Lucio Mayer

20.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
241 papers, 13.2k citations indexed

About

Lucio Mayer is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucio Mayer has authored 241 papers receiving a total of 13.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 233 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 81 papers in Instrumentation and 17 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Lucio Mayer's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (163 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (110 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (94 papers). Lucio Mayer is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (163 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (110 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (94 papers). Lucio Mayer collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Italy. Lucio Mayer's co-authors include Thomas Quinn, James Wadsley, Piero Madau, Fabio Governato, Joachim Stadel, Ben Moore, Stelios Kazantzidis, Simone Callegari, R. H. Durisen and Ken Rice and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Lucio Mayer

230 papers receiving 12.7k 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.

Protostars and Planets V

2005 1.4k citations Lucio Mayer, Thomas Quinn et al. profile →
Bulgeless dwarf galaxies and dark matter cores from supernova-driven outflows

2010 684 citations Lucio Mayer, James Wadsley et al. profile →
FORMING REALISTIC LATE-TYPE SPIRALS IN A ΛCDM UNIVERSE: THE ERIS SIMULATION

2011 361 citations Simone Callegari, Piero Madau et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
Fundamental differences between SPH and grid methods

2007 332 citations D. Potter, Lucio Mayer et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucio Mayer Switzerland	63	12.7k	4.4k	1.5k	463	343	241	13.2k
Robert C. Kennicutt United States	54	17.3k 1.4×	5.5k 1.3×	2.0k 1.3×	528 1.1×	425 1.2×	177	17.6k
Fabian Walter Germany	62	16.9k 1.3×	4.4k 1.0×	2.5k 1.7×	650 1.4×	411 1.2×	371	17.4k
Thorsten Naab Germany	56	10.2k 0.8×	4.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.8×	213 0.5×	425 1.2×	177	10.5k
Andreas Burkert Germany	57	10.0k 0.8×	2.7k 0.6×	1.8k 1.2×	454 1.0×	388 1.1×	270	10.4k
Pavel Kroupa Germany	62	17.8k 1.4×	6.3k 1.4×	1.5k 1.0×	446 1.0×	314 0.9×	330	18.3k
L. Armus United States	50	12.1k 1.0×	4.0k 0.9×	1.4k 0.9×	363 0.8×	466 1.4×	226	12.4k
F. Combes France	64	13.0k 1.0×	3.8k 0.9×	2.0k 1.3×	783 1.7×	679 2.0×	568	13.6k
Daniela Calzetti United States	46	12.0k 0.9×	4.7k 1.1×	1.1k 0.7×	224 0.5×	451 1.3×	186	12.2k
R. J. Ivison United Kingdom	67	15.3k 1.2×	5.5k 1.2×	3.3k 2.2×	409 0.9×	568 1.7×	319	15.6k
Norman Murray Canada	63	12.2k 1.0×	2.9k 0.7×	1.7k 1.1×	240 0.5×	310 0.9×	161	12.7k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Capelo, Pedro R., et al.. (2025). Introducing the Phoebos simulation: galaxy properties at the dawn of galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 543(3). 2760–2780.

Mayer, Lucio, et al.. (2024). Stellar cluster formation in a Milky Way-sized galaxy at z > 4 – II. A hybrid formation scenario for the nuclear star cluster and its connection to the nuclear stellar ring. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(4). 4104–4116. 10 indexed citations

Jutzi, Martin, Jonas Kühn, B. Jöst, et al.. (2024). Gas permeability and mechanical properties of dust grain aggregates at hyper- and zero-gravity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(3). 2762–2785. 1 indexed citations

Decataldo, Davide, et al.. (2024). The origin of cold gas in the circumgalactic medium. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 685. A8–A8. 9 indexed citations

Zwick, Lorenz, Pedro R. Capelo, & Lucio Mayer. (2023). Priorities in gravitational waveforms for future space-borne detectors: vacuum accuracy or environment?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(3). 4645–4651. 37 indexed citations

Decataldo, Davide, Sijing Shen, C. Cicone, et al.. (2023). High resolution modelling of [CII], [CI], [OIII], and CO line emission from the interstellar medium and circumgalactic medium of a star-forming galaxy at z ∼ 6.5. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 682. A98–A98. 11 indexed citations

Vázquez-Aceves, Verónica, Lorenz Zwick, Elisa Bortolas, et al.. (2022). Revised event rates for extreme and extremely large mass-ratio inspirals. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 15 indexed citations

Derdzinski, Andrea, et al.. (2022). The imprint of gas on gravitational waves from LISA intermediate-mass black hole binaries. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(1). 1339–1354.

Tamfal, Tomas, Lucio Mayer, Thomas Quinn, et al.. (2022). The Dawn of Disk Formation in a Milky Way-sized Galaxy Halo: Thin Stellar Disks at z > 4. The Astrophysical Journal. 928(2). 106–106. 19 indexed citations

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Shen, Sijing, et al.. (2021). The baryon cycle of Seven Dwarfs with superbubble feedback. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 14 indexed citations

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Tamfal, Tomas, Lucio Mayer, Thomas Quinn, et al.. (2021). Revisiting Dynamical Friction: The Role of Global Modes and Local Wakes. The Astrophysical Journal. 916(1). 55–55. 17 indexed citations

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Schneider, Raffaella, Rosa Valiante, Kohei Inayoshi, et al.. (2021). Light, medium-weight, or heavy? The nature of the first supermassive black hole seeds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(1). 613–632. 50 indexed citations

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Bortolas, Elisa, Pedro R. Capelo, Tommaso Zana, et al.. (2020). Global torques and stochasticity as the drivers of massive black hole pairing in the young Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(3). 3601–3615. 28 indexed citations

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Mayer, Lucio, et al.. (2020). The Erratic Path to Coalescence of LISA Massive Black Hole Binaries in Subparsec-resolution Simulations of Smooth Circumnuclear Gas Disks. The Astrophysical Journal. 899(2). 126–126. 15 indexed citations

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Colpi, Monica, Pedro R. Capelo, Matteo Bonetti, et al.. (2019). The lifetime of binary black holes in Sérsic galaxy models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(4). 4985–4994. 24 indexed citations

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Mayer, Lucio, et al.. (2017). The Pairing of Accreting Massive Black Holes in Multiphase Circumnuclear Disks: the Interplay Between Radiative Cooling, Star Formation, and Feedback Processes. The Astrophysical Journal. 838(1). 13–13. 36 indexed citations

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Capelo, Pedro R., et al.. (2017). Galactic Angular Momentum in Cosmological Zoom-in Simulations. I. Disk and Bulge Components and the Galaxy–Halo Connection. The Astrophysical Journal. 835(2). 289–289. 33 indexed citations

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Skillman, Evan D., M. Monelli, Daniel R. Weisz, et al.. (2017). The ISLAndS Project. II. The Lifetime Star Formation Histories of Six Andromeda dSphs*. The Astrophysical Journal. 837(2). 102–102. 63 indexed citations

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Dessauges‐Zavadsky, M., A. Cava, D. Schaerer, et al.. (2015). IAU volume 12 issue S316 Cover and Front matter. Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union. 12(S316). f1–f23. 2 indexed citations

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Colpi, M., Simone Callegari, Massimo Dotti, Stelios Kazantzidis, & Lucio Mayer. (2007). On the inspiral of massive black holes in gas‐rich galaxy mergers. AIP conference proceedings. 705–714. 3 indexed citations

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