Guillermo Barro

11.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Guillermo Barro is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Guillermo Barro has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 70 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 49 papers in Instrumentation and 2 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Guillermo Barro's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (69 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (49 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (27 papers). Guillermo Barro is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (69 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (49 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (27 papers). Guillermo Barro collaborates with scholars based in United States, Spain and Germany. Guillermo Barro's co-authors include Pablo G. Pérez‐González, Alison L. Coil, S. M. Faber, Avishai Dekel, Joel R. Primack, K. Nandra, A. Georgakakis, James Aird, Daniel Ceverino and David C. Koo and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series.

In The Last Decade

Guillermo Barro

69 papers receiving 2.2k 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.

Compaction and quenching of high-z galaxies in cosmological simulations: blue and red nuggets

2015 330 citations Avishai Dekel, Daniel Ceverino et al. profile →
The evolution of the X-ray luminosity functions of unabsorbed and absorbed AGNs out to z∼ 5

2015 233 citations James Aird, Alison L. Coil et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Guillermo Barro United States	26	2.2k	1.4k	196	105	86	72	2.3k
S. Zibetti Germany	25	2.4k 1.1×	1.5k 1.1×	138 0.7×	87 0.8×	101 1.2×	65	2.4k
Roelof S. de Jong United States	29	2.6k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	151 0.8×	75 0.7×	109 1.3×	77	2.6k
Lihwai Lin Taiwan	28	2.2k 1.0×	1.2k 0.9×	133 0.7×	123 1.2×	95 1.1×	70	2.3k
M. D’Onofrio Italy	26	1.9k 0.8×	1.2k 0.9×	221 1.1×	59 0.6×	62 0.7×	97	1.9k
Rory Smith Chile	27	2.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.8×	254 1.3×	67 0.6×	58 0.7×	130	2.4k
Ivelina Momcheva United States	24	2.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.1×	237 1.2×	61 0.6×	80 0.9×	53	2.5k
Anna Gallazzi Italy	31	2.9k 1.3×	1.7k 1.3×	231 1.2×	58 0.6×	68 0.8×	72	3.0k
Jeyhan S. Kartaltepe United States	28	2.8k 1.2×	1.4k 1.0×	414 2.1×	126 1.2×	76 0.9×	78	2.9k
Benjamin P. Moster Germany	19	2.3k 1.0×	1.3k 1.0×	308 1.6×	62 0.6×	82 1.0×	33	2.3k
Myungshin Im South Korea	20	1.6k 0.7×	841 0.6×	197 1.0×	93 0.9×	54 0.6×	132	1.7k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Guillermo Barro

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Gómez, Alejandro Crespo, L. Colina, P. G. Pérez-González, et al.. (2026). MIRI spectrophotometry of GN-z11: Detection and nature of an optical red continuum component. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 706. A46–A46.

Pandya, Viraj, Abraham Loeb, Elizabeth J. McGrath, et al.. (2025). Preliminary Evidence for Lensing-induced Alignments of High-redshift Galaxies in JWST-CEERS. The Astrophysical Journal. 986(1). 72–72.

Pérez‐González, Pablo G., P. Sánchez–Blázquez, Ángela García-Argumánez, et al.. (2023). Probing the Star Formation Main Sequence Down to 10⁸ M _⊙ at 1.0 < z < 3.0. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(2). 125–125. 9 indexed citations

Price, Sedona H., Mariska Kriek, Guillermo Barro, et al.. (2020). The MOSDEF Survey: Kinematic and Structural Evolution of Star-forming Galaxies at 1.4 ≤ z ≤ 3.8. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 9 indexed citations

Shapley, Alice E., Ryan L. Sanders, Michael W. Topping, et al.. (2020). The MOSDEF Survey: Neon as a Probe of ISM Physical Conditions at High Redshift^*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 902(1). L16–L16. 19 indexed citations

Kriek, Mariska, Sedona H. Price, Charlie Conroy, et al.. (2019). Stellar Metallicities and Elemental Abundance Ratios of z ∼ 1.4 Massive Quiescent Galaxies*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 880(2). L31–L31. 32 indexed citations

Pampliega, Belén Alcalde, Pablo G. Pérez‐González, Guillermo Barro, et al.. (2019). Optically faint massive Balmer break galaxies at z > 3 in the CANDELS/GOODS fields. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 25 indexed citations

Cunningham, Emily C., Alis J. Deason, Constance M. Rockosi, et al.. (2019). HALO7D I. The Line-of-sight Velocities of Distant Main-sequence Stars in the Milky Way Halo. The Astrophysical Journal. 876(2). 124–124. 15 indexed citations

Sanders, Ryan L., Tucker Jones, Alice E. Shapley, et al.. (2019). The MOSDEF Survey: [S iii] as a New Probe of Evolving Interstellar Medium Conditions*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 888(1). L11–L11. 15 indexed citations

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Fornasini, Francesca M., Mariska Kriek, Ryan L. Sanders, et al.. (2019). The MOSDEF Survey: The Metallicity Dependence of X-Ray Binary Populations at z ∼ 2. The Astrophysical Journal. 885(1). 65–65. 26 indexed citations

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Borlaff, Alejandro, M. C. Eliche‐Moral, J. E. Beckman, et al.. (2018). Evolution of the anti-truncated stellar profiles of S0 galaxies since z = 0.6 in the SHARDS survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 615. A26–A26. 5 indexed citations

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Barro, Guillermo, S. M. Faber, David C. Koo, et al.. (2017). Structural and Star-forming Relations since z similar to 3: Connecting Compact Star-forming and Quiescent Galaxies. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 70 indexed citations

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Price, Sedona H., Mariska Kriek, Robert Feldmann, et al.. (2017). Testing the Recovery of Intrinsic Galaxy Sizes and Masses of z ∼ 2 Massive Galaxies Using Cosmological Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 844(1). L6–L6. 20 indexed citations

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Price, Sedona H., Mariska Kriek, Alice E. Shapley, et al.. (2016). THE MOSDEF SURVEY: DYNAMICAL and BARYONIC MASSES and KINEMATIC STRUCTURES of STAR-FORMING GALAXIES at 1.4 â¤ z â¤ 2.6. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 45 indexed citations

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Barro, Guillermo, et al.. (2016). SUB-KILOPARSEC ALMA IMAGING of COMPACT STAR-FORMING GALAXIES at z â¼ 2.5: REVEALING the FORMATION of DENSE GALACTIC CORES in the PROGENITORS of COMPACT QUIESCENT GALAXIES. Library Open Repository (Universidad Complutense Madrid). 36 indexed citations

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Barro, Guillermo, et al.. (2016). Caught in the act: gas and stellar velocity dispersions in a fast Quenching compact star-forming galaxy at z ~ 1.7. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 26 indexed citations

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Huertas-Company, Marc, Pablo G. Pérez‐González, S. Mei, et al.. (2015). The morphologies of massive galaxies from z ~ 3-witnessing the two channels of bulge growth. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 49 indexed citations

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Barro, Guillermo, et al.. (2011). Velocity Dispersions and Stellar Populations of the Most Compact and Msssive early-Type Galaxies at Redshift similar to 1. LA Referencia (Red Federada de Repositorios Institucionales de Publicaciones Científicas). 17 indexed citations

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Eliche‐Moral, M. C., M. Prieto, J. Gallego, et al.. (2010). On the buildup of massive early-type galaxies at z≲1 I. Reconciling their hierarchical assembly with mass downsizing. arXiv (Cornell University). 20 indexed citations

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López-Sanjuán, C., M. Balcells, P. G. Pérez-González, et al.. (2010). Spectro-photometric close pairs in GOODS-S: major and minor companions of intermediate-mass galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 518. A20–A20. 21 indexed citations

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