Paul R. Shapiro

10.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
148 papers, 7.2k citations indexed

About

Paul R. Shapiro is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul R. Shapiro has authored 148 papers receiving a total of 7.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 53 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 17 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Paul R. Shapiro's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (87 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (65 papers) and Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (36 papers). Paul R. Shapiro is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (87 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (65 papers) and Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (36 papers). Paul R. Shapiro collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and South Korea. Paul R. Shapiro's co-authors include Ilian T. Iliev, Garrelt Mellema, J. Castor, Richard McCray, R. L. Moore, Tanja Rindler-Daller, George B. Field, Marcelo A. Alvarez, Mark L. Giroux and Kyungjin Ahn and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Paul R. Shapiro

137 papers receiving 7.0k 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.

Interstellar bubbles. II - Structure and evolution

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Paul R. Shapiro United States	45	6.8k	2.8k	972	354	314	148	7.2k
A. C. S. Readhead United States	46	7.6k 1.1×	5.3k 1.9×	593 0.6×	451 1.3×	343 1.1×	276	8.1k
R. A. Perley United States	39	8.2k 1.2×	5.1k 1.8×	779 0.8×	216 0.6×	397 1.3×	150	8.4k
L. Staveley‐Smith Australia	45	10.3k 1.5×	3.8k 1.3×	1.8k 1.8×	245 0.7×	153 0.5×	283	10.7k
W. D. Cotton United States	35	7.4k 1.1×	4.3k 1.5×	896 0.9×	264 0.7×	276 0.9×	187	7.8k
Tom Abel United States	52	8.8k 1.3×	2.2k 0.8×	1.7k 1.8×	322 0.9×	99 0.3×	133	9.4k
Patrick J. McCarthy United States	44	6.6k 1.0×	3.0k 1.1×	2.1k 2.2×	490 1.4×	303 1.0×	236	7.6k
F. X. Timmes United States	34	8.8k 1.3×	2.5k 0.9×	1.5k 1.5×	458 1.3×	311 1.0×	121	10.3k
K. Nandra United States	52	10.0k 1.5×	3.7k 1.3×	1.3k 1.3×	517 1.5×	110 0.4×	239	10.4k
S. Peng Oh United States	43	5.6k 0.8×	2.6k 0.9×	800 0.8×	137 0.4×	300 1.0×	92	5.9k
K. I. Kellermann United States	47	6.8k 1.0×	4.7k 1.7×	639 0.7×	234 0.7×	318 1.0×	232	7.3k

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Shapiro, Paul R., Taha Dawoodbhoy, Paz Beniamini, et al.. (2025). Predictions for dispersion measures of fast radio bursts through the epoch of reionization using CoDa II. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(2). 1518–1531. 1 indexed citations

Ocvirk, Pierre, Joseph S. W. Lewis, Yohan Dubois, et al.. (2025). Dust-UV offsets in high-redshift galaxies in the Cosmic Dawn III simulation. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 703. A98–A98. 1 indexed citations

Dawoodbhoy, Taha, Paul R. Shapiro, Pierre Ocvirk, et al.. (2023). Cosmic variance and the inhomogeneous UV luminosity function of galaxies during reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(4). 6231–6246. 2 indexed citations

Lewis, Joseph S. W., Pierre Ocvirk, Jenny G. Sorce, et al.. (2022). The short ionizing photon mean free path at z = 6 in Cosmic Dawn III, a new fully coupled radiation-hydrodynamical simulation of the Epoch of Reionization. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 516(3). 3389–3397. 44 indexed citations

Sorce, Jenny G., Pierre Ocvirk, Dominique Aubert, et al.. (2022). Reionization time of the Local Group and Local-Group-like halo pairs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 515(2). 2970–2980. 7 indexed citations

Grönke, Max, Pierre Ocvirk, Charlotte Mason, et al.. (2021). Lyman-α transmission properties of the intergalactic medium in the CoDaII simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508(3). 3697–3709. 25 indexed citations

Iliev, Ilian T., Kyungjin Ahn, Sambit K. Giri, et al.. (2021). The impact of inhomogeneous subgrid clumping on cosmic reionization – II. Modelling stochasticity. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 504(2). 2443–2460. 20 indexed citations

Dawoodbhoy, Taha, Paul R. Shapiro, & Tanja Rindler-Daller. (2021). Core-envelope haloes in scalar field dark matter with repulsive self-interaction: fluid dynamics beyond the de Broglie wavelength. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(2). 2418–2444. 27 indexed citations

Ocvirk, Pierre, Nicolas Gillet, Paul R. Shapiro, et al.. (2016). Cosmic Dawn (CoDa): the first radiation-hydrodynamics simulation of reionization and galaxy formation in the Local Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 463(2). 1462–1485. 162 indexed citations

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Rindler-Daller, Tanja & Paul R. Shapiro. (2012). Angular momentum and vortex formation in Bose-Einstein-condensed cold dark matter haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 422(1). 135–161. 131 indexed citations

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Iliev, Ilian T., Daniel J. Whalen, Garrelt Mellema, et al.. (2009). Cosmological radiative transfer comparison project â II. The radiation-hydrodynamic tests. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 400(3). 1283–1316. 81 indexed citations

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Ahn, Kyungjin, Paul R. Shapiro, Ilian T. Iliev, Garrelt Mellema, & Ue‐Li Pen. (2008). The Inhomogeneous Background of H2 Dissociating Radiation During Cosmic Reionization. AIP conference proceedings. 374–376. 1 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Paul R., Ilian T. Iliev, Garrelt Mellema, Ue‐Li Pen, & Hugh Merz. (2008). The Theory and Simulation of the 21‐cm Background from the Epoch of Reionization. AIP conference proceedings. 68–74. 3 indexed citations

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Ahn, Kyungjin & Paul R. Shapiro. (2008). Does Radiative Feedback by the First Stars Promote or Prevent Second Generation Star Formation?. AIP conference proceedings. 377–380. 2 indexed citations

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Alvarez, Marcelo A., Paul R. Shapiro, Kyungjin Ahn, & Ilian T. Iliev. (2006). Implications of WMAP Three Year Data for Reionization. arXiv (Cornell University).

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Shapiro, Paul R., et al.. (2005). UNDERSTANDING THE EQUILIBRIUM STRUCTURE OF CDM HALOS. 2 indexed citations

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Shapiro, Paul R. & Ilian T. Iliev. (2000). On the Mass Profile of Galaxy Cluster C[CLC]l[/CLC] 0024+1654 Inferred from Strong Lensing. The Astrophysical Journal. 542(1). L1–L4. 19 indexed citations

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Martel, Hugo, et al.. (1993). Smoothed particle hydrodynamics and the simulation of galaxy and large - scale structure formation. JRASC. 27(4). 187–190. 1 indexed citations

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Mineshige, Shin, Kazunari Shibata, & Paul R. Shapiro. (1993). Large-scale explosions and superbubbles in the Galactic disk and halo. I - Magnetohydrodynamic simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 409. 663–663. 18 indexed citations

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Struck, Curtis & Paul R. Shapiro. (1983). Pancakes and the formation of galaxies: neutrinos and other 'inos.. Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society. 15(3). 878.

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