O. Valenzuela

10.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
50 papers, 3.4k citations indexed

About

O. Valenzuela is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, O. Valenzuela has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 3.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 23 papers in Instrumentation and 11 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in O. Valenzuela's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (39 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (26 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (23 papers). O. Valenzuela is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (39 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (26 papers) and Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (23 papers). O. Valenzuela collaborates with scholars based in Mexico, Spain and United States. O. Valenzuela's co-authors include Anatoly Klypin, Francisco Prada, Andrey V. Kravtsov, Pedro Colín, Thomas Quinn, James Wadsley, Fabio Governato, Gregory S. Stinson, Alyson Brooks and Lucio Mayer and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

O. Valenzuela

46 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Where Are the Missing Galactic Satellites? 1999 2026 2008 2017 1999 500 1000 1.5k
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.

  1. Where Are the Missing Galactic Satellites?
    1999 1.7k citations Anatoly Klypin, O. Valenzuela et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers

O. Valenzuela
T. H. Reiprich Germany
Azadeh Fattahi United Kingdom
Sebastiano Ghigna Italy
G. W. Pratt France
G. S. Stinson Canada
Marla Geha United States
É. Pointecouteau France
Till Sawala United Kingdom
M. I. Wilkinson United Kingdom
Ignacio Martín-Navarro Spain
T. H. Reiprich Germany
O. Valenzuela
Citations per year, relative to O. Valenzuela O. Valenzuela (= 1×) peers T. H. Reiprich

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Fields of papers citing papers by O. Valenzuela

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of O. Valenzuela

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of O. Valenzuela. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of O. Valenzuela 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 O. Valenzuela. O. Valenzuela is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Valenzuela, O., et al.. (2025). GraViT: transfer learning with vision transformers and MLP-Mixer for strong gravitational lens discovery. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 545(2).
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Jaber, Mariana, et al.. (2023). Hierarchical structure of the cosmic web and galaxy properties. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(2). 4087–4099. 9 indexed citations
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Valenzuela, O., et al.. (2023). Data science methodology for time-delay estimation and data preprocessing of the time-delay challenge. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(1). 1323–1341.
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Valenzuela, O., et al.. (2022). Boltzmann-Poisson-like approach to simulating the galactic halo response to satellite accretion. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 663. A93–A93. 2 indexed citations
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Valenzuela, O., et al.. (2022). Concurrent infall of satellites. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 668. A20–A20. 4 indexed citations
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Cano-Díaz, M., H. M. Hernández-Toledo, Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla, et al.. (2022). SDSS-IV MaNGA: The MaNGA Dwarf Galaxy Sample Presentation. The Astronomical Journal. 164(4). 127–127. 5 indexed citations
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Roca-Fàbrega, S., et al.. (2021). Phase spirals in cosmological simulations of Milky Way-sized galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 510(1). 154–160. 13 indexed citations
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Geringer-Sameth, Alex, et al.. (2021). On the origin of the gamma-ray emission from Omega Centauri: millisecond pulsars and dark matter annihilation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2021(2). 10–10. 9 indexed citations
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Aquino-Ortíz, E., S. F. Sánchez, O. Valenzuela, et al.. (2020). A Universal Fundamental Plane and the Mdyn–M⋆ Relation for Galaxies with CALIFA and MaNGA. The Astrophysical Journal. 900(2). 109–109. 23 indexed citations
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Devi, N. Chandrachani, Aldo Rodríguez-Puebla, O. Valenzuela, et al.. (2019). The galaxy–halo connection in modified gravity cosmologies: environment dependence of galaxy luminosity function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 488(1). 782–802. 5 indexed citations
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Pichardo, B., et al.. (2019). From ridges in the velocity distribution to wiggles in the rotation curve. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters. 485(1). L104–L108. 11 indexed citations
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Aquino-Ortíz, E., O. Valenzuela, S. F. Sánchez, et al.. (2018). Kinematic scaling relations of CALIFA galaxies: A dynamical mass proxy for galaxies across the Hubble sequence. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 479(2). 2133–2146. 35 indexed citations
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Roca-Fàbrega, S., O. Valenzuela, Pedro Colín, et al.. (2016). GARROTXA COSMOLOGICAL SIMULATIONS OF MILKY WAY-SIZED GALAXIES: GENERAL PROPERTIES, HOT-GAS DISTRIBUTION, AND MISSING BARYONS. The Astrophysical Journal. 824(2). 94–94. 15 indexed citations
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Valenzuela, O., B. Pichardo, & L. A. Aguilar. (2016). Detecting Triaxiality in the Galactic Dark Matter Halo through Stellar Kinematics. 2 indexed citations
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Pérez, J., O. Valenzuela, P. B. Tissera, & L. Michel-Dansac. (2013). Clumpy disc and bulge formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 436(1). 259–265. 25 indexed citations
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Méndez-Hernàndez, Hugo, et al.. (2011). Bar detection in Isolated and Pairs of Galaxies. Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). 40. 78–79. 1 indexed citations
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Ávila-Reese, V., Pedro Colín, Alejandro González-Samaniego, et al.. (2011). THE SPECIFIC STAR FORMATION RATE AND STELLAR MASS FRACTION OF LOW-MASS CENTRAL GALAXIES IN COSMOLOGICAL SIMULATIONS. The Astrophysical Journal. 736(2). 134–134. 26 indexed citations
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Antoja, T., F. Figueras, J. Torra, O. Valenzuela, & B. Pichardo. (2010). The Origin of Stellar Moving Groups. 4. 13–31. 1 indexed citations
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Klypin, Anatoly, O. Valenzuela, Pedro Colín, & Thomas Quinn. (2009). Dynamics of barred galaxies: effects of disc height. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 398(2). 1027–1040. 25 indexed citations
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Cano-Díaz, M., et al.. (2008). CENTRAL DARK AND BARYONIC MASS DISTRIBUTION IN THE ISOLATED BARRED GALAXY NGC 3367. Redalyc (Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México). 34. 117–118. 2 indexed citations

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