A. D’Ercole

4.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

A. D’Ercole is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, A. D’Ercole has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 20 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in A. D’Ercole's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (47 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (39 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (23 papers). A. D’Ercole is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (47 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (39 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (23 papers). A. D’Ercole collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Australia. A. D’Ercole's co-authors include F. D’Antona, Enrico Vesperini, Stephen L. W. McMillan, S. Recchi, Fabrizio Brighenti, Luca Ciotti, P. Ventura, A. Renzini, Silvia Pellegrini and A. Marcolini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

A. D’Ercole

57 papers receiving 2.6k citations

Hit Papers

Formation and dynamical evolution of multiple stellar gen... 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 100 200 300 400
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Formation and dynamical evolution of multiple stellar generations in globular clusters
    2008 435 citations A. D’Ercole, Enrico Vesperini et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
A. D’Ercole Italy 29 2.7k 1.1k 281 30 28 59 2.7k
Ian B. Thompson United States 21 1.9k 0.7× 684 0.7× 236 0.8× 31 1.0× 45 1.6× 48 2.0k
J. Masegosa Spain 22 1.3k 0.5× 469 0.4× 196 0.7× 24 0.8× 42 1.5× 86 1.3k
M. L. McCall Canada 20 1.6k 0.6× 536 0.5× 201 0.7× 25 0.8× 46 1.6× 69 1.7k
J. Melnick Chile 25 1.8k 0.7× 570 0.5× 301 1.1× 20 0.7× 56 2.0× 85 1.8k
Elisha Polomski United States 20 2.0k 0.7× 461 0.4× 470 1.7× 23 0.8× 44 1.6× 36 2.0k
R. A. M. Walterbos United States 29 2.1k 0.8× 464 0.4× 319 1.1× 33 1.1× 62 2.2× 76 2.1k
V. A. Lipovetsky Russia 19 1.5k 0.6× 572 0.5× 202 0.7× 15 0.5× 36 1.3× 41 1.5k
E. Terlevich Mexico 20 1.2k 0.5× 383 0.4× 198 0.7× 25 0.8× 30 1.1× 57 1.3k
Carmelle Robert Canada 22 1.8k 0.7× 586 0.6× 129 0.5× 20 0.7× 48 1.7× 51 1.8k
L. Greggio Italy 31 2.8k 1.1× 1.4k 1.4× 249 0.9× 25 0.8× 99 3.5× 87 2.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by A. D’Ercole

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of A. D’Ercole

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of A. D’Ercole. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of A. D’Ercole based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with A. D’Ercole. A. D’Ercole is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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D’Antona, F., P. Ventura, A. F. Marino, et al.. (2025). Dating N-loud AGNs at high redshift. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 700. A265–A265. 1 indexed citations
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D’Antona, F., Enrico Vesperini, F. Calura, et al.. (2023). GN-z11: Witnessing the formation of second-generation stars and an accreting massive black hole in a massive star cluster. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 680. L19–L19. 15 indexed citations
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Calura, F., M. Bellazzini, & A. D’Ercole. (2020). Hydrodynamic simulations of an isolated star-forming gas cloud in the Virgo cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499(4). 5873–5890. 12 indexed citations
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Romano, D., F. Calura, A. D’Ercole, & C. G. Few. (2019). High-resolution three-dimensional simulations of gas removal from ultrafaint dwarf galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 630. A140–A140. 21 indexed citations
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Gilli, R., F. Calura, A. D’Ercole, & Colin Norman. (2017). Exponentially growing bubbles around early supermassive black holes. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 5 indexed citations
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Tailo, M., F. D’Antona, Enrico Vesperini, et al.. (2015). Rapidly rotating second-generation progenitors for the ‘blue hook’ stars of ω Centauri. Nature. 523(7560). 318–321. 28 indexed citations
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Calura, F., C. G. Few, D. Romano, & A. D’Ercole. (2015). FEEDBACK FROM MASSIVE STARS AND GAS EXPULSION FROM PROTO-GLOBULAR CLUSTERS. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 814(1). L14–L14. 51 indexed citations
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Thygesen, A. O., L. Sbordone, S. M. Andrievsky, et al.. (2014). The chemical composition of red giants in 47 Tucanae. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 572. A108–A108. 35 indexed citations
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D’Antona, F., P. Ventura, T. Decressin, Enrico Vesperini, & A. D’Ercole. (2014). Pre-main-sequence accretion and the formation of multiple populations in globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 443(4). 3302–3308. 10 indexed citations
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D’Antona, F., V. Caloi, A. D’Ercole, et al.. (2013). The puzzle of metallicity and multiple stellar populations in the globular clusters in Fornax. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 434(2). 1138–1150. 24 indexed citations
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Vesperini, Enrico, Steve McMillan, F. D’Antona, & A. D’Ercole. (2012). Dynamics of Multiple Stellar Populations in Globular Clusters. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 10(H16). 251–252. 1 indexed citations
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Pipino, A., et al.. (2012). Chemical evolution of bulges at high redshift.
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Vesperini, Enrico, Stephen L. W. McMillan, F. D’Antona, & A. D’Ercole. (2011). Binary star disruption in globular clusters with multiple stellar populations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. no–no. 21 indexed citations
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D’Ercole, A., F. D’Antona, P. Ventura, Enrico Vesperini, & Stephen L. W. McMillan. (2010). Abundance patterns of multiple populations in globular clusters: a chemical evolution model based on yields from AGB ejecta. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 407(2). 854–869. 154 indexed citations
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Melioli, C., et al.. (2008). Hydrodynamical simulations of Galactic fountains – I. Evolution of single fountains. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 388(2). 573–586. 35 indexed citations
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Marcolini, A., A. D’Ercole, G. Battaglia, & B. K. Gibson. (2008). The chemical evolution of dwarf spheroidal galaxies: dissecting the inner regions and their stellar populations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 386(4). 2173–2180. 38 indexed citations
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Recchi, S., F. Matteuccí, A. D’Ercole, & M. Tosi. (2004). Continuous star formation in IZw18. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 426(1). 37–51. 30 indexed citations
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Recchi, S., F. Matteuccí, A. D’Ercole, & M. Tosi. (2002). Multiple starbursts in Blue Compact Galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 384(3). 799–811. 40 indexed citations
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D’Ercole, A., et al.. (1997). On the early evolution of aspherical Wolf-Rayet bubbles. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 285(2). 387–393. 16 indexed citations
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D’Ercole, A.. (1992). The evolution of circumstellar matter around an isolated massive star during the red supergiant phase - the role of heat conduction. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 255(4). 572–580. 9 indexed citations

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