Results presented here are based on the bibliomatrix site (NASA-ADS based).
The impact factor (IF) and total citations numbers have been computed using refereed astrophysical papers only starting from 2000.
As a starting point I used the list by Mark Newman (arXiv:cond-mat/0007214v1) including all authors with at least 10 entries
in the arXiV/astro-ph database up to year 2000.
I further refined the search by including authors from the most cited papers (with more than 700 citations, mainly from the SDSS and WMAP).
I then refined the analysis checking all the poeple with IF larger than 400 with Harzing's Publish or Perish software. Results
obtained with PoP are however plagued by too many cases of homonimy with collegues working in physics.
Here are the result. I only list here people with an IF larger than 750. In red I have highlighted European researchers.
As a disclaimer I have to add that for a few people with common surnames I encountered problems.
I tried to sort them out manually but I am not fully sure that I included all of them properly.
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Name P C I P/A C/A I/A h h/A F Nat University
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1 SCHNEIDER, D. 381(381) 26533 1608.0 34.3 1594.7 142.0 91. 16. 12(12) USA Penn State
2 FABIAN, A. 334(334) 12782 1501.1 91.7 3159.0 380.6 65. 27. 42(42) UK Cambridge
3 GEHRELS, N. 236(236) 8377 1399.2 23.8 509.0 99.0 47. 10. 16(16) USA Goddard
4 KULKARNI, S. 171(171) 8426 1352.1 30.0 1191.1 221.9 50. 14. 6( 6) USA Caltech
5 FILIPPENKO, A. 249(249) 15530 1333.2 34.2 1442.0 155.4 56. 17. 4( 4) USA Berkeley
6 BRINKMANN, J. 305(305) 34753 1315.2 24.1 1828.8 103.2 95. 18. 0( 0) USA APO
7 YORK, D. 240(240) 21108 1199.7 20.7 950.2 94.3 75. 13. 4( 4) USA Chicago
8 RICH, R. 218(218) 6741 1192.8 29.2 858.4 144.9 45. 14. 9( 9) USA UCLA
9 HERNQUIST, L. 193(193) 11111 1170.9 49.4 2978.2 302.3 59. 26. 1( 1) USA CFA
10 RIEKE, G. 210(210) 9339 1168.2 26.8 768.4 143.5 51. 12. 7( 7) USA Steward
11 HECKMAN, T. 224(224) 16215 1151.1 27.3 1373.5 136.3 62. 19. 10(10) USA Hopkins
12 ZHANG, B. 246(246) 6841 1074.4 61.9 1599.5 241.6 49. 20. 54(54) USA Nevada
13 ELLIS, R. 192(192) 15877 1057.2 24.9 1413.6 147.5 67. 18. 6( 6) USA Caltech
14 BURROWS, D.N. 181(181) 7645 1021.5 14.9 506.6 75.0 45. 10. 7( 7) USA Penn State
15 BRANDT, W.N. 208(208) 11212 1016.1 32.9 1374.1 155.7 61. 18. 15(15) USA Penn State
16 NOMOTO, K. 149(149) 5261 1015.1 26.3 881.0 168.0 45. 14. 6( 6) JAP Tokio
17 LOEB, A. 168(168) 5820 1000.7 83.3 2776.9 479.5 42. 29. 29(29) USA Harvard
18 KOUVELIOTOU, C. 145(145) 6235 971.7 13.9 453.5 101.9 41. 8. 4( 4) USA Marshall
19 SILK, J. 211(211) 4418 933.1 81.6 1512.4 339.8 39. 19. 23(23) UK Oxford
20 MESZAROS, P. 136(136) 7462 926.6 40.0 2173.9 240.5 47. 20. 18(18) USA Penn State
21 VAN DER KLIS, M.184(184) 5062 926.2 41.2 1359.1 185.0 37. 13. 8( 8) NL Amsterdam
22 RIX, H. 177(177) 10139 912.8 22.2 1227.8 113.0 59. 13. 1( 1) D Heidelberg
23 SMAIL, I. 164(164) 7492 900.6 24.9 1114.0 151.6 50. 16. 14(14) UK Durham
24 AHARONIAN, F. 209(209) 7358 896.9 33.6 843.1 161.3 49. 14. 112(112) D Heidelberg
25 GARMIRE, G. 164(164) 8853 880.8 26.0 1098.5 137.7 54. 17. 2( 2) USA Penn State
26 SZALAY, A. 181(181) 16027 878.4 16.2 664.0 76.0 60. 12. 4( 4) USA Hopkins
27 NICHOL, R. 180(180) 18258 873.6 17.5 929.7 86.7 67. 15. 3( 3) UK Porthsmouth
28 GAENSLER, B. 148(148) 3527 851.7 31.9 675.6 166.6 34. 11. 27(27) AUS Sidney
29 FRAIL, D. 104(104) 6813 845.9 14.1 763.9 97.1 46. 13. 11(11) USA NRAO
30 MADORE, B. 154(154) 6902 882.0 16.9 580.6 90.8 40. 10. 10(10) USA Caltech
31 IVISON, R. 156(156) 7514 867.5 24.2 1146.9 135.1 50. 16. 11(11) UK Edinburgh
32 BEERS, T. 163(163) 7277 862.9 24.2 955.5 137.7 47. 13. 12(12) USA Michigan
33 IRWIN, M. 187(187) 6768 848.3 30.4 1017.5 133.0 49. 16. 5( 5) UK Cambridge
34 O'BRIEN, P. 148(148) 5430 842.7 22.8 430.1 64.6 40. 10. 15(15) UK Leicester
35 CAMILO, F. 128(128) 4239 835.5 17.4 526.0 102.7 36. 11. 19(19) USA Colombia
36 CAMPANA, S. 179(179) 6244 832.7 21.0 427.9 81.5 38. 9. 30(30) I Brera
37 FRANX, M. 140(140) 6819 817.0 17.6 921.7 107.0 50. 15. 2( 2) NL Leiden
38 HO, L. 162(162) 8690 811.2 45.3 1906.1 236.2 49. 23. 20(20) USA Carnegie
39 CHAPMAN, S. 172(172) 5904 806.1 35.0 929.5 134.6 44. 14. 32(32) UK Cambridge
40 GORDON, K. 149(149) 6362 802.4 15.7 556.3 85.2 45. 11. 10(10) USA STSCI
41 FREEMAN, K. 185(185) 5833 778.9 31.6 776.0 110.1 43. 13. 5( 5) AUS Camberra
42 HURLEY, K. 150(150) 5830 778.3 20.0 339.0 51.5 43. 9. 21(21) USA SSL
43 FENDER, R. 158(158) 4650 778.1 39.7 1402.9 164.5 35. 19. 29(29) UK Southampton
44 MAZZALI, P. 123(123) 4277 777.3 17.7 533.1 90.7 38. 11. 21(21) I Pisa
45 STRAUSS, M. 172(172) 19145 768.7 14.5 918.0 86.4 73. 14. 2( 2) USA Princeton
46 LEWIS, G. 152(152) 3858 765.9 38.0 714.1 181.6 35. 12. 31(31) AUS Sydney
47 BERGER, E. 97( 97) 4996 764.7 14.8 557.1 91.9 42. 12. 33(33) USA Harvard
48 WHITE, S. 156(156) 13653 752.7 34.6 2314.0 157.8 57. 25. 4( 4) D Garching
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Name P C I P/A C/A I/A h h/A F Nat University
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P: refereed paper count
C: total citation count
I: total impact factor (IF)
P/A: normalized paper count (sum of 1/A where A =
number of authors for each paper)
C/A: normalized citation count (sum of C/A, where C = citations for each paper)
I/A: normalized IF (sum of I/A where I = impact factor
for each paper)
F: number of first-author papers
h: h-statistics (see physics/0508025)
h-bar: author-normalized h-statistics
Notes:
What is the impact factor: The impact factor, often abbreviated IF, is a measure of the citations to science and social science journals. It is frequently used as a proxy for the importance of a journal to its field. The Impact factor was devised by Eugene Garfield, the founder of the Institute for Scientific Information, now part of Thomson, a large worldwide US-based publisher. Impact factors are calculated each year by Thomson Scientific for those journals which it indexes, and the factors and indices are published in Journal Citation Reports. The publication of each year covered occurs in the summer of the following year.