2026 Niv Drory: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	92	2101	1996	1075	1004	420	32911

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Physics

2101

1996

1075

1004

420

32911

Overview

Niv Drory is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research predominantly spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a specialized focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, General Health Professions, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's main research topics include:

Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing
Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations

Drory has contributed extensively to multiple publication venues, particularly:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Astrophysical Journal
Ground-based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy IX
The Astronomical Journal

Among their recent papers are:

"The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra" (2020), published in The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series
"The HETDEX Instrumentation: Hobby-Eberly Telescope Wide-field Upgrade and VIRUS" (2021), published in The Astronomical Journal
"The Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment (HETDEX) Survey Design, Reductions, and Detections" (2021), published in The Astrophysical Journal
"Stellar population models based on the SDSS-IV MaStar library of stellar spectra - I. Intermediate-age/old models" (2020), published in Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
"Demographics of bulge types within 11 Mpc and implications for galaxy evolution" (2024), published in OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)

Frequent collaborators include:

Dmitry Bizyaev
Renbin Yan
Matthew A. Bershady
Joel R. Brownstein
Karen L. Masters

Best Publications

Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies and the Distant Universe

Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti

1542
Citations
The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

1413
Citations
The Fourteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic data from the extended Baryon Oscillation Spectroscopic Survey and from the second phase of the Apache Point Observatory Galactic Evolution Experiment

Bela Abolfathi;D. S. Aguado;Gabriela Aguilar;Carlos Allende Prieto

1314
Citations
Sloan Digital Sky Survey IV: Mapping the Milky Way, Nearby Galaxies, and the Distant Universe

Michael R. Blanton;Matthew A. Bershady;Bela Abolfathi;Franco D. Albareti

1303
Citations
Overview of the SDSS-IV MaNGA Survey: Mapping nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Kevin Bundy;Matthew A. Bershady;David R. Law;Renbin Yan

1134
Citations
The Thirteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey MApping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida

905
Citations
The 16th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

Romina Ahumada;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andrés Almeida;Friedrich Anders;Friedrich Anders

655
Citations
The Sixteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release from the APOGEE-2 Southern Survey and Full Release of eBOSS Spectra

Romina Ahumada;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida;Friedrich Anders

571
Citations
The Fifteenth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Surveys: First Release of MaNGA Derived Quantities, Data Visualization Tools and Stellar Library

D. S. Aguado;Romina Ahumada;Andres Almeida;Scott F. Anderson

511
Citations
The Structure of Classical Bulges and Pseudobulges: The Link Between Pseudobulges and Sérsic Index

David B. Fisher;Niv Drory

486
Citations
THE MANGA INTEGRAL FIELD UNIT FIBER FEED SYSTEM FOR THE SLOAN 2.5 M TELESCOPE

N. Drory;N. MacDonald;M. A. Bershady;K. Bundy

466
Citations
The SDSS-IV MaNGA sample: design, optimization, and usage considerations

David A. Wake;David A. Wake;David A. Wake;Kevin Bundy;Kevin Bundy;Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic;Aleksandar M. Diamond-Stanic;Renbin Yan

445
Citations
The 13th Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey: First Spectroscopic Data from the SDSS-IV Survey Mapping Nearby Galaxies at Apache Point Observatory

Franco D. Albareti;Franco D. Albareti;Carlos Allende Prieto;Carlos Allende Prieto;Andres Almeida;Friedrich Anders

412
Citations
Bulgeless Giant Galaxies Challenge Our Picture Of Galaxy Formation By Hierarchical Clustering

John Kormendy;Niv Drory;Ralf Bender;Mark E. Cornell

392
Citations
Observing Strategy for the SDSS-IV/MaNGA IFU Galaxy Survey

David R. Law;Renbin Yan;Matthew A. Bershady;Kevin Bundy

374
Citations
The stellar mass function of galaxies to z ~ 5 in the Fors Deep and GOODS-S fields

N. Drory;M. Salvato;A. Gabasch;R. Bender

339
Citations
SDSS IV MaNGA – spatially resolved diagnostic diagrams: a proof that many galaxies are LIERs

Francesco Belfiore;Roberto Maiolino;Claudia Maraston;Eric Emsellem;Eric Emsellem

339
Citations
Bulges of nearby galaxies with Spitzer: scaling relations in pseudobulges and classical bulges

David B. Fisher;Niv Drory

323
Citations
SDSS-IV/MaNGA: SPECTROPHOTOMETRIC CALIBRATION TECHNIQUE

Renbin Yan;Christy Tremonti;Matthew A. Bershady;David R. Law

307
Citations
Extremely compact massive galaxies at z ~ 1.4

I. Trujillo;G. Feulner;Y. Goranova;U. Hopp

306
Citations