Michael J. Kurtz

Michael J. Kurtz is an astrophysicist at Harvard University, He has held the title of Astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics since 1983, and the additional post of Computer Scientist at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory since 1984. He is especially known both for his research into the distribution of galaxies, and for his creation of the Astrophysics Data System.

Biography

Kurtz received a BA in Physics from San Francisco State University in 1977 and a Ph.D. from Dartmouth College in 1982. From 1984 to 1992 he was Director of the Image Processing Laboratory.

Publications

His h-index is 38.

Astronomy

His most cited papers in astronomy are:

  • Falco, Emilio E.; Kurtz, Michael J.; Geller, Margaret J.; Huchra, John P.; Peters, James; Berlind, Perry; Mink, Douglas J.; Tokarz, Susan P.; Elwell, Barbara (1999). "The Updated Zwicky Catalog (UZC)". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 111 (758): 438. arXiv:astro-ph/9904265. Bibcode:1999PASP..111..438F. doi:10.1086/316343. (cited 340 times according to Google Scholar)
  • Kurtz, Michael J.; Mink, Douglas J. (1998). "RVSAO 2.0: Digital Redshifts and Radial Velocities". Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific. 110 (750): 934–977. arXiv:astro-ph/9803252. Bibcode:1998PASP..110..934K. doi:10.1086/316207. (cited 288 times in Google Scholar)
  • Da Costa, L. Nicolaci; Geller, M. J.; Pellegrini, P. S.; Latham, D. W.; Fairall, A. P.; Marzke, R. O.; Willmer, C. N. A.; Huchra, J. P.; Calderon, J. H.; Ramella, M.; Kurtz, M. J. (1994). "A complete southern sky redshift survey". The Astrophysical Journal. 424: L1. Bibcode:1994ApJ...424L...1D. doi:10.1086/187260. (cited 167 times in Google Scholar)
  • Da Costa, L. Nicolaci; Willmer, C. N. A.; Pellegrini, P. S.; Chaves, O. L.; Rité, C.; Maia, M. A. G.; Geller, M. J.; Latham, D. W.; Kurtz, M. J.; Huchra, J. P.; Ramella, M.; Fairall, A. P.; Smith, C.; Lípari, S. (1998). "The Southern Sky Redshift Survey". The Astronomical Journal. 116 (1): 1–7. arXiv:astro-ph/9804064. Bibcode:1998AJ....116....1D. doi:10.1086/300410. (cited 174 times in Google Scholar)
  • Geller, Margaret J.; Kurtz, Michael J.; Wegner, Gary; Thorstensen, John R.; Fabricant, Daniel G.; Marzke, Ronald O.; Huchra, John P.; Schild, Rudolph E.; Falco, Emilio E. (1997). "The Century Survey: A Deeper Slice of the Universe". The Astronomical Journal. 114: 2205. arXiv:astro-ph/9710109. Bibcode:1997AJ....114.2205G. doi:10.1086/118640. (cited 114 times in Google Scholar)

Bibliometrics/Scientometrics

His most cited publications in bibliometrics/scientometrics are

  • "The Effect of Use and Access on Citations", by Kurtz, Michael J., Eichhorn, Guenther, Accomazzi, Alberto, Grant, Carolyn, Demleitner, Markus, Henneken, Edwin, and Murray, Stephen S.; Information Processing and Management, 41, 1395 (2005) cited 185 times in Google Scholar
  • "The NASA Astrophysics Data System: Overview", by Kurtz, Michael J., Eichhorn, Guenther, Accomazzi, Alberto, Grant, Carolyn S., Murray, Stephen S., and Watson, Joyce M.; Astronomy and Astrophysics Supplement Series, 143, 41 (2000) cited 104 times in Google Scholar
  • "The Bibliometric Properties of Article Readership Information", by Kurtz, Michael J., Eichhorn, Guenther, Accomazzi, Alberto, Grant, Carolyn S., Demleitner, Markus, Murray, Stephen S., Martimbeau, Nathalie, and Elwell, Barbara; Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56, 111 (2005) cited 100 times in Google Scholar
  • "Worldwide Use and Impact of the NASA Astrophysics Data System Digital Library", by Kurtz, Michael J., Eichhorn, Guenther, Accomazzi, Alberto, Grant, Carolyn S., Demleitner, Markus, and Murray, Stephen S.; Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 56, 36 (2005) cited 95 times in Google Scholar
  • "Usage Bibliometrics", by Kurtz, Michael J. and Bollen, Johan; Annual Review of Information Science and Technology, 44, 3 (2010) cited 58 times in Google Scholar
  • "Intelligent Text Retrieval in the NASA Astrophysics Data System", by Kurtz, M. J., Karakashian, T., Grant, C. S., Eichhorn, G., Murray, S. S., Watson, J. M., Ossorio, P. G., and Stoner, J. L.; Astronomical Data Analysis Software and Systems II, 52, 132 (1993) cited 32 times in Google Scholar

Awards
  • Van Biesbroeck Prize, American Astronomical Society, 2001, for design of the ADS Abstract Service [1]
  • ISI/ASIST Citation Award, American Society for Information Science and Technology, 2000,
gollark: Probably at least 3 hard. Usefully extracting the many ores and such you want from things, and then processing them into usable materials probably involves a ton of different processes you have to ship on the space probe. Then you have to convert them into every different part you might need, meaning yet more machinery. And you have to do this with whatever possibly poor quality resources you find, automatically with no human to fix issues, accurately enough to reach whatever tolerances all the stuff needs, and have it stand up to damage on route.
gollark: 3.00005.
gollark: Without GregTech. I haven't used it recently, which is probably for the best.
gollark: If there wasn't that, I probably would have added a thing to isolate power from the main network and just run the storage bits.
gollark: Arguably, the system was quite overengineered.

References
  1. American Institute of Physics Archived 2012-06-15 at the Wayback Machine
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