Fabio Governato

16.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
90 papers, 10.7k citations indexed

About

Fabio Governato is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Fabio Governato has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 10.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 89 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 42 papers in Instrumentation and 20 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Fabio Governato's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (83 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (42 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (32 papers). Fabio Governato is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (83 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (42 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (32 papers). Fabio Governato collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Fabio Governato's co-authors include Thomas Quinn, Joachim Stadel, George Lake, Ben Moore, Sebastiano Ghigna, James Wadsley, Lucio Mayer, P. Tozzi, Andrew Pontzen and Alyson Brooks and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Fabio Governato

89 papers receiving 10.4k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Dark Matter Substructure within Galactic Halos

1999 1.9k citations Ben Moore, Sebastiano Ghigna et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Cold collapse and the core catastrophe

1999 777 citations Ben Moore, Thomas Quinn et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Bulgeless dwarf galaxies and dark matter cores from supernova-driven outflows

2010 684 citations Fabio Governato, Chris B. Brook et al. Nature profile →
Resolving the Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos

1998 555 citations Ben Moore, Fabio Governato et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Cold dark matter: Controversies on small scales

2015 296 citations David H. Weinberg, James S. Bullock et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences profile →
The Romulus cosmological simulations: a physical approach to the formation, dynamics and accretion models of SMBHs

2017 232 citations Michael Tremmel, Michael D. Karcher et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers

Fabio Governato

INSTR

NHEP

SNP

GPC

Michael Boylan-Kolchin United States

James Wadsley Canada

Andrea V. Macciò Germany

G. Tormen Italy

Ben Moore Switzerland

George Lake United States

Bahram Mobasher United States

Dušan Kereš United States

W. J. G. de Blok United States

H. Ebeling United States

Michael Boylan-Kolchin United States

Fabio Governato

12.1k ×1.2

5.5k ×1.4

INSTR

3.8k ×1.1

NHEP

571 ×0.8

SNP

283 ×0.8

GPC

Citations per year, relative to Fabio Governato Fabio Governato (= 1×) peers Michael Boylan-Kolchin

Countries citing papers authored by Fabio Governato

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Citations

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Fields of papers citing papers by Fabio Governato

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Fabio Governato. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Fabio Governato. The network helps show where Fabio Governato may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Fabio Governato

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Brooks, Alyson, Emmanouil Papastergis, Charlotte Christensen, et al.. (2017). How to Reconcile the Observed Velocity Function of Galaxies with Theory. The Astrophysical Journal. 850(1). 97–97. 41 indexed citations

Tremmel, Michael, Michael D. Karcher, Fabio Governato, et al.. (2017). The Romulus cosmological simulations: a physical approach to the formation, dynamics and accretion models of SMBHs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 470(1). 1121–1139. 232 indexed citations breakdown →

Mayer, Lucio, et al.. (2017). Constraining the Nature of Dark Matter with the Star-formation History of the Faintest Local Group Dwarf Galaxy Satellites. The Astrophysical Journal. 845(1). 17–17. 10 indexed citations

Governato, Fabio, et al.. (2015). Self Interacting Dark Matter and Baryons. AAS. 225. 1 indexed citations

Menon, Harshitha, Lukasz Wesolowski, Gengbin Zheng, et al.. (2015). Adaptive techniques for clustered N-body cosmological simulations. 2(1). 107 indexed citations

Capelo, Pedro R., Marta Volonteri, Massimo Dotti, et al.. (2015). Growth and activity of black holes in galaxy mergers with varying mass ratios. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 447(3). 2123–2143. 140 indexed citations

Pontzen, Andrew, Justin I. Read, Romain Teyssier, et al.. (2015). Milking the spherical cow – on aspherical dynamics in spherical coordinates. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 451(2). 1366–1379. 25 indexed citations

Weinberg, David H., James S. Bullock, Fabio Governato, Rachel Kuzio de Naray, & Annika H. G. Peter. (2015). Cold dark matter: Controversies on small scales. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 112(40). 12249–12255. 296 indexed citations breakdown →

Volonteri, Marta, Pedro R. Capelo, H. Netzer, et al.. (2015). Growing black holes and galaxies: black hole accretion versus star formation rate. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 449(2). 1470–1485. 48 indexed citations

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Pontzen, Andrew & Fabio Governato. (2014). Cold dark matter heats up. Nature. 506(7487). 171–178. 225 indexed citations

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Snaith, Owain, B. K. Gibson, Chris B. Brook, et al.. (2012). The halo shape and evolution of polar disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 425(3). 1967–1979. 19 indexed citations

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Pontzen, Andrew & Fabio Governato. (2011). Flattening dark matter cusps with supernova feedback: a physical model. 12. 1 indexed citations

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House, E. L., Chris B. Brook, B. K. Gibson, et al.. (2011). Disc heating: comparing the Milky Way with cosmological simulations. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 44 indexed citations

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Governato, Fabio, Chris B. Brook, Lucio Mayer, et al.. (2010). Bulgeless dwarf galaxies and dark matter cores from supernova-driven outflows. Nature. 463(7278). 203–206. 684 indexed citations breakdown →

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Stringer, Martin, Alyson Brooks, Andrew Benson, & Fabio Governato. (2010). Analytic and numerical realizations of a disc galaxy. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 407(1). 632–644. 9 indexed citations

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Mayer, Lucio, Ben Moore, Thomas Quinn, Fabio Governato, & Joachim Stadel. (2002). Tidal debris of dwarf spheroidals as a probe of structure formation models. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 59 indexed citations

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Moore, Ben, Sebastiano Ghigna, Fabio Governato, et al.. (1999). Dark Matter Substructure within Galactic Halos. The Astrophysical Journal. 524(1). L19–L22. 1850 indexed citations breakdown →

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Governato, Fabio, C. M. Baugh, Carlos S. Frenk, et al.. (1998). The seeds of rich galaxy clusters in the Universe. Nature. 392(6674). 359–361. 78 indexed citations

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Moore, Ben, Fabio Governato, Thomas Quinn, Joachim Stadel, & George Lake. (1998). Resolving the Structure of Cold Dark Matter Halos. The Astrophysical Journal. 499(1). L5–L8. 555 indexed citations breakdown →

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Governato, Fabio, et al.. (1991). A long-lasting compact group. The Astrophysical Journal. 371. L15–L15. 20 indexed citations

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