2026 Nick Kaiser: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	119	830	447	447	73156

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Physics

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Research.com Recognitions

2008 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom
1997 - Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics, Royal Society of Canada

Overview

Nick Kaiser was affiliated with the University of Hawaii at Manoa in the United States. Their research primarily focused on fields related to physics and astronomy, with a significant number of publications addressing various subfields such as astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, molecular biology, ecology, and aerospace engineering.

The scientist's work covered several core topics, including stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; astronomy and astrophysical research; gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; solar and space plasma dynamics; astro and planetary science; genomics and phylogenetic studies; and bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

Nick Kaiser authored or coauthored multiple papers, some of which were published in notable venues. These include:

Pan-STARRS Photometric and Astrometric Calibration, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Pan-STARRS Pixel Processing: Detrending, Warping, Stacking, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
The Pan-STARRS Data-processing System, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
Pan-STARRS Pixel Analysis: Source Detection and Characterization, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
VirDetector: a bioinformatic pipeline for virus surveillance using nanopore sequencing, 2025, Bioinformatics

They frequently collaborated with several researchers in their field. Prominent coauthors included:

E. A. Magnier
K. C. Chambers
R. J. Wainscoat
K. W. Hodapp
H. Flewelling

The publication venues where Nick Kaiser most often appeared consisted of:

The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
UNC Libraries
Bioinformatics
Journal of Virological Methods
arXiv (Cornell University)

Throughout their career, the scientist received recognition including the Rutherford Memorial Medal in Physics from the Royal Society of Canada in 1997 and was named a Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, in 2008.

Best Publications

The statistics of peaks of Gaussian random fields

James M. Bardeen;J.R. Bond;Nick Kaiser;A.S. Szalay

4913
Citations
Clustering in real space and in redshift space

Nick Kaiser

3908
Citations
The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed SNe Ia from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from the Combined Pantheon Sample

D. M. Scolnic;D. O. Jones;A. Rest;A. Rest;Y. C. Pan

2512
Citations
Excursion set mass functions for hierarchical Gaussian fluctuations

J.R. Bond;S. Cole;G. Efstathiou;Nick Kaiser

2442
Citations
On the spatial correlations of Abell clusters

Nick Kaiser

1868
Citations
The Complete Light-curve Sample of Spectroscopically Confirmed Type Ia Supernovae from Pan-STARRS1 and Cosmological Constraints from The Combined Pantheon Sample

D. M. Scolnic;D. O. Jones;A. Rest;Y. C. Pan

1662
Citations
Galaxy Luminosity Functions to z~1: DEEP2 vs. COMBO-17 and Implications for Red Galaxy Formation

S. M. Faber;C. N. A. Willmer;C. Wolf;D. C. Koo

1611
Citations
The Pan-STARRS1 Surveys

K. C. Chambers;E. A. Magnier;N. Metcalfe;H. A. Flewelling

1491
Citations
Galaxy luminosity functions to z∼ 1 from DEEP2 and COMBO-17: Implications for red galaxy formation

S. M. Faber;C. N. A. Willmer;C. Wolf;D. C. Koo

1400
Citations
Power spectrum analysis of three-dimensional redshift surveys

Hume A. Feldman;Nick Kaiser;John A. Peacock

1163
Citations
A Method for Weak Lensing Observations

Nick Kaiser;Gordon Squires;Tom Broadhurst

1162
Citations
Mapping the dark matter with weak gravitational lensing

Nick Kaiser;Gordon Squires

1124
Citations
Evolution and clustering of rich clusters

Nick Kaiser

1104
Citations
Pan-STARRS: a large synoptic survey telescope array

Nicholas Kaiser;Herve Aussel;Barry E. Burke;Hans Boesgaard

1086
Citations
Weak gravitational lensing of distant galaxies

Nick Kaiser

1072
Citations
THE Pan-STARRS1 PHOTOMETRIC SYSTEM

J. L. Tonry;C. W. Stubbs;K. R. Lykke;P. Doherty

1053
Citations
The DEEP2 Galaxy Redshift Survey: Design, Observations, Data Reduction, and Redshifts

Jeffrey A. Newman;Michael C. Cooper;Marc Davis;S. M. Faber

816
Citations
The 60-μ and far-infrared luminosity functions of IRAS galaxies

W. Saunders;M. Rowan-Robinson;A. Lawrence;G. Efstathiou

661
Citations
Biased clustering in the cold dark matter cosmogony

Shaun Cole;Nick Kaiser

619
Citations
23 High Redshift Supernovae from the IfA Deep Survey: Doubling the SN Sample at z>0.7

Brian J. Barris;John Tonry;Stephane Blondin;Peter Challis

608
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