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Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Nickolay Y. Gnedin

Fermilab
United States

D-Index & Metrics

Physics

D-Index
81
Citations
22643
World Ranking
2943
National Ranking
1434

Nickolay Y. Gnedin 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 Nickolay Y. Gnedin sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 243 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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Nickolay Y. Gnedin 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 Nickolay Y. Gnedin sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 81 D-Index — 22nd percentile

22% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2013 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering work in computational cosmology, which has led to a deep understanding of the Lyman alpha forest and reionization of the universe

Overview

Nickolay Y. Gnedin is affiliated with Fermilab in the United States, focusing on research within the broad field of physics and astronomy. Their work spans various subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, nuclear and high-energy physics, instrumentation, statistical and nonlinear physics, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

Gnedin's research topics are diverse and cover:

  • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
  • Astronomy and Astrophysical Research
  • Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
  • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
  • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena
  • Astrophysics and Star Formation Studies
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies

Some of the scientist's recent publications include:

  • Reionization with galaxies and active galactic nuclei, 2020, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Modeling cosmic reionization, 2022, Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics
  • Compressing the Cosmological Information in One-dimensional Correlations of the Lyman-α Forest, 2023, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Measuring the Density Fields around Bright Quasars at z ∼ 6 with XQR-30 Spectra, 2022, The Astrophysical Journal
  • Modeling Dust Production, Growth, and Destruction in Reionization-era Galaxies with the CROC Simulations. II. Predicting the Dust Content of High-redshift Galaxies, 2024, The Astrophysical Journal

Frequent co-authors who have collaborated with Gnedin include:

  • Camille Avestruz
  • Hanjue Zhu
  • David Robinson
  • Clarke J. Esmerian
  • Vadim A. Semenov

The scientist has published extensively in several key venues, including:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • The Open Journal of Astrophysics
  • Living Reviews in Computational Astrophysics

Nickolay Y. Gnedin has received the distinction of Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) in 2013 for pioneering work in computational cosmology, specifically related to understanding the Lyman alpha forest and reionization of the universe.

Best Publications

  • Effect of Reionization on Structure Formation in the Universe

    Nickolay Y. Gnedin

  • Effect of Reionization on the Structure Formation in the Universe

    Nickolay Y. Gnedin

  • Reionization of the Universe and the Early Production of Metals

    Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Jeremiah P. Ostriker

  • The Santa Barbara cluster comparison project: A comparison of cosmological hydrodynamics solutions

    C. S. Frenk;S. D. M. White;P. Bode;J. R. Bond

  • Probing the Universe with the Lyman-alpha Forest: I. Hydrodynamics of the Low Density IGM

    Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Lam Hui

  • Towards a complete accounting of energy and momentum from stellar feedback in galaxy formation simulations

    Oscar Agertz;Andrey V. Kravtsov;Samuel N. Leitner;Nickolay Y. Gnedin

  • Cosmological Reionization by Stellar Sources

    Nickolay Y. Gnedin

  • TOWARD A COMPLETE ACCOUNTING OF ENERGY AND MOMENTUM FROM STELLAR FEEDBACK IN GALAXY FORMATION SIMULATIONS

    Oscar Agertz;Andrey V. Kravtsov;Samuel N. Leitner;Samuel N. Leitner;Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Nickolay Y. Gnedin

  • Multi-dimensional cosmological radiative transfer with a Variable Eddington Tensor formalism

    Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Tom Abel

  • A Comparison of Methods for Determining the Molecular Content of Model Galaxies

    Mark R. Krumholz;Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Nickolay Y. Gnedin

  • Environmental Dependence of the Kennicutt?Schmidt Relation in Galaxies

    Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Andrey V. Kravtsov

  • The Evolution of the Effective Equation of State of the IGM

    Massimo Ricotti;Nickolay Y. Gnedin;J. Michael Shull

  • Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: Dark Energy Science Collaboration

    Alexandra Abate;David L. Burke;Guoliang Li;Tesla Jeltema

  • THE EVOLUTION OF THE EFFECTIVE EQUATION OF STATE OF THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM

    Massimo Ricotti;Nickolay Y. Gnedin;J. Michael Shull

  • Escape of Ionizing Radiation from High-Redshift Galaxies

    Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Andrey V. Kravtsov;Hsiao-Wen Chen

  • The AGORA High-Resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project

    Ji-hoon Kim;Tom Abel;Oscar Agertz;Greg L. Bryan

  • Generation of the Primordial Magnetic Fields during Cosmological Reionization

    Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Andrea Ferrara;Ellen G. Zweibel

  • Formation Histories of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group

    Massimo Ricotti;Nickolay Y. Gnedin

  • The AGORA high-resolution galaxy simulations comparison project

    Ji-hoon Kim;Tom Abel;Oscar Agertz;Oscar Agertz;Greg L. Bryan

  • Modeling Molecular Hydrogen and Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations

    Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Konstantinos Tassis;Konstantinos Tassis;Andrey V. Kravtsov

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrey V. Kravtsov
Andrey V. Kravtsov University of Chicago
Jeremiah P. Ostriker
Jeremiah P. Ostriker Columbia University
J. Michael Shull
J. Michael Shull University of Colorado Boulder
Dan Hooper
Dan Hooper Fermilab
Piero Madau
Piero Madau University of California, Santa Cruz
Chris Carilli
Chris Carilli National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Tom Abel
Tom Abel Stanford University
Renyue Cen
Renyue Cen Princeton University
Steven R. Furlanetto
Steven R. Furlanetto University of California, Los Angeles
Jordi Miralda-Escudé
Jordi Miralda-Escudé University of Barcelona

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