Pierluigi Monaco

7.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
86 papers, 3.1k citations indexed

About

Pierluigi Monaco is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Pierluigi Monaco has authored 86 papers receiving a total of 3.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 83 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 34 papers in Instrumentation and 19 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Pierluigi Monaco's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (77 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (34 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (18 papers). Pierluigi Monaco is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (77 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (34 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (18 papers). Pierluigi Monaco collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Germany and United States. Pierluigi Monaco's co-authors include Fabio Fontanot, Giuliano Taffoni, S. Borgani, Tom Theuns, Giuseppe Murante, L. Danese, S. Cristiani, P. Salucci, E. Sefusatti and G. De Lucia 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

Pierluigi Monaco

82 papers receiving 3.0k 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.

DIFFERENT STAR FORMATION LAWS FOR DISKS VERSUS STARBURSTS AT LOW AND HIGH REDSHIFTS

2010 395 citations E. Daddi, D. Elbaz et al. The Astrophysical Journal Letters profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Pierluigi Monaco Italy	32	3.0k	1.5k	460	170	133	86	3.1k
Benedikt Diemer United States	21	2.5k 0.8×	1.3k 0.9×	459 1.0×	145 0.9×	155 1.2×	48	2.6k
Kevin A. Pimbblet United Kingdom	27	2.3k 0.8×	1.2k 0.8×	414 0.9×	105 0.6×	137 1.0×	100	2.4k
L. Guzzo Italy	29	2.5k 0.8×	1.0k 0.7×	763 1.7×	176 1.0×	144 1.1×	79	2.6k
D. Le Borgne France	20	3.0k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	378 0.8×	90 0.5×	86 0.6×	34	3.1k
Sébastien Peirani France	32	3.0k 1.0×	1.5k 1.0×	588 1.3×	135 0.8×	80 0.6×	81	3.2k
David A. Wake United States	28	2.9k 1.0×	1.7k 1.1×	361 0.8×	117 0.7×	199 1.5×	53	2.9k
Gerard Lemson Germany	21	3.3k 1.1×	1.8k 1.2×	539 1.2×	182 1.1×	233 1.8×	49	3.4k
R. R. de Carvalho Brazil	32	2.5k 0.8×	1.5k 1.0×	264 0.6×	101 0.6×	180 1.4×	115	2.6k
B. Guiderdoni France	20	2.2k 0.7×	1.2k 0.8×	466 1.0×	118 0.7×	76 0.6×	53	2.3k
Joshua A. Frieman United States	21	2.4k 0.8×	985 0.7×	489 1.1×	178 1.0×	256 1.9×	23	2.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Pierluigi Monaco

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Pierluigi Monaco

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20 of 20 papers shown

Tan, Jonathan C., Julien Devriendt, Adrianne Slyz, et al.. (2025). The emergence and ionizing feedback of Pop III.1 stars as progenitors for supermassive black holes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 542(2). 1532–1543. 1 indexed citations

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.

Castro, T., et al.. (2024). A deconstruction of methods to derive one-point lensing statistics. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 7. 1 indexed citations

Monaco, Pierluigi, et al.. (2024). The JELLYFISh Project: Medusa SDMT testing at the NGTS Geo-Test sites, Norway.

Monaco, Pierluigi, et al.. (2024). The formation of supermassive black holes from Population III.1 seeds. III. Galaxy evolution and black hole growth from semi-analytic modelling. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 536(1). 851–870. 11 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

Moretti, Chiara, Kevin Pardede, Alexander Eggemeier, et al.. (2023). The halo bispectrum multipoles in redshift space. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(1). 31–31. 20 indexed citations

Granato, G. L., Cinthia Ragone-Figueroa, L. Silva, et al.. (2021). Dust evolution in zoom-in cosmological simulations of galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(1). 511–532. 33 indexed citations

Sefusatti, E., et al.. (2021). Cosmological parameters from the likelihood analysis of the galaxy power spectrum and bispectrum in real space. ArTS Archivio della ricerca di Trieste (University of Trieste https://www.units.it/). 35 indexed citations

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Fontanot, Fabio, Michaela Hirschmann, Lizhi Xie, et al.. (2020). The rise of active galactic nuclei in the galaxy evolution and assembly semi-analytic model. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 496(3). 3943–3960. 31 indexed citations

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Monaco, Pierluigi, Andrew Benson, G. De Lucia, et al.. (2014). A semi-analytic model comparison: testing cooling models against hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 441(3). 2058–2077. 14 indexed citations

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Monaco, Pierluigi, Giuseppe Murante, S. Borgani, & Klaus Dolag. (2012). Schmidt-Kennicutt relations in SPH simulations of disc galaxies with effective thermal feedback from supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 421(3). 2485–2497. 13 indexed citations

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Murante, Giuseppe, et al.. (2010). A subresolution multiphase interstellar medium model of star formation and supernova energy feedback. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. no–no. 58 indexed citations

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Daddi, E., D. Elbaz, Fabian Walter, et al.. (2010). DIFFERENT STAR FORMATION LAWS FOR DISKS VERSUS STARBURSTS AT LOW AND HIGH REDSHIFTS. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 714(1). L118–L122. 395 indexed citations breakdown →

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Macciò, Andrea V., Xi Kang, Fabio Fontanot, et al.. (2009). Luminosity function and radial distribution of Milky Way satellites in a ΛCDM Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 402(3). 1995–2008. 123 indexed citations

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D’Odorico, V., M. Bruscoli, Fabio Fontanot, et al.. (2008). The quasar proximity effect at redshift 〈z〉≃ 2.6 with the From Lines to Overdensities approach★. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 389(4). 1727–1738. 11 indexed citations

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Fontanot, Fabio, S. Cristiani, Pierluigi Monaco, et al.. (2006). The luminosity function of high-redshift quasi-stellar objects. A combined analysis of GOODS and SDSS. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 64 indexed citations

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Monaco, Pierluigi. (2004). On the destruction of star-forming clouds. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 354(1). 151–160. 7 indexed citations

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Monaco, Pierluigi. (2004). Physical regimes for feedback in galaxy formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 352(1). 181–204. 30 indexed citations

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Fontanot, Fabio, Pierluigi Monaco, & S. Borgani. (2003). Recovering the Initial Conditions of our Local Universe from NOG and PSCz Catalogues.. 2 indexed citations

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