2026 Victor P. Debattista: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	75	3415	3246	301	290	288	17000

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

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Physics

3415

3246

301

290

288

17000

Victor P. Debattista 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 Victor P. Debattista sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 288 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Victor P. Debattista 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 Victor P. Debattista sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 75 D-Index — 9th percentile

9% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Victor P. Debattista is affiliated with the University of Central Lancashire in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily spans the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a total of 209 publications in this area. The subfields of study focus mostly on Astronomy and Astrophysics, with 156 publications, followed by Instrumentation (42), Statistical and Nonlinear Physics (7), Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics (3), and Computational Mechanics (2).

The scientist's work covers a range of specific topics, including:

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

Among Victor P. Debattista's recent publications are:

"The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey: Implementation, data products, open cluster survey, science, and legacy," 2022, Astronomy and Astrophysics
"Gastro Library. I. The Simulated Chemodynamical Properties of Several Gaia-Sausage-Enceladus-like Stellar Halos," 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
"Co-formation of the thin and thick discs revealed by APOGEE-DR16 andGaia-DR2," 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
"Geometric properties of galactic discs with clumpy episodes," 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
"The COMBS Survey - II. Distinguishing the metal-poor bulge from the halo interlopers," 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Leandro Beraldo e Silva
Tigran Khachaturyants
Peter Erwin
Stuart Robert Anderson
S. N. Longmore

Victor P. Debattista has published extensively in several scientific journals, with a high concentration of work appearing in:

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

Best Publications

LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

Paul A. Abell;Julius Allison;Scott F. Anderson

1210
Citations
Constraints from Dynamical Friction on the Dark Matter Content of Barred Galaxies

Victor P. Debattista;Victor P. Debattista;J. A. Sellwood

568
Citations
Riding the Spiral Waves: Implications of Stellar Migration for the Properties of Galactic Disks

Rok Roškar;Victor P. Debattista;Thomas R. Quinn;Gregory S. Stinson

493
Citations
The secular evolution of disk structural parameters

Victor P. Debattista;Victor P. Debattista;Lucio Mayer;C. Marcella Carollo;Ben Moore

488
Citations
Thin, thick and dark discs in LCDM

J. I. Read;G. Lake;O. Agertz;Victor P. Debattista

431
Citations
BEYOND INSIDE-OUT GROWTH : FORMATION AND EVOLUTION OF DISK OUTSKIRTS

Rok Roškar;Victor P. Debattista;Victor P. Debattista;Gregory S. Stinson;Gregory S. Stinson;Thomas R. Quinn

429
Citations
Thin, thick and dark discs in ΛCDM

J. I. Read;G. Lake;O. Agertz;Victor P. Debattista

364
Citations
DYNAMICAL FRICTION AND THE DISTRIBUTION OF DARK MATTER IN BARRED GALAXIES

Victor P. Debattista;J. A. Sellwood

364
Citations
The Genesis of the Milky Way's Thick Disk via Stellar Migration

Sarah Loebman;R. Roskar;V. P. Debattista;Z. Ivezic

360
Citations
The Genesis of the Milky Way's Thick Disk Via Stellar Migration

Sarah R. Loebman;Rok Roškar;Rok Roškar;Victor P. Debattista;Željko Ivezić;Željko Ivezić

270
Citations
Radial Migration in Disk Galaxies I: Transient Spiral Structure and Dynamics

R. Roškar;V. P. Debattista;T. R. Quinn;J. Wadsley

237
Citations
Morphological evolution of discs in clusters

Chiara Mastropietro;Ben Moore;Lucio Mayer;Victor P. Debattista;Victor P. Debattista

232
Citations
LSST Science Book, Version 2.0

Paul A. Abell;David L. Burke;Mario Hamuy;Martin Nordby

216
Citations
The Causes of Halo Shape Changes Induced by Cooling Baryons: Disks versus Substructures

Victor P. Debattista;Ben Moore;Thomas Quinn;Stelios Kazantzidis

209
Citations
Separation of Stellar Populations by an Evolving Bar: Implications for the Bulge of the Milky Way

Victor P. Debattista;Melissa Ness;Oscar A. Gonzalez;K. Freeman

206
Citations
Fate of Supermassive Black Holes and Evolution of the M(BH)-sigma Relation in Merging Galaxies: The Effect of Gaseous Dissipation

Stelios Kazantzidis;Lucio Mayer;Monica Colpi;Piero Madau

200
Citations
BULGES OR BARS FROM SECULAR EVOLUTION

Victor P. Debattista;C. Marcella Carollo;Lucio Mayer;Ben Moore

196
Citations
The NGC 404 Nucleus: Star Cluster and Possible Intermediate Mass Black Hole

Anil C. Seth;Michele Cappellari;Nadine Neumayer;Nelson Caldwell

184
Citations
NMAGIC: Fast Parallel Implementation of a Chi-Squared-Made-to-Measure Algorithm for Modelling Observational Data

Flavio de Lorenzi;Victor Debattista;Ortwin Gerhard;Niranjan Sambhus

183
Citations
Clues to Nuclear Star Cluster Formation from Edge-on Spirals

Anil C. Seth;Julianne J. Dalcanton;Paul W. Hodge;Victor P. Debattista

181
Citations