Sune Toft

14.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
89 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Sune Toft is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Sune Toft has authored 89 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 54 papers in Instrumentation and 8 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Sune Toft's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (74 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (54 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (31 papers). Sune Toft is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (74 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (54 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (31 papers). Sune Toft collaborates with scholars based in Denmark, United States and France. Sune Toft's co-authors include Pieter van Dokkum, Marijn Franx, Ivo Labbé, A. Zirm, Stijn Wuyts, Mariska Kriek, Allison W. S. Man, Ryan Quadri, Gregory Rudnick and N. M. Förster Schreiber and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Sune Toft

89 papers receiving 3.1k citations

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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.

Confirmation of the Remarkable Compactness of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at z ~ 2.3: Early-Type Galaxies Did not Form in a Simple Monolithic Collapse

2008 392 citations G. D. Illingworth, D. Magee et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →
ISM MASSES AND THE STAR FORMATION LAW AT Z = 1 TO 6: ALMA OBSERVATIONS OF DUST CONTINUUM IN 145 GALAXIES IN THE COSMOS SURVEY FIELD

2016 245 citations N. Z. Scoville, P. Capak et al. The Astrophysical Journal profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Sune Toft Denmark	29	3.1k	2.0k	220	129	128	89	3.3k
Sarah Brough Australia	36	3.5k 1.1×	2.2k 1.1×	326 1.5×	137 1.1×	199 1.6×	151	3.7k
D. M. Elmegreen United States	35	3.8k 1.2×	1.7k 0.8×	209 0.9×	86 0.7×	100 0.8×	115	4.0k
Benne W. Holwerda United States	36	3.8k 1.2×	2.0k 1.0×	412 1.9×	152 1.2×	189 1.5×	180	4.0k
Kevin A. Pimbblet United Kingdom	27	2.3k 0.7×	1.2k 0.6×	414 1.9×	78 0.6×	105 0.8×	100	2.4k
C. Laigle France	24	1.9k 0.6×	996 0.5×	300 1.4×	84 0.7×	72 0.6×	53	2.0k
L. Cortese Australia	46	6.0k 1.9×	2.9k 1.4×	511 2.3×	146 1.1×	148 1.2×	187	6.2k
A. S. G. Robotham Australia	37	4.0k 1.3×	2.3k 1.2×	575 2.6×	139 1.1×	249 1.9×	153	4.1k
D. Le Borgne France	20	3.0k 1.0×	1.7k 0.8×	378 1.7×	75 0.6×	83 0.6×	34	3.1k
Masafumi Yagi Japan	31	3.0k 1.0×	1.5k 0.7×	409 1.9×	138 1.1×	125 1.0×	108	3.3k
Barbara Catinella Australia	36	3.9k 1.2×	1.9k 0.9×	525 2.4×	89 0.7×	113 0.9×	102	4.0k

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20 of 20 papers shown

Allen, Natalie, Pascal A. Oesch, Sune Toft, et al.. (2025). Galaxy size and mass build-up in the first 2 Gyr of cosmic history from multi-wavelength JWST NIRCam imaging. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 698. A30–A30. 10 indexed citations

Shuntov, Marko, Gabriel Brammer, Natalie Allen, et al.. (2025). DAWN JWST Archive: Morphology from profile fitting of over 340 000 galaxies in major JWST fields. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 699. A343–A343. 2 indexed citations

Gottumukkala, Rashmi, Laia Barrufet, Pascal A. Oesch, et al.. (2024). Unveiling the hidden Universe with JWST: the contribution of dust-obscured galaxies to the stellar mass function at z ~ 3 – 8. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 530(1). 966–983. 11 indexed citations

Taamoli, Sina, Bahram Mobasher, Nima Chartab, et al.. (2024). Large-scale Structures in COSMOS2020: Evolution of Star Formation Activity in Different Environments at 0.4 < z < 4. The Astrophysical Journal. 966(1). 18–18. 10 indexed citations

Taamoli, Sina, Bahram Mobasher, Nima Chartab, et al.. (2024). COSMOS2020: Disentangling the Role of Mass and Environment in Star Formation Activity of Galaxies at 0.4 < z < 4. The Astrophysical Journal. 977(2). 263–263. 1 indexed citations

Rizzo, Francesca, Filippo Fraternali, Francesco Valentino, et al.. (2023). The ALMA-ALPAKA survey. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 679. A129–A129. 25 indexed citations

Brinch, Malte, T. R. Greve, D. B. Sanders, et al.. (2023). DEIMOS spectroscopy of z = 6 protocluster candidate in COSMOS – a massive protocluster embedded in a large-scale structure?. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 527(3). 6591–6615. 8 indexed citations

Jin, Shuowen, G. Magdis, Aswin P. Vijayan, et al.. (2023). Massive galaxy formation caught in action at z ∼ 5 with JWST. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 670. L11–L11. 8 indexed citations

Heintz, K. E., Gabriel Brammer, Clara Giménez-Arteaga, et al.. (2023). Dilution of chemical enrichment in galaxies 600 Myr after the Big Bang. Nature Astronomy. 7(12). 1517–1524. 28 indexed citations

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Jiménez-Andrade, Eric F., Sebastiano Cantalupo, B. Magnelli, et al.. (2023). The Ly α, C iv, and He iinebulae around J1000+0234: a galaxy pair at the centre of a galaxy overdensity atz = 4.5. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(2). 2326–2341. 3 indexed citations

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Valentino, Francesco, Gabriel Brammer, Seiji Fujimoto, et al.. (2022). The Archival Discovery of a Strong Lyα and [C ii] Emitter at z = 7.677. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 929(1). L9–L9. 5 indexed citations

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Jin, Shuowen, G. Magdis, E. Daddi, et al.. (2022). A galaxy group candidate at z ≈ 3.7 in the COSMOS field. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 665. L7–L7. 10 indexed citations

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Ito, Kei, Masayuki Tanaka, T. Miyaji, et al.. (2022). COSMOS2020: Ubiquitous AGN Activity of Massive Quiescent Galaxies at 0 < z < 5 Revealed by X-Ray and Radio Stacking. The Astrophysical Journal. 929(1). 53–53. 23 indexed citations

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Kokorev, Vasily, G. Magdis, I. Davidzon, et al.. (2021). The Evolving Interstellar Medium of Star-forming Galaxies, as Traced by Stardust*. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 28 indexed citations

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Steinhardt, Charles L., M. I. Andersen, Gabriel Brammer, et al.. (2021). A more probable explanation for a continuum flash towards a redshift ≈ 11 galaxy. Nature Astronomy. 5(10). 993–994. 5 indexed citations

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Magdis, G., R. Gobat, Francesco Valentino, et al.. (2021). The interstellar medium of quiescent galaxies and its evolution with time. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 31 indexed citations

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Cortzen, Isabella, G. Magdis, Francesco Valentino, et al.. (2020). Technical University of Denmark, DTU Orbit (Technical University of Denmark, DTU). 37 indexed citations

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Zavala, Jorge A., Caitlin M. Casey, N. Z. Scoville, et al.. (2019). On the Gas Content, Star Formation Efficiency, and Environmental Quenching of Massive Galaxies in Protoclusters at z ≈ 2.0–2.5. The Astrophysical Journal. 887(2). 183–183. 34 indexed citations

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Beineke, Lowell W., et al.. (2015). Topics in Chromatic Graph Theory. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 25 indexed citations

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Toft, Sune. (2015). CO luminosity – line-width correlation of submillimeter galaxies and a possible cosmological application. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 6 indexed citations

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