2026 Nickolay Y. Gnedin: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	81	2943	2795	1434	1336	243	22643

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Physics

2943

2795

1434

1336

243

22643

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

1074
Citations
Effect of Reionization on the Structure Formation in the Universe

Nickolay Y. Gnedin

971
Citations
Reionization of the Universe and the Early Production of Metals

Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Jeremiah P. Ostriker

804
Citations
The Santa Barbara cluster comparison project: A comparison of cosmological hydrodynamics solutions

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

644
Citations
Probing the Universe with the Lyman-alpha Forest: I. Hydrodynamics of the Low Density IGM

Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Lam Hui

586
Citations
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

586
Citations
Cosmological Reionization by Stellar Sources

Nickolay Y. Gnedin

530
Citations
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

511
Citations
Multi-dimensional cosmological radiative transfer with a Variable Eddington Tensor formalism

Nickolay Y. Gnedin;Tom Abel

424
Citations
A Comparison of Methods for Determining the Molecular Content of Model Galaxies

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

411
Citations
Environmental Dependence of the Kennicutt?Schmidt Relation in Galaxies

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

354
Citations
The Evolution of the Effective Equation of State of the IGM

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

346
Citations
Large Synoptic Survey Telescope: Dark Energy Science Collaboration

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

326
Citations
THE EVOLUTION OF THE EFFECTIVE EQUATION OF STATE OF THE INTERGALACTIC MEDIUM

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

325
Citations
Escape of Ionizing Radiation from High-Redshift Galaxies

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

306
Citations
The AGORA High-Resolution Galaxy Simulations Comparison Project

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

295
Citations
Generation of the Primordial Magnetic Fields during Cosmological Reionization

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

295
Citations
Formation Histories of Dwarf Galaxies in the Local Group

Massimo Ricotti;Nickolay Y. Gnedin

292
Citations
The AGORA high-resolution galaxy simulations comparison project

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

285
Citations
Modeling Molecular Hydrogen and Star Formation in Cosmological Simulations

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

277
Citations