Luca Visinelli

6.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
63 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Luca Visinelli is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Luca Visinelli has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 60 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 53 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 4 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Luca Visinelli's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (52 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (40 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (25 papers). Luca Visinelli is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (52 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (40 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (25 papers). Luca Visinelli collaborates with scholars based in China, Italy and Sweden. Luca Visinelli's co-authors include Sunny Vagnozzi, Paolo Gondolo, Katherine Freese, Cosimo Bambi, Rittick Roy, Florian Kühnel, Javier Redondo, B. J. Carr, Yu-Dai Tsai and Sebastian Baum and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Luca Visinelli

60 papers receiving 2.8k 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.

Horizon-scale tests of gravity theories and fundamental physics from the Event Horizon Telescope image of Sagittarius A ∗

2023 436 citations Sunny Vagnozzi, Rittick Roy et al. Classical and Quantum Gravity profile →
Testing the rotational nature of the supermassive object M87* from the circularity and size of its first image

2019 333 citations Cosimo Bambi, Katherine Freese et al. Physical review. D profile →
Hunting for extra dimensions in the shadow of M87*

2019 285 citations Sunny Vagnozzi, Luca Visinelli Physical review. D profile →
Superradiance evolution of black hole shadows revisited

2022 110 citations Rittick Roy, Sunny Vagnozzi et al. Physical review. D profile →
Pressure parametrization of dark energy: first and second-order constraints with latest cosmological data

2025 19 citations Eleonora Di Valentino, Luis A. Escamilla et al. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Luca Visinelli China	28	2.7k	2.3k	204	197	95	63	2.9k
Hardi Veermäe Estonia	27	2.5k 0.9×	1.8k 0.8×	130 0.6×	143 0.7×	239 2.5×	59	2.7k
Ilias Cholis United States	28	2.5k 0.9×	2.5k 1.1×	172 0.8×	47 0.2×	96 1.0×	62	3.3k
L. Arturo Ureña–López Mexico	25	2.1k 0.8×	1.7k 0.7×	240 1.2×	239 1.2×	74 0.8×	93	2.2k
Lorenzo Sorbo United States	25	2.2k 0.8×	1.8k 0.8×	125 0.6×	260 1.3×	266 2.8×	53	2.3k
Yacine Ali-Haïmoud United States	25	2.8k 1.0×	1.7k 0.7×	125 0.6×	69 0.4×	173 1.8×	47	2.9k
Dario Grasso Italy	23	1.5k 0.6×	2.0k 0.8×	137 0.7×	50 0.3×	98 1.0×	71	2.3k
D. A. Steer France	26	2.3k 0.9×	1.7k 0.7×	123 0.6×	208 1.1×	198 2.1×	63	2.5k
M. C. Bento Portugal	21	2.9k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	86 0.4×	331 1.7×	142 1.5×	51	3.1k
Richard Brito Portugal	30	2.9k 1.1×	2.1k 0.9×	296 1.5×	169 0.9×	97 1.0×	53	3.0k
Luis A. Anchordoqui United States	26	1.4k 0.5×	1.8k 0.8×	108 0.5×	241 1.2×	66 0.7×	107	2.0k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Luca Visinelli

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Visinelli, Luca, et al.. (2025). Testing the Dark Origin of Neutrino Masses with Oscillation Experiments. Physical Review Letters. 135(3). 31801–31801.

Iocco, Fabio, et al.. (2025). Constraining the primordial black hole abundance through big-bang nucleosynthesis. Physical review. D. 111(6). 8 indexed citations

Visinelli, Luca. (2025). Inflating without a flat potential: Viscous inflation. Physics of the Dark Universe. 48. 101921–101921.

Valentino, Eleonora Di, et al.. (2025). Pressure parametrization of dark energy: first and second-order constraints with latest cosmological data. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(9). 31–31. 19 indexed citations breakdown →

Visinelli, Luca, et al.. (2024). Do neutrinos bend? Consequences of an ultralight gauge field as dark matter. Physics of the Dark Universe. 46. 101659–101659. 4 indexed citations

Davis, Anne-Christine, et al.. (2024). Solar chameleons: Novel channels. Physical review. D. 110(6). 6 indexed citations

Addazi, Andrea, Yi-Fu Cai, Antonino Marcianò, & Luca Visinelli. (2024). Have pulsar timing array methods detected a cosmological phase transition?. Physical review. D. 109(1). 43 indexed citations

Tsai, Yu-Dai, Davide Farnocchia, M. Micheli, Sunny Vagnozzi, & Luca Visinelli. (2024). Constraints on fifth forces and ultralight dark matter from OSIRIS-REx target asteroid Bennu. Communications Physics. 7(1). 5 indexed citations

Visinelli, Luca, et al.. (2024). Axion star condensation around primordial black holes and microlensing limits. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(10). 13–13. 6 indexed citations

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Visinelli, Luca, et al.. (2024). Future targets for light gauge bosons from cosmic strings. Physics of the Dark Universe. 46. 101667–101667. 3 indexed citations

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Vagnozzi, Sunny, Rittick Roy, Yu-Dai Tsai, et al.. (2023). Horizon-scale tests of gravity theories and fundamental physics from the Event Horizon Telescope image of Sagittarius A ∗. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 40(16). 165007–165007. 436 indexed citations breakdown →

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Tsai, Yu-Dai, et al.. (2023). Novel constraints on fifth forces and ultralight dark sector with asteroidal data. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(4). 31–31. 14 indexed citations

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Lambiase, Gaetano, Leonardo Mastrototaro, & Luca Visinelli. (2023). Gravitational waves and neutrino oscillations in Chern-Simons axion gravity. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(1). 11–11. 15 indexed citations

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Lambiase, Gaetano, Leonardo Mastrototaro, & Luca Visinelli. (2023). Astrophysical neutrino oscillations after pulsar timing array analyses. Physical review. D. 108(12). 12 indexed citations

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Barman, Basabendu, et al.. (2022). QCD Axion Kinetic Misalignment without Prejudice. Universe. 8(12). 634–634. 15 indexed citations

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Edwards, T., Bradley J. Kavanagh, Luca Visinelli, & Christoph Weniger. (2021). Transient Radio Signatures from Neutron Star Encounters with QCD Axion Miniclusters. Physical Review Letters. 127(13). 131103–131103. 40 indexed citations

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Vagnozzi, Sunny, Luca Visinelli, Olga Mena, & David F. Mota. (2019). Cosmological direct detection of dark energy. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Visinelli, Luca, Sebastian Baum, Javier Redondo, Katherine Freese, & Frank Wilczek. (2017). Dilute and dense axion stars. Physics Letters B. 777. 64–72. 121 indexed citations

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Visinelli, Luca, et al.. (2017). Probing extra dimensions with gravitational and electromagnetic signals from compact mergers. arXiv (Cornell University). 11 indexed citations

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Visinelli, Luca, Simona Masina, Marcello Vichi, & Andrea Storto. (2014). Impacts of physical data assimilation on the Global Ocean Carbonate System. Institutional Archive of Ifremer (French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea).

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