Volker Springel

95.7k total citations · 51 hit papers
502 papers, 66.8k citations indexed

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Volker Springel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Volker Springel has authored 502 papers receiving a total of 66.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 478 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 202 papers in Instrumentation and 105 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Volker Springel's work include Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (429 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (202 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (157 papers). Volker Springel is often cited by papers focused on Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (429 papers), Astronomy and Astrophysical Research (202 papers) and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies (157 papers). Volker Springel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and United Kingdom. Volker Springel's co-authors include Lars Hernquist, Mark Vogelsberger, Rüdiger Pakmor, Shy Genel, Paul Torrey, Tiziana Di Matteo, Dylan Nelson, Simon D. M. White, Federico Marinacci and Annalisa Pillepich and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

Volker Springel

490 papers receiving 63.6k 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.

Simulations of the formation, evolution and clustering of galaxies and quasars

2005 2.9k citations Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
Energy input from quasars regulates the growth and activity of black holes and their host galaxies

2005 2.0k citations Tiziana Di Matteo, Volker Springel et al. profile →
E pur si muove:Galilean-invariant cosmological hydrodynamical simulations on a moving mesh

2009 1.7k citations Volker Springel Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Introducing the Illustris Project: simulating the coevolution of dark and visible matter in the Universe

2014 1.6k citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: a hybrid multiphase model for star formation

2003 1.6k citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Modelling feedback from stars and black holes in galaxy mergers

2005 1.5k citations Volker Springel, Tiziana Di Matteo et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Simulating galaxy formation with the IllustrisTNG model

2017 1.4k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The many lives of active galactic nuclei: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies

2006 1.4k citations Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: matter and galaxy clustering

2017 1.2k citations Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The Aquarius Project: the subhaloes of galactic haloes

2008 1.2k citations Volker Springel, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the stellar mass content of groups and clusters of galaxies

2017 1.2k citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: the galaxy colour bimodality

2017 1.1k citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The IllustrisTNG simulations: public data release

2019 953 citations Dylan Nelson, Volker Springel et al. profile →
Properties of galaxies reproduced by a hydrodynamic simulation

2014 917 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. profile →
First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: a tale of two elements – chemical evolution of magnesium and europium

2018 894 citations Jill Naiman, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Simulating galaxy formation with black hole driven thermal and kinetic feedback

2016 879 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Substructures in hydrodynamical cluster simulations

2009 795 citations Klaus Dolag, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
First results from the IllustrisTNG simulations: radio haloes and magnetic fields

2018 794 citations Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
From dwarf spheroidals to cD galaxies: simulating the galaxy population in a ΛCDM cosmology

2011 793 citations Simon D. M. White, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
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 →
A model for cosmological simulations of galaxy formation physics

2013 737 citations Mark Vogelsberger, Shy Genel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
First results from the TNG50 simulation: galactic outflows driven by supernovae and black hole feedback

2019 695 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The inner structure of CDM haloes -- I. A numerical convergence study

2003 695 citations Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The inner structure of ΛCDM haloes - III. Universality and asymptotic slopes

2004 692 citations Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
A unified model for AGN feedback in cosmological simulations of structure formation

2007 611 citations Debora Sijacki, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
First results from the TNG50 simulation: the evolution of stellar and gaseous discs across cosmic time

2019 608 citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Cosmological smoothed particle hydrodynamics simulations: the entropy equation

2002 595 citations Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The formation history of elliptical galaxies

2006 568 citations Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
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 →
The diversity and similarity of simulated cold dark matter haloes

2009 517 citations Volker Springel, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The statistics of CDM halo concentrations

2007 504 citations Carlos S. Frenk, Simon D. M. White et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Black Holes in Galaxy Mergers: The Formation of Red Elliptical Galaxies

2005 478 citations Volker Springel, Tiziana Di Matteo et al. profile →
The Illustris simulation: the evolving population of black holes across cosmic time

2015 459 citations Debora Sijacki, Mark Vogelsberger et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Galaxy formation in the Planck cosmology – I. Matching the observed evolution of star formation rates, colours and stellar masses

2015 453 citations Simon D. M. White, Raúl E. Angulo et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The subhalo populations of ΛCDM dark haloes

2004 440 citations Simon D. M. White, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The large-scale structure of the Universe

2006 424 citations Volker Springel, Carlos S. Frenk et al. profile →
The Auriga Project: the properties and formation mechanisms of disc galaxies across cosmic time

2017 423 citations Robert J. J. Grand, Federico Marinacci et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The illustris simulation: Public data release

2015 372 citations Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich et al. profile →
Direct Cosmological Simulations of the Growth of Black Holes and Galaxies

2008 361 citations Tiziana Di Matteo, Volker Springel et al. profile →
Fundamental differences between SPH and grid methods

2007 332 citations Volker Springel et al. profile →
Supermassive black holes and their feedback effects in the IllustrisTNG simulation

2018 316 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
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 →
SIMULATIONS ON A MOVING MESH: THE CLUSTERED FORMATION OF POPULATION III PROTOSTARS

2011 301 citations Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White et al. profile →
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 →
The AREPO Public Code Release

2020 292 citations Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel et al. profile →
Improving the convergence properties of the moving-mesh code AREPO

2015 283 citations Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Simulating cosmic structure formation with the gadget-4 code

2021 276 citations Volker Springel, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
The star formation activity of IllustrisTNG galaxies: main sequence, UVJ diagram, quenched fractions, and systematics

2019 215 citations Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
Universal structure of dark matter haloes over a mass range of 20 orders of magnitude

2020 169 citations Sownak Bose, Carlos S. Frenk et al. profile →
Introducing the thesan project: radiation-magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the epoch of reionization

2021 160 citations Rahul Kannan, Rüdiger Pakmor et al. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society profile →
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 →

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1	Magnetic dynamos in galaxy clusters: The crucial role of galaxy formation physics at high redshifts 2025 ·Astronomy and Astrophysics ·(unknown), (unknown), Christoph Pfrommer, (unknown), (unknown), Ewald Puchwein, Rüdiger Pakmor, Rainer Weinberger, Volker Springel	1
2	Environment matters: stronger magnetic fields in satellite galaxies 2025 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Maria Werhahn, Rüdiger Pakmor, Rebekka Bieri, Freeke van de Voort, (unknown), Volker Springel	2
3	Prevention is better than cure? Feedback from high specific energy winds in cosmological simulations with Arkenstone 2025 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Jake S. Bennett, Matthew C Smith, Drummond B. Fielding, Greg L. Bryan, Chang‐Goo Kim, Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist, Rachel S. Somerville, Laura Sommovigo	3
4	Numerical effects on the stripping of dark matter and stars in IllustrisTNG galaxy groups and clusters 2025 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Mark R. Lovell, Annalisa Pillepich, Christoph Engler, Dylan Nelson, (unknown), Volker Springel, Lars Hernquist	0
5	A deep-learning model for the density profiles of subhaloes in IllustrisTNG 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Giulia Despali, Volker Springel	4
6	The evolutionary path of void galaxies in TNG300 simulation 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·(unknown), Volker Springel, F. Stasyszyn, Dante J. Paz	7
7	Statistics of thermal gas pressure as a probe of cosmology and galaxy formation 2024 ·Physical review. D ·(unknown), Drew Jamieson, Eiichiro Komatsu, Sownak Bose, Klaus Dolag, Boryana Hadzhiyska, César Hernández‐Aguayo, Lars Hernquist, Rahul Kannan, Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel	3
8	Magnetic field amplification in cosmological zoom simulations from dwarf galaxies to galaxy groups 2024 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Rüdiger Pakmor, Rebekka Bieri, Freeke van de Voort, Maria Werhahn, Azadeh Fattahi, Thomas Guillet, Christoph Pfrommer, Volker Springel, (unknown)	23
9	The MillenniumTNG Project: inferring cosmology from galaxy clustering with accelerated N-body scaling and subhalo abundance matching 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Sergio Contreras, Raúl E. Angulo, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Lars Hernquist, Rüdiger Pakmor, Rahul Kannan, César Hernández‐Aguayo, Monica Barrera, Fulvio Ferlito, Ana María Delgado, Sownak Bose, Carlos S. Frenk	25
10	The MillenniumTNG Project: the large-scale clustering of galaxies 2023 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Sownak Bose, Boryana Hadzhiyska, Monica Barrera, (unknown), Fulvio Ferlito, Carlos S. Frenk, César Hernández‐Aguayo, Lars Hernquist, Rahul Kannan, Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel, Simon D. M. White	20
11	Morphological evolution of supermassive black hole merger hosts and multimessenger signatures 2021 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Colin DeGraf, Debora Sijacki, Tiziana Di Matteo, Kelly Holley‐Bockelmann, Greg Snyder, Volker Springel	14
12	The stellar halos of ETGs in the IllustrisTNG simulations: The photometric and kinematic diversity of galaxies at large radii 2020 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·C. Pulsoni, Ortwin Gerhard, M. Arnaboldi, Annalisa Pillepich, Dylan Nelson, Lars Hernquist, Volker Springel	46
13	A study of stellar orbit fractions: simulated IllustrisTNG galaxies compared to CALIFA observations 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·D. Xu, Ling Zhu, Robert J. J. Grand, Volker Springel, Shude Mao, Glenn van de Ven, (unknown), Yougang Wang, Annalisa Pillepich, Shy Genel, Dylan Nelson, Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Rüdiger Pakmor, Rainer Weinberger, Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, Paul Torrey, Jill Naiman, Lars Hernquist	25
14	Baryons in the Cosmic Web of IllustrisTNG – I: gas in knots, filaments, sheets, and voids 2019 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Davidé Martizzi, Mark Vogelsberger, M. Celeste Artale, Markus Haider, Paul Torrey, Federico Marinacci, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Rainer Weinberger, Lars Hernquist, Jill Naiman, Volker Springel	111
15	The optical morphologies of galaxies in the IllustrisTNG simulation: a comparison to Pan-STARRS observations breakdown → 2018 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society ·Vicente Rodríguez-Gómez, Gregory F. Snyder, Jennifer M. Lotz, Dylan Nelson, Annalisa Pillepich, Volker Springel, Shy Genel, Rainer Weinberger, Sandro Tacchella, Rüdiger Pakmor, Paul Torrey, Federico Marinacci, Mark Vogelsberger, Lars Hernquist, David A. Thilker	296
16	Cosmological simulations of the circumgalactic medium with 1 kpc resolution: enhanced H i column densities 2018 ·Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters ·Freeke van de Voort, Volker Springel, Nir Mandelker, Frank C. van den Bosch, Rüdiger Pakmor	166
17	Constructing stable 3D hydrodynamical models of giant stars 2017 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·Sebastian T. Ohlmann, F. K. Röpke, Rüdiger Pakmor, Volker Springel	51
18	Unveiling the Role of the Magnetic Field at the Smallest Scales of Star Formation 2017 ·The Astrophysical Journal Letters ·Charles L. H. Hull, Philip Mocz, Blakesley Burkhart, Alyssa Goodman, J. M. Girart, Paulo C. Cortés, Lars Hernquist, Volker Springel, Zhi‐Yun Li, S. Lai	40
19	Cosmic ray physics in calculations of cosmological structure formation 2007 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·T. A. Enßlin, Christoph Pfrommer, Volker Springel, M. Jubelgas	62
20	The actual Rees-Sciama effect from the local universe 2007 ·Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·M. Maturi, Klaus Dolag, A. Waelkens, Volker Springel, T. A. Enßlin	19

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