Robert A. Crain

20.7k total citations · 8 hit papers
156 papers, 12.2k citations indexed

About

Robert A. Crain is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert A. Crain has authored 156 papers receiving a total of 12.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 155 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 88 papers in Instrumentation and 28 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Robert A. Crain's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (153 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (88 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (53 papers). Robert A. Crain is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (153 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (88 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (53 papers). Robert A. Crain collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Netherlands and Germany. Robert A. Crain's co-authors include Joop Schaye, Tom Theuns, R. G. Bower, Matthieu Schaller, Carlos S. Frenk, Michelle Furlong, Claudio Dalla Vecchia, Ian G. McCarthy, James W. Trayford and Adrian Jenkins and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Robert A. Crain

155 papers receiving 11.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: calibration of subgrid physics and model variations

2015 1.1k citations Robert A. Crain, Joop Schaye et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles

2016 428 citations Carlos S. Frenk, R. G. Bower et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The EAGLE simulation of galaxy formation: public release of halo and galaxy catalogues

2016 403 citations Stuart McAlpine, John Helly et al. Liverpool John Moores University profile →
Evolution of galaxy stellar masses and star formation rates in the eagle simulations

2015 311 citations Michelle Furlong, R. G. Bower et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The unexpected diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves

2015 296 citations Kyle A. Oman, Carlos S. Frenk et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Baryon effects on the internal structure of ΛCDM haloes in the EAGLE simulations

2015 289 citations Matthieu Schaller, Carlos S. Frenk et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The formation and assembly history of the Milky Way revealed by its globular cluster population

2018 259 citations Joel Pfeffer, Robert A. Crain et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Kraken reveals itself – the merger history of the Milky Way reconstructed with the E-MOSAICS simulations

2020 173 citations Joel Pfeffer, Robert A. Crain et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Robert A. Crain United Kingdom	64	11.9k	6.3k	2.2k	461	412	156	12.2k
Debora Sijacki United Kingdom	48	11.0k 0.9×	4.8k 0.8×	2.1k 1.0×	606 1.3×	376 0.9×	99	11.5k
Matthieu Schaller Netherlands	55	9.5k 0.8×	5.0k 0.8×	2.0k 0.9×	371 0.8×	359 0.9×	169	9.9k
Rachel S. Somerville United States	59	12.8k 1.1×	6.9k 1.1×	2.3k 1.0×	492 1.1×	463 1.1×	219	13.2k
Ian G. McCarthy United Kingdom	55	9.3k 0.8×	4.5k 0.7×	2.1k 1.0×	302 0.7×	272 0.7×	137	9.6k
Liang Gao United Kingdom	35	9.1k 0.8×	4.2k 0.7×	2.4k 1.1×	351 0.8×	305 0.7×	101	9.5k
Jill Naiman United States	17	8.2k 0.7×	4.0k 0.6×	1.4k 0.7×	460 1.0×	322 0.8×	31	8.6k
Dušan Kereš United States	72	13.9k 1.2×	5.6k 0.9×	2.7k 1.2×	407 0.9×	241 0.6×	149	14.4k
Romeel Davé United States	65	16.1k 1.3×	6.7k 1.1×	3.3k 1.5×	578 1.3×	303 0.7×	270	16.6k
S. M. Faber United States	64	12.9k 1.1×	6.8k 1.1×	2.2k 1.0×	484 1.0×	376 0.9×	172	13.3k
Claudio Dalla Vecchia United Kingdom	46	8.4k 0.7×	4.3k 0.7×	1.6k 0.7×	277 0.6×	255 0.6×	92	8.5k

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Werk, Jessica K., Benjamin D. Oppenheimer, Kirill Tchernyshyov, et al.. (2024). The COS-Holes Survey: Connecting Galaxy Black Hole Mass with the State of the CGM. The Astrophysical Journal. 970(2). 115–115. 2 indexed citations

Oman, Kyle A., Carlos S. Frenk, Robert A. Crain, Mark R. Lovell, & Joel Pfeffer. (2024). A warm dark matter cosmogony may yield more low-mass galaxy detections in 21-cm surveys than a cold dark matter one. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(1). 67–78. 3 indexed citations

McCarthy, Ian G., Andreea S. Font, Robert A. Crain, et al.. (2024). Global structure and kinematics of stellar haloes in cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Figshare.

Lovell, Mark R., et al.. (2024). The impact of free-streaming on dwarf galaxy counts in low-density regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(2). 1296–1306. 1 indexed citations

Stott, J. P., Fergus Cullen, R. M. Bielby, et al.. (2023). Quasar Sightline and Galaxy Evolution (QSAGE) – III. The mass–metallicity and fundamental metallicity relation of z ≈ 2.2 galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 7891–7904. 5 indexed citations

Crain, Robert A., et al.. (2021). The morphology of star-forming gas and its alignment with galaxies and dark matter haloes in the EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(1). 65–87. 5 indexed citations

Dutta, Rajeshwari, Michele Fumagalli, Matteo Fossati, et al.. (2021). Metal-enriched halo gas across galaxy overdensities over the last 10 billion years. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 508(3). 4573–4599. 33 indexed citations

Stott, J. P., R. M. Bielby, Fergus Cullen, et al.. (2020). Quasar Sightline and Galaxy Evolution (QSAGE) survey – II. Galaxy overdensities around UV luminous quasars at z = 1–2. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(3). 3083–3096. 10 indexed citations

Font, Andreea S., Ian G. McCarthy, Sam G Stafford, et al.. (2020). The artemis simulations: stellar haloes of Milky Way-mass galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(2). 1765–1785. 74 indexed citations

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Norris, Mark A., et al.. (2020). An EAGLE’s view of ex situ galaxy growth. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(1). 81–93. 52 indexed citations

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Stafford, Sam G, Ian G. McCarthy, Robert A. Crain, et al.. (2020). The bahamas project: effects of a running scalar spectral index on large-scale structure. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 493(1). 676–697. 12 indexed citations

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Davé, Romeel, Robert A. Crain, Adam R. H. Stevens, et al.. (2020). Galaxy cold gas contents in modern cosmological hydrodynamic simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 497(1). 146–166. 90 indexed citations

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Davis, Timothy A., Freeke van de Voort, Kate Rowlands, et al.. (2019). Evolution of the cold gas properties of simulated post-starburst galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 484(2). 2447–2461. 27 indexed citations

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Lovell, Mark R., David J Barnes, Yannick M Bahé, et al.. (2019). The signal of decaying dark matter with hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(3). 4071–4089. 7 indexed citations

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Despali, Giulia, Mark R. Lovell, Simona Vegetti, Robert A. Crain, & Benjamin D. Oppenheimer. (2019). The lensing properties of subhaloes in massive elliptical galaxies in sterile neutrino cosmologies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(1). 1295–1310. 19 indexed citations

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Crain, Robert A., Ian G. McCarthy, Matthieu Schaller, et al.. (2019). The relationship between the morphology and kinematics of galaxies and its dependence on dark matter halo structure in EAGLE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(1). 972–987. 67 indexed citations

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Davies, J., Robert A. Crain, Ian G. McCarthy, et al.. (2019). The gas fractions of dark matter haloes hosting simulated ∼L⋆ galaxies are governed by the feedback history of their black holes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(3). 3783–3793. 72 indexed citations

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McAlpine, Stuart, John Helly, Matthieu Schaller, et al.. (2016). The EAGLE simulation of galaxy formation: public release of halo and galaxy catalogues. Liverpool John Moores University. 403 indexed citations breakdown →

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Turner, Monica L., Joop Schaye, Robert A. Crain, Tom Theuns, & Martin Wendt. (2016). Observations of metals in thez ≈ 3.5 intergalactic medium and comparison to the EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 462(3). 2440–2464. 28 indexed citations

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Guo, Quan, Violeta González-Pérez, Qi Guo, et al.. (2016). Galaxies in the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulation and in the Durham and Munich semi-analytical models. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 461(4). 3457–3482. 70 indexed citations

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