Ramesh Mainali

1.9k total citations · 2 hit papers
16 papers, 928 citations indexed

About

Ramesh Mainali is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ramesh Mainali has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 928 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 16 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 8 papers in Instrumentation and 1 paper in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Ramesh Mainali's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (14 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (8 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (8 papers). Ramesh Mainali is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (14 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (8 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (8 papers). Ramesh Mainali collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Ramesh Mainali's co-authors include Daniel P. Stark, S. Charlot, Julia Gutkin, Jacopo Chevallard, Adi Zitrin, Mengtao Tang, Alba Vidal-García, Richard S. Ellis, A. Feltre and Peter Senchyna and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society and The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

In The Last Decade

Ramesh Mainali

16 papers receiving 817 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.

Metal-poor star formation at z > 6 with JWST: new insight into hard radiation fields and nitrogen enrichment on 20 pc scales

2024 72 citations Michael W. Topping, Daniel P. Stark et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Deep Rest-UV JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy of Early Galaxies: The Demographics of C iv and N-emitters in the Reionization Era

2025 22 citations Michael W. Topping, Dan Stark et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ramesh Mainali United States	13	879	352	99	56	39	16	928
Mengtao Tang United States	15	916 1.0×	414 1.2×	104 1.1×	65 1.2×	36 0.9×	20	962
Julia Gutkin France	9	1.1k 1.3×	458 1.3×	103 1.0×	65 1.2×	45 1.2×	10	1.2k
Alba Vidal-García France	13	825 0.9×	316 0.9×	70 0.7×	37 0.7×	26 0.7×	19	848
Michael W. Topping United States	22	1.1k 1.2×	471 1.3×	90 0.9×	34 0.6×	34 0.9×	52	1.2k
Guido Roberts-Borsani United States	17	1.0k 1.2×	473 1.3×	136 1.4×	35 0.6×	39 1.0×	37	1.1k
Aida Wofford United States	14	791 0.9×	270 0.8×	62 0.6×	35 0.6×	26 0.7×	34	816
W. Rujopakarn Thailand	17	768 0.9×	328 0.9×	85 0.9×	16 0.3×	26 0.7×	39	787
Peter Senchyna United States	12	563 0.6×	204 0.6×	46 0.5×	23 0.4×	25 0.6×	17	617
Ryan F. Trainor United States	12	554 0.6×	254 0.7×	84 0.8×	21 0.4×	25 0.6×	18	590
Kristin Kulas United States	5	392 0.4×	202 0.6×	39 0.4×	23 0.4×	35 0.9×	9	426

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ramesh Mainali

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16 of 16 papers shown

Topping, Michael W., Dan Stark, Peter Senchyna, et al.. (2025). Deep Rest-UV JWST/NIRSpec Spectroscopy of Early Galaxies: The Demographics of C iv and N-emitters in the Reionization Era. The Astrophysical Journal. 980(2). 225–225. 22 indexed citations breakdown →

Topping, Michael W., Daniel P. Stark, Peter Senchyna, et al.. (2024). Metal-poor star formation at z > 6 with JWST: new insight into hard radiation fields and nitrogen enrichment on 20 pc scales. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 529(4). 3301–3322. 72 indexed citations breakdown →

Kim, Keunho, Matthew Bayliss, Jane R. Rigby, et al.. (2023). Small Region, Big Impact: Highly Anisotropic Lyman-continuum Escape from a Compact Starburst Region with Extreme Physical Properties. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 955(1). L17–L17. 17 indexed citations

Mainali, Ramesh, Daniel P. Stark, Tucker Jones, et al.. (2023). Spectroscopy of CASSOWARY gravitationally lensed galaxies in SDSS: characterization of an extremely bright reionization-era analogue at z = 1.42. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(3). 4037–4056. 9 indexed citations

Mainali, Ramesh, Jane R. Rigby, John Chisholm, et al.. (2022). The Connection Between Galactic Outflows and the Escape of Ionizing Photons. The Astrophysical Journal. 940(2). 160–160. 24 indexed citations

Sharon, Keren, Guillaume Mahler, T. Emil Rivera-Thorsen, et al.. (2022). The Cosmic Telescope That Lenses the Sunburst Arc, PSZ1 G311.65–18.48: Strong Gravitational Lensing Model and Source Plane Analysis*. The Astrophysical Journal. 941(2). 203–203. 16 indexed citations

Pelliccia, Debora, Victoria Strait, B. C. Lemaux, et al.. (2021). RELICS-DP7: Spectroscopic Confirmation of a Dichromatic Primeval Galaxy at z ∼ 7. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 908(2). L30–L30. 5 indexed citations

Mainali, Ramesh, Daniel P. Stark, Mengtao Tang, et al.. (2020). RELICS: spectroscopy of gravitationally lensed z ≃ 2 reionization-era analogues and implications for C iii] detections at z > 6. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(1). 719–735. 18 indexed citations

McGreer, Ian D., Benjamin Clément, Ramesh Mainali, et al.. (2018). A bright lensed galaxy at z = 5.4 with strong Lyα emission. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 9 indexed citations

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Chevallard, Jacopo, S. Charlot, Peter Senchyna, et al.. (2018). Physical properties and H-ionizing-photon production rates of extreme nearby star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 479(3). 3264–3273. 59 indexed citations

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Mainali, Ramesh, Adi Zitrin, Daniel P. Stark, et al.. (2018). Spectroscopic Constraints on UV Metal Line Emission at z ≃ 6 − 9 The Nature of Lyα Emitting Galaxies in the Reionization-Era. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 53 indexed citations

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Senchyna, Peter, Daniel P. Stark, Alba Vidal-García, et al.. (2017). Ultraviolet spectra of extreme nearby star-forming regions – approaching a local reference sample for JWST. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 472(3). 2608–2632. 120 indexed citations

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Laporte, Nicolas, Kimihiko Nakajima, Richard S. Ellis, et al.. (2017). A Spectroscopic Search for AGN Activity in the Reionization Era. The Astrophysical Journal. 851(1). 40–40. 74 indexed citations

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Mainali, Ramesh, Juna A. Kollmeier, Daniel P. Stark, et al.. (2017). Evidence for a Hard Ionizing Spectrum from a z = 6.11 Stellar Population. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 836(1). L14–L14. 68 indexed citations

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Stark, Daniel P., Richard S. Ellis, S. Charlot, et al.. (2016). Lyα and C iii] emission inz= 7–9 Galaxies: accelerated reionization around luminous star-forming systems?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 464(1). 469–479. 208 indexed citations

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Stark, Daniel P., Gregory Walth, S. Charlot, et al.. (2015). Spectroscopic detection of C iv λ1548 in a galaxy atz = 7.045: implications for the ionizing spectra of reionization-era galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 454(2). 1393–1403. 154 indexed citations

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