2026 Michael Boylan-Kolchin: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	88	2373	2254	1194	1111	247	32413

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Overview

Michael Boylan-Kolchin is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States and primarily works in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

Their scholarly output includes work on key topics such as:

Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae

Michael Boylan-Kolchin has contributed extensively to scientific literature, publishing in frequent venues like:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Astrophysical Journal
Nature Astronomy
The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series

Among their recent significant papers are:

Stress testing ΛCDM with high-redshift galaxy candidates (2023, Nature Astronomy)
A dark matter profile to model diverse feedback-induced core sizes of ΛCDM haloes (2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
Public Data Release of the FIRE-2 Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations of Galaxy Formation (2023, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series)
The impact of UV variability on the abundance of bright galaxies at z ≥ 9 (2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
FIRE-3: updated stellar evolution models, yields, and microphysics and fitting functions for applications in galaxy simulations (2022, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)

Their work reflects frequent collaborations with other researchers, including:

Andrew Wetzel
James S. Bullock
Philip F. Hopkins
Claude-André Faucher-Giguère
Daniel R. Weisz

Best Publications

From dwarf spheroidals to cDs: Simulating the galaxy population in a LCDM cosmology

Qi Guo;Simon White;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Gabriella De Lucia

1617
Citations
Too big to fail? The puzzling darkness of massive Milky Way subhaloes

Michael Boylan-Kolchin;James S. Bullock;Manoj Kaplinghat

1561
Citations
From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

Qi Guo;Simon White;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Gabriella De Lucia

1314
Citations
How do galaxies populate dark matter haloes

Qi Guo;Simon White;Cheng Li;Michael Boylan-Kolchin

1239
Citations
Resolving cosmic structure formation with the Millennium-II simulation

Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Volker Springel;Simon D. M. White;Adrian Jenkins

1051
Citations
Small-Scale Challenges to the $\Lambda$CDM Paradigm.

James S. Bullock;Michael Boylan-Kolchin

986
Citations
FIRE-2 simulations: physics versus numerics in galaxy formation

Philip F. Hopkins;Andrew Wetzel;Andrew Wetzel;Andrew Wetzel;Dušan Kereš;Claude André Faucher-Giguère

958
Citations
The Milky Way's bright satellites as an apparent failure of LCDM

Michael Boylan-Kolchin;James S. Bullock;Manoj Kaplinghat

953
Citations
The Milky Way’s bright satellites as an apparent failure of ΛCDM

Michael Boylan-Kolchin;James S. Bullock;Manoj Kaplinghat

851
Citations
Small-Scale Challenges to the ΛCDM Paradigm

James S. Bullock;Michael Boylan-Kolchin

766
Citations
The merger rates and mass assembly histories of dark matter haloes in the two Millennium simulations

Onsi Fakhouri;Chung-Pei Ma;Michael Boylan-Kolchin

666
Citations
Dynamical Friction and Galaxy Merging Timescales

Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Chung-Pei Ma;Eliot Quataert

562
Citations
How do galaxies populate Dark Matter halos

Qi Guo;Simon White;Cheng Li;Michael Boylan-Kolchin

555
Citations
Dynamical friction and galaxy merging time-scales

Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Chung Pei Ma;Eliot Quataert

476
Citations
ELVIS: Exploring the Local Volume in Simulations

Shea Garrison-Kimmel;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;James S. Bullock;Kyle Lee

395
Citations
Forged in FIRE: cusps, cores and baryons in low-mass dwarf galaxies

Jose Oñorbe;Jose Oñorbe;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;Michael Boylan-Kolchin;James S. Bullock;Philip F. Hopkins

391
Citations
Galaxy formation in WMAP1 and WMAP7 cosmologies

Qi Guo;Simon White;Raul E. Angulo;Bruno Henriques

367
Citations
Not so lumpy after all: modelling the depletion of dark matter subhaloes by Milky Way-like galaxies

Shea Garrison-Kimmel;Andrew R. Wetzel;Andrew R. Wetzel;Andrew R. Wetzel;James S. Bullock;Philip F. Hopkins

333
Citations
The mass–concentration–redshift relation of cold dark matter haloes

Aaron D. Ludlow;Julio F. Navarro;Raúl E. Angulo;Michael Boylan-Kolchin

294
Citations
Galaxy formation with BECDM - I. Turbulence and relaxation of idealized haloes.

Philip Mocz;Mark Vogelsberger;Victor H. Robles;Jesús Zavala

288
Citations