Simon D. M. White

96.1k total citations · 36 hit papers
358 papers, 52.0k citations indexed

About

Simon D. M. White is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Simon D. M. White has authored 358 papers receiving a total of 52.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 336 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 189 papers in Instrumentation and 59 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Simon D. M. White's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (305 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (189 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (102 papers). Simon D. M. White is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (305 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (189 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (102 papers). Simon D. M. White collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Simon D. M. White's co-authors include Carlos S. Frenk, Guinevere Kauffmann, Volker Springel, Adrian Jenkins, Julio F. Navarro, G. Efstathiou, M. J. Rees, Timothy M. Heckman, J. Brinchmann and Christy Tremonti and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Simon D. M. White

347 papers receiving 50.4k 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.

  1. Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars
    2005 2.9k citations Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
  2. Core condensation in heavy halos: a two-stage theory for galaxy formation and clustering
    1978 2.3k citations Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  3. The host galaxies of active galactic nuclei
    2003 2.3k citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  4. The evolution of large-scale structure in a universe dominated by cold dark matter
    1985 2.2k citations Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  5. The Origin of the Mass‐Metallicity Relation: Insights from 53,000 Star‐forming Galaxies in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
    2004 2.1k citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  6. The physical properties of star-forming galaxies in the low-redshift Universe
    2004 1.9k citations Simon D. M. White, Guinevere Kauffmann et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  7. Galaxy formation through hierarchical clustering
    1991 1.4k citations Simon D. M. White, Carlos S. Frenk The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  8. The many lives of active galactic nuclei: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies
    2006 1.4k citations Darren Croton, Volker Springel et al. Figshare profile →
  9. Stable clustering, the halo model and non-linear cosmological power spectra
    2003 1.2k citations Adrian Jenkins, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  10. The formation and evolution of galaxies within merging dark matter haloes*
    1993 1.1k citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  11. The EAGLE simulations of galaxy formation: calibration of subgrid physics and model variations
    2015 1.1k citations Carlos S. Frenk, Adrian Jenkins et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  12. The mass function of dark matter haloes
    2001 999 citations Adrian Jenkins, Carlos S. Frenk et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  13. Galactic star formation and accretion histories from matching galaxies to dark matter haloes
    2012 940 citations Benjamin P. Moster, Thorsten Naab et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  14. From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology
    2011 793 citations Qi Guo, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  15. The dependence of star formation history and internal structure on stellar mass for 105low-redshift galaxies
    2003 766 citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  16. The inner structure of  CDM haloes -- I. A numerical convergence study
    2003 695 citations Julio F. Navarro, Adrian Jenkins et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  17. The inner structure of ΛCDM haloes - III. Universality and asymptotic slopes
    2004 692 citations Julio F. Navarro, Adrian Jenkins et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  18. Galaxy Formation and Evolution
    2010 635 citations H. J. Mo, Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
  19. How do galaxies populate dark matter haloes?
    2010 528 citations Qi Guo, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  20. Present‐Day Growth of Black Holes and Bulges: The Sloan Digital Sky Survey Perspective
    2004 527 citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  21. The diversity and similarity of simulated cold dark matter haloes
    2009 517 citations Julio F. Navarro, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  22. The baryon content of galaxy clusters: a challenge to cosmological orthodoxy
    1993 517 citations Simon D. M. White, Julio F. Navarro et al. profile →
  23. The statistics of   CDM halo concentrations
    2007 504 citations Liang Gao, Julio F. Navarro et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  24. The host galaxies of radio-loud active galactic nuclei: mass dependences, gas cooling and active galactic nuclei feedback
    2005 462 citations Guinevere Kauffmann, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  25. Galaxy formation in the Planck cosmology – I. Matching the observed evolution of star formation rates, colours and stellar masses
    2015 453 citations Bruno Henriques, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  26. The subhalo populations of ΛCDM dark haloes
    2004 440 citations Liang Gao, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  27. The APOSTLE simulations: solutions to the Local Group's cosmic puzzles
    2016 428 citations Carlos S. Frenk, Julio F. Navarro et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  28. The large-scale structure of the Universe
    2006 424 citations Volker Springel, Carlos S. Frenk et al. profile →
  29. 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 →
  30. The Contribution of Health Literacy to Disparities in Self-Rated Health Status and Preventive Health Behaviors in Older Adults
    2009 406 citations Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
  31. SIMULATIONS ON A MOVING MESH: THE CLUSTERED FORMATION OF POPULATION III PROTOSTARS
    2011 301 citations Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
  32. The unexpected diversity of dwarf galaxy rotation curves
    2015 296 citations Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  33. emerge – an empirical model for the formation of galaxies since z ∼ 10
    2018 288 citations Benjamin P. Moster, Thorsten Naab et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  34. The haloes of bright satellite galaxies in a warm dark matter universe
    2012 275 citations Carlos S. Frenk, Liang Gao et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
  35. Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude
    2020 169 citations Jie Wang, Sownak Bose et al. profile →
  36. 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 →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Simon D. M. White 49.9k 23.7k 10.7k 3.3k 2.2k 358 52.0k
Carlos S. Frenk 48.8k 1.0× 22.7k 1.0× 12.9k 1.2× 3.6k 1.1× 2.0k 0.9× 491 51.2k
Volker Springel 63.8k 1.3× 27.4k 1.2× 14.3k 1.3× 2.9k 0.9× 1.9k 0.9× 502 66.8k
Lars Hernquist 67.1k 1.3× 27.8k 1.2× 12.6k 1.2× 2.7k 0.8× 1.5k 0.7× 649 69.9k
Mark Vogelsberger 30.7k 0.6× 13.4k 0.6× 7.8k 0.7× 1.3k 0.4× 921 0.4× 351 32.5k
Shaun Cole 21.8k 0.4× 10.6k 0.4× 5.0k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 1.2k 0.5× 183 22.6k
Adrian Jenkins 21.2k 0.4× 9.3k 0.4× 6.4k 0.6× 1.7k 0.5× 860 0.4× 129 22.2k
Donald P. Schneider 27.8k 0.6× 9.5k 0.4× 6.0k 0.6× 713 0.2× 1.1k 0.5× 456 28.5k
Julio F. Navarro 23.9k 0.5× 11.0k 0.5× 6.0k 0.6× 1.6k 0.5× 688 0.3× 246 24.8k
Richard S. Ellis 19.8k 0.4× 10.8k 0.5× 2.9k 0.3× 2.0k 0.6× 695 0.3× 456 24.2k
Paul Torrey 22.6k 0.5× 11.2k 0.5× 3.5k 0.3× 749 0.2× 820 0.4× 170 23.6k

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All Works

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Délos, M., Michael Korsmeier, Axel Widmark, et al.. (2024). Limits on dark matter annihilation in prompt cusps from the isotropic gamma-ray background. Physical review. D. 109(8). 7 indexed citations
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Bose, Sownak, Carlos S. Frenk, Liang Gao, et al.. (2024). The influence of baryons on low-mass haloes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(3). 3151–3165. 1 indexed citations
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Cadiou, Corentin, Simon D. M. White, Volker Springel, et al.. (2024). Evolution of cosmic filaments in the MTNG simulation. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 684. A63–A63. 23 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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Hadzhiyska, Boryana, Lars Hernquist, Daniel J. Eisenstein, et al.. (2023). The MillenniumTNG Project: refining the one-halo model of red and blue galaxies at different redshifts. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 524(2). 2524–2538. 24 indexed citations
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Izquierdo–Villalba, David, Silvia Bonoli, Yetli Rosas-Guevara, et al.. (2022). Disc instability and bar formation: view from the IllustrisTNG simulations. IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome). 27 indexed citations
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Gómez, Facundo A., S. Torres-Flores, Antonela Monachesi, et al.. (2021). A Tidally Induced Global Corrugation Pattern in an External Disk Galaxy Similar to the Milky Way. The Astrophysical Journal. 908(1). 27–27. 10 indexed citations
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Yates, Robert M., Bruno Henriques, Jian Fu, et al.. (2021). L-GALAXIES 2020: The evolution of radial metallicity profiles and global metallicities in disc galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(3). 4474–4495. 43 indexed citations
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Moster, Benjamin P., Thorsten Naab, & Simon D. M. White. (2020). emerge – empirical constraints on the formation of passive galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 499(4). 4748–4767. 38 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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Strigari, Louis E., Carlos S. Frenk, & Simon D. M. White. (2019). Dynamical Models for the Sculptor Dwarf Spheroidal in a ΛCDM Universe. OakTrust (Texas A&M University Libraries). 12 indexed citations
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Henriques, Bruno, Simon D. M. White, S. J. Lilly, et al.. (2019). The origin of the mass scales for maximal star formation efficiency and quenching: the critical role of supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 485(3). 3446–3456. 32 indexed citations
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Grand, Robert J. J., Freeke van de Voort, Jolanta Zjupa, et al.. (2019). Gas accretion and galactic fountain flows in the Auriga cosmological simulations: angular momentum and metal redistribution. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 490(4). 4786–4803. 78 indexed citations
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Henriques, Bruno, Robert M. Yates, Jian Fu, et al.. (2019). L-GALAXIES 2020: Spatially resolved cold gas phases, star formation, and chemical enrichment in galactic discs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 491(4). 5795–5814. 85 indexed citations
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Clowe, Douglas, Petra Schneider, Alfonso Aragón‐Salamanca, et al.. (2006). Weak lensing mass reconstructions of the ESO Distant Cluster Survey. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 45 indexed citations
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Croton, Darren, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White, et al.. (2006). The many lives of active galactic nuclei: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies. Figshare. 1355 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shen, Shiyin, Simon D. M. White, H. J. Mo, et al.. (2006). The soft X-ray properties of quasars in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 369(4). 1639–1653. 18 indexed citations
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Bartelmann, Matthias & Simon D. M. White. (2003). Stacking clusters in the ROSAT All-Sky Survey. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 9 indexed citations
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White, Simon D. M.. (1980). Tidal interactions and the merging of galaxies. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 296(1419). 347–349. 1 indexed citations

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