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Paola Caselli

Paola Caselli

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2025

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Best Female Scientists

D-Index
112
Citations
41202
World Ranking
822
National Ranking
34

Physics

D-Index
113
Citations
44042
World Ranking
1057
National Ranking
89

Paola Caselli 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 Paola Caselli sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 830 publications — 86th percentile

86% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Paola Caselli 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 Paola Caselli sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 113 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% 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

  • 2025 - Research.com Best Female Scientists Award

Overview

Paola Caselli is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany. Their research primarily focuses on physics and astronomy, contributing extensively to subfields such as astronomy and astrophysics, spectroscopy, atmospheric science, atomic and molecular physics, optics, as well as nuclear and high energy physics. The scientist's work spans several interconnected topics within these domains.

The main topics covered in their research include:

  • Astrophysics and star formation studies
  • Atmospheric ozone and climate
  • Molecular spectroscopy and structure
  • Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies
  • Astro and planetary science
  • Spectroscopy and laser applications
  • Advanced chemical physics studies

Caselli has published widely, with many works appearing in notable scientific journals. Frequent publication venues for their research are:

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Astrophysical Journal
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology)

Among recent papers authored or coauthored by Caselli are:

  • "An Ice Age JWST inventory of dense molecular cloud ices" (2023) published in Nature Astronomy
  • "Water in star-forming regions: physics and chemistry from clouds to disks as probed by Herschel spectroscopy" (2021) published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "PRODIGE - envelope to disk with NOEMA" (2022) published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "Gas phase Elemental abundances in Molecular cloudS (GEMS)" (2020) published in Astronomy and Astrophysics
  • "A Case of Simultaneous Star and Planet Formation" (2020) published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters

Caselli frequently collaborates with several other researchers, notably:

  • J. E. Pineda
  • I. Jiménez-Serra
  • C. Ceccarelli
  • F. Fontani
  • C. Codella

This body of work reflects consistent engagement with a broad spectrum of studies related to the chemical and physical processes of star formation, molecular cloud composition, and related astronomical spectroscopy. Paola Caselli's contributions are rooted in experimental and observational research contributing data and insights into astrophysical environments and molecular structures relevant to star and planet formation processes.

Best Publications

  • Clouds, filaments and protostars: the Herschel Hi-GAL Milky Way

    S. Molinari;B. Swinyard;J. Bally;M. Barlow

  • Clouds, filaments, and protostars: The Herschel Hi-GAL Milky Way

    S. Molinari;B. Swinyard;J. Bally;M. Barlow

  • On the internal structure of starless cores: I. Physical conditions and the distribution of CO, CS, N2H+, and NH3 in L1498 and L1517B

    M. Tafalla;P. C. Myers;P. Caselli;C. M. Walmsley

  • Hi-GAL: The Herschel Infrared Galactic Plane Survey

    S. Molinari;B. Swinyard;J. Bally;M. Barlow

  • Dense Cores in Dark Clouds. XIV. N2H+ (1-0) Maps of Dense Cloud Cores

    Paola Caselli;Priscilla J. Benson;Philip C. Myers;Mario Tafalla

  • Probing the Evolutionary Status of Starless Cores through N2H+ and N2D+ Observations

    A. Crapsi;A. Crapsi;P. Caselli;C. M. Walmsley;P. C. Myers

  • Systematic Molecular Differentiation in Starless Cores

    M. Tafalla;P. C. Myers;P. Caselli;C. M. Walmsley

  • CO DEPLETION IN THE STARLESS CLOUD CORE L1544

    P. Caselli;C. M. Walmsley;M. Tafalla;L. Dore

  • Our astrochemical heritage

    Paola Caselli;Cecilia Ceccarelli

  • Molecular Ions in L1544. II. The Ionization Degree

    P. Caselli;C. M. Walmsley;A. Zucconi;M. Tafalla

  • The Ionization Fraction in Dense Cloud Cores

    P. Caselli;C. M. Walmsley;R. Terzieva;Eric Herbst

  • The Line Width--Size Relation in Massive Cloud Cores

    P. Caselli;P. C. Myers

  • Water in Star-Forming Regions with the Herschel Space Observatory (WISH): Overview of key program and first results

    E. F. van Dishoeck;L. E. Kristensen;A. O. Benz;E. A. Bergin

  • Chemical differentiation between star-forming regions : the Orion Hot Core and Compact Ridge

    P. Caselli;T. I. Hasegawa;Eric Herbst

  • First detection of [CII]158um at high redshift: vigorous star formation in the early universe

    R. Maiolino;P. Cox;P. Caselli;A. Beelen

  • Molecular Evolution in Collapsing Prestellar Cores. III. Contraction of a Bonnor-Ebert Sphere

    Yuri Aikawa;Eric Herbst;Helen Roberts;Helen Roberts;Paola Caselli

  • Radio-astronomical Spectroscopy of the Hyperfine Structure of N2H+

    P. Caselli;P. C. Myers;P. Thaddeus

  • L1544: A Starless dense core with extended inward motions

    M. Tafalla;D. Mardones;P. C. Myers;P. Caselli

  • Molecular Ions in L1544. I. Kinematics

    P. Caselli;C. M. Walmsley;A. Zucconi;M. Tafalla

  • CO Isotopologues in the Perseus Molecular Cloud Complex: the X-factor and Regional Variations

    Jaime E. Pineda;Paola Caselli;Alyssa A. Goodman

Frequent Co-Authors

Emmanuel Caux
Emmanuel Caux Federal University of Toulouse Midi-Pyrénées
E. F. van Dishoeck
E. F. van Dishoeck Leiden University
F. F. S. van der Tak
F. F. S. van der Tak Netherlands Institute for Space Research
Eric Herbst
Eric Herbst University of Virginia
Rafael Bachiller
Rafael Bachiller Observatorio Astronómico Nacional de España
Cecilia Ceccarelli
Cecilia Ceccarelli Grenoble Alpes University
Bertrand Lefloch
Bertrand Lefloch Grenoble Alpes University
Brunella Nisini
Brunella Nisini National Institute for Astrophysics
Dariusz C. Lis
Dariusz C. Lis California Institute of Technology
Carsten Dominik
Carsten Dominik University of Amsterdam

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