Stuart McAlpine

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
25 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Stuart McAlpine is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stuart McAlpine has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 17 papers in Instrumentation and 2 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Stuart McAlpine's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (23 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (17 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (8 papers). Stuart McAlpine is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (23 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (17 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (8 papers). Stuart McAlpine collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Finland and Netherlands. Stuart McAlpine's co-authors include R. G. Bower, Joop Schaye, Robert A. Crain, Matthieu Schaller, Tom Theuns, Carlos S. Frenk, Yetli Rosas-Guevara, John Helly, Michelle Furlong and Claudio Dalla Vecchia and has published in prestigious journals such as Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Nature Astronomy.

In The Last Decade

Stuart McAlpine

24 papers receiving 1.6k 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 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Stuart McAlpine United Kingdom	20	1.6k	851	216	92	67	25	1.7k
David A. Thilker United States	25	1.9k 1.2×	696 0.8×	189 0.9×	59 0.6×	55 0.8×	69	2.0k
Garreth Martin United Kingdom	19	1.2k 0.8×	652 0.8×	128 0.6×	86 0.9×	78 1.2×	53	1.3k
Colin DeGraf United States	18	1.7k 1.1×	898 1.1×	184 0.9×	40 0.4×	80 1.2×	24	1.8k
Shiyin Shen China	16	1.3k 0.8×	758 0.9×	133 0.6×	54 0.6×	66 1.0×	71	1.3k
Dylan Tweed United States	15	1.3k 0.8×	837 1.0×	137 0.6×	45 0.5×	65 1.0×	21	1.4k
Meghan E. Gray United Kingdom	23	1.4k 0.9×	826 1.0×	180 0.8×	69 0.8×	66 1.0×	56	1.4k
P. Popesso Germany	16	1.7k 1.1×	1.0k 1.2×	222 1.0×	61 0.7×	55 0.8×	24	1.8k
L. J. M. Davies Australia	24	1.8k 1.1×	1.1k 1.2×	233 1.1×	84 0.9×	70 1.0×	84	1.8k
Benjamin A. Weaver United States	13	1.1k 0.7×	534 0.6×	200 0.9×	37 0.4×	40 0.6×	20	1.2k
L. Ciesla France	21	1.7k 1.1×	772 0.9×	248 1.1×	30 0.3×	75 1.1×	38	1.8k

Countries citing papers authored by Stuart McAlpine

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stuart McAlpine

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Lavaux, Guilhem, et al.. (2025). A Bayesian catalog of 100 high-significance voids in the Local Universe. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 705. A160–A160.

McAlpine, Stuart, Jens Jasche, M. Ata, et al.. (2025). The Manticore Project I: a digital twin of our cosmic neighbourhood from Bayesian field-level analysis. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 540(1). 716–745. 1 indexed citations

Liao, Shihong, Peter H. Johansson, Dimitrios Irodotou, et al.. (2023). Modelling the accretion and feedback of supermassive black hole binaries in gas-rich galaxy mergers. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 520(3). 4463–4489. 14 indexed citations

McAlpine, Stuart, John Helly, Matthieu Schaller, et al.. (2022). SIBELIUS-DARK: a galaxy catalogue of the local volume from a constrained realization simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 512(4). 5823–5847. 32 indexed citations

Habouzit, Mélanie, Yuan Li, Rachel S. Somerville, et al.. (2021). Supermassive black holes in cosmological simulations I: MBH − M⋆ relation and black hole mass function. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 503(2). 1940–1975. 98 indexed citations

Habouzit, Mélanie, Rachel S. Somerville, Yuan Li, et al.. (2021). Supermassive black holes in cosmological simulations – II: the AGN population and predictions for upcoming X-ray missions. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 509(2). 3015–3042. 43 indexed citations

Sawala, Till, Adrian Jenkins, Stuart McAlpine, et al.. (2021). Setting the stage: structures from Gaussian random fields. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 501(4). 4759–4776. 7 indexed citations

Patton, David R., Sara L. Ellison, Paul Torrey, et al.. (2020). Interacting galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulations - I: Triggered star formation in a cosmological context. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 494(4). 4969–4985. 54 indexed citations

Rosario, D. J., et al.. (2020). The star formation properties of the observed and simulated AGN Universe: BAT versus EAGLE. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 498(2). 2323–2338. 7 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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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, James W. Trayford, Vivienne Wild, et al.. (2019). The diverse evolutionary pathways of post-starburst galaxies. Nature Astronomy. 3(5). 440–446. 27 indexed citations

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McAlpine, Stuart, R. G. Bower, D. J. Rosario, et al.. (2018). The rapid growth phase of supermassive black holes. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 481(3). 3118–3128. 62 indexed citations

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Cautun, Marius, Alis J. Deason, Carlos S. Frenk, & Stuart McAlpine. (2018). The aftermath of the Great Collision between our Galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(2). 2185–2196. 28 indexed citations

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Rosas-Guevara, Yetli, R. G. Bower, Stuart McAlpine, Silvia Bonoli, & P. B. Tissera. (2018). The abundances and properties of Dual AGN and their host galaxies in the EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 483(2). 2712–2720. 34 indexed citations

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Scholtz, Jan, D. M. Alexander, C. M. Harrison, et al.. (2017). Identifying the subtle signatures of feedback from distant AGN using ALMA observations and the EAGLE hydrodynamical simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 475(1). 1288–1305. 42 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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Qu, Yan, John Helly, R. G. Bower, et al.. (2016). A chronicle of galaxy mass assembly in the EAGLE simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 464(2). 1659–1675. 144 indexed citations

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Bower, R. G., Joop Schaye, Carlos S. Frenk, et al.. (2016). The dark nemesis of galaxy formation: why hot haloes trigger black hole growth and bring star formation to an end. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 465(1). 32–44. 221 indexed citations

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Salcido, Jaime, R. G. Bower, Tom Theuns, et al.. (2016). Music from the heavens – gravitational waves from supermassive black hole mergers in the EAGLE simulations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 463(1). 870–885. 46 indexed citations

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