Nir Mandelker

3.7k total citations · 2 hit papers
48 papers, 2.3k citations indexed

About

Nir Mandelker is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Global and Planetary Change. According to data from OpenAlex, Nir Mandelker has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 21 papers in Instrumentation and 3 papers in Global and Planetary Change. Recurrent topics in Nir Mandelker's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (40 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (32 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (21 papers). Nir Mandelker is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (40 papers), Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (32 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (21 papers). Nir Mandelker collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Germany. Nir Mandelker's co-authors include Avishai Dekel, Daniel Ceverino, Joel R. Primack, Colin DeGraf, Yuval Birnboim, Frank C. van den Bosch, Sharon Lapiner, Sandro Tacchella, Dylan Tweed and C. M. Carollo and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Nir Mandelker

46 papers receiving 2.1k 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.

Compaction and quenching of high-z galaxies in cosmological simulations: blue and red nuggets

2015 330 citations Avishai Dekel, Nir Mandelker et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Efficient formation of massive galaxies at cosmic dawn by feedback-free starbursts

2023 151 citations Avishai Dekel, Kartick C. Sarkar et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Author Peers

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Author						Papers	Cites
Nir Mandelker	2.2k	1.1k	186	106	50	48	2.3k
Samir Salim	2.6k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	369 2.0×	70 0.7×	115 2.3×	62	2.7k
Elisabete da Cunha	2.4k 1.1×	966 0.9×	320 1.7×	82 0.8×	59 1.2×	62	2.5k
A. J. Baker	3.2k 1.5×	993 0.9×	426 2.3×	78 0.7×	110 2.2×	102	3.3k
David B. Fisher	2.2k 1.0×	1.0k 0.9×	134 0.7×	92 0.9×	89 1.8×	80	2.2k
Peter H. Johansson	3.0k 1.4×	1.6k 1.5×	326 1.8×	127 1.2×	133 2.7×	71	3.1k
P. A. James	2.3k 1.1×	831 0.7×	364 2.0×	65 0.6×	67 1.3×	99	2.4k
G. Magdis	2.9k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	301 1.6×	63 0.6×	65 1.3×	100	3.0k
Pierre–Alain Duc	2.6k 1.2×	1.3k 1.1×	242 1.3×	58 0.5×	94 1.9×	109	2.7k
C. M. Booth	2.5k 1.2×	1.0k 0.9×	614 3.3×	100 0.9×	52 1.0×	27	2.6k
Massimo Dotti	3.5k 1.6×	800 0.7×	532 2.9×	141 1.3×	126 2.5×	116	3.6k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nir Mandelker

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All Works

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Oh, S. Peng, et al.. (2025). Tales of tension: magnetized infalling cold clouds and streams in the CGM. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539(4). 3669–3696. 3 indexed citations

Dekel, Avishai, et al.. (2025). From FFB starbursts at cosmic dawn to quenching at cosmic morning: Hi-z galaxy bimodality. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(1). 160–180. 1 indexed citations

Lin, X., Jing Wang, L. Staveley‐Smith, et al.. (2025). FEASTS Combined with Interferometry. III. The Low Column Density H i Around M51 and Possibility of Turbulent-mixing Gas Accretion. The Astrophysical Journal. 982(2). 151–151. 1 indexed citations

Hafen, Zachary, Sameer Sameer, Cameron Hummels, et al.. (2024). The Halo21 absorption modelling challenge: lessons from ‘observing’ synthetic circumgalactic absorption spectra. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(1). 39–60. 5 indexed citations

Li, Zhaozhou, Avishai Dekel, Kartick C. Sarkar, et al.. (2024). Feedback-free starbursts at cosmic dawn. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 690. A108–A108. 39 indexed citations

Aung, Han, Nir Mandelker, Avishai Dekel, et al.. (2024). Entrainment of hot gas into cold streams: the origin of excessive star formation rates at cosmic noon. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(3). 2965–2987. 8 indexed citations

Burchett, Joseph N., Daisuke Nagai, S. M. Faber, et al.. (2024). Filaments of the Slime Mold Cosmic Web and How They Affect Galaxy Evolution. The Astrophysical Journal. 970(2). 177–177. 9 indexed citations

Mandelker, Nir, Avishai Dekel, F. Bournaud, et al.. (2024). Formation of giant clumps in high-z disc galaxies by compressive turbulence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 538(1). L9–L15. 4 indexed citations

Emonts, Bjorn, M. D. Lehnert, Ilsang Yoon, et al.. (2023). A cosmic stream of atomic carbon gas connected to a massive radio galaxy at redshift 3.8. Science. 379(6639). 1323–1326. 16 indexed citations

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Dekel, Avishai, et al.. (2023). Conditions for clump survival in High-zdisc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(3). 4299–4322. 8 indexed citations

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Welch, Brian, Dan Coe, Adi Zitrin, et al.. (2023). RELICS: Small-scale Star Formation in Lensed Galaxies at z = 6–10. The Astrophysical Journal. 943(1). 2–2. 9 indexed citations

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Ceverino, Daniel, Nir Mandelker, Gregory F. Snyder, et al.. (2023). Effects of feedback on galaxies in the VELA simulations: elongation, clumps, and compaction. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(3). 3912–3925. 9 indexed citations

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Mandelker, Nir, S. Peng Oh, Avishai Dekel, et al.. (2023). The structure and dynamics of massive high-z cosmic-web filaments: three radial zones in filament cross-sections. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(4). 11256–11287. 12 indexed citations

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Burchett, Joseph N., Nir Mandelker, Joel R. Primack, et al.. (2023). The Evolving Effect of Cosmic Web Environment on Galaxy Quenching. The Astrophysical Journal. 950(2). 114–114. 21 indexed citations

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Mandelker, Nir, et al.. (2022). The evolution of turbulent galactic discs: gravitational instability, feedback, and accretion. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 513(4). 6177–6195. 21 indexed citations

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Dekel, Avishai, et al.. (2020). The nature of giant clumps in high-z discs: a deep-learning comparison of simulations and observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(1). 730–746. 12 indexed citations

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Guo, Yicheng, Nir Mandelker, Joel R. Primack, et al.. (2020). Stellar masses of giant clumps in CANDELS and simulated galaxies using machine learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499(1). 814–835. 32 indexed citations

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Roca-Fàbrega, S., Nir Mandelker, Joel R. Primack, et al.. (2020). O vi traces photoionized streams with collisionally ionized boundaries in cosmological simulations of z ∼ 1 massive galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(4). 4948–4967. 14 indexed citations

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Voort, Freeke van de, Volker Springel, Nir Mandelker, Frank C. van den Bosch, & Rüdiger Pakmor. (2018). Cosmological simulations of the circumgalactic medium with 1 kpc resolution: enhanced H i column densities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 482(1). L85–L89. 166 indexed citations

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Mandelker, Nir, Pieter van Dokkum, Jean P. Brodie, Frank C. van den Bosch, & Daniel Ceverino. (2018). Cold Filamentary Accretion and the Formation of Metal-poor Globular Clusters and Halo Stars. The Astrophysical Journal. 861(2). 148–148. 57 indexed citations

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