2026 Adriano Fontana: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	135	465	448	16	16	828	70219

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Physics

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70219

Overview

Adriano Fontana is affiliated with the National Institute for Astrophysics in Italy and focuses primarily on research in the fields of Physics and Astronomy. Their work encompasses a wide range of subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, as well as Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Computational Mechanics.

Fontana's research covers major topics such as Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena; Astronomy and Astrophysical Research; Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae; Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; Adaptive optics and wavefront sensing; Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations; and Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies.

They have contributed to numerous recent scientific papers, including:

CEERS Key Paper. I. An Early Look into the First 500 Myr of Galaxy Formation with JWST, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
A Long Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away: A Candidate z ∼ 12 Galaxy in Early JWST CEERS Imaging, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
A CEERS Discovery of an Accreting Supermassive Black Hole 570 Myr after the Big Bang: Identifying a Progenitor of Massive z > 6 Quasars, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
Early Results from GLASS-JWST. III. Galaxy Candidates at z ∼9-15*, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The GLASS-JWST Early Release Science Program. I. Survey Design and Release Plans, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal

Fontana frequently publishes in well-known scientific venues, with numerous articles appearing in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The Astrophysical Journal Letters
The Astrophysical Journal
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Co-authorship forms a significant part of Fontana's academic output. Regular collaborators include M. Castellano, L. Pentericci, Antonello Calabrò, Anton M. Koekemoer, and P. Santini, indicating active engagement with a network of researchers in related subfields.

Best Publications

CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey - The Hubble Space Telescope Observations, Imaging Data Products and Mosaics

Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

2725
Citations
CANDELS: The Cosmic Assembly Near-infrared Deep Extragalactic Legacy Survey

Norman A. Grogin;Dale D. Kocevski;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson

2272
Citations
Euclid Definition Study Report

R. Laureijs;J. Amiaux;S. Arduini;J.-L. Auguères

1882
Citations
Candels: The cosmic assembly near-infrared deep extragalactic legacy survey - The hubble space telescope observations, imaging data products, and mosaics

Anton M. Koekemoer;S. M. Faber;Henry C. Ferguson;Norman A. Grogin

1709
Citations
The lesser role of starbursts for star formation at z=2

G. Rodighiero;E. Daddi;I. Baronchelli;A. Cimatti

1254
Citations
Production and detection of cold antihydrogen atoms

M. Amoretti;C. Amsler;G. Bonomi;G. Bonomi;A. Bouchta

1195
Citations
AMAZE - I. The evolution of the mass–metallicity relation at z $>$ 3

R. Maiolino;T. Nagao;A. Grazian;F. Cocchia

1074
Citations
Measuring and modelling the redshift evolution of clustering: the Hubble Deep Field North

S Arnouts;S Arnouts;Stefano Cristiani;Stefano Cristiani;Lauro Moscardini;Sabino Matarrese

1053
Citations
The Lesser Role of Starbursts in Star Formation at z = 2

G. Rodighiero;E. Daddi;I. Baronchelli;A. Cimatti

1022
Citations
Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: An advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

M. Actis;G. Agnetta;F. Aharonian;A. Akhperjanian

1008
Citations
A New Photometric Technique for the Joint Selection of Star-forming and Passive Galaxies at 1.4 <~ z <~ 2.5

E. Daddi;Andrea Cimatti;A. Renzini;A. Fontana

899
Citations
The Evolution of the Galaxy Rest-Frame Ultraviolet Luminosity Function Over the First Two Billion Years

Steven Lyle Finkelstein;Russell E. Ryan;Casey Papovich;Mark Dickinson

750
Citations
CANDELS: The progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies at z~2

Guillermo Barro;S. M. Faber;Pablo G. Perez-Gonzalez;David C. Koo

638
Citations
CANDELS multi-wavelength catalogs: source detection and photometry in the GOODS-South field

Yicheng Guo;Yicheng Guo;Henry C. Ferguson;Mauro Giavalisco;Guillermo Barro

562
Citations
The K20 survey - I. Disentangling old and dusty star-forming galaxies in the ERO population

A. Cimatti;E. Daddi;M. Mignoli;L. Pozzetti

541
Citations
CANDELS: The progenitors of compact quiescent galaxies at z ~ 2

Guillermo Barro;S. M. Faber;Pablo G. Pérez-González;Pablo G. Pérez-González;David C. Koo

518
Citations
The Galaxy Mass Function up to z=4 in the GOODS-MUSIC sample: into the epoch of formation of massive galaxies ⋆

A. Fontana;S. Salimbeni;A. Grazian;E. Giallongo

500
Citations
Old galaxies in the young Universe

A. Cimatti;E. Daddi;A. Renzini;Paolo Cassata

484
Citations
The K20 survey. VI. The distribution of the stellar masses in galaxies up to z 2

A. Fontana;L. Pozzetti;I. Donnarumma;A. Renzini

448
Citations
Production and detection of cold antihydrogen atoms

M. Amoretti;C. Amsler;G. Bonomi;A. Bouchta

8
Citations