Shy Genel

33.9k total citations · 23 hit papers
130 papers, 22.7k citations indexed

About

Shy Genel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Shy Genel has authored 130 papers receiving a total of 22.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 66 papers in Instrumentation and 23 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Shy Genel's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (125 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (66 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (32 papers). Shy Genel is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (125 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (66 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (32 papers). Shy Genel collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and United Kingdom. Shy Genel's co-authors include Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist, Volker Springel, Paul Torrey, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Federico Marinacci, Rainer Weinberger, Rüdiger Pakmor and Debora Sijacki and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Biomaterials.

In The Last Decade

Shy Genel

126 papers receiving 21.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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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.

Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe

2014 1.6k citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release

2019 953 citations Dylan Nelson, Volker Springel et al. profile →
Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation

2014 917 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. profile →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Introducing the Illustris project: the evolution of galaxy populations across cosmic time

2014 765 citations Shy Genel, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
A model for cosmological simulations of galaxy formation physics

2013 737 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
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 →
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 →
The merger rate of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: a comparison with observations and semi-empirical models

2015 519 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The Illustris simulation: the evolving population of black holes across cosmic time

2015 459 citations Debora Sijacki, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The illustris simulation: Public data release

2015 372 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. profile →
Submillimeter Galaxies atz∼ 2: Evidence for Major Mergers and Constraints on Lifetimes, IMF, and CO‐H₂Conversion Factor

2008 369 citations L. J. Tacconi, R. Genzel et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
THE IMPACT OF COLD GAS ACCRETION ABOVE A MASS FLOOR ON GALAXY SCALING RELATIONS

2010 352 citations Avishai Dekel, R. Genzel et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
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 →
The stellar mass assembly of galaxies in the Illustris simulation: growth by mergers and the spatial distribution of accreted stars

2016 312 citations Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
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 →
The star formation activity of IllustrisTNG galaxies: main sequence, UVJ diagram, quenched fractions, and systematics

2019 215 citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	CASCO: Cosmological and AStrophysical parameters from Cosmological simulations and Observations 2025 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·C. Tortora, Valerio Busillo, N. R. Napolitano, (unknown), G. Covone, Shy Genel, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, (unknown)	0
2	Enhanced Star Formation and Black Hole Accretion Rates in Galaxy Mergers in IllustrisTNG50 2025 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Shy Genel, Bryan A. Terrazas, Julia M. Comerford, (unknown), Rachel S. Somerville, Rebecca Nevin, Joseph Simon, Erica J. Nelson	1
3	Observational Predictions for the Survival of Atomic Hydrogen in Simulated Fornax-like Galaxy Clusters 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Stephanie Tonnesen, Greg L. Bryan, Gergö Popping, M. Hilker, P. Serra, Shy Genel	1
4	Toward Implementation of the Pressure-regulated, Feedback-modulated Model of Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations: Methods and Application to TNG 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Sultan Hassan, Eve C. Ostriker, Chang‐Goo Kim, Greg L. Bryan, (unknown), Drummond B. Fielding, John C. Forbes, Shy Genel, Lars Hernquist, Sarah Jeffreson, (unknown), Matthew C Smith, Rachel S. Somerville, Ulrich P. Steinwandel, Romain Teyssier	4
5	Zooming by in the CARPoolGP Lane: New CAMELS-TNG Simulations of Zoomed-in Massive Halos 2024 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Shy Genel, B. D. Wandelt, (unknown), (unknown), Shivam Pandey, Erwin T. Lau, (unknown), (unknown), Daisuke Nagai, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Greg L. Bryan	9
6	Calibrating Cosmological Simulations with Implicit Likelihood Inference Using Galaxy Growth Observables 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Shy Genel, B. D. Wandelt, Rachel S. Somerville, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, Greg L. Bryan, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, Daniel Foreman-Mackey, Dylan Nelson, Ji-hoon Kim	15
7	The CAMELS Project: Expanding the Galaxy Formation Model Space with New ASTRID and 28-parameter TNG and SIMBA Suites 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Yueying Ni, Shy Genel, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, (unknown), Simeon Bird, Tiziana Di Matteo, Rupert A. C. Croft, Nianyi Chen, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Shivam Pandey, Lars Hernquist, Romeel Davé	33
8	Gas Accretion Can Drive Turbulence in Galaxies 2023 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·John C. Forbes, Razieh Emami, Rachel S. Somerville, Shy Genel, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Blakesley Burkhart, Greg L. Bryan, Mark R. Krumholz, Lars Hernquist, Stephanie Tonnesen, Paul Torrey, Viraj Pandya, Christopher C. Hayward	17
9	First Results from SMAUG: Insights into Star Formation Conditions from Spatially Resolved ISM Properties in TNG50 2022 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·(unknown), Shy Genel, Greg L. Bryan, Chang‐Goo Kim, Viraj Pandya, Rachel S. Somerville, Matthew C Smith, Eve C. Ostriker, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, John C. Forbes, Francesco Belfiore, Rüdiger Pakmor, Lars Hernquist	6
10	Galaxy formation in the Santa Cruz semi-analytic model compared with IllustrisTNG – I. Galaxy scaling relations, dispersions, and residuals at z = 0 2022 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Rachel S. Somerville, Shy Genel, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Viraj Pandya, L. Y. Aaron Yung, Lars Hernquist	15
11	Neural networks as optimal estimators to marginalize over baryonic\n effects 2020 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Francisco Villaescusa-Navarro, B. D. Wandelt, Daniel Anglés‐Alcázar, Shy Genel, José Manuel Zorrilla Matilla, Shirley Ho, David N. Spergel	14
12	Correlations between Black Holes and Host Galaxies in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG Simulations 2020 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Yuan Li, Mélanie Habouzit, Shy Genel, Rachel S. Somerville, Bryan A. Terrazas, Eric F. Bell, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson, Rainer Weinberger, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Chung‐Pei Ma, Rüdiger Pakmor, Lars Hernquist, Mark Vogelsberger	26
13	A study of stellar orbit fractions: simulated IllustrisTNG galaxies compared to CALIFA observations 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·D. Xu, Ling Zhu, Robert J. J. Grand, Volker Springel, Shude Mao, Glenn van de Ven, (unknown), Yougang Wang, Annalisa Pillepich, Shy Genel, Dylan Nelson, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Rüdiger Pakmor, Rainer Weinberger, Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, Paul Torrey, Jill Naiman, Lars Hernquist	25
14	The Hubble Sequence at z ∼ 0 in the IllustrisTNG simulation with deep learning 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Connor Bottrell, Mariangela Bernardi, H. Domínguez Sánchez, Shy Genel, Rüdiger Pakmor, Gregory F. Snyder, (unknown)	60
15	Morphology and star formation in IllustrisTNG: the build-up of spheroids and discs 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Sandro Tacchella, Benedikt Diemer, Lars Hernquist, Shy Genel, Federico Marinacci, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Laura V. Sales, Volker Springel, Mark Vogelsberger	127
16	The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations breakdown → 2018 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Gregory F. Snyder, Jennifer M. Lotz, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Volker Springel, Shy Genel, Rainer Weinberger, Sandro Tacchella, Rüdiger Pakmor, Paul Torrey, Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist, David A. Thilker	296
17	Linking galaxy structural properties and star formation activity with IllustrisTNG 2018 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Mélanie Habouzit, Shy Genel, Rachel S. Somerville, D. Kocevski, Michaela Hirschmann, Avishai Dekel, Ena Choi, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Paul Torrey, Lars Hernquist, Mark Vogelsberger, Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel	1
18	Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback breakdown → 2016 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist, Annalisa Pillepich, Federico Marinacci, Rüdiger Pakmor, Dylan Nelson, Shy Genel, Mark Vogelsberger, Jill Naiman, Paul Torrey	879
19	The impact of feedback on cosmological gas accretion 2015 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Dylan Nelson, Shy Genel, Mark Vogelsberger, Volker Springel, Debora Sijacki, Paul Torrey, Lars Hernquist	107
20	Mergers and Mass Accretion Rates in Galaxy Assembly: The Millennium Simulation Compared to Observations ofz≈ 2 Galaxies 2008 ·The Astrophysical Journal ·Shy Genel, R. Genzel, N. Bouché, A. Sternberg, Thorsten Naab, N. M. Förster Schreiber, Kristen L. Shapiro, L. J. Tacconi, D. Lutz, G. Cresci, Peter Buschkamp, R. Davies, E. K. S. Hicks	99

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