Olga Mena

15.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
151 papers, 5.3k citations indexed

About

Olga Mena is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Olga Mena has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 5.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 134 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 103 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 7 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Olga Mena's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (93 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (71 papers) and Neutrino Physics Research (61 papers). Olga Mena is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (93 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (71 papers) and Neutrino Physics Research (61 papers). Olga Mena collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Italy and United Kingdom. Olga Mena's co-authors include Eleonora Di Valentino, A. Melchiorri, Sunny Vagnozzi, Elena Giusarma, Stefano Gariazzo, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, M.B. Gavela, Laura Lopez-Honorez, M. Gerbino and Katherine Freese and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Olga Mena

145 papers receiving 5.1k citations

Hit Papers

Nonminimal dark sector physics and cosmological tensions 2017 2026 2020 2023 2020 2017 2017 2025 50 100 150 200 250
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. Nonminimal dark sector physics and cosmological tensions
    2020 274 citations Eleonora Di Valentino, A. Melchiorri et al. Physical review. D profile →
  2. Can interacting dark energy solve the H0 tension?
    2017 273 citations Eleonora Di Valentino, A. Melchiorri et al. Physical review. D profile →
  3. Unveiling ν secrets with cosmological data: Neutrino masses and mass hierarchy
    2017 253 citations Sunny Vagnozzi, Elena Giusarma et al. Physical review. D profile →
  4. Neutrino cosmology after DESI: tightest mass upper limits, preference for the normal ordering, and tension with terrestrial observations
    2025 42 citations William Giarè, Stefano Gariazzo et al. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Olga Mena Spain 41 4.4k 3.6k 149 125 117 151 5.3k
Steen Hannestad Denmark 44 5.1k 1.2× 4.1k 1.1× 227 1.5× 123 1.0× 74 0.6× 134 5.8k
Julien Lesgourgues France 32 2.3k 0.5× 2.7k 0.7× 170 1.1× 83 0.7× 128 1.1× 66 3.1k
Tristan L. Smith United States 26 2.4k 0.5× 3.4k 0.9× 130 0.9× 369 3.0× 135 1.2× 62 3.5k
Thomas Tram Denmark 20 2.1k 0.5× 2.5k 0.7× 137 0.9× 92 0.7× 150 1.3× 37 2.9k
Zong‐Hong Zhu China 37 1.8k 0.4× 3.9k 1.1× 214 1.4× 233 1.9× 224 1.9× 183 4.1k
Eleonora Di Valentino United Kingdom 42 3.9k 0.9× 5.0k 1.4× 259 1.7× 320 2.6× 213 1.8× 140 5.7k
Rachel Bean United States 24 1.7k 0.4× 2.4k 0.7× 142 1.0× 190 1.5× 105 0.9× 57 2.5k
Peter Challis United States 16 2.5k 0.6× 4.0k 1.1× 213 1.4× 177 1.4× 179 1.5× 20 4.0k
N. Aghanim France 27 1.2k 0.3× 2.3k 0.6× 126 0.8× 104 0.8× 244 2.1× 80 2.4k
J. Dunkley United Kingdom 8 3.1k 0.7× 4.6k 1.3× 326 2.2× 212 1.7× 533 4.6× 10 4.9k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Esteban, Ivan, et al.. (2025). Origin of cosmological neutrino mass bounds: background versus perturbations. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(6). 58–58. 5 indexed citations
2.
Wang, Deng, Olga Mena, Eleonora Di Valentino, & Stefano Gariazzo. (2025). Scale and redshift dependent limits on cosmic neutrino properties. Physical review. D. 112(6). 1 indexed citations
3.
Wang, Deng & Olga Mena. (2024). Robust analysis of the growth of structure. Physical review. D. 109(8). 2 indexed citations
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Palomares-Ruiz, Sergio, et al.. (2024). Shedding light on the Δm212 tension with supernova neutrinos. Physics Letters B. 854. 138719–138719.
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Farhang, M., et al.. (2024). Semiblind reconstruction of the history of effective number of neutrinos using CMB data. Physical review. D. 110(10). 2 indexed citations
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Wang, Deng, Olga Mena, Eleonora Di Valentino, & Stefano Gariazzo. (2024). Updating neutrino mass constraints with background measurements. Physical review. D. 110(10). 27 indexed citations
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Giarè, William, et al.. (2023). A consistent view of interacting dark energy from multiple CMB probes. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(7). 32–32. 45 indexed citations
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Giarè, William, Olga Mena, & Eleonora Di Valentino. (2023). Lensing impact on cosmic relics and tensions. Physical review. D. 108(10). 11 indexed citations
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Mena, Olga, et al.. (2023). Earth tomography with supernova neutrinos at future neutrino detectors. Physical review. D. 108(8). 5 indexed citations
10.
Valentino, Eleonora Di, Stefano Gariazzo, William Giarè, et al.. (2023). Novel model-marginalized cosmological bound on the QCD axion mass. Physical review. D. 107(10). 11 indexed citations
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Mena, Olga, et al.. (2022). Revisiting constraints on WIMPs around primordial black holes. Physical review. D. 106(6). 11 indexed citations
12.
Esteban, Ivan, Olga Mena, & Jordi Salvadó. (2022). Nonstandard neutrino cosmology dilutes the lensing anomaly. Physical review. D. 106(8). 8 indexed citations
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Capozzi, Francesco, et al.. (2022). Absolute ν Mass Measurement with the DUNE Experiment. Physical Review Letters. 129(12). 121802–121802. 10 indexed citations
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Mena, Olga, Sergio Palomares-Ruiz, Pablo Villanueva-Domingo, & Samuel J. Witte. (2019). Constraining the primordial black hole abundance with 21-cm cosmology. Physical review. D. 100(4). 58 indexed citations
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Yang, Weiqiang, Olga Mena, Supriya Pan, & Eleonora Di Valentino. (2019). Dark sectors with dynamical coupling. Physical review. D. 100(8). 55 indexed citations
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Valentino, Eleonora Di, A. Melchiorri, Olga Mena, & Sunny Vagnozzi. (2019). Interacting dark energy after the latest Planck, DES, and $H_0$ measurements: an excellent solution to the $H_0$ and cosmic shear tensions. arXiv (Cornell University). 20 indexed citations
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Salas, P.F. de, Stefano Gariazzo, Christoph A. Ternes, M. Tórtola, & Olga Mena. (2018). Neutrino Mass Ordering in 2018: Global Status. arXiv (Cornell University). 11 indexed citations
18.
Vagnozzi, Sunny, Elena Giusarma, Olga Mena, et al.. (2017). Unveiling ν secrets with cosmological data: Neutrino masses and mass hierarchy. Physical review. D. 96(12). 253 indexed citations breakdown →
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Valentino, Eleonora Di, Elena Giusarma, M. Lattanzi, et al.. (2015). Cosmological axion and neutrino mass constraints from Planck 2015 temperature and polarization data. Physics Letters B. 752. 182–185. 64 indexed citations
20.
Bross, A., et al.. (2009). The multi-channel low energy neutrino factory. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information).

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