Stefanie Walch

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
111 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Stefanie Walch is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atmospheric Science and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stefanie Walch has authored 111 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 104 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 19 papers in Atmospheric Science and 14 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Stefanie Walch's work include Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (97 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (51 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (30 papers). Stefanie Walch is often cited by papers focused on Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (97 papers), Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (51 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (30 papers). Stefanie Walch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United Kingdom and Czechia. Stefanie Walch's co-authors include Thorsten Naab, Richard Wünsch, Daniel Seifried, Simon C. O. Glover, Philipp Girichidis, Paul C. Clark, Ralf S. Klessen, D. A. Hubber, Andrea Gatto and A. P. Whitworth and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Journal of Computational Physics and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Stefanie Walch

105 papers receiving 3.9k 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 SILCC (SImulating the LifeCycle of molecular Clouds) project – I. Chemical evolution of the supernova-driven ISM

2015 269 citations Stefanie Walch, Philipp Girichidis 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						Papers	Cites
Stefanie Walch Germany	39	3.9k	511	477	451	313	111	4.2k
Christoph Federrath Australia	41	6.3k 1.6×	535 1.0×	622 1.3×	696 1.5×	420 1.3×	186	6.6k
Eve C. Ostriker United States	49	8.5k 2.2×	817 1.6×	724 1.5×	924 2.0×	268 0.9×	122	8.7k
Paul C. Clark Germany	37	4.2k 1.1×	532 1.0×	344 0.7×	417 0.9×	63 0.2×	94	4.3k
P. Hennebelle France	45	5.9k 1.5×	267 0.5×	813 1.7×	1.1k 2.5×	97 0.3×	159	6.0k
Matthew R. Bate United Kingdom	48	7.7k 2.0×	135 0.3×	441 0.9×	1.2k 2.8×	276 0.9×	118	7.9k
A. Brunthaler Germany	32	4.2k 1.1×	836 1.6×	367 0.8×	804 1.8×	146 0.5×	117	4.3k
Leo Blitz United States	39	5.9k 1.5×	733 1.4×	401 0.8×	639 1.4×	97 0.3×	148	6.1k
Robi Banerjee Germany	30	3.0k 0.8×	417 0.8×	188 0.4×	285 0.6×	64 0.2×	78	3.0k
Alberto D. Bolatto United States	41	6.3k 1.6×	873 1.7×	328 0.7×	572 1.3×	91 0.3×	183	6.5k
Bo Reipurth United States	41	7.2k 1.8×	562 1.1×	629 1.3×	1.8k 3.9×	134 0.4×	222	7.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Stefanie Walch

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stefanie Walch

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Bialy, Shmuel, Blakesley Burkhart, Daniel Seifried, et al.. (2025). The Molecular Cloud Life Cycle. I. Constraining H₂ Formation and Dissociation Rates with Observations. The Astrophysical Journal. 982(1). 24–24. 2 indexed citations

Emig, K. L., L. D. Anderson, D. Anish Roshi, et al.. (2025). Cool Dark Gas in Cygnus X: The First Large-scale Mapping of Low-frequency Carbon Recombination Lines. The Astrophysical Journal. 992(2). 216–216.

Mackey, Jonathan, Thomas J. Haworth, Robert Brose, et al.. (2025). Thermal emission from bow shocks. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 696. A91–A91. 2 indexed citations

Zier, Oliver, Thorsten Naab, Rüdiger Pakmor, et al.. (2025). Moving-mesh non-ideal magnetohydrodynamical simulations of the collapse of cloud cores to protostars. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 537(1). 379–401. 4 indexed citations

Zimmermann, B., et al.. (2025). Feedback and star formation efficiency in high-mass star-forming regions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 544(2). 2136–2159.

Walch, Stefanie, et al.. (2024). The origin and evolution of the [CII] deficit in HII regions and star-forming molecular clouds. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 692. A58–A58. 1 indexed citations

Walch, Stefanie, et al.. (2024). SILCC-Zoom: the dynamic balance in molecular cloud substructures. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(2). 3630–3657. 11 indexed citations

Burkhart, Blakesley, Shmuel Bialy, Daniel Seifried, et al.. (2024). The Molecular Cloud Life Cycle. II. Formation and Destruction of Molecular Clouds Diagnosed via H₂ Fluorescent Emission. The Astrophysical Journal. 975(2). 269–269. 3 indexed citations

Walch, Stefanie, et al.. (2024). Properties of molecular clumps and cores in colliding magnetized flows. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 532(2). 1262–1295. 1 indexed citations

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Naab, Thorsten, et al.. (2023). SILCC – VII. Gas kinematics and multiphase outflows of the simulated ISM at high gas surface densities. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(2). 1843–1862. 40 indexed citations

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Seifried, Daniel, et al.. (2023). CO and [C ii] line emission of molecular clouds: the impact of stellar feedback and non-equilibrium chemistry. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(4). 5631–5652. 8 indexed citations

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Walch, Stefanie, et al.. (2023). Unravelling the structure of magnetized molecular clouds with SILCC-Zoom: sheets, filaments, and fragmentation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 525(1). 721–741. 8 indexed citations

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Walch, Stefanie, et al.. (2023). Tree-based solvers for adaptive mesh refinement code flash – IV. An X-ray radiation scheme to couple discrete and diffuse X-ray emission sources to the thermochemistry of the interstellar medium. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 522(3). 4674–4690. 3 indexed citations

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Seifried, Daniel, Ingo Wald, Will Usher, et al.. (2022). Point Containment Queries on Ray-Tracing Cores for AMR Flow Visualization. Computing in Science & Engineering. 24(2). 40–51. 6 indexed citations

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Kim, W.-J., P. Schilke, David A. Neufeld, et al.. (2022). HyGAL: Characterizing the Galactic ISM with observations of hydrides and other small molecules. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 670. A111–A111. 4 indexed citations

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Girichidis, Philipp, et al.. (2021). The in situ formation of molecular and warm ionized gas triggered by hot galactic outflows. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 505(1). 1083–1104. 24 indexed citations

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Grönke, Max, Philipp Girichidis, Thorsten Naab, & Stefanie Walch. (2018). The Imprint of Cosmic Ray Driven Outflows on Lyman-α Spectra. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 862(1). L7–L7. 12 indexed citations

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Heitsch, Fabian, Thorsten Naab, & Stefanie Walch. (2011). Flow-driven cloud formation and fragmentation: results from Eulerian and Lagrangian simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 415(1). 271–278. 17 indexed citations

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Hubber, D. A., Andrew McLeod, Anthony Whitworth, et al.. (2011). SEREN: A SPH code for star and planet formation simulations. Astrophysics Source Code Library. 2 indexed citations

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Stritzinger, M., B. Leibundgut, Stefanie Walch, & Gabriella Contardo. (2006). Constraints on the progenitor systems of type Ia supernovae. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 63 indexed citations

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