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Giampaolo Piotto

Giampaolo Piotto

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
128
Citations
57308
World Ranking
602
National Ranking
25

Giampaolo Piotto publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Giampaolo Piotto sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 779 publications — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Giampaolo Piotto D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Giampaolo Piotto sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 128 D-Index — 84th percentile

84% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Overview

Giampaolo Piotto is affiliated with the University of Padua in Italy and specializes in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their research contributions primarily focus on Astronomy and Astrophysics, with significant involvement in related subfields such as Instrumentation, Aerospace Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Oceanography.

The scientist's main topics of study include stellar, planetary, and galactic studies; astronomy and astrophysical research; astro and planetary science; and astrophysics and star formation studies. Their work also covers gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, astronomical observations and instrumentation, as well as solar and space plasma dynamics.

Noteworthy papers authored or co-authored by Giampaolo Piotto include the following:

  • Neutral Iron Emission Lines from the Dayside of KELT-9b: The GAPS Program with HARPS-N at TNG XX, 2020, The Astrophysical Journal Letters
  • A Pair of TESS Planets Spanning the Radius Valley around the Nearby Mid-M Dwarf LTT 3780, 2020, The Astronomical Journal
  • Separating planetary reflex Doppler shifts from stellar variability in the wavelength domain, 2021, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. XXIII. Proper-motion Catalogs and Internal Kinematics, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • The GAPS programme at TNG, 2020, Astronomy and Astrophysics

Frequent collaborators in Giampaolo Piotto's research include:

  • V. Nascimbeni
  • I. Pagano
  • G. Scandariato
  • A. Collier Cameron
  • Demetrio Magrin

Publications by Piotto appear predominantly in the following venues:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Astronomical Journal
  • Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich)

Giampaolo Piotto does not have recorded book publications. Their scholarly activity is marked by a consistent record of journal articles and conference papers, contributing to a broad spectrum of astronomical and astrophysical research themes.

Best Publications

  • The PLATO 2.0 Mission

    H. Rauer;C. Catala;C. Aerts;T. Appourchaux

  • The Gaia-ESO Public Spectroscopic Survey

    G. Gilmore;S. Randich;M. Asplund;J. Binney

  • The PLATO 2.0 mission

    H. Rauer;H. Rauer;C. Catala;C. Aerts;T. Appourchaux

  • Na-O Anticorrelation and HB. VII. The chemical composition of first and second-generation stars in 15 globular clusters from GIRAFFE spectra

    Elisa Carretta;Angela Bragaglia;Raffaele G. Gratton;Sara Lucatello;Sara Lucatello

  • Omega Centauri: The Population Puzzle Goes Deeper

    L. R. Bedin;G. Piotto;J. Anderson;S. Cassisi

  • A triple main sequence in the globular cluster NGC 2808

    G. Piotto;L. R. Bedin;J. Anderson;I. R. King

  • The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview and Clusters Without Previous HST Photometry

    Ata Sarajedini;L. Bedin;B. Chaboyer;A. Dotter

  • Metallicities on the Double Main Sequence of omega Centauri Imply Large Helium Enhancement

    Giampaolo Piotto;Sandro Villanova;Luigi R. Bedin;Raffaele Gratton

  • ω Centauri: The Population Puzzle Goes Deeper

    Luigi R. Bedin;Giampaolo Piotto;Jay Anderson;Santi Cassisi

  • The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview of the Project and Detection of Multiple Stellar Populations

    G. Piotto;G. Piotto;A. P. Milone;L. R. Bedin;J. Anderson

  • Spectroscopic and Photometric evidence of two stellar populations in the Galactic Globular Cluster NGC6121 (M4)

    A. F. Marino;S. Villanova;G. Piotto;A. P. Milone

  • The ACS Survey of Galactic Globular Clusters. I. Overview and Clusters without Previous Hubble Space Telescope Photometry

    Ata Sarajedini;Luigi R. Bedin;Brian Chaboyer;Aaron Dotter

  • An ACS Survey of Globular Clusters V: Star Catalog for Each Cluster

    Jay Anderson;Ata Sarajedini;Luigi R. Bedin;Ivan R. King

  • Metallicities on the double main sequence of ω centauri imply large helium enhancement

    Giampaolo Piotto;Sandro Villanova;Luigi R. Bedin;Luigi R. Bedin;Raffaele Gratton

  • Harps-N: the new planet hunter at TNG

    Rosario Cosentino;Christophe Lovis;Francesco Pepe;Andrew Collier Cameron

  • HST color-magnitude diagrams of 74 galactic globular clusters in the HST F439W and F555W bands ⋆

    G. Piotto;I. R. King;S. G. Djorgovski;C. Sosin

  • The ACS survey of galactic globular clusters. VII. Relative ages

    Antonio Marín-Franch;Antonio Marín-Franch;Antonio Aparicio;Giampaolo Piotto;Alfred Rosenberg

  • HST color-magnitude diagrams of 74 galactic globular clusters in the HST F439W and F555W bands

    G. Piotto;I. R. King;S. G. Djorgovski;C. Sosin

  • THE ACS SURVEY OF GALACTIC GLOBULAR CLUSTERS. IX. HORIZONTAL BRANCH MORPHOLOGY AND THE SECOND PARAMETER PHENOMENON

    Aaron Dotter;Ata Sarajedini;Jay Anderson;Antonio Aparicio

  • The Hubble Space Telescope UV Legacy Survey of Galactic globular clusters – IX. The Atlas of multiple stellar populations

    A. P. Milone;G. Piotto;A. Renzini;A. F. Marino

Frequent Co-Authors

Luigi R. Bedin
Luigi R. Bedin National Institute for Astrophysics
Antonino Milone
Antonino Milone University of Padua
Antonio Aparicio
Antonio Aparicio University of La Laguna
Santi Cassisi
Santi Cassisi National Institute for Astrophysics
David W. Latham
David W. Latham Harvard University
Lars A. Buchhave
Lars A. Buchhave Technical University of Denmark
Stéphane Udry
Stéphane Udry University of Geneva
Francesco Pepe
Francesco Pepe University of Geneva
David Charbonneau
David Charbonneau Harvard University
Damien Ségransan
Damien Ségransan University of Geneva

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