- Early-time spectroscopy of Gamma-ray burst afterglows
- SN Ia rates and SN host populations
- AGB Stellar wind/ISM interactions
- Extragalactic Novae and host populations
- Stellar Populations in the Local Group
- Short Period CVs
- X-ray Selected Galaxy Clusters
- Supernova Remnants
Selected Publications:
- ''Three Lyman-alpha-emitting filaments converging to a massive galaxy group at z = 2.91: discussing the case for cold gas infall'' Daddi, E., Valentino, F., Rich, R. M., Neill, J. D., et al. 2021, A&A, 649, 78.
- ''A blue ring nebula from a stellar merger several thousand years ago'' Hoadley, Keri, Martin, D. Christopher, Metzger, Brian D., Seibert, Mark, McWilliam, Andrew, Shen, Ken J., Neill, James D., et al. 2020, Nature, 587, 387.
- ''Global Attenuation in Spiral Galaxies in Optical and Infrared Bands'' Kourkchi, Ehsan, Tully, R. Brent, Neill, J. Don, et al. 2019, ApJ, 884, 82.
- ''Fully automated integral field spectrograph pipeline for the SEDMachine: pysedm'' Rigault, M., Neill, J. D., Blagorodnova, N., et al. 2019, A&A, 627, 115.
- ''The Keck Cosmic Web Imager Integral Field Spectrograph'' Morrissey, P., Matuszewski, M., Martin, C., Neill, J. D., et al. 2018, ApJ, 864, 93.
- ''The SED Machine: A Robotic Spectrograph for Fast Transient Classification'' Blagorodnova, N., Neill, J. D., Walters, R, Kulkarni, S. R., et al. 2018, PASP, 130, 035003.
- ''A giant protogalactic disk linked to the cosmic web'' Martin, D. C., Matuszewski, M., Morrissey, P., Neill, J. D., Moore, A., Cantalupo, S., Prochaska, J. X., Chang, D. 2015, Nature, 524, 192.
- ''Giant Sparks at Cosmological Distances?'' Kulkarni, S. R., Ofek, E. O., Neill, J. D., Zheng, Z., Juric, M. 2014, ApJ, 797, 70.
- ''The Calibration of the WISE W1 and W2 Tully-Fisher Relation'' Neill, J. D., Seibert, M., Tully, R. B., et al. 2014, ApJ, 792, 129.
- ''The GALEX Time Domain Survey. I. Selection and Classification of Over a Thousand Ultraviolet Variable Sources'' Gezari, S., Martin, D. C., Forster, K., Neill, J. D., et al. 2013, ApJ, 766, 60.
- ''Classical Novae in Andromeda: Light Curves from the Palomar Transient Factory and GALEX'' Cao, Y., Kasliwal, M. M., Neill, J. D., et al. 2012, ApJ, 752, 133.
- ''The Extreme Hosts of Extreme Supernovae'' Neill, J. D., et al. 2011, ApJ, 727, 15.
- ''Supernova PTF 09UJ: A Possible Shock Breakout from a Dense Circumstellar Wind'' Ofek, E., Rabinak, I., Neill, J. D., et al. 2010, ApJ, 724, 1396.
- ''The Local Hosts of Type Ia Supernovae'' Neill, J. D., et al. 2009, ApJ, 707, 1449.
- ''The Star Formation Law at Low Surface Density'' Wyder, T. K., et al. 2008, ApJ, 696, 1834.
- ''The Peculiar Velocities of Local Type Ia Supernovae and their Impact on Cosmology'' Neill, J. D., Hudson, M. J., & Conley, A. 2007, ApJ, 661, L123.
- ''The Type Ia Supernova Rate at z~0.5 from the Supernova Legacy Survey'' Neill, J. D., et al. 2006, AJ, 132, 1126.
- ''Tramp Novae Between Galaxies in the Fornax Cluster: Tracers of Intracluster Light'' Neill, J. D., Shara, M., M., Oegerle, W. R. 2005, ApJ, 618, 692.
- ''The H-alpha Light Curves and Spatial Distribution of Novae in M81'' Neill, J. D., Shara, M., M. 2004, AJ, 127, 816. (astro-ph/0311327)
- ''The First Orbital Period for a Dwarf Nova in a Globular Cluster: V101 in M5'' Neill, J. D., Shara, M., M., Caulet, A., & Buckley, D. A. H. 2002, AJ, 123, 3298.