Lorenzo Sironi

5.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
87 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Lorenzo Sironi is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Geophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lorenzo Sironi has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 69 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 8 papers in Geophysics. Recurrent topics in Lorenzo Sironi's work include Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (58 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (44 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (40 papers). Lorenzo Sironi is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (58 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (44 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (40 papers). Lorenzo Sironi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Lorenzo Sironi's co-authors include Dimitrios Giannios, Μαρία Πετροπούλου, Brian D. Metzger, Anatoly Spitkovsky, Ben Margalit, Luca Comisso, Jonathan Arons, Ramesh Narayan, Illya Plotnikov and Martin Lemoine and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Lorenzo Sironi

86 papers receiving 2.9k 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.

  1. Fast radio bursts as synchrotron maser emission from decelerating relativistic blast waves
    2019 229 citations Brian D. Metzger, Ben Margalit 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
Lorenzo Sironi United States 30 2.9k 2.2k 158 101 73 87 3.1k
Avery E. Broderick United States 29 2.6k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 205 1.3× 274 2.7× 35 0.5× 80 2.8k
Dmitri Uzdensky United States 35 3.2k 1.1× 2.2k 1.0× 146 0.9× 129 1.3× 96 1.3× 84 3.5k
Yuichiro Sekiguchi Japan 32 3.4k 1.2× 1.1k 0.5× 408 2.6× 120 1.2× 102 1.4× 76 3.7k
J. P. Roques France 24 2.7k 0.9× 1.7k 0.8× 215 1.4× 139 1.4× 92 1.3× 151 3.1k
Dimitrios Giannios United States 38 3.3k 1.2× 2.2k 1.0× 61 0.4× 50 0.5× 53 0.7× 106 3.5k
E. Massaro Italy 21 1.8k 0.6× 1.5k 0.7× 82 0.5× 50 0.5× 66 0.9× 145 2.0k
A. De Luca Italy 25 2.4k 0.8× 998 0.5× 338 2.1× 120 1.2× 32 0.4× 125 2.5k
Maxim Lyutikov United States 30 2.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 455 2.9× 141 1.4× 46 0.6× 111 2.9k
Allyn F. Tennant United States 26 1.8k 0.6× 775 0.4× 227 1.4× 78 0.8× 47 0.6× 99 1.9k
Alexander Philippov United States 27 2.0k 0.7× 1.2k 0.5× 302 1.9× 75 0.7× 32 0.4× 71 2.2k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lorenzo Sironi

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sironi, Lorenzo, Dmitri Uzdensky, & Dimitrios Giannios. (2025). Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysical Plasmas: A Powerful Mechanism of Nonthermal Emission. Annual Review of Astronomy and Astrophysics. 63(1). 127–178. 7 indexed citations
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Sironi, Lorenzo, et al.. (2025). Effective Resistivity in Relativistic Reconnection: A Prescription Based on Fully Kinetic Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 978(2). L45–L45. 1 indexed citations
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Gupta, S. C., Navin Sridhar, & Lorenzo Sironi. (2025). The role of electric dominance for particle injection in relativistic reconnection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 538(1). 49–59. 2 indexed citations
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Sironi, Lorenzo, et al.. (2024). Electron Heating in 2D Particle-in-cell Simulations of Quasi-perpendicular Low-beta Shocks. The Astrophysical Journal. 965(1). 37–37. 3 indexed citations
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Sironi, Lorenzo, et al.. (2024). Long-term Evolution of Relativistic Unmagnetized Collisionless Shocks. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 963(2). L44–L44. 14 indexed citations
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Fiorillo, Damiano F. G., Μαρία Πετροπούλου, Luca Comisso, Enrico Peretti, & Lorenzo Sironi. (2024). TeV Neutrinos and Hard X-Rays from Relativistic Reconnection in the Corona of NGC 1068. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 961(1). L14–L14. 22 indexed citations
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Davelaar, Jordy, Bart Ripperda, Lorenzo Sironi, et al.. (2023). Synchrotron Polarization Signatures of Surface Waves in Supermassive Black Hole Jets. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 959(1). L3–L3. 15 indexed citations
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Philippov, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Three-dimensional Dynamics of Strongly Twisted Magnetar Magnetospheres: Kinking Flux Tubes and Global Eruptions. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 947(2). L34–L34. 20 indexed citations
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Sobacchi, Emanuele, et al.. (2023). Saturation of the Filamentation Instability and Dispersion Measure of Fast Radio Bursts. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 943(2). L21–L21. 14 indexed citations
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Raymond, J. C., Parviz Ghavamian, Dongsu Ryu, et al.. (2023). Electron–Ion Temperature Ratio in Astrophysical Shocks. The Astrophysical Journal. 949(2). 50–50. 26 indexed citations
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Porth, Oliver, et al.. (2023). Effective Resistivity in Relativistic Collisionless Reconnection. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(2). 169–169. 11 indexed citations
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Davelaar, Jordy, et al.. (2023). The Kelvin–Helmholtz Instability at the Boundary of Relativistic Magnetized Jets. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 951(2). L23–L23. 8 indexed citations
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Sironi, Lorenzo, et al.. (2023). Electron Reacceleration via Ion Cyclotron Waves in the Intracluster Medium. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(2). 130–130. 6 indexed citations
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Zweibel, Ellen G., et al.. (2023). A Heating Mechanism via Magnetic Pumping in the Intracluster Medium. The Astrophysical Journal. 947(2). 89–89. 13 indexed citations
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Sironi, Lorenzo, et al.. (2023). Linear analysis of the Kelvin–Helmholtz instability in relativistic magnetized symmetric flows. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(1). 90–99. 6 indexed citations
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Haggerty, Colby, et al.. (2022). Relativistic Asymmetric Magnetic Reconnection. Physical Review Letters. 128(14). 145101–145101. 12 indexed citations
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Sridhar, Navin, Brian D. Metzger, Paz Beniamini, et al.. (2021). Periodic Fast Radio Bursts from Luminous X-ray Binaries. The Astrophysical Journal. 917(1). 13–13. 58 indexed citations
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Alexander, K. D., R. Margutti, P. K. Blanchard, et al.. (2018). A Decline in the X-Ray through Radio Emission from GW170817 Continues to Support an Off-axis Structured Jet. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 863(2). L18–L18. 112 indexed citations
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Johnson, Michael D., Ramesh Narayan, Dimitrios Psaltis, et al.. (2018). The Scattering and Intrinsic Structure of Sagittarius A* at Radio Wavelengths. The Astrophysical Journal. 865(2). 104–104. 41 indexed citations
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Πετροπούλου, Μαρία, Dimitrios Giannios, & Lorenzo Sironi. (2016). Blazar flares powered by plasmoids in relativistic reconnection. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 462(3). 3325–3343. 104 indexed citations

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