Dylan Nelson

31.9k total citations · 20 hit papers
201 papers, 22.8k citations indexed

About

Dylan Nelson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Dylan Nelson has authored 201 papers receiving a total of 22.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 187 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 90 papers in Instrumentation and 43 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Dylan Nelson's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (182 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (90 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (53 papers). Dylan Nelson is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (182 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (90 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (53 papers). Dylan Nelson collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Dylan Nelson's co-authors include Lars Hernquist, Mark Vogelsberger, Volker Springel, Shy Genel, Paul Torrey, Annalisa Pillepich, Federico Marinacci, Rainer Weinberger, Rüdiger Pakmor and Jill Naiman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Stroke.

In The Last Decade

Dylan Nelson

191 papers receiving 21.0k citations

Hit Papers

Introducing the Illustris... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2014 2017 2017 2017 2017 500 1000 1.5k
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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. Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe
    2014 1.6k citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  2. Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model
    2017 1.4k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  3. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: matter and galaxy clustering
    2017 1.2k citations Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  4. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies
    2017 1.2k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  5. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy colour bimodality
    2017 1.1k citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  6. The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release
    2019 953 citations Dylan Nelson, Volker Springel et al. profile →
  7. Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation
    2014 917 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. profile →
  8. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: a tale of two elements – chemical evolution of magnesium and europium
    2018 894 citations Jill Naiman, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  9. Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback
    2016 879 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  10. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: radio haloes and magnetic fields
    2018 794 citations Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  11. Introducing the Illustris project: the evolution of galaxy populations across cosmic time
    2014 765 citations Shy Genel, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  12. First results from the TNG50 simulation: galactic outflows driven by supernovae and black hole feedback
    2019 695 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  13. First results from the TNG50 simulation: the evolution of stellar and gaseous discs across cosmic time
    2019 608 citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  14. The merger rate of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: a comparison with observations and semi-empirical models
    2015 519 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  15. The Illustris simulation: the evolving population of black holes across cosmic time
    2015 459 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  16. The illustris simulation: Public data release
    2015 372 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. profile →
  17. Supermassive black holes and their feedback effects in the IllustrisTNG simulation
    2018 316 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  18. The stellar mass assembly of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: growth by mergers and the spatial distribution of accreted stars
    2016 312 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  19. The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations
    2018 296 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Gregory F. Snyder et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  20. The star formation activity of IllustrisTNG galaxies: main sequence, UVJ diagram, quenched fractions, and systematics
    2019 215 citations Martina Donnari, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Dylan Nelson 21.8k 10.9k 3.6k 1.3k 856 201 22.8k
Paul Torrey 22.6k 1.0× 11.2k 1.0× 3.5k 1.0× 1.3k 1.0× 1.0k 1.2× 170 23.6k
Shy Genel 21.7k 1.0× 11.0k 1.0× 3.4k 0.9× 1.3k 1.0× 868 1.0× 130 22.7k
Annalisa Pillepich 17.9k 0.8× 9.2k 0.8× 3.1k 0.8× 1.1k 0.8× 710 0.8× 196 18.8k
Federico Marinacci 19.4k 0.9× 9.0k 0.8× 3.5k 0.9× 970 0.7× 559 0.7× 211 20.4k
Rüdiger Pakmor 22.3k 1.0× 8.6k 0.8× 4.7k 1.3× 861 0.6× 494 0.6× 296 23.5k
R. G. Bower 20.0k 0.9× 10.9k 1.0× 3.2k 0.9× 857 0.6× 698 0.8× 256 20.6k
Joop Schaye 24.7k 1.1× 10.5k 1.0× 6.3k 1.7× 855 0.6× 617 0.7× 419 25.5k
Guinevere Kauffmann 22.5k 1.0× 11.4k 1.0× 3.2k 0.9× 985 0.7× 745 0.9× 165 22.9k
Mark Vogelsberger 30.7k 1.4× 13.4k 1.2× 7.8k 2.1× 1.5k 1.1× 992 1.2× 351 32.5k
Shaun Cole 21.8k 1.0× 10.6k 1.0× 5.0k 1.4× 939 0.7× 628 0.7× 183 22.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Baes, M., et al.. (2025). The multi-wavelength Tully-Fisher relation in the TNG50 cosmological simulation. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 696. A52–A52. 1 indexed citations
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Lovell, Mark R., Annalisa Pillepich, Christoph Engler, et al.. (2025). Numerical effects on the stripping of dark matter and stars in IllustrisTNG galaxy groups and clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(4). 4367–4389.
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Bottrell, Connor, et al.. (2024). ERGO-ML: comparing IllustrisTNG and HSC galaxy images via contrastive learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(4). 7411–7439. 9 indexed citations
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Semenov, Vadim A., Charlie Conroy, Vedant Chandra, Lars Hernquist, & Dylan Nelson. (2024). Formation of Galactic Disks. I. Why Did the Milky Way’s Disk Form Unusually Early?. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(1). 84–84. 25 indexed citations
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Semenov, Vadim A., Charlie Conroy, Vedant Chandra, Lars Hernquist, & Dylan Nelson. (2024). Formation of Galactic Disks. II. The Physical Drivers of Disk Spin-up. The Astrophysical Journal. 972(1). 73–73. 5 indexed citations
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Pillepich, Annalisa, Dylan Nelson, Christoph Engler, et al.. (2024). Milky Way and Andromeda analogues from the TNG50 simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 535(2). 1721–1762. 31 indexed citations
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Rohr, Eric, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson, et al.. (2024). The cooler past of the intracluster medium in TNG-cluster. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 536(2). 1226–1250. 6 indexed citations
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Genel, Shy, B. D. Wandelt, Rachel S. Somerville, et al.. (2023). Calibrating Cosmological Simulations with Implicit Likelihood Inference Using Galaxy Growth Observables. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(1). 67–67. 15 indexed citations
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Péroux, Céline, et al.. (2023). The physical origins of gas in the circumgalactic medium using observationally motivated TNG50 mocks. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 3494–3516. 19 indexed citations
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Pillepich, Annalisa, Dylan Nelson, & Benne W. Holwerda. (2022). Exploring the effect of baryons on the radial distribution of satellite galaxies with GAMA and IllustrisTNG. Sussex Research Online (University of Sussex). 6 indexed citations
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Rosas-Guevara, Yetli, Silvia Bonoli, Massimo Dotti, et al.. (2022). The evolution of the barred galaxy population in the TNG50 simulation. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 62 indexed citations
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Péroux, Céline, Ramona Augustin, Varsha P. Kulkarni, et al.. (2022). MUSE-ALMA Haloes – VIII. Statistical study of circumgalactic medium gas. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(1). 931–947. 12 indexed citations
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Yates, Robert M., Céline Péroux, & Dylan Nelson. (2021). Cosmic metal density evolution in neutral gas: insights from observations and cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508(3). 3535–3550. 16 indexed citations
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Pulsoni, C., Ortwin Gerhard, M. Arnaboldi, et al.. (2020). The stellar halos of ETGs in the IllustrisTNG simulations: The photometric and kinematic diversity of galaxies at large radii. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 46 indexed citations
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Li, Yuan, Mélanie Habouzit, Shy Genel, et al.. (2020). Correlations between Black Holes and Host Galaxies in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 895(2). 102–102. 26 indexed citations
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Zhu, Ling, Glenn van de Ven, Ryan Leaman, et al.. (2020). Disentangling the formation history of galaxies via population-orbit superposition: method validation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 496(2). 1579–1597. 34 indexed citations
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Xu, D., Ling Zhu, Robert J. J. Grand, et al.. (2019). A study of stellar orbit fractions: simulated IllustrisTNG galaxies compared to CALIFA observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(1). 842–854. 25 indexed citations
18.
Rodríguez-Gómez, Vicente, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, et al.. (2019). The Hubble Sequence at z ∼ 0 in the IllustrisTNG simulation with deep learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(2). 1859–1879. 60 indexed citations
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Martizzi, Davidé, Mark Vogelsberger, M. Celeste Artale, et al.. (2019). Baryons in the Cosmic Web of IllustrisTNG – I: gas in knots, filaments, sheets, and voids. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 486(3). 3766–3787. 111 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Gómez, Vicente, Gregory F. Snyder, Jennifer M. Lotz, et al.. (2018). The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(3). 4140–4159. 296 indexed citations breakdown →

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