Piero Madau

32.5k total citations · 11 hit papers
189 papers, 16.6k citations indexed

About

Piero Madau is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Instrumentation. According to data from OpenAlex, Piero Madau has authored 189 papers receiving a total of 16.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 58 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 57 papers in Instrumentation. Recurrent topics in Piero Madau's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (137 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (57 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (47 papers). Piero Madau is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (137 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (57 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (47 papers). Piero Madau collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. Piero Madau's co-authors include Francesco Haardt, M. J. Rees, Lucio Mayer, Mark Dickinson, L. Pozzetti, M. Kuhlen, Avery Meiksin, Henry C. Ferguson, Ben Moore and Javiera Guedes and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Piero Madau

187 papers receiving 16.1k 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.

  1. High-redshift galaxies in the Hubble Deep Field: colour selection and star formation history to z   4
    1996 1.1k citations Piero Madau, Henry C. Ferguson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  2. Radiative Transfer in a Clumpy Universe. II. The Ultraviolet Extragalactic Background
    1996 1.1k citations Piero Madau et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  3. The Star Formation History of Field Galaxies
    1998 727 citations Piero Madau, Mark Dickinson et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  4. Bulgeless dwarf galaxies and dark matter cores from supernova-driven outflows
    2010 684 citations Lucio Mayer, James Wadsley et al. profile →
  5. Radiative transfer in a clumpy universe: The colors of high-redshift galaxies
    1995 666 citations Piero Madau The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  6. Massive Black Holes as Population III Remnants
    2001 565 citations Piero Madau et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  7. Clumps and streams in the local dark matter distribution
    2008 547 citations Piero Madau et al. profile →
  8. 21 Centimeter Tomography of the Intergalactic Medium at High Redshift
    1997 506 citations Piero Madau et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  9. A New Nonparametric Approach to Galaxy Morphological Classification
    2004 480 citations Piero Madau et al. profile →
  10. FORMING REALISTIC LATE-TYPE SPIRALS IN A ΛCDM UNIVERSE: THE ERIS SIMULATION
    2011 361 citations Piero Madau, Lucio Mayer et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  11. Evidence of patchy hydrogen reionization from an extreme Lyα trough below redshift six
    2015 280 citations Piero Madau et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers

Piero Madau
J. X. Prochaska United States
Romain Teyssier France
W. Forman United States
C. Jones United States
Eliot Quataert United States
Douglas P. Finkbeiner United States
Gordon T. Richards United States
H. J. A. Röttgering Netherlands
Max Pettini United Kingdom
Mauro Giavalisco United States
J. X. Prochaska United States
Piero Madau
Citations per year, relative to Piero Madau Piero Madau (= 1×) peers J. X. Prochaska

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Fields of papers citing papers by Piero Madau

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Piero Madau

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Piero Madau. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Piero Madau 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 Piero Madau. Piero Madau 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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Zou, Fan, Elena Gallo, Anil C. Seth, et al.. (2025). Central Massive Black Holes Are Not Ubiquitous in Local Low-mass Galaxies. The Astrophysical Journal. 992(2). 176–176. 1 indexed citations
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Mayer, Lucio, et al.. (2025). Exploring the fate of primordial discs in Milky Way-sized galaxies with the GigaEris simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539(2). 1259–1268. 1 indexed citations
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Madau, Piero, et al.. (2024). Searching for Intermediate-mass Black Holes in Globular Clusters through Tidal Disruption Events. The Astrophysical Journal. 963(2). 146–146. 8 indexed citations
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Mayer, Lucio, et al.. (2024). Stellar cluster formation in a Milky Way-sized galaxy at z > 4 – II. A hybrid formation scenario for the nuclear star cluster and its connection to the nuclear stellar ring. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(4). 4104–4116. 10 indexed citations
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Decataldo, Davide, et al.. (2024). The origin of cold gas in the circumgalactic medium. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 685. A8–A8. 9 indexed citations
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Hassan, Sultan, Christopher C. Lovell, Piero Madau, et al.. (2023). JWST Constraints on the UV Luminosity Density at Cosmic Dawn: Implications for 21 cm Cosmology. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 958(1). L3–L3. 12 indexed citations
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Decataldo, Davide, Sijing Shen, C. Cicone, et al.. (2023). High resolution modelling of [CII], [CI], [OIII], and CO line emission from the interstellar medium and circumgalactic medium of a star-forming galaxy at z ∼ 6.5. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 682. A98–A98. 11 indexed citations
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Mayer, Lucio, et al.. (2023). Stellar cluster formation in a Milky Way-sized galaxy at z > 4 – I. The proto-globular cluster population and the imposter amongst us. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(2). 1726–1735. 12 indexed citations
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Hausen, Ryan, Brant Robertson, Nickolay Y. Gnedin, et al.. (2023). Revealing the Galaxy–Halo Connection through Machine Learning. The Astrophysical Journal. 945(2). 122–122. 4 indexed citations
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Drakos, Nicole E., Brant Robertson, Ryan Hausen, et al.. (2022). Deep Realistic Extragalactic Model (DREaM) Galaxy Catalogs: Predictions for a Roman Ultra-deep Field. The Astrophysical Journal. 926(2). 194–194. 20 indexed citations
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Tamfal, Tomas, Lucio Mayer, Thomas Quinn, et al.. (2022). The Dawn of Disk Formation in a Milky Way-sized Galaxy Halo: Thin Stellar Disks at z > 4. The Astrophysical Journal. 928(2). 106–106. 19 indexed citations
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Gnedin, Nickolay Y. & Piero Madau. (2022). Modeling cosmic reionization. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 8(1). 43 indexed citations
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Shen, Sijing, et al.. (2021). The baryon cycle of Seven Dwarfs with superbubble feedback. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 14 indexed citations
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Bortolas, Elisa, Pedro R. Capelo, Tommaso Zana, et al.. (2020). Global torques and stochasticity as the drivers of massive black hole pairing in the young Universe. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(3). 3601–3615. 28 indexed citations
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Madau, Piero, et al.. (2019). Momentum injection by clustered supernovae: testing subgrid feedback prescriptions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 492(1). 1243–1256. 13 indexed citations
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Krumholz, Mark R., et al.. (2018). The momentum budget of clustered supernova feedback in a 3D, magnetized medium. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(3). 3647–3658. 61 indexed citations
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D’Onghia, Elena, Piero Madau, Carlos Vera-Ciro, Alice C. Quillen, & Lars Hernquist. (2016). EXCITATION OF COUPLED STELLAR MOTIONS IN THE GALACTIC DISK BY ORBITING SATELLITES. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 57 indexed citations
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Lisanti, Mariangela, David N. Spergel, & Piero Madau. (2015). SIGNATURES OF KINEMATIC SUBSTRUCTURE IN THE GALACTIC STELLAR HALO. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 15 indexed citations
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Madau, Piero, et al.. (2002). Early Metal-Enrichment by Pregalactic Outflows. 277. 4 indexed citations
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Livio, Mario, S. Michael Fall, & Piero Madau. (1998). The Hubble Deep Field : proceedings of the Space Telescope Science Institute Symposium, held in Baltimore, Maryland, May 6-9, 1997. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations

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