Eugene Vasiliev

3.7k total citations · 5 hit papers
51 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Eugene Vasiliev is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Eugene Vasiliev has authored 51 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 18 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Eugene Vasiliev's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (31 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (28 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (18 papers). Eugene Vasiliev is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (31 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (28 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (18 papers). Eugene Vasiliev collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Russia and United States. Eugene Vasiliev's co-authors include Holger Baumgardt, Vasily Belokurov, N. W. Evans, Denis Erkal, GyuChul Myeong, Giuliano Iorio, David Merritt, James Binney, E. Athanassoula and Aleksey Generozov 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

Eugene Vasiliev

49 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

AGAMA: action-based galaxy modelling architecture 2018 2026 2020 2023 2018 2021 2019 2021 2020 100 200 300
What are hit papers?

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. AGAMA: action-based galaxy modelling architecture
    2018 350 citations Eugene Vasiliev Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  2. Gaia EDR3 view on galactic globular clusters
    2021 322 citations Eugene Vasiliev et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  3. Evidence for two early accretion events that built the Milky Way stellar halo
    2019 309 citations GyuChul Myeong, Eugene Vasiliev et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  4. Accurate distances to Galactic globular clusters through a combination of Gaia EDR3, HST, and literature data
    2021 255 citations Eugene Vasiliev et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  5. Tango for three: Sagittarius, LMC, and the Milky Way
    2020 181 citations Eugene Vasiliev, Vasily Belokurov 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
Eugene Vasiliev United Kingdom 24 2.3k 1.1k 190 103 82 51 2.5k
Adrian M. Price-Whelan United States 28 2.3k 1.0× 987 0.9× 216 1.1× 74 0.7× 83 1.0× 90 2.5k
Jason L. Sanders United Kingdom 28 2.3k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 280 1.5× 122 1.2× 71 0.9× 79 2.5k
Alis J. Deason United Kingdom 32 3.5k 1.5× 1.8k 1.7× 295 1.6× 85 0.8× 86 1.0× 66 3.7k
C. Babusiaux France 20 2.3k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 143 0.8× 44 0.4× 110 1.3× 39 2.4k
J. H. J. de Bruijne Netherlands 21 2.9k 1.3× 953 0.9× 170 0.9× 52 0.5× 147 1.8× 52 3.0k
Melissa Ness United States 25 2.4k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 126 0.7× 48 0.5× 98 1.2× 95 2.5k
Richard R. Lane Chile 28 2.2k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 121 0.6× 56 0.5× 79 1.0× 103 2.3k
Denis Erkal United Kingdom 38 3.6k 1.6× 1.6k 1.5× 451 2.4× 140 1.4× 120 1.5× 82 3.8k
C. Jordi Spain 31 3.4k 1.4× 1.9k 1.8× 98 0.5× 60 0.6× 192 2.3× 112 3.6k
Giuliano Iorio Italy 23 2.1k 0.9× 764 0.7× 209 1.1× 38 0.4× 66 0.8× 52 2.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hunt, John Douglas & Eugene Vasiliev. (2025). Milky Way dynamics in light of Gaia. New Astronomy Reviews. 100. 101721–101721. 18 indexed citations
2.
Pascale, R., G. Battaglia, Guillaume F. Thomas, et al.. (2025). Chemo-dynamics of the stellar component of the Sculptor dwarf galaxy. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 699. A347–A347. 3 indexed citations
3.
Sormani, Mattia C., Eugene Vasiliev, Simon C. O. Glover, et al.. (2024). Testing kinematic distances under a realistic Galactic potential. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A216–A216. 12 indexed citations
4.
Tepper-García, Thor, Joss Bland‐Hawthorn, Eugene Vasiliev, et al.. (2024). Nexus: a framework for controlled simulations of idealized galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 535(1). 187–206. 4 indexed citations
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Vasiliev, Eugene, et al.. (2024). The Lower Limit of Dynamical Black Hole Masses Detectable in Virgo Compact Stellar Systems Using the JWST/NIRSpec IFU. The Astrophysical Journal. 974(1). 60–60.
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Vasiliev, Eugene, M. Sarzi, Massimo Dotti, et al.. (2023). The fragility of thin discs in galaxies – I. Building tailored N-body galaxy models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(3). 4490–4501. 3 indexed citations
7.
Vasiliev, Eugene, et al.. (2023). The Mass of the Black Hole in NGC 5273 from Stellar Dynamical Modeling. The Astrophysical Journal. 949(1). 13–13. 4 indexed citations
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Capelo, Pedro R., Eugene Vasiliev, Massimo Dotti, et al.. (2023). The fragility of thin discs in galaxies – II. Thin discs as tracers of the assembly history of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 523(3). 3939–3948. 3 indexed citations
9.
Vasiliev, Eugene. (2023). The Effect of the LMC on the Milky Way System. Galaxies. 11(2). 59–59. 45 indexed citations
10.
Sormani, Mattia C., Jason L. Sanders, T. K. Fritz, et al.. (2022). Self-consistent modelling of the Milky Way's nuclear stellar disc. IrInSubria (University of Insubria). 55 indexed citations
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Sormani, Mattia C., et al.. (2022). The stellar mass distribution of the Milky Way’s bar: an analytical model. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 514(1). L1–L5. 33 indexed citations
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Belokurov, Vasily, Eugene Vasiliev, Alis J. Deason, et al.. (2022). Energy wrinkles and phase-space folds of the last major merger. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 518(4). 6200–6215. 34 indexed citations
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Bentz, Misty C., et al.. (2021). The Black Hole Mass of NGC 4151 from Stellar Dynamical Modeling. The Astrophysical Journal. 916(1). 25–25. 13 indexed citations
14.
Read, Justin I., G. A. Mamon, Eugene Vasiliev, et al.. (2020). Breaking beta: a comparison of mass modelling methods for spherical systems. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(1). 978–993. 29 indexed citations
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Myeong, GyuChul, Eugene Vasiliev, Giuliano Iorio, N. W. Evans, & Vasily Belokurov. (2019). Evidence for two early accretion events that built the Milky Way stellar halo. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(1). 1235–1247. 309 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vasiliev, Eugene & Monica Valluri. (2019). FORSTAND: Flexible ORbit Superposition Toolbox for ANalyzing Dynamical models. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 1 indexed citations
17.
Vasiliev, Eugene. (2019). Proper motions and dynamics of the Milky Way globular cluster system fromGaiaDR2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484(2). 2832–2850. 166 indexed citations
18.
Vasiliev, Eugene. (2018). AGAMA: Action-based galaxy modeling framework. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 3 indexed citations
19.
Stone, Nicholas C., Aleksey Generozov, Eugene Vasiliev, & Brian D. Metzger. (2018). Understanding the Host Galaxies of Tidal Disruption Flares. 231. 1 indexed citations
20.
Vasiliev, Eugene. (2013). SMILE: Orbital analysis and Schwarzschild modeling of triaxial stellar systems. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 1 indexed citations

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