Ilia Musco

1.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
12 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Ilia Musco is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Infectious Diseases. According to data from OpenAlex, Ilia Musco has authored 12 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 0 papers in Infectious Diseases. Recurrent topics in Ilia Musco's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (12 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (9 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (7 papers). Ilia Musco is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (12 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (9 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (7 papers). Ilia Musco collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and United Kingdom. Ilia Musco's co-authors include John C. Miller, Cristiano Germani, Luciano Rezzolla, Gabriele Franciolini, A. G. Polnarev, Antonio Riotto, Valerio De Luca, Paolo Pani, Alfredo Urbano and Theodoros Papanikolaou and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical review. D and Classical and Quantum Gravity.

In The Last Decade

Ilia Musco

12 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Threshold for primordial black holes: Dependence on the shape of the cosmological perturbations

2019 203 citations Ilia Musco Physical review. D profile →
Threshold for primordial black holes. II. A simple analytic prescription

2021 148 citations Ilia Musco, Valerio De Luca et al. Physical review. D profile →
Primordial black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures

2025 32 citations Valerio De Luca, José María Ezquiaga et al. PubMed profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ilia Musco Italy	11	1.1k	849	68	28	26	12	1.1k
Ryo Namba Japan	15	843 0.8×	587 0.7×	191 2.8×	22 0.8×	45 1.7×	30	860
E. Ruiz Morales Spain	10	693 0.6×	660 0.8×	83 1.2×	17 0.6×	17 0.7×	13	870
Nicola Bartolo Italy	14	592 0.6×	380 0.4×	76 1.1×	13 0.5×	31 1.2×	20	598
Emanuela Dimastrogiovanni United States	17	834 0.8×	534 0.6×	127 1.9×	10 0.4×	35 1.3×	31	855
Guillermo Ballesteros Spain	17	941 0.9×	787 0.9×	80 1.2×	52 1.9×	26 1.0×	26	1.0k
Matteo Braglia Italy	17	761 0.7×	494 0.6×	103 1.5×	15 0.5×	30 1.2×	24	796
Jinn-Ouk Gong South Korea	12	563 0.5×	414 0.5×	82 1.2×	13 0.5×	41 1.6×	30	584
Vahid Kamali Iran	15	481 0.4×	430 0.5×	53 0.8×	26 0.9×	82 3.2×	42	494
Jonathan Rocher France	7	578 0.5×	510 0.6×	31 0.5×	23 0.8×	33 1.3×	9	615
Johanna Karouby Canada	11	478 0.4×	363 0.4×	47 0.7×	64 2.3×	57 2.2×	14	524

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ilia Musco

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12 of 12 papers shown

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Luca, Valerio De, José María Ezquiaga, Gabriele Franciolini, et al.. (2025). Primordial black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures. PubMed. 28(1). 1–1. 32 indexed citations breakdown →

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Musco, Ilia, et al.. (2024). Primordial black hole formation during the QCD phase transition: Threshold, mass distribution, and abundance. Physical review. D. 109(8). 30 indexed citations

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Franciolini, Gabriele, Ilia Musco, Paolo Pani, & Alfredo Urbano. (2022). From inflation to black hole mergers and back again: Gravitational-wave data-driven constraints on inflationary scenarios with a first-principle model of primordial black holes across the QCD epoch. Physical review. D. 106(12). 80 indexed citations

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Musco, Ilia & Theodoros Papanikolaou. (2022). Primordial black hole formation for an anisotropic perfect fluid: Initial conditions and estimation of the threshold. Physical review. D. 106(8). 24 indexed citations

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Musco, Ilia, Valerio De Luca, Gabriele Franciolini, & Antonio Riotto. (2021). Threshold for primordial black holes. II. A simple analytic prescription. Physical review. D. 103(6). 148 indexed citations breakdown →

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Germani, Cristiano & Ilia Musco. (2019). Abundance of Primordial Black Holes Depends on the Shape of the Inflationary Power Spectrum. Physical Review Letters. 122(14). 141302–141302. 163 indexed citations

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Musco, Ilia. (2019). Threshold for primordial black holes: Dependence on the shape of the cosmological perturbations. Physical review. D. 100(12). 203 indexed citations breakdown →

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Faraoni, Valerio, et al.. (2017). Foliation dependence of black hole apparent horizons in spherical symmetry. Physical review. D. 95(2). 38 indexed citations

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Musco, Ilia, et al.. (2017). Causal nature and dynamics of trapping horizons in black hole collapse. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 34(13). 135012–135012. 18 indexed citations

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Musco, Ilia, John C. Miller, & A. G. Polnarev. (2009). Primordial black hole formation in the radiative era: investigation of the critical nature of the collapse. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 26(23). 235001–235001. 166 indexed citations

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Musco, Ilia. (2009). Primordial black hole formation. 28–28. 1 indexed citations

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Musco, Ilia, John C. Miller, & Luciano Rezzolla. (2005). Computations of primordial black-hole formation. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 22(7). 1405–1424. 205 indexed citations

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