2026 Philip Massey: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	80	3039	2886	1467	1366	405	20274

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Current World Ranking

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Physics

3039

2886

1467

1366

405

20274

Overview

Philip Massey is affiliated with Lowell Observatory in the United States, contributing primarily to the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research spans 90 publications in this main field, with a focus on several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Artificial Intelligence, Computational Mechanics, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The scientist's work engages with a variety of topics, notably:

Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
History and Developments in Astronomy
Astro and Planetary Science

Philip Massey has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including:

Kathryn F. Neugent
N. Morrell
Emily M. Levesque
D. J. Hillier
B. A. Skiff

The publications of this scientist appear mostly in a few key venues, such as:

The Astrophysical Journal
arXiv (Cornell University)
The Astronomical Journal
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Among their recent papers are:

"TensorFlow Quantum: A Software Framework for Quantum Machine Learning" (2020) in arXiv (Cornell University)
"Betelgeuse Just Is Not That Cool: Effective Temperature Alone Cannot Explain the Recent Dimming of Betelgeuse" (2020) in The Astrophysical Journal Letters
"The Luminosity Function of Red Supergiants in M31" (2020) in The Astrophysical Journal
"The Time-averaged Mass-loss Rates of Red Supergiants as Revealed by Their Luminosity Functions in M31 and M33" (2023) in The Astrophysical Journal
"Testing Evolutionary Models with Red Supergiant and Wolf-Rayet Populations" (2021) in arXiv (Cornell University)

Best Publications

The effective temperature scale of galactic red supergiants : Cool, but not as cool as we thought

Emily M. Levesque;Emily M. Levesque;Emily M. Levesque;Philip Massey;Philip Massey;K. A. G. Olsen;Bertrand Plez

762
Citations
The Initial Mass Function and Massive Star Evolution in the OB Associations of the Northern Milky Way

Philip Massey;Kelsey E. Johnson;Kelsey E. Johnson;Kathleen Degioia-Eastwood

699
Citations
A Survey of Local Group Galaxies Currently Forming Stars. I. UBVRI Photometry of Stars in M31 and M33

Philip Massey;Philip Massey;K. A. G. Olsen;Paul W. Hodge;Shay B. Strong;Shay B. Strong

654
Citations
Star Formation in R136: A Cluster of O3 Stars Revealed by Hubble Space Telescope Spectroscopy*

Philip Massey;Deidre A. Hunter

652
Citations
A UBVR CCD Survey of the Magellanic Clouds

Philip Massey;Philip Massey

534
Citations
Massive Stars in the Local Group: Implications for Stellar Evolution and Star Formation

Philip Massey

490
Citations
Massive stars in the field and associations of the magellanic clouds: The upper mass limit, the initial mass function, and a critical test of main-sequence stellar evolutionary theory

Philip Massey;Cornelia C. Lang;Cornelia C. Lang;Kathleen Degioia-Eastwood;Catharine D. Garmany

488
Citations
The Magellanic Clouds Photometric Survey: The Large Magellanic Cloud Stellar Catalog and Extinction Map

Dennis Zaritsky;Jason Harris;Ian B. Thompson;Eva K. Grebel

445
Citations
Spectroscopic studies of O type stars. IX - Binary frequency

C. D. Garmany;P. S. Conti;P. Massey

370
Citations
Massive stars in Cyg OB2

Philip Massey;A. B. Thompson

346
Citations
The Effective Temperatures and Physical Properties of Magellanic Cloud Red Supergiants: The Effects of Metallicity

Emily M. Levesque;Emily M. Levesque;Emily M. Levesque;Philip Massey;Philip Massey;K. A. G. Olsen;Bertrand Plez

330
Citations
The Kitt Peak spectrophotometric standards : extension to 1 micron

Philip Massey;Caryl Gronwall

328
Citations
A New Spectral Classification System for the Earliest O Stars: Definition of Type O2

Nolan R. Walborn;Nolan R. Walborn;Ian D. Howarth;Daniel J. Lennon;Philip Massey;Philip Massey

309
Citations
NGC 6611: a cluster caught in the act

Lynne A. Hillenbrand;Philip Massey;Stephen E. Strom;K. Michael Merrill

288
Citations
The Physical Properties and Effective Temperature Scale of O-Type Stars as a Function of Metallicity. II. Analysis of 20 More Magellanic Cloud Stars and Results from the Complete Sample

Philip Massey;Philip Massey;Joachim Puls;A. W. A. Pauldrach;Fabio Bresolin

286
Citations
The Evolution of Massive Stars. I. Red Supergiants in the Magellanic Clouds

Philip Massey;Philip Massey;K. A. G. Olsen

273
Citations
The Progenitor Masses of Wolf-Rayet Stars and Luminous Blue Variables Determined from Cluster Turnoffs. II. Results from 12 Galactic Clusters and OB Associations

Philip Massey;Philip Massey;Philip Massey;Kathleen DeGioia-Eastwood;Kathleen DeGioia-Eastwood;Elizabeth Waterhouse;Elizabeth Waterhouse;Elizabeth Waterhouse

269
Citations
Grids of stellar models with rotation - II. WR populations and supernovae/GRB progenitors at Z = 0.014

C. Georgy;S. Ekström;G. Meynet;P. Massey

268
Citations
A Survey of Local Group Galaxies Currently Forming Stars. III. A Search for Luminous Blue Variables and Other Hα Emission-Line Stars*

Philip Massey;Philip Massey;Reagin T. McNeill;Reagin T. McNeill;Reagin T. McNeill;K. A. G. Olsen;Paul W. Hodge

268
Citations
A Survey of Local Group Galaxies Currently Forming Stars. II. UBVRI Photometry of Stars in Seven Dwarfs and a Comparison of the Entire Sample

Philip Massey;Philip Massey;K. A. G. Olsen;Paul W. Hodge;George H. Jacoby

266
Citations