Kepler
4,573 tracked publications and 232,495 citations from 2009–2026. Launched 2009. Life-cycle cost: $1.1B in 2025 dollars. Active Mission Window June 1, 2009 to November 1, 2020: 3,025 publications, 426 top-10% credit.
Survey Observatory · h-index 204 · 553 papers with 100+ citations · prime mission ended 2012
Lifetime
Key measures
| Active Mission Window · papers June 1, 2009 to November 1, 2020 | |
|---|---|
| Tracked publications | 3,025 |
| Citations | 80,484 |
| Mean citations per publication | 27 |
| Median citations per publication | 16 |
| Uncited publications | 123 (4.1%) |
| Top-10% credit | 426 |
| Top-1% credit | 47 |
| Lifetime indices · every tracked publication to date, in any scope | |
|---|---|
| h-index | 204 |
| g-index | 322 |
| m-index, as of October 4, 2026 | 11.3 |
| tori | 657 |
| riq | 1,424 |
Tracked publications
Kepler Planet-Detection Mission: Introduction and First Results
3,888
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3,608
The K2 Mission: Characterization and Early Results
1,805
Habitable Zones around Main-sequence Stars: New Estimates
1,379
The California-Kepler Survey. III. A Gap in the Radius Distribution of Small Planets
1,369
Kepler Mission Design, Realized Photometric Performance, and Early Science
1,162
Planet Occurrence within 0.25 AU of Solar-type Stars from Kepler
1,083
The False Positive Rate of Kepler and the Occurrence of Planets
1,046
Planetary Candidates Observed by Kepler. III. Analysis of the First 16 Months of Data
1,041
Kepler Presearch Data Conditioning II - A Bayesian Approach to Systematic Error Correction
991
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963
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953
Fast and Scalable Gaussian Process Modeling with Applications to Astronomical Time Series
948
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862
The Evaporation Valley in the Kepler Planets
840
Kepler Planets: A Tale of Evaporation
832
The NASA Exoplanet Archive: Data and Tools for Exoplanet Research
816
Kepler Input Catalog: Photometric Calibration and Stellar Classification
815
Rotation Periods of 34,030 Kepler Main-sequence Stars: The Full Autocorrelation Sample
758
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746
How we found these papers
We searched NASA’s Astrophysics Data System (ADS) for peer-reviewed articles naming Kepler in the title, abstract or keywords; standard filters drop articles that are not peer-reviewed and magazine pieces. SciX is ADS’s current interface.
(((facility:"Kepler" OR (=abs:("Kepler mission"~2 OR "Kepler missions"~2 OR "Kepler spacecraft"~2 OR "Kepler satellite"~2 OR "Kepler telescope"~3 OR "Kepler photometry"~2 OR "Kepler data"~2 OR "Kepler observations"~2 OR "Kepler observed"~2 OR "Kepler light curve"~3 OR "Kepler light curves"~3 OR "Kepler targets"~2 OR "Kepler field"~2 OR "Kepler catalog"~3 OR "Kepler survey"~2 OR "Kepler candidates"~2 OR "Kepler sample"~2 OR "Kepler asteroseismology"~3 OR "Kepler asteroseismic"~3 OR "Kepler eclipsing"~2 OR "Kepler binary"~2 OR "Kepler binaries"~2))) OR facility:K2 OR abs:/kepler[0-9]+[a-z]?/ OR ((=abs:("K2 mission"~2 OR "K2 campaign"~3 OR "K2 data"~2 OR "K2 photometry"~2 OR "K2 light curve"~3 OR "K2 observations"~2 OR "K2 observed"~2 OR "K2 TESS"~3 OR "K2 b"~2 OR "K2 planet"~2 OR "K2 planets"~2) OR (abs:/k2[0-9]+[a-z]?/ AND abs:K2)) AND =abs:(star OR stars OR stellar OR planet OR planets OR planetary OR transit OR transits OR photometry OR asteroseismology OR "light curve" OR "light curves" OR Kepler OR EPIC))) AND NOT =abs:("Kepler supernova remnant"~3 OR "Kepler SNR")) AND property:refereed AND doctype:article AND pubdate:[2009-06 TO 2040-01] AND NOT bibstem:("A&R" OR "AIASJ" OR "AeAm" OR "AirSp" OR "AsNow" OR "AsUAI" OR "AvWST" OR "C&E" OR "C&T" OR "CAPJ" OR "E&S" OR "ENews" OR "IrAJ" OR "JCos" OR "JRASC" OR "LAstr" OR "MNSSA" OR "Met" OR "NewSc" OR "Orion" OR "PhT" OR "PhTea" OR "PhuZ" OR "PhyOJ" OR "PhyW" OR "PlR" OR "SciAm" OR "SpFl" OR "ZemVs")
Removed after review
- Transiting exoplanets from the CoRoT space mission. VIII. CoRoT-7b: the first super-Earth with measured radius Mentions Kepler only prospectively ("will affect"); the paper is primarily about a different mission's discovery, so Kepler is not the subject of the science result.
- Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) Mission description of TESS; mentions Kepler only as a predecessor.