D. Massari

18.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
68 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

D. Massari is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, D. Massari has authored 68 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 43 papers in Instrumentation and 16 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in D. Massari's work include Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (57 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (43 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (22 papers). D. Massari is often cited by papers focused on Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (57 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (43 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (22 papers). D. Massari collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Netherlands and United States. D. Massari's co-authors include A. Helmi, Helmer H. Koppelman, A. Mucciarelli, E. Dalessandro, B. Lanzoni, F. R. Ferraro, M. Bellazzini, Tjitske Starkenburg, Adrian M. Price-Whelan and L. Origlia and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

In The Last Decade

D. Massari

59 papers receiving 1.4k 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.

Origin of the system of globular clusters in the Milky Way

2019 271 citations D. Massari, Helmer H. Koppelman et al. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
D. Massari Italy	21	1.4k	759	119	85	51	68	1.5k
J. D. Hartman United States	24	1.7k 1.2×	628 0.8×	50 0.4×	51 0.6×	83 1.6×	59	1.7k
A. Marín-Franch Spain	15	1.6k 1.1×	853 1.1×	94 0.8×	100 1.2×	37 0.7×	63	1.6k
Mattia Libralato United States	19	1.0k 0.7×	558 0.7×	65 0.5×	34 0.4×	63 1.2×	73	1.1k
Sebastian Kamann United Kingdom	24	1.7k 1.2×	772 1.0×	96 0.8×	95 1.1×	57 1.1×	81	1.7k
Nicholas M. Law United States	21	963 0.7×	400 0.5×	136 1.1×	106 1.2×	68 1.3×	85	1.0k
Michael Gully-Santiago United States	13	679 0.5×	258 0.3×	63 0.5×	42 0.5×	40 0.8×	34	753
L. Chemin France	25	1.7k 1.2×	831 1.1×	46 0.4×	151 1.8×	36 0.7×	53	1.8k
Torsten Böker United States	25	1.9k 1.3×	758 1.0×	92 0.8×	144 1.7×	34 0.7×	85	2.0k
Patrick R. Durrell United States	26	1.7k 1.2×	941 1.2×	55 0.5×	100 1.2×	50 1.0×	66	1.7k
Nathan Adams United Kingdom	15	762 0.5×	428 0.6×	40 0.3×	114 1.3×	29 0.6×	41	806

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of D. Massari

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of D. Massari. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of D. Massari 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 D. Massari. D. Massari is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Romano, D., et al.. (2025). The Bulge Cluster Origin (BulCO) survey at the ESO-VLT: Probing the early history of the Milky Way assembly. Design and first results in Liller 1. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 696. A179–A179. 1 indexed citations

Origlia, L., A. Mucciarelli, F. R. Ferraro, et al.. (2024). Detailed chemical abundances of the globular cluster Terzan 6 in the inner bulge. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 688. A154–A154. 1 indexed citations

Monty, Stephanie, Vasily Belokurov, Jason L. Sanders, et al.. (2024). The ratio of [Eu/α] differentiates accreted/in situ Milky Way stars across metallicities, as indicated by both field stars and globular clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(2). 2420–2440. 19 indexed citations

Massari, D., A. Mucciarelli, M. Bellazzini, et al.. (2024). A Walk on the Retrograde Side (WRS) project. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 684. A37–A37. 14 indexed citations

Bellazzini, M., D. Massari, A. Mucciarelli, et al.. (2024). Metal-poor stars with disc-like orbits. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 683. A136–A136. 15 indexed citations

Niederhofer, Florian, Andrea Bellini, V. Kozhurina-Platais, et al.. (2024). Hubble Space Telescope proper motions of Large Magellanic Cloud star clusters. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 689. A162–A162. 4 indexed citations

Tolstoy, Eline, Á. Skúladóttir, G. Battaglia, et al.. (2023). A 3D view of dwarf galaxies with Gaia and VLT/FLAMES. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 675. A49–A49. 16 indexed citations

Mucciarelli, A., C. Lardo, D. Massari, et al.. (2023). The chemical DNA of the Magellanic Clouds. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 677. A61–A61. 7 indexed citations

Romano, D., F. R. Ferraro, L. Origlia, et al.. (2023). Modeling the Chemical Enrichment History of the Bulge Fossil Fragment Terzan 5. The Astrophysical Journal. 951(2). 85–85. 10 indexed citations

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Bellazzini, M., D. Massari, F. De Angeli, et al.. (2023). Photometric metallicity for 694 233 Galactic giant stars from Gaia DR3 synthetic Strömgren photometry. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 674. A194–A194. 9 indexed citations

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Skúladóttir, Á., Stefania Salvadori, A. M. Amarsi, et al.. (2021). Zero-metallicity Hypernova Uncovered by an Ultra-metal-poor Star in the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal Galaxy*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 915(2). L30–L30. 42 indexed citations

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Mucciarelli, A., D. Massari, D. Romano, et al.. (2021). A relic from a past merger event in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Nature Astronomy. 5(12). 1247–1254. 26 indexed citations

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Massari, D., Antonino Marasco, J. Milli, et al.. (2020). Successful application of PSF-R techniques to the case of the globular cluster NGC 6121 (M 4). Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 8 indexed citations

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Massari, D., A. Helmi, A. Mucciarelli, et al.. (2020). Stellar 3D kinematics in the Draco dwarf spheroidal galaxy. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 31 indexed citations

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Spingola, Cristiana, J. P. McKean, D. Massari, & L. V. E. Koopmans. (2019). Proper motion in lensed radio jets at redshift 3: A possible dual super-massive black hole system in the early Universe. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 10 indexed citations

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Massari, D., Helmer H. Koppelman, & A. Helmi. (2019). Origin of the system of globular clusters in the Milky Way. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 271 indexed citations breakdown →

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Milone, A. P., A. F. Marino, G. S. Da Costa, et al.. (2019). Multiple populations in globular clusters and their parent galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(1). 515–531. 73 indexed citations

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Fiorentino, G., M. Monelli, P. B. Stetson, et al.. (2017). Weak Galactic halo-Fornax dSph connection from RR Lyrae stars. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 8 indexed citations

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Massari, D., G. Fiorentino, Alan W. McConnachie, et al.. (2016). Astrometry with MCAO: HST-GeMS proper motions in the globular cluster NGC 6681. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 14 indexed citations

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Massari, D., G. Fiorentino, Alan W. McConnachie, et al.. (2016). GeMS MCAO observations of the Galactic globular cluster NGC 2808: the absolute age. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 17 indexed citations

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