Andrea Ferrara

24.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
359 papers, 14.4k citations indexed

About

Andrea Ferrara is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrea Ferrara has authored 359 papers receiving a total of 14.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 294 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 83 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 59 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Andrea Ferrara's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (225 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (129 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (107 papers). Andrea Ferrara is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (225 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (129 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (107 papers). Andrea Ferrara collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Japan. Andrea Ferrara's co-authors include S. Gallerani, Raffaella Schneider, A. Pallottini, Mordecai‐Mark Mac Low, Pratika Dayal, Stefania Salvadori, R. Salvaterra, Kazuyuki Omukai, Tirthankar Roy Choudhury and L. Vallini and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Reviews of Modern Physics and Gastroenterology.

In The Last Decade

Andrea Ferrara

352 papers receiving 13.8k citations

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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.

Starburst‐driven Mass Loss from Dwarf Galaxies: Efficiency and Metal Ejection

1999 616 citations Andrea Ferrara et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Early galaxy formation and its large-scale effects

2018 259 citations Pratika Dayal, Andrea Ferrara profile →
Evidence of strong quasar feedback in the early Universe

2012 253 citations R. Maiolino, S. Gallerani et al. profile →
On the stunning abundance of super-early, luminous galaxies revealed by JWST

2023 107 citations Andrea Ferrara, A. Pallottini 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						Papers	Cites
Andrea Ferrara Italy	64	12.4k	3.2k	2.8k	791	531	359	14.4k
G. M. Bernstein United States	35	2.6k 0.2×	414 0.1×	904 0.3×	263 0.3×	180 0.3×	99	5.1k
H. R. Butcher United States	32	3.5k 0.3×	393 0.1×	2.1k 0.7×	694 0.9×	403 0.8×	113	4.9k
R. C. Smith United States	40	5.8k 0.5×	1.9k 0.6×	1.6k 0.6×	113 0.1×	26 0.0×	157	7.0k
Rainer K. Sachs United States	30	3.1k 0.2×	2.3k 0.7×	78 0.0×	245 0.3×	240 0.5×	63	6.7k
David Koch United States	36	2.3k 0.2×	112 0.0×	721 0.3×	337 0.4×	174 0.3×	151	4.3k
M. Lombardi Italy	38	3.3k 0.3×	195 0.1×	614 0.2×	54 0.1×	72 0.1×	147	4.4k
M. R. Schreiber Chile	43	4.8k 0.4×	220 0.1×	1.2k 0.4×	265 0.3×	36 0.1×	198	5.8k
Yasushi Suto Japan	35	3.6k 0.3×	936 0.3×	1.1k 0.4×	120 0.2×	30 0.1×	196	4.3k
Jeffrey R. Lewis United States	8	2.6k 0.2×	631 0.2×	578 0.2×	83 0.1×	22 0.0×	15	3.1k
Junichiro Makino Japan	43	4.9k 0.4×	545 0.2×	1.2k 0.4×	22 0.0×	44 0.1×	250	6.6k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Ferrara, Andrea, et al.. (2025). Redshift evolution of Lyman continuum escape fraction after JWST. The Open Journal of Astrophysics. 8. 1 indexed citations

Vallini, L., A. Pallottini, M. Kohandel, et al.. (2025). Spatially resolved [CII]–gas conversion factor in early galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 700. A117–A117. 1 indexed citations

Ciardi, B., et al.. (2025). Physically motivated modelling of LyC escape fraction during reionisation. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695. A32–A32. 2 indexed citations

Bradač, Maruša, Ryan L. Sanders, Seiji Fujimoto, et al.. (2024). Studying [C ii] emission in low-mass galaxies at z ∼ 7. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 531(1). 945–952. 4 indexed citations

Mitsuhashi, Ikki, Yuichi Harikane, F. E. Bauer, et al.. (2024). SERENADE. II. An ALMA Multiband Dust Continuum Analysis of 28 Galaxies at 5 < z < 8 and the Physical Origin of the Dust Temperature Evolution. The Astrophysical Journal. 971(2). 161–161. 6 indexed citations

D’Odorico, V., Stefania Salvadori, M. Bischetti, et al.. (2024). Evidence of Pop III stars’ chemical signature in neutral gas at z ∼ 6. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 687. A314–A314. 9 indexed citations

Ferrara, Andrea, A. Pallottini, & Pratika Dayal. (2023). On the stunning abundance of super-early, luminous galaxies revealed by JWST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(3). 3986–3991. 107 indexed citations breakdown →

Ferrara, Andrea & Céline Péroux. (2021). Late-time cosmic evolution of dust: solving the puzzle. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(3). 4537–4543. 9 indexed citations

Vallini, L., Andrea Ferrara, A. Pallottini, Stefano Carniani, & S. Gallerani. (2021). High [O iii]/[C ii] surface brightness ratios trace early starburst galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(4). 5543–5553. 30 indexed citations

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Lupi, Alessandro, A. Pallottini, Andrea Ferrara, et al.. (2020). Predicting FIR lines from simulated galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 496(4). 5160–5175. 37 indexed citations

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Sommovigo, Laura, Andrea Ferrara, A. Pallottini, et al.. (2020). Warm dust in high-z galaxies: origin and implications. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(1). 956–968. 45 indexed citations

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Pallottini, A., Andrea Ferrara, Davide Decataldo, et al.. (2019). Deep into the structure of the first galaxies: SERRA views. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(2). 1689–1708. 85 indexed citations

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Ferrara, Andrea, L. Vallini, A. Pallottini, et al.. (2019). A physical model for [C ii] line emission from galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(1). 1–12. 59 indexed citations

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D’Odorico, V., C. Feruglio, Andrea Ferrara, et al.. (2018). Witnessing Galaxy Assembly at the Edge of the Reionization Epoch*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 863(2). L29–L29. 34 indexed citations

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Gallerani, S., L. Zappacosta, E. Piconcelli, et al.. (2017). X-ray spectroscopy of the z = 6.4 quasar SDSS J1148+5251. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 467(3). 3590–3597. 15 indexed citations

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Yue, Bin, Andrea Ferrara, Fabio Pacucci, & Kazuyuki Omukai. (2017). Triggering the Formation of Direct Collapse Black Holes by Their Congeners. The Astrophysical Journal. 838(2). 111–111. 12 indexed citations

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Campana, S., R. Salvaterra, Andrea Ferrara, & A. Pallottini. (2015). Missing cosmic metals revealed by X-ray absorption towards distant sources. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 23 indexed citations

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Ferrara, Andrea, et al.. (2015). Simulating Continuous Time Production Flows in Food Industry by Means of Discrete Event Simulation. International Journal of Food Engineering. 11(1). 139–150. 4 indexed citations

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Schleicher, D. R. G., F. Palla, Andrea Ferrara, Daniele Galli, & Muhammad Latif. (2013). Massive black hole factories: Supermassive and quasi-star formation in primordial halos. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 116 indexed citations

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Ishida, Émille E. O., Rafael S. de Souza, & Andrea Ferrara. (2011). Probing cosmic star formation up to z= 9.4 with gamma-ray bursts. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 36 indexed citations

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