Andrew Wetzel

11.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
144 papers, 6.8k citations indexed

About

Andrew Wetzel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Andrew Wetzel has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 6.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 138 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 78 papers in Instrumentation and 14 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Andrew Wetzel's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (126 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (78 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (73 papers). Andrew Wetzel is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (126 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (78 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (73 papers). Andrew Wetzel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Andrew Wetzel's co-authors include Philip F. Hopkins, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Dušan Kereš, Eliot Quataert, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Jeremy L. Tinker, Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Kareem El-Badry, James S. Bullock and Charlie Conroy and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

In The Last Decade

Andrew Wetzel

134 papers receiving 6.1k 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.

Galaxy evolution in groups and clusters: satellite star formation histories and quenching time-scales in a hierarchical Universe

2013 399 citations Andrew Wetzel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Not so lumpy after all: modelling the depletion of dark matter subhaloes by Milky Way-like galaxies

2017 233 citations Shea Garrison-Kimmel, Andrew Wetzel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Baryonic solutions and challenges for cosmological models of dwarf galaxies

2022 131 citations Andrew Wetzel et al. profile →
Bursty Star Formation Naturally Explains the Abundance of Bright Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn

2023 86 citations Guochao Sun, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Andrew Wetzel United States	48	6.5k	3.1k	1.1k	205	203	144	6.8k
S. M. Croom Australia	40	5.4k 0.8×	2.5k 0.8×	1.0k 1.0×	161 0.8×	157 0.8×	183	5.6k
Christopher C. Hayward United States	47	5.6k 0.9×	2.4k 0.8×	804 0.7×	116 0.6×	187 0.9×	136	5.8k
Julien Devriendt United Kingdom	46	7.0k 1.1×	3.0k 1.0×	1.3k 1.2×	226 1.1×	226 1.1×	182	7.3k
Yohan Dubois France	46	7.1k 1.1×	3.1k 1.0×	1.5k 1.4×	195 1.0×	277 1.4×	183	7.4k
Laura V. Sales United States	39	4.7k 0.7×	2.7k 0.9×	649 0.6×	136 0.7×	248 1.2×	94	4.9k
Aaron J. Romanowsky United States	46	6.2k 1.0×	3.8k 1.2×	678 0.6×	183 0.9×	257 1.3×	194	6.4k
Aaron A. Dutton Germany	42	6.3k 1.0×	3.2k 1.0×	1.4k 1.3×	291 1.4×	222 1.1×	89	6.5k
R. G. Carlberg Canada	41	5.5k 0.8×	2.7k 0.9×	784 0.7×	247 1.2×	154 0.8×	121	5.6k
O. Ilbert France	39	5.7k 0.9×	3.1k 1.0×	816 0.8×	173 0.8×	193 1.0×	143	5.9k
Daisuke Nagai United States	37	5.7k 0.9×	2.0k 0.7×	1.6k 1.5×	254 1.2×	178 0.9×	147	5.9k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Wetzel, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Spatial Variations of Stellar Elemental Abundances in FIRE Simulations of Milky Way-mass Galaxies: Patterns Today Mostly Reflect Those at Formation. The Astrophysical Journal. 981(1). 47–47. 6 indexed citations

Wetzel, Andrew, et al.. (2025). Inside-out versus Upside-down: The Origin and Evolution of Metallicity Radial Gradients in FIRE Simulations of Milky Way-mass Galaxies and the Essential Role of Gas Mixing. The Astrophysical Journal. 991(2). 139–139. 1 indexed citations

Sanderson, Robyn E., Nicolás Garavito-Camargo, Andrew Wetzel, et al.. (2024). Efficient and Accurate Force Replay in Cosmological-baryonic Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(1). 23–23. 6 indexed citations

Wetzel, Andrew, et al.. (2023). Disc settling and dynamical heating: histories of Milky Way-mass stellar discs across cosmic time in the FIRE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 6926–6949. 27 indexed citations

Carrillo, Andreia, et al.. (2023). The Relationship between Age, Metallicity, and Abundances for Disk Stars in a Simulated Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal. 942(1). 35–35. 17 indexed citations

Schauer, Anna T. P., Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Omid Sameie, et al.. (2023). Dwarf Galaxy Formation with and without Dark Matter–Baryon Streaming Velocities. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(1). 20–20. 7 indexed citations

Bullock, James S., Alexander B. Gurvich, Zachary Hafen, et al.. (2023). Born this way: thin disc, thick disc, and isotropic spheroid formation in FIRE-2 Milky Way–mass galaxy simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523(4). 6220–6238. 36 indexed citations

Sun, Guochao, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, Christopher C. Hayward, et al.. (2023). Bursty Star Formation Naturally Explains the Abundance of Bright Galaxies at Cosmic Dawn. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 955(2). L35–L35. 86 indexed citations breakdown →

Horta, Danny, Emily C. Cunningham, Robyn E. Sanderson, et al.. (2023). The Observable Properties of Galaxy Accretion Events in Milky Way–like Galaxies in the FIRE-2 Cosmological Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 943(2). 158–158. 20 indexed citations

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Samuel, Jenna, Andrew Wetzel, Erik Tollerud, et al.. (2022). Extinguishing the FIRE: environmental quenching of satellite galaxies around Milky Way-mass hosts in simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 514(4). 5276–5295. 1 indexed citations

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Beaton, Rachael L., Suzanne Werner, A. W. Mitschang, et al.. (2022). APOGEE-centric Ananke Simulations in a SciServer SQL Database. Research Notes of the AAS. 6(6). 125–125. 1 indexed citations

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Ma, Xiangcheng, Eliot Quataert, Andrew Wetzel, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, & Michael Boylan-Kolchin. (2021). The contribution of globular clusters to cosmic reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504(3). 4062–4071. 10 indexed citations

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Kravtsov, Andrey V., Zachary Hafen, Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, et al.. (2021). Thermal instability in the CGM of L⋆ galaxies: testing ‘precipitation’ models with the FIRE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(2). 1841–1862. 25 indexed citations

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Gurvich, Alexander B., Claude‐André Faucher‐Giguère, James S. Bullock, et al.. (2020). The time-scales probed by star formation rate indicators for realistic, bursty star formation histories from the FIRE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(4). 4812–4824. 73 indexed citations

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Bullock, James S., Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Jorge Moreno, et al.. (2020). A relationship between stellar metallicity gradients and galaxy age in dwarf galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(4). 5121–5134. 36 indexed citations

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Guszejnov, Dávid, Michael Y Grudić, Stella S. R. Offner, et al.. (2019). Evolution of giant molecular clouds across cosmic time. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492(1). 488–502. 41 indexed citations

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Weisz, Daniel R., Andrew A. Cole, Andrew E. Dolphin, et al.. (2019). Star formation at the edge of the Local Group: a rising star formation history in the isolated galaxy WLM. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(4). 5538–5550. 33 indexed citations

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Fitts, Alex, Michael Boylan-Kolchin, Brandon Bozek, et al.. (2019). Dwarf galaxies in CDM, WDM, and SIDM: disentangling baryons and dark matter physics. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(1). 962–977. 59 indexed citations

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Hung, Chao-Ling, Christopher C. Hayward, Tiantian Yuan, et al.. (2018). What drives the evolution of gas kinematics in star-forming galaxies?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 482(4). 5125–5137. 28 indexed citations

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Wetzel, Andrew, Philip F. Hopkins, Ji-hoon Kim, et al.. (2016). RECONCILING DWARF GALAXIES with ΛcDM COSMOLOGY: SIMULATING A REALISTIC POPULATION of SATELLITES AROUND A MILKY WAY-MASS GALAXY. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 226 indexed citations

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