Mario Spera

16.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Mario Spera is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mario Spera has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 9 papers in Instrumentation and 2 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Mario Spera's work include Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (37 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (35 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (27 papers). Mario Spera is often cited by papers focused on Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (37 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (35 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (27 papers). Mario Spera collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Austria. Mario Spera's co-authors include Michela Mapelli, Nicola Giacobbo, A. Bressan, Alessandro A. Trani, Ugo N Di Carlo, Guglielmo Costa, Francesco Haardt, Mario Pasquato, Filippo Santoliquido and Giuliano Iorio and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Journal of Computational Physics and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Mario Spera

59 papers receiving 2.2k citations

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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.

Very massive stars, pair-instability supernovae and intermediate-mass black holes with the sevn code

2017 223 citations Mario Spera, Michela Mapelli Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Compact object mergers: exploring uncertainties from stellar and binary evolution with sevn

2023 78 citations Giuliano Iorio, Michela Mapelli 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						Papers	Cites
Mario Spera Italy	25	2.3k	237	173	73	68	61	2.4k
Chris Flynn Australia	24	1.5k 0.7×	339 1.4×	173 1.0×	49 0.7×	57 0.8×	52	1.6k
Nathan W. C. Leigh United States	27	2.6k 1.1×	418 1.8×	190 1.1×	89 1.2×	94 1.4×	98	2.7k
Mathieu Renzo United States	24	1.9k 0.8×	259 1.1×	309 1.8×	27 0.4×	53 0.8×	58	1.9k
Sourav Chatterjee United States	25	2.9k 1.3×	305 1.3×	232 1.3×	58 0.8×	168 2.5×	54	3.0k
Paul C. Duffell United States	20	2.5k 1.1×	349 1.5×	365 2.1×	43 0.6×	123 1.8×	40	2.6k
E. I. Sorokina Russia	14	1.9k 0.8×	365 1.5×	354 2.0×	29 0.4×	76 1.1×	29	2.0k
Evan B. Bauer United States	12	1.6k 0.7×	383 1.6×	127 0.7×	34 0.5×	92 1.4×	25	1.6k
S. P. Stevenson Australia	22	2.0k 0.9×	118 0.5×	200 1.2×	52 0.7×	128 1.9×	42	2.1k
Kohei Inayoshi Japan	26	2.1k 0.9×	344 1.5×	479 2.8×	84 1.2×	40 0.6×	65	2.2k
Onno R. Pols Netherlands	16	2.4k 1.0×	603 2.5×	155 0.9×	31 0.4×	82 1.2×	30	2.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Mario Spera

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mario Spera

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Mario Spera. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Mario Spera based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Mario Spera. Mario Spera is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Spera, Mario, et al.. (2025). Assembling GW231123 in Star Clusters through the Combination of Stellar Binary Evolution and Hierarchical Mergers. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 994(2). L54–L54. 1 indexed citations

Charlot, S., A. Bressan, Gustavo Bruzual, et al.. (2025). A new prescription for the spectral properties of population III stellar populations. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695. A17–A17. 1 indexed citations

Mapelli, Michela, Lumen Boco, Filippo Santoliquido, et al.. (2025). The more accurately the metal-dependent star formation rate is modeled, the larger the predicted excess of binary black hole mergers. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 698. A144–A144. 3 indexed citations

Boella, Elisabetta, et al.. (2025). Accelerating Gravitational N-Body Simulations Using the RISC-V-Based Tenstorrent Wormhole. ArXiv.org. 1729–1735.

Lapi, Andrea, Lumen Boco, M. Massardi, et al.. (2025). StAGE: Stellar Archaeology-driven Galaxy Evolution. The Astrophysical Journal. 984(2). 117–117. 1 indexed citations

Boco, Lumen, G. Ghirlanda, O. S. Salafia, et al.. (2024). Constraining the Initial Mass Function via Stellar Transients. Universe. 10(10). 383–383. 2 indexed citations

Iorio, Giuliano, Stefano Torniamenti, Michela Mapelli, et al.. (2024). The boring history of Gaia BH3 from isolated binary evolution. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A144–A144. 7 indexed citations

Iorio, Giuliano, Michela Mapelli, Guglielmo Costa, et al.. (2023). Compact object mergers: exploring uncertainties from stellar and binary evolution with sevn. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(1). 426–470. 78 indexed citations breakdown →

Iorio, Giuliano, Michela Mapelli, M. Celeste Artale, et al.. (2023). Binary neutron star populations in the Milky Way. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 526(2). 2210–2229. 13 indexed citations

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Lapi, Andrea, Lumen Boco, Francesco Shankar, et al.. (2022). The Black Hole Mass Function across Cosmic Time. II. Heavy Seeds and (Super)Massive Black Holes. The Astrophysical Journal. 934(1). 66–66. 11 indexed citations

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Lapi, Andrea, Lumen Boco, Mario Spera, et al.. (2022). The Black Hole Mass Function Across Cosmic Times. I. Stellar Black Holes and Light Seed Distribution. The Astrophysical Journal. 924(2). 56–56. 15 indexed citations

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Carlo, Ugo N Di, Michela Mapelli, Mario Pasquato, et al.. (2021). Intermediate-mass black holes from stellar mergers in young star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 507(4). 5132–5143. 59 indexed citations

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Rastello, Sara, Michela Mapelli, Ugo N Di Carlo, et al.. (2020). Dynamics of black hole–neutron star binaries in young star clusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(2). 1563–1570. 53 indexed citations

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Fiorentino, G., M. Bellazzini, Mario Spera, et al.. (2020). Deep into the core of dense star clusters: an astrometric and photometric test case for ELT. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(3). 4413–4425. 3 indexed citations

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Ballone, Alessandro, Stefano Torniamenti, Michela Mapelli, et al.. (2020). From hydrodynamics to N-body simulations of star clusters: mergers and rotation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(2). 2920–2933. 15 indexed citations

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Costa, Guglielmo, A. Bressan, Michela Mapelli, et al.. (2020). Formation of GW190521 from stellar evolution: the impact of the hydrogen-rich envelope, dredge-up, and 12C(α, γ)16O rate on the pair-instability black hole mass gap. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(3). 4514–4533. 109 indexed citations

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Artale, M. Celeste, Y. Bouffanais, Michela Mapelli, et al.. (2020). An astrophysically motivated ranking criterion for low-latency electromagnetic follow-up of gravitational wave events. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 495(2). 1841–1852. 18 indexed citations

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Marassi, Stefania, Luca Graziani, M. Ginolfi, et al.. (2019). Evolution of dwarf galaxies hosting GW150914-like events. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484(3). 3219–3232. 12 indexed citations

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Artale, M. Celeste, Michela Mapelli, Y. Bouffanais, et al.. (2019). Mass and star formation rate of the host galaxies of compact binary mergers across cosmic time. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(3). 3419–3434. 35 indexed citations

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Artale, M. Celeste, Michela Mapelli, Nicola Giacobbo, et al.. (2019). Host galaxies of merging compact objects: mass, star formation rate, metallicity, and colours. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(2). 1675–1688. 64 indexed citations

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