| Tracing galaxy formation with stellar halos. I. Methods JS Bullock, KV Johnston The Astrophysical Journal 635 (2), 931, 2005 | 1299 | 2005 |
| The accretion origin of the Milky Way’s stellar halo EF Bell, DB Zucker, V Belokurov, S Sharma, KV Johnston, JS Bullock, ... The Astrophysical Journal 680 (1), 295, 2008 | 535 | 2008 |
| Pathways to Discovery in Astronomy and Astrophysics for the 2020s National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine | 507 | 2021 |
| Tracing galaxy formation with stellar halos. II. Relating substructure in phase and abundance space to accretion histories KV Johnston, JS Bullock, S Sharma, A Font, BE Robertson, SN Leitner The Astrophysical Journal 689 (2), 936, 2008 | 504 | 2008 |
| Lsst science book, version 2.0 PA Abell, J Allison, SF Anderson, JR Andrew, JRP Angel, L Armus, ... | 423 | 2009 |
| Galaxia: A code to generate a synthetic survey of the Milky Way S Sharma, J Bland-Hawthorn, KV Johnston, J Binney The Astrophysical Journal 730 (1), 3, 2011 | 413 | 2011 |
| A two micron all-sky survey view of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. IV. Modeling the Sagittarius tidal tails DR Law, KV Johnston, SR Majewski The Astrophysical Journal 619 (2), 807, 2005 | 404 | 2005 |
| The disruption of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. KV Johnston, DN Spergel, L Hernquist arXiv preprint astro-ph/9502005, 1995 | 398 | 1995 |
| Fossil signatures of ancient accretion events in the halo KV Johnston, L Hernquist, M Bolte arXiv preprint astro-ph/9602060, 1996 | 396 | 1996 |
| A Prescription for building the Milky Way's halo from disrupted satellites KV Johnston The Astrophysical Journal 495 (1), 297, 1998 | 359 | 1998 |
| Footprints of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy in the Gaia data set CFP Laporte, I Minchev, KV Johnston, FA Gómez Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 485 (3), 3134-3152, 2019 | 308 | 2019 |
| A Two Micron All Sky Survey view of the Sagittarius dwarf galaxy. III. Constraints on the flattening of the galactic halo KV Johnston, DR Law, SR Majewski The Astrophysical Journal 619 (2), 800, 2005 | 291 | 2005 |
| How lumpy is the Milky Way’s dark matter halo? KV Johnston, DN Spergel, C Haydn The Astrophysical Journal 570 (2), 656, 2002 | 291 | 2002 |
| The influence of Sagittarius and the Large Magellanic Cloud on the stellar disc of the Milky Way Galaxy CFP Laporte, KV Johnston, FA Gómez, N Garavito-Camargo, G Besla Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society 481 (1), 286-306, 2018 | 268 | 2018 |
| Chemical abundance distributions of galactic halos and their satellite systems in a ΛCDM universe AS Font, KV Johnston, JS Bullock, BE Robertson The Astrophysical Journal 638 (2), 585, 2006 | 263 | 2006 |
| Λ cold dark matter, stellar feedback, and the galactic halo abundance pattern B Robertson, JS Bullock, AS Font, KV Johnston, L Hernquist The Astrophysical Journal 632 (2), 872, 2005 | 263 | 2005 |
| Globular cluster streams as galactic high-precision scales—the poster child Palomar 5 AHW Küpper, E Balbinot, A Bonaca, KV Johnston, DW Hogg, P Kroupa, ... The Astrophysical Journal 803 (2), 80, 2015 | 253 | 2015 |
| Clumpy streams from clumpy halos: detecting missing satellites with cold stellar structures JH Yoon, KV Johnston, DW Hogg The Astrophysical Journal 731 (1), 58, 2011 | 238 | 2011 |
| Hunting for the dark matter wake induced by the large magellanic cloud N Garavito-Camargo, G Besla, CFP Laporte, KV Johnston, FA Gómez, ... The Astrophysical Journal 884 (1), 51, 2019 | 234 | 2019 |
| Broken and unbroken: the Milky Way and M31 stellar halos AJ Deason, V Belokurov, NW Evans, KV Johnston The Astrophysical Journal 763 (2), 113, 2013 | 227 | 2013 |