Citation Counts

For better or worse, academics use citation counts as one of several ways to assess the value of a researcher’s output. Learn how to find these numbers.

Asteroids with UCF Connections

See a list of the asteroids named for people with UCF connections, past and present.

Reproducible Research

I have produced a software license designed to ensure that the codes it applies to will, in fact, always produce reproducible results, because publishing results from those codes will require the publication of the code itself.

Open-Source Software

Here is a collection of free software packages that implement astronomical methods. Some are relevant to a wider audience as well.

Lists of Jupiter Family and Halley-Type Comets

A dark comet with a rough, irregular surface emits bright jets of gas and dust against the blackness of space. — *Image credit: ESA/Rosetta/MPS for OSIRIS Team MPS/UPD/LAM/IAA/SSO/INTA/UPM/DASP/IDA*.

Yan Fernandez maintains this list of comets that are orbitally in the “Jupiter Family” and those that are orbitally in the “Halley-Type”. The webpage also has additional lists such as active Centaurs, and activated asteroids/MBCs.