:

Hot Jupiter atmospheric flows at high resolution, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Climate uncertainties caused by unknown land distribution on habitable M-Earths, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)
Automated crater shape retrieval using weakly-supervised deep learning, 2020, Icarus
TOI-1452 b: SPIRou and TESS Reveal a Super-Earth in a Temperate Orbit Transiting an M4 Dwarf, 2022, The Astronomical Journal
Predicting the long-term stability of compact multiplanet systems, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Best Publications

Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early data release

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

3515
Citations
Sloan digital sky survey: Early data release

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

3126
Citations
Optical and Radio Properties of Extragalactic Sources Observed by the FIRST and SDSS Surveys

Z. Ivezic;K. Menou;M. Strauss;G. R. Knapp

716
Citations
Optical and Radio Properties of Extragalactic Sources Observed by the FIRST Survey and the Sloan Digital Sky Survey

Željko Ivezić;Kristen Menou;Gillian R. Knapp;Michael A. Strauss

624
Citations
The Population of Viscosity- and Gravitational Wave-Driven Supermassive Black Hole Binaries Among Luminous AGN

Zoltán Haiman;Bence Kocsis;Kristen Menou

303
Citations
THE POPULATION OF VISCOSITY- AND GRAVITATIONAL WAVE-DRIVEN SUPERMASSIVE BLACK HOLE BINARIES AMONG LUMINOUS ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI

Zoltán Haiman;Bence Kocsis;Bence Kocsis;Bence Kocsis;Kristen Menou

294
Citations
The phase-dependent infrared brightness of the extrasolar planet upsilon Andromedae b.

Joseph Harrington;Joseph Harrington;Brad M. Hansen;Statia H. Luszcz;Statia H. Luszcz;Sara Seager

284
Citations
BLACK HOLE AND NEUTRON STAR TRANSIENTS IN QUIESCENCE

Kristen Menou;Kristen Menou;Ann A. Esin;Ramesh Narayan;Michael R. Garcia

278
Citations
Accretion disc outbursts: a new version of an old model

Jean-Marie Hameury;Kristen Menou;Kristen Menou;Guillaume Dubus;Jean-Pierre Lasota

265
Citations
Changing Face of the Extrasolar Giant Planet, HD 209458b

James Y-K. Cho;Kristen Menou;Brad Hansen;Sara Seager

228
Citations
Atmospheric circulation of tidally locked exoplanets: a suite of benchmark tests for dynamical solvers

Kevin Heng;Kevin Heng;Kristen Menou;Kristen Menou;Peter J. Phillipps

216
Citations
Asynchronous rotation of Earth-mass planets in the habitable zone of lower-mass stars

Jérémy Leconte;Hanbo Wu;Kristen Menou;Norman Murray

209
Citations
The Merger History of Supermassive Black Holes in Galaxies

Kristen Menou;Zoltán Haiman;Vijay K. Narayanan

208
Citations
On the Dayside Thermal Emission of Hot Jupiters

S. Seager;L. J. Richardson;B. M. S. Hansen;K. Menou

206
Citations
On the Origin of Episodic Accretion in Dwarf Novae

Charles Forbes Gammie;Kristen Menou;Kristen Menou

201
Citations
On the Dayside Thermal Emission of Hot Jupiters

S. Seager;L. J. Richardson;B. M. S. Hansen;K. Menou

200
Citations
The Changing Face of the Extrasolar Giant Planet HD 209458b

James Y. K. Cho;James Y. K. Cho;Kristen Menou;Kristen Menou;Bradley M. S. Hansen;Bradley M. S. Hansen;Sara Seager;Sara Seager

195
Citations
Magnetic Scaling Laws for the Atmospheres of Hot Giant Exoplanets

Kristen Menou

181
Citations
Low-Mass Proto-Planet Migration in T-Tauri Alpha-Disks

Kristen Menou;Jeremy Goodman

181
Citations
Three-dimensional Modeling of Hot Jupiter Atmospheric Flows

Emily Rauscher;Kristen Menou

180
Citations