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Philip Massey

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Physics

D-Index
80
Citations
20274
World Ranking
3039
National Ranking
1467

Philip Massey 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 Philip Massey sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 405 publications — 39th percentile

39% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Philip Massey 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 Philip Massey sits on this spectrum.

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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

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

  • 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

  • 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

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

    Philip Massey;Deidre A. Hunter

  • A UBVR CCD Survey of the Magellanic Clouds

    Philip Massey;Philip Massey

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

    Philip Massey

  • 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

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

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

  • Spectroscopic studies of O type stars. IX - Binary frequency

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

  • Massive stars in Cyg OB2

    Philip Massey;A. B. Thompson

  • 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

  • The Kitt Peak spectrophotometric standards : extension to 1 micron

    Philip Massey;Caryl Gronwall

  • 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

  • NGC 6611: a cluster caught in the act

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

  • 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

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

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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Nidia Morrell
Nidia Morrell Carnegie Learning
Bertrand Plez
Bertrand Plez University of Montpellier
Luciana Bianchi
Luciana Bianchi Johns Hopkins University
J. B. Hutchings
J. B. Hutchings National Research Council Canada
Remy Indebetouw
Remy Indebetouw National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Paul A. Crowther
Paul A. Crowther University of Sheffield
Lynne A. Hillenbrand
Lynne A. Hillenbrand California Institute of Technology
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki
Rolf-Peter Kudritzki University of Hawaii at Manoa
Dennis Zaritsky
Dennis Zaritsky University of Arizona
D. J. Lennon
D. J. Lennon University of La Laguna

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