Nicolas Laporte

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
46 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

Nicolas Laporte is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolas Laporte has authored 46 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 25 papers in Instrumentation and 4 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Nicolas Laporte's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (43 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (24 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (15 papers). Nicolas Laporte is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (43 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (24 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (15 papers). Nicolas Laporte collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and France. Nicolas Laporte's co-authors include Richard S. Ellis, Guido Roberts-Borsani, Harley Katz, Adi Zitrin, F. E. Bauer, F. Boone, R. Pelló, R. A. Meyer, Callum Witten and Daniel P. Stark and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and Astronomy and Astrophysics.

In The Last Decade

Nicolas Laporte

43 papers receiving 1.1k citations

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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.

Nebular dominated galaxies: insights into the stellar initial mass function at high redshift

2024 49 citations Harley Katz, Callum Witten et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Nicolas Laporte United Kingdom	21	1.1k	466	169	61	39	46	1.2k
John Chisholm United States	24	1.5k 1.4×	543 1.2×	186 1.1×	67 1.1×	55 1.4×	75	1.6k
Danielle A. Berg United States	21	1.2k 1.1×	464 1.0×	130 0.8×	35 0.6×	13 0.3×	57	1.3k
Tony Mroczkowski United States	19	1.1k 1.0×	243 0.5×	342 2.0×	56 0.9×	47 1.2×	83	1.1k
A. Kenter United States	12	804 0.7×	260 0.6×	267 1.6×	34 0.6×	45 1.2×	46	870
A. Dingizian United States	5	1.1k 1.1×	344 0.7×	185 1.1×	45 0.7×	43 1.1×	6	1.2k
Xinwen Shu China	18	1.3k 1.2×	395 0.8×	304 1.8×	43 0.7×	25 0.6×	69	1.3k
Marc Rafelski United States	25	1.7k 1.6×	613 1.3×	319 1.9×	59 1.0×	39 1.0×	91	1.8k
Rogério Riffel Brazil	28	2.4k 2.2×	799 1.7×	202 1.2×	70 1.1×	47 1.2×	137	2.5k
D. Dicken United Kingdom	19	880 0.8×	199 0.4×	362 2.1×	84 1.4×	78 2.0×	40	985
Sara R. Heap United States	23	1.8k 1.7×	640 1.4×	189 1.1×	113 1.9×	43 1.1×	104	1.9k

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Tan, Jonathan C., A. Young, Matthew Hayes, et al.. (2025). Glimmers in the Cosmic Dawn. II. A Variability Census of Supermassive Black Holes across the Universe^*. The Astrophysical Journal. 991(2). 141–141.

Harikane, Yuichi, Ryan L. Sanders, Richard S. Ellis, et al.. (2025). JWST and ALMA Joint Analysis with [O II ] λλ 3726, 3729, [O III ] λ 4363, [O III ] 88 μ m, and [O III ] 52 μ m: Multizone Evolution of Electron Densities at z ∼ 0–14 and its Impact on Metallicity Measurements. The Astrophysical Journal. 993(2). 204–204. 3 indexed citations

Knudsen, K. K., Nicolas Laporte, Seiji Fujimoto, et al.. (2024). ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: Dust mass measurements as a function of redshift, stellar mass, and star formation rate from z = 1 to z = 5. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 693. A190–A190. 1 indexed citations

Hayes, Matthew, Jonathan C. Tan, Richard S. Ellis, et al.. (2024). Glimmers in the Cosmic Dawn: A Census of the Youngest Supermassive Black Holes by Photometric Variability*. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 971(1). L16–L16. 9 indexed citations

Pelló, R., D. Burgarella, Adélaïde Claeyssens, et al.. (2024). Galaxy main sequence and properties of low-mass Lyman-α emitters towards reionisation as viewed by VLT/MUSE and JWST/NIRCam. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 683. A184–A184. 5 indexed citations

Jones, Gareth C., Joris Witstok, Alice Concas, & Nicolas Laporte. (2023). New constraints on the molecular gas content of a z ∼ 8 galaxy from JVLA CO(J = 2–1) observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 529(1). L1–L6. 6 indexed citations

Roberts-Borsani, Guido, Tommaso Treu, Charlotte Mason, et al.. (2023). Nature and Nurture? Comparing Lyα Detections in UV-bright and Fainter [O iii]+Hβ Emitters at z ∼ 8 with Keck/MOSFIRE. The Astrophysical Journal. 948(1). 54–54. 9 indexed citations

Bennett, Jake S., Debora Sijacki, Tiago Costa, Nicolas Laporte, & Callum Witten. (2023). The growth of the gargantuan black holes powering high-redshift quasars and their impact on the formation of early galaxies and protoclusters. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(1). 1033–1054. 25 indexed citations

Witten, Callum, Nicolas Laporte, & Harley Katz. (2023). Evidence for a Low Lyman Continuum Escape Fraction in Three Massive, Ultraviolet-bright Galaxies at z > 7. The Astrophysical Journal. 944(1). 61–61. 9 indexed citations

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Inoue, Akio, Takuya Hashimoto, Richard S. Ellis, et al.. (2022). Possible Systematic Rotation in the Mature Stellar Population of a z = 9.1 Galaxy. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 933(1). L19–L19. 11 indexed citations

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Katz, Harley, Joakim Rosdahl, Taysun Kimm, et al.. (2022). The nature of high [O iii]88 μ m/[C ii]158 μm galaxies in the epoch of reionization: Low carbon abundance and a top-heavy IMF?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 510(4). 5603–5622. 45 indexed citations

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Knudsen, K. K., Nicolas Laporte, Johan Richard, et al.. (2021). ALMA Lensing Cluster Survey: A spectral stacking analysis of [C II] in lensed z ∼ 6 galaxies. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 652. A128–A128. 4 indexed citations

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Bosman, Sarah E. I., Koki Kakiichi, R. A. Meyer, et al.. (2020). Three Lyα Emitting Galaxies within a Quasar Proximity Zone at z ~ 5.8. UCL Discovery (University College London). 14 indexed citations

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Muñoz-Arancibia, A., Jorge González-López, E. Ibar, et al.. (2019). The ALMA Frontier Fields Survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 631. C2–C2. 3 indexed citations

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Muñoz-Arancibia, A., Jorge González-López, E. Ibar, et al.. (2018). The ALMA Frontier Fields Survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 620. A125–A125. 11 indexed citations

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Pelló, R., Nicolas Laporte, Y. Mellier, et al.. (2018). The WIRCam Ultra Deep Survey (WUDS). Astronomy and Astrophysics. 620. A51–A51. 2 indexed citations

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Zheng, Wei, Adi Zitrin, L. Infante, et al.. (2017). Young Galaxy Candidates in the Hubble Frontier Fields. IV. MACS J1149.5+2223. The Astrophysical Journal. 836(2). 210–210. 17 indexed citations

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Infante, L., Wei Zheng, Nicolas Laporte, et al.. (2015). YOUNG GALAXY CANDIDATES IN THEHUBBLEFRONTIER FIELDS. II. MACS J0416–2403. The Astrophysical Journal. 815(1). 18–18. 17 indexed citations

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Nicoletti, L., et al.. (2012). Neutron-Gamma Density (Ngd): Principles, Field Test Results And Log Quality Control Of A Radioisotope-Free Bulk Density Measurement. Petrophysics – The SPWLA Journal of Formation Evaluation and Reservoir Description. 54(2). 91–103. 29 indexed citations

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Laporte, Nicolas, R. Pelló, D. Schaerer, et al.. (2011). Optical dropout galaxies lensed by the cluster A2667. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 6 indexed citations

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