Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez

8.1k total citations · 6 hit papers
78 papers, 5.7k citations indexed

About

Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 5.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 75 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 50 papers in Instrumentation and 12 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (73 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (50 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (17 papers). Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (73 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (50 papers) and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies (17 papers). Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez collaborates with scholars based in United States, Mexico and Germany. Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez's co-authors include Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist, Dylan Nelson, Shy Genel, Volker Springel, Paul Torrey, Annalisa Pillepich, Debora Sijacki, Federico Marinacci and Laura V. Sales and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez

72 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release 2014 2026 2018 2022 2019 2014 2015 2015 2016 250 500 750
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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. The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release
    2019 953 citations Dylan Nelson, Volker Springel et al. profile →
  2. 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 →
  3. 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 →
  4. The illustris simulation: Public data release
    2015 372 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. profile →
  5. 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 →
  6. 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 →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez United States 34 5.4k 3.3k 574 362 356 78 5.7k
Gregory F. Snyder United States 29 3.9k 0.7× 2.1k 0.6× 536 0.9× 235 0.6× 271 0.8× 54 4.1k
Simon P. Driver Australia 45 6.1k 1.1× 3.6k 1.1× 685 1.2× 343 0.9× 476 1.3× 169 6.4k
Jennifer M. Lotz United States 40 5.1k 0.9× 3.0k 0.9× 395 0.7× 236 0.7× 414 1.2× 73 5.3k
Laura V. Sales United States 39 4.7k 0.9× 2.7k 0.8× 649 1.1× 248 0.7× 202 0.6× 94 4.9k
I. K. Baldry United Kingdom 34 4.9k 0.9× 2.9k 0.9× 564 1.0× 286 0.8× 341 1.0× 103 5.1k
Jeffrey A. Newman United States 44 5.9k 1.1× 3.0k 0.9× 757 1.3× 284 0.8× 262 0.7× 118 6.1k
O. Ilbert France 39 5.7k 1.1× 3.1k 0.9× 816 1.4× 193 0.5× 195 0.5× 143 5.9k
N. R. Napolitano Italy 38 4.0k 0.7× 2.4k 0.7× 350 0.6× 212 0.6× 190 0.5× 169 4.2k
A. S. G. Robotham Australia 37 4.0k 0.7× 2.3k 0.7× 575 1.0× 166 0.5× 249 0.7× 153 4.1k
Sugata Kaviraj United Kingdom 37 4.2k 0.8× 2.5k 0.8× 406 0.7× 224 0.6× 381 1.1× 105 4.5k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Pearson, William, et al.. (2025). Observationally derived change in the star formation rate as mergers progress. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 704. A234–A234.
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Ávila-Reese, V., et al.. (2025). Inferring the dark matter distribution of massive galaxy clusters from deep optical observations: insights from the TNG300 simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 543(4). 4020–4041.
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Chamberlain, Katie, Gurtina Besla, Ekta Patel, et al.. (2024). A Physically Motivated Framework to Compare Pair Fractions of Isolated Low- and High-mass Galaxies across Cosmic Time. The Astrophysical Journal. 962(2). 162–162. 5 indexed citations
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Pillepich, Annalisa, Dylan Nelson, Christoph Engler, et al.. (2024). Milky Way and Andromeda analogues from the TNG50 simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 535(2). 1721–1762. 31 indexed citations
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Baes, M., А. В. Мосенков, Raymond P. Kelly, et al.. (2024). The TNG50-SKIRT Atlas: Wavelength dependence of the effective radius. Astronomy and Astrophysics. 683. A182–A182. 11 indexed citations
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Bottrell, Connor, et al.. (2024). ERGO-ML: comparing IllustrisTNG and HSC galaxy images via contrastive learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 528(4). 7411–7439. 9 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Gómez, Vicente, Annalisa Pillepich, V. Ávila-Reese, et al.. (2023). The growth of brightest cluster galaxies in the TNG300 simulation: dissecting the contributions from mergers andin situstar formation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 521(1). 800–817. 25 indexed citations
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Fall, S. Michael & Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez. (2023). Negligible Effects of Baryons on the Angular Momentum Scaling Relations of Galactic Dark Matter Halos. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 949(1). L14–L14. 1 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Gómez, Vicente, et al.. (2022). Morphological signatures of mergers in the TNG50 simulation and the Kilo-Degree Survey: the merger fraction from dwarfs to Milky Way-like galaxies. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 519(4). 4920–4937. 24 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Gómez, Vicente, Bernardo Cervantes Sodi, Qirong Zhu, et al.. (2022). The formation of low surface brightness galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 514(4). 5840–5852. 23 indexed citations
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Somerville, Rachel S., Shy Genel, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, et al.. (2022). Galaxy formation in the Santa Cruz semi-analytic model compared with IllustrisTNG – I. Galaxy scaling relations, dispersions, and residuals at z = 0. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 517(4). 6091–6111. 15 indexed citations
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Lin, Yen‐Ting, Song Huang, Dylan Nelson, et al.. (2021). SDSS-IV MaNGA: Cannibalism Caught in the Act -- on the Frequency of Occurrence of Multiple Cores in Brightest Cluster Galaxies. arXiv (Cornell University). 6 indexed citations
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Lambrides, Erini, M. Chiaberge, Timothy M. Heckman, et al.. (2021). Lower-Luminosity Obscured AGN Host Galaxies are Not Predominantly in Major-Merging Systems at Cosmic Noon. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations
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Wang, Lingyu, William Pearson, & Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez. (2020). Towards a consistent framework of comparing galaxy mergers in observations and simulations. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 18 indexed citations
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Li, Yuan, Mélanie Habouzit, Shy Genel, et al.. (2020). Correlations between Black Holes and Host Galaxies in the Illustris and IllustrisTNG Simulations. The Astrophysical Journal. 895(2). 102–102. 26 indexed citations
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Hwang, Hsiang-Chih, J. K. Barrera-Ballesteros, Timothy M. Heckman, et al.. (2019). Anomalously Low-metallicity Regions in MaNGA Star-forming Galaxies: Accretion Caught in Action?. The Astrophysical Journal. 872(2). 144–144. 39 indexed citations
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Rodríguez-Gómez, Vicente, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, et al.. (2019). The Hubble Sequence at z ∼ 0 in the IllustrisTNG simulation with deep learning. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(2). 1859–1879. 60 indexed citations
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Xu, D., Ling Zhu, Robert J. J. Grand, et al.. (2019). A study of stellar orbit fractions: simulated IllustrisTNG galaxies compared to CALIFA observations. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 489(1). 842–854. 25 indexed citations
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Tacchella, Sandro, Benedikt Diemer, Lars Hernquist, et al.. (2019). Morphology and star formation in IllustrisTNG: the build-up of spheroids and discs. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 487(4). 5416–5440. 127 indexed citations
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Cook, B. A., Charlie Conroy, Annalisa Pillepich, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, & Lars Hernquist. (2016). THE INFORMATION CONTENT OF STELLAR HALOS: STELLAR POPULATION GRADIENTS AND ACCRETION HISTORIES IN EARLY-TYPE ILLUSTRIS GALAXIES. The Astrophysical Journal. 833(2). 158–158. 41 indexed citations

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