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Rychard Bouwens

Rychard Bouwens

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Physics
Netherlands
2026

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Physics

D-Index
133
Citations
53900
World Ranking
516
National Ranking
10

Rychard Bouwens 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 Rychard Bouwens sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 374 publications — 33rd percentile

33% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rychard Bouwens 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 Rychard Bouwens sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 133 D-Index — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Physics in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Physics in Netherlands Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Physics in Netherlands Leader Award

Overview

Rychard Bouwens is affiliated with Leiden University in the Netherlands and has an extensive publication record primarily in the fields of physics and astronomy. Their research spans main topics such as galaxies' formation, evolution, and phenomena, as well as astronomy and astrophysical research. Other topics include gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, astrophysics and star formation studies, stellar, planetary, and galactic studies, astrophysical phenomena and observations, and broader astrophysics and cosmic phenomena.

Their work is published frequently in several key venues, with the highest number of contributions appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), followed by Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, The Astrophysical Journal, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

Rychard Bouwens has contributed significantly to several recent papers, including:

  • "Two Remarkably Luminous Galaxy Candidates at z ≈ 10-12 Revealed by JWST" (2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters)
  • "Little Red Dots: An Abundant Population of Faint Active Galactic Nuclei at z ∼ 5 Revealed by the EIGER and FRESCO JWST Surveys" (2024, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • "Reionization Era Bright Emission Line Survey: Selection and Characterization of Luminous Interstellar Medium Reservoirs in the z > 6.5 Universe" (2022, The Astrophysical Journal)
  • "The JWST FRESCO survey: legacy NIRCam/grism spectroscopy and imaging in the two GOODS fields" (2023, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society)
  • "Galaxy Stellar Mass Functions from z ∼ 10 to z ∼ 6 using the Deepest Spitzer/Infrared Array Camera Data: No Significant Evolution in the Stellar-to-halo Mass Ratio of Galaxies in the First Gigayear of Cosmic Time" (2021, The Astrophysical Journal)

Collaborative work is a notable aspect of Bouwens' career. Frequent co-authors include Pascal A. Oesch, Mauro Stefanon, Renske Smit, G. D. Illingworth, and P. van der Werf.

Their research covers subfields such as astronomy and astrophysics, instrumentation, nuclear and high energy physics, computational mechanics, and atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Best Publications

  • Cluster Lensing And Supernova survey with Hubble (CLASH): An Overview

    Marc Postman;Dan Coe;Narciso Benitez;Larry Bradley

  • UV Luminosity Functions at z~4, 5, and 6 from the Hubble Ultra Deep Field and Other Deep Hubble Space Telescope ACS Fields: Evolution and Star Formation History*

    Rychard J Bouwens;Garth D Illingworth;Marijn Franx;Holland Ford

  • UV luminosity functions at redshifts z ∼ 4 to z ∼ 10: 10,000 galaxies from HST legacy fields

    R.J. Bouwens;R.J. Bouwens;G.D. Illingworth;P.A. Oesch;P.A. Oesch;M. Trenti

  • UV Luminosity Functions at z~4, 5, and 6 from the HUDF and other Deep HST ACS Fields: Evolution and Star Formation History

    Rychard J. Bouwens;Garth D. Illingworth;Marijn Franx;Holland Ford

  • UV Luminosity Functions from 132 z~7 and z~8 Lyman-Break Galaxies in the ultra-deep HUDF09 and wide-area ERS WFC3/IR Observations

    R. J. Bouwens;G. D. Illingworth;P. A. Oesch;I. Labbe

  • THE CLUSTER LENSING AND SUPERNOVA SURVEY WITH HUBBLE: AN OVERVIEW

    Marc Postman;Dan Coe;Narciso Benítez;Larry Bradley

  • Confirmation of the Remarkable Compactness of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 2.3: Early-Type Galaxies Did not Form in a Simple Monolithic Collapse* **

    Pieter G. van Dokkum;Marijn Franx;Mariska Kriek;Bradford Holden

  • Ultraviolet Luminosity Functions from 132 z ~ 7 and z ~ 8 Lyman-break Galaxies in the Ultra-deep HUDF09 and Wide-area Early Release Science WFC3/IR Observations

    R. J. Bouwens;R. J. Bouwens;G. D. Illingworth;P. A. Oesch;I. Labbé

  • Discovery of z~8 Galaxies in the HUDF from ultra-deep WFC3/IR Observations

    R. J. Bouwens;G. D. Illingworth;P. A. Oesch;M. Stiavelli

  • UV-continuum Slopes at z ~ 4-7 from the HUDF09+ERS+CANDELS Observations: Discovery of a Well-defined UV Color-Magnitude Relationship for z ≥ 4 Star-forming Galaxies

    R. J. Bouwens;R. J. Bouwens;G. D. Illingworth;P.A. Oesch;M. Franx

  • UV Continuum Slope and Dust Obscuration from z ~ 6 to z ~ 2: The Star Formation Rate Density at High Redshift

    R. J. Bouwens;R. J. Bouwens;G. D. Illingworth;M. Franx;R.-R. Chary

  • The Morphology - Density Relation in z ~ 1 Clusters

    M. Postman;M. Franx;N. Cross;B. Holden

  • Galaxies in the Hubble Ultra Deep Field. I. Detection, Multiband Photometry, Photometric Redshifts, and Morphology

    Dan Coe;Dan Coe;Narciso Benítez;Narciso Benítez;Sebastián F. Sánchez;Myungkook Jee

  • Size Evolution of the Most Massive Galaxies at 1.7 < z < 3 from GOODS NICMOS Survey Imaging

    Fernando Buitrago;Ignacio Trujillo;Christopher J. Conselice;Rychard J. Bouwens

  • Galaxies at z~6: The UV Luminosity Function and Luminosity Density from 506 UDF, UDF-Ps, and GOODS i-dropouts

    R.J. Bouwens;G.D. Illingworth;J.P. Blakeslee;M. Franx

  • z ~ 7-10 Galaxies in the HUDF and GOODS Fields: UV Luminosity Functions

    Rychard J. Bouwens;Garth D. Illingworth;Marijn Franx;Holland Ford

  • z~7-10 Galaxies in the HUDF and GOODS fields, and their UV Luminosity Functions

    Rychard J. Bouwens;Garth D. Illingworth;Marijn Franx;Holland Ford

  • DISCOVERY OF z ∼ 8 GALAXIES IN THE HUBBLE ULTRA DEEP FIELD FROM ULTRA-DEEP WFC3/IR OBSERVATIONS*

    R. J. Bouwens;R. J. Bouwens;G. D. Illingworth;P. A. Oesch;M. Stiavelli

  • Strong Lensing Analysis of A1689 from Deep Advanced Camera Images

    Tom Broadhurst;Narciso Benitez;Dan Coe;Keren Sharon

  • The Morphology-Density Relation in z ~ 1 Clusters

    M. Postman;M. Franx;N.J.G. Cross;B. Holden

Frequent Co-Authors

Garth D. Illingworth
Garth D. Illingworth University of California, Santa Cruz
Tom Broadhurst
Tom Broadhurst University of the Basque Country
Pascal Oesch
Pascal Oesch University of Geneva
Marijn Franx
Marijn Franx Leiden University
Marc Postman
Marc Postman Space Telescope Science Institute
Michele Trenti
Michele Trenti University of Melbourne
Ivo Labbe
Ivo Labbe Swinburne University of Technology
Franz E. Bauer
Franz E. Bauer Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
Holland C. Ford
Holland C. Ford Johns Hopkins University
John P. Blakeslee
John P. Blakeslee National Optical-Infrared Astronomy Research Lab

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