G. De Lucia

15.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
104 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

G. De Lucia is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, G. De Lucia has authored 104 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 102 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 77 papers in Instrumentation and 8 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in G. De Lucia's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (101 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (77 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (43 papers). G. De Lucia is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (101 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (77 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (43 papers). G. De Lucia collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. G. De Lucia's co-authors include Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White, Volker Springel, Darren Croton, Adrian Jenkins, Liang Gao, Simone M. Weinmann, Naoki Yoshida, Carlos S. Frenk and Julio F. Navarro 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

G. De Lucia

99 papers receiving 6.3k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The many lives of active galactic nuclei: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies

2006 1.4k citations Simon D. M. White, G. De Lucia et al. profile →
From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

2011 793 citations Simon D. M. White, G. De Lucia et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The formation history of elliptical galaxies

2006 568 citations G. De Lucia, Guinevere Kauffmann 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						Papers	Cites
G. De Lucia Italy	37	6.4k	4.1k	696	383	302	104	6.5k
Michael C. Cooper United States	46	6.0k 0.9×	3.5k 0.9×	652 0.9×	368 1.0×	230 0.8×	140	6.2k
Christopher N. A. Willmer United States	39	5.0k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	541 0.8×	337 0.9×	270 0.9×	113	5.2k
I. K. Baldry United Kingdom	34	4.9k 0.8×	2.9k 0.7×	564 0.8×	521 1.4×	341 1.1×	103	5.1k
Michael L. Balogh Canada	35	6.0k 0.9×	3.7k 0.9×	595 0.9×	480 1.3×	241 0.8×	91	6.1k
Alison L. Coil United States	48	7.4k 1.2×	3.6k 0.9×	998 1.4×	341 0.9×	209 0.7×	165	7.5k
Jeffrey A. Newman United States	44	5.9k 0.9×	3.0k 0.7×	757 1.1×	401 1.0×	262 0.9×	118	6.1k
O. Ilbert France	39	5.7k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	816 1.2×	358 0.9×	195 0.6×	143	5.9k
Roberto Abraham Canada	42	6.0k 0.9×	3.5k 0.9×	669 1.0×	333 0.9×	359 1.2×	157	6.2k
Benjamin J. Weiner United States	42	5.9k 0.9×	3.1k 0.8×	718 1.0×	277 0.7×	225 0.7×	112	6.0k
W. J. Couch Australia	47	7.9k 1.2×	5.0k 1.2×	740 1.1×	471 1.2×	308 1.0×	183	8.1k

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All Works

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Salvestrini, Francesco, C. Feruglio, Fabio Fontanot, et al.. (2025). Molecular gas and dust properties in z > 7 quasar hosts. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695. A23–A23. 4 indexed citations

Xie, Lizhi, G. De Lucia, Fabio Fontanot, et al.. (2024). The First Quenched Galaxies: When and How?. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 966(1). L2–L2. 14 indexed citations

Forrest, Ben, Michael C. Cooper, Adam Muzzin, et al.. (2024). MAGAZ3NE: Massive, Extremely Dusty Galaxies at z ∼ 2 Lead to Photometric Overestimation of Number Densities of the Most Massive Galaxies at 3 < z < 4*. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(1). 51–51. 3 indexed citations

Lucia, G. De, Fabio Fontanot, Lizhi Xie, & Michaela Hirschmann. (2024). Tracing the quenching journey across cosmic time. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 687. A68–A68. 17 indexed citations

Saracco, P., G. D’Ago, G. De Lucia, et al.. (2024). A new perspective on the stellar mass-metallicity relation of quiescent galaxies from the LEGA-C survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A150–A150. 6 indexed citations

Rudnick, Gregory, Rose Finn, G. Castignani, et al.. (2024). Virgo Filaments. IV. Using WISE to Measure the Modification of Star-forming Disks in the Extended Regions Around the Virgo Cluster. The Astrophysical Journal. 978(1). 113–113.

Fontanot, Fabio, F. La Barbera, G. De Lucia, et al.. (2024). Variation of the stellar initial mass function in semi-analytical models. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 686. A302–A302. 4 indexed citations

Mercurio, A., Benedetta Vulcani, G. Rodighiero, et al.. (2023). VST-GAME: Galaxy assembly as a function of mass and environment with VST. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 671. A146–A146. 4 indexed citations

Saracco, P., F. La Barbera, Roberto De Propris, et al.. (2023). The star formation history and the nature of the mass–metallicity relation of passive galaxies at 1.0 <z< 1.4 from VANDELS. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(2). 3027–3048. 9 indexed citations

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Calabrò, Antonello, L. Guaita, L. Pentericci, et al.. (2022). The environmental dependence of the stellar and gas-phase mass–metallicity relation at 2 < z < 4. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 664. A75–A75. 9 indexed citations

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Biviano, A., et al.. (2021). Dynamical analysis of clusters of galaxies from cosmological simulations. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 6 indexed citations

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Castignani, G., Benedetta Vulcani, Rose Finn, et al.. (2021). Virgo Filaments II: Catalog and First Results on the Effect of Filaments on galaxy properties. arXiv (Cornell University). 20 indexed citations

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Zhang, Huanian, Dennis Zaritsky, Karen P. Olsen, et al.. (2021). An Empirical Determination of the Dependence of the Circumgalactic Mass Cooling Rate and Feedback Mass Loading Factor on Galactic Stellar Mass. The Astrophysical Journal. 916(2). 101–101. 7 indexed citations

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Just, Dennis W., Dennis Zaritsky, Gregory Rudnick, et al.. (2019). Preprocessing among the Infalling Galaxy Population of EDisCS Clusters. The Astrophysical Journal. 885(1). 6–6. 18 indexed citations

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Rudnick, Gregory, P. Jablonka, John Moustakas, et al.. (2017). Determining the Halo Mass Scale Where Galaxies Lose Their Gas^*. The Astrophysical Journal. 850(2). 181–181. 14 indexed citations

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Vulcani, Benedetta, Danilo Marchesini, G. De Lucia, et al.. (2016). MERGERS AND STAR FORMATION: THE ENVIRONMENT AND STELLAR MASS GROWTH OF THE PROGENITORS OF ULTRA-MASSIVE GALAXIES SINCE Z = 2. The Astrophysical Journal. 816(2). 86–86. 23 indexed citations

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Contini, Elisa, G. De Lucia, N. A. Hatch, S. Borgani, & Xi Kang. (2015). Semi-analytic model predictions of the galaxy population in protoclusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 456(2). 1924–1935. 18 indexed citations

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Cucciati, O., G. De Lucia, E. Zucca, et al.. (2012). Comparison of the VIMOS-VLT Deep Survey with the Munich semi-analytical model. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations

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Rossi, M. E. De, P. B. Tissera, G. De Lucia, & Guinevere Kauffmann. (2009). Milky Way type galaxies in a ΛCDM cosmology. Max Planck Digital Library. 13 indexed citations

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Clowe, Douglas, Petra Schneider, Alfonso Aragón‐Salamanca, et al.. (2006). Weak lensing mass reconstructions of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 45 indexed citations

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