Rüdiger Pakmor

34.2k total citations · 20 hit papers
296 papers, 23.5k citations indexed

About

Rüdiger Pakmor is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Rüdiger Pakmor has authored 296 papers receiving a total of 23.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 283 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 88 papers in Instrumentation and 60 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Rüdiger Pakmor's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (170 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (106 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (100 papers). Rüdiger Pakmor is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (170 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (106 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (100 papers). Rüdiger Pakmor collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Rüdiger Pakmor's co-authors include Volker Springel, Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist, Rainer Weinberger, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson, Paul Torrey, Shy Genel and Jill Naiman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Rüdiger Pakmor

280 papers receiving 21.5k citations

Hit Papers

Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model 2012 2026 2016 2021 2017 2017 2017 2017 2019 400 800 1.2k
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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.

  1. Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model
    2017 1.4k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  2. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: matter and galaxy clustering
    2017 1.2k citations Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  3. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies
    2017 1.2k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  4. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy colour bimodality
    2017 1.1k citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  5. The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release
    2019 953 citations Dylan Nelson, Volker Springel et al. profile →
  6. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: a tale of two elements – chemical evolution of magnesium and europium
    2018 894 citations Jill Naiman, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  7. Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback
    2016 879 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  8. First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: radio haloes and magnetic fields
    2018 794 citations Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  9. First results from the TNG50 simulation: galactic outflows driven by supernovae and black hole feedback
    2019 695 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  10. First results from the TNG50 simulation: the evolution of stellar and gaseous discs across cosmic time
    2019 608 citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  11. The Auriga Project: the properties and formation mechanisms of disc galaxies across cosmic time
    2017 423 citations Robert J. J. Grand, Facundo A. Gómez et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  12. Supermassive black holes and their feedback effects in the IllustrisTNG simulation
    2018 316 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  13. The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations
    2018 296 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Gregory F. Snyder et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  14. The AREPO Public Code Release
    2020 292 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. profile →
  15. Three-dimensional delayed-detonation models with nucleosynthesis for Type Ia supernovae
    2012 290 citations I. R. Seitenzahl, F. K. Röpke et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  16. Improving the convergence properties of the moving-mesh code AREPO
    2015 283 citations Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  17. Simulating cosmic structure formation with the gadget-4 code
    2021 276 citations Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  18. Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization
    2021 160 citations Rahul Kannan, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  19. The Redshift Evolution of the Binary Black Hole Merger Rate: A Weighty Matter
    2022 115 citations Rüdiger Pakmor et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  20. The MillenniumTNG Project: the hydrodynamical full physics simulation and a first look at its galaxy clusters
    2023 96 citations Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Rüdiger Pakmor Germany 71 22.3k 8.6k 4.7k 861 765 296 23.5k
Federico Marinacci United States 66 19.4k 0.9× 9.0k 1.0× 3.5k 0.7× 970 1.1× 730 1.0× 211 20.4k
Joop Schaye Netherlands 85 24.7k 1.1× 10.5k 1.2× 6.3k 1.3× 855 1.0× 850 1.1× 419 25.5k
Annalisa Pillepich Germany 58 17.9k 0.8× 9.2k 1.1× 3.1k 0.6× 1.1k 1.2× 622 0.8× 196 18.8k
Dylan Nelson Germany 61 21.8k 1.0× 10.9k 1.3× 3.6k 0.8× 1.3k 1.5× 738 1.0× 201 22.8k
Philip F. Hopkins United States 92 25.3k 1.1× 9.6k 1.1× 4.5k 0.9× 721 0.8× 944 1.2× 374 27.0k
Shy Genel United States 63 21.7k 1.0× 11.0k 1.3× 3.4k 0.7× 1.3k 1.5× 787 1.0× 130 22.7k
Paul Torrey United States 65 22.6k 1.0× 11.2k 1.3× 3.5k 0.7× 1.3k 1.5× 749 1.0× 170 23.6k
Donald P. Schneider United States 86 27.8k 1.2× 9.5k 1.1× 6.0k 1.3× 806 0.9× 713 0.9× 456 28.5k
David J. Schlegel United States 51 19.7k 0.9× 7.6k 0.9× 3.4k 0.7× 687 0.8× 473 0.6× 138 20.4k
Tom Theuns United Kingdom 76 18.1k 0.8× 8.0k 0.9× 4.2k 0.9× 578 0.7× 701 0.9× 246 18.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Collins, Christine E., Stuart Sim, Luke J. Shingles, et al.. (2025). Exploring the range of impacts of helium in the spectra of double detonation models for Type Ia supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 539(2). 1404–1413. 3 indexed citations
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Pfrommer, Christoph, et al.. (2025). Magnetic dynamos in galaxy clusters: The crucial role of galaxy formation physics at high redshifts. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 701. A114–A114. 1 indexed citations
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Fragkoudi, Francesca, S. A. Cora, Cecilia Scannapieco, et al.. (2025). Formation and evolution of boxy/peanut bulges in the Auriga cosmological simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(3). 2031–2048.
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Werhahn, Maria, et al.. (2025). Environment matters: stronger magnetic fields in satellite galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(4). 3431–3440. 2 indexed citations
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Sim, Stuart, Rüdiger Pakmor, Christine E. Collins, et al.. (2024). On the fate of the secondary white dwarf in double-degenerate double-detonation Type Ia supernovae – II. 3D synthetic observables. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 533(3). 3036–3052. 9 indexed citations
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Bauer, Evan B., Rüdiger Pakmor, Ken J. Shen, et al.. (2024). Supernova shocks cannot explain the inflated state of hypervelocity runaways from white dwarf binaries. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 693. A114–A114. 3 indexed citations
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Jamieson, Drew, Eiichiro Komatsu, Sownak Bose, et al.. (2024). Statistics of thermal gas pressure as a probe of cosmology and galaxy formation. Physical review. D. 109(6). 3 indexed citations
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Contreras, Sergio, Raúl E. Angulo, Volker Springel, et al.. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: inferring cosmology from galaxy clustering with accelerated N-body scaling and subhalo abundance matching. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2489–2506. 25 indexed citations
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Bose, Sownak, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Monica Barrera, et al.. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: the large-scale clustering of galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2579–2593. 20 indexed citations
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Clark, Paul C., et al.. (2022). Primordial magnetic fields in Population III star formation: a magnetized resolution study. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 516(2). 2223–2234. 22 indexed citations
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Ntormousi, Evangelia, Konstantinos Tassis, Fabio Del Sordo, Francesca Fragkoudi, & Rüdiger Pakmor. (2020). A dynamo amplifying the magnetic field of a Milky-Way-like galaxy. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 14 indexed citations
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Neumann, Justus, Francesca Fragkoudi, Isabel Pérez, et al.. (2020). . Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 30 indexed citations
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Grand, Robert J. J., Facundo A. Gómez, Federico Marinacci, et al.. (2020). The globular cluster system of the Auriga simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 496(1). 638–648. 11 indexed citations
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Collins, Christine E., Sebastian T. Ohlmann, Rüdiger Pakmor, et al.. (2020). SNe Ia from double detonations: Impact of core-shell mixing on the carbon ignition mechanism. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 43 indexed citations
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Li, Yuan, Mélanie Habouzit, Shy Genel, et al.. (2020). Correlations between Black Holes and Host Galaxies in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 895(2). 102–102. 26 indexed citations
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Xu, D., Ling Zhu, Robert J. J. Grand, et al.. (2019). A study of stellar orbit fractions: simulated IllustrisTNG galaxies compared to CALIFA observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(1). 842–854. 25 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Gómez, Vicente, Gregory F. Snyder, Jennifer M. Lotz, et al.. (2018). The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(3). 4140–4159. 296 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ohlmann, Sebastian T., F. K. Röpke, Rüdiger Pakmor, & Volker Springel. (2017). Constructing stable 3D hydrodynamical models of giant stars. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 51 indexed citations
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Seitenzahl, I. R., G. Cescutti, F. K. Röpke, Ashley J. Ruiter, & Rüdiger Pakmor. (2013). Solar abundance of manganese: a case for near Chandrasekhar-mass Type Ia supernova progenitors. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 88 indexed citations

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