Michela Mapelli

24.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
159 papers, 5.8k citations indexed

About

Michela Mapelli is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michela Mapelli has authored 159 papers receiving a total of 5.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 154 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 18 papers in Instrumentation and 16 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Michela Mapelli's work include Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (84 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (83 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (78 papers). Michela Mapelli is often cited by papers focused on Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (84 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (83 papers) and Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (78 papers). Michela Mapelli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Austria and United States. Michela Mapelli's co-authors include Nicola Giacobbo, Mario Spera, A. Bressan, E. Ripamonti, Filippo Santoliquido, Ugo N Di Carlo, M. Celeste Artale, Y. Bouffanais, L. Zampieri and Giuliano Iorio and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Michela Mapelli

148 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

The progenitors of compact-object binaries: impact of met... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2018 2017 2023 50 100 150 200
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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. The progenitors of compact-object binaries: impact of metallicity, common envelope and natal kicks
    2018 243 citations Nicola Giacobbo, Michela Mapelli Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  2. 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 →
  3. 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 Career Trend Papers Cites
Michela Mapelli Italy 41 5.6k 805 714 181 152 159 5.8k
Pablo Marchant Belgium 27 4.5k 0.8× 1.0k 1.3× 346 0.5× 255 1.4× 132 0.9× 61 4.7k
Phil Arras United States 23 3.4k 0.6× 755 0.9× 332 0.5× 270 1.5× 102 0.7× 46 3.5k
R. Farmer United States 19 3.2k 0.6× 753 0.9× 382 0.5× 148 0.8× 68 0.4× 43 3.5k
Josiah Schwab United States 16 2.9k 0.5× 660 0.8× 307 0.4× 151 0.8× 81 0.5× 25 3.1k
Q. Daniel Wang United States 36 4.2k 0.8× 390 0.5× 1.7k 2.4× 278 1.5× 175 1.2× 194 4.3k
L. R. Yungelson Russia 31 3.5k 0.6× 549 0.7× 390 0.5× 159 0.9× 81 0.5× 106 3.6k
Raffaella Schneider Italy 43 5.4k 1.0× 1.2k 1.5× 843 1.2× 50 0.3× 134 0.9× 123 5.5k
Stephen Justham China 32 3.3k 0.6× 564 0.7× 362 0.5× 133 0.7× 54 0.4× 67 3.4k
Anne Thoul Belgium 17 3.6k 0.6× 1.1k 1.3× 318 0.4× 163 0.9× 84 0.6× 36 3.7k
T. Bulik Poland 27 3.8k 0.7× 209 0.3× 559 0.8× 357 2.0× 140 0.9× 100 3.9k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michela Mapelli

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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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
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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
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Rinaldi, S., et al.. (2025). Exploration of features in the black hole mass spectrum inspired by non-parametric analyses of gravitational wave observations. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 702. A52–A52. 1 indexed citations
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Mapelli, Michela, et al.. (2025). Wolf–Rayet–compact object binaries as progenitors of binary compact objects. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 695. A199–A199. 2 indexed citations
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Mapelli, Michela, Stefano Torniamenti, Manuel Arca Sedda, et al.. (2024). Binary black hole mergers from Population III star clusters. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A106–A106. 8 indexed citations
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Sedda, Manuel Arca, Rainer Spurzem, Mirek Giersz, et al.. (2024). The dragon-II simulations – I. Evolution of single and binary compact objects in star clusters with up to 1 million stars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(3). 5119–5139. 20 indexed citations
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Santoliquido, Filippo, Michela Mapelli, Giuliano Iorio, et al.. (2024). Correction to: Binary black hole mergers from population III stars: uncertainties from star formation and binary star properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(1). 954–962. 2 indexed citations
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Santoliquido, Filippo, U. Dupletsa, Jacopo Tissino, et al.. (2024). Classifying binary black holes from Population III stars with the Einstein Telescope: A machine-learning approach. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A362–A362. 5 indexed citations
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Mapelli, Michela, C. Périgois, M. Celeste Artale, et al.. (2024). Impact of gas hardening on the population properties of hierarchical black hole mergers in active galactic nucleus disks. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 685. A51–A51. 25 indexed citations
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Ronchini, S., M. Branchesi, G. Oganesyan, et al.. (2022). Perspectives for multi-messenger astronomy with the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors and high-energy satellites. arXiv (Cornell University). 41 indexed citations
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Santoliquido, Filippo, Michela Mapelli, M. Celeste Artale, & Lumen Boco. (2022). Modelling the host galaxies of binary compact object mergers with observational scaling relations. arXiv (Cornell University). 25 indexed citations
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Rosińska, D., M. Branchesi, G. Oganesyan, et al.. (2022). Perspectives for multimessenger astronomy with the next generation of gravitational-wave detectors and high-energy satellites. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 665. A97–A97. 1 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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Cantat-Gaudin, T., Michela Mapelli, L. Balaguer-Núñez, et al.. (2019). A ring in a shell: the large-scale 6D structure of the Vela OB2 complex. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 42 indexed citations
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Bortolas, Elisa & Michela Mapelli. (2019). Can supernova kicks trigger EMRIs in the Galactic Centre?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(2). 2125–2138. 17 indexed citations
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Mapelli, Michela, Nicola Giacobbo, Filippo Santoliquido, & M. Celeste Artale. (2019). The properties of merging black holes and neutron stars across cosmic time. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(1). 2–13. 97 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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Mapelli, Michela, F. Annibali, L. Zampieri, & Roberto Soria. (2013). A disrupted bulgeless satellite galaxy as counterpart of the ultraluminous X-ray source ESO 243-49 HLX-1. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 8 indexed citations

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