Roberto Pizzo

8.5k citations
79 papers · 6.1k · 3 hit papers · h-index 38

Impact in

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics top 1%
    • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology
    • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae
    • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics top 5%
    • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena

Papers in

  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 77
    • Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology 65
    • Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena 39
    • Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae 10
    • Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research 5
    • Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics 5
    • Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations 5
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 57
    • Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena 57
Co-authors
Michiel Brentjens (2 shared papers)A. Ger De Bruyn (4 shared papers)De Bruyn (1 shared paper)Gianni Bernardi (4 shared papers)Luigina Feretti (4 shared papers)Federica Govoni (4 shared papers)Matteo Murgia (5 shared papers)Chiara Ferrari (5 shared papers)
Journals
Astronomy and Astrophysics (32 papers)Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society (10 papers)Nature (2 papers)The Astrophysical Journal (2 papers)Astroparticle Physics (2 papers)
Partner nations
NetherlandsGermanyFrance

In The Last Decade

Roberto Pizzo

78 papers receiving 5.9k citations

Roberto Pizzo's Hit Papers

The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey 2018 · 452 citations
4520+4+8Years since publication50010001.5k
What are hit papers?

Paper score: A paper's citations measured against the top-1% bar of its own field and year: the square root of citations ÷ bar, so 1 means right at the bar and 2 means four times its citations. The bar blends the citation counts that enter the top 1% of the paper's subfields in its year (weighted 89.5%), of those subfields over all years (0.5%) and of its year across all fields (10%); a subfield and year with fewer than 400 papers takes its year's bar. Papers from 2026 are not scored yet: in an unfinished year, when a paper appeared matters more than how it is cited.

Hit paper: A paper cited at least 1.5× the top-1% bar of its field and year: a paper score of at least √1.5.

  1. 2018 Astronomy and Astrophysics
  2. 2016 Astronomy and Astrophysics
  3. 2013 Astronomy and Astrophysics

Peers

Roberto Pizzo
Comparison fields: 5 of 71
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 5.8k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 3.8k
  • Instrumentation 353
  • Aerospace Engineering 955
  • Oceanography 163
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Emil Lenc Australia
R. C. Vermeulen Netherlands
M. E. Bell Australia
Olaf Wucknitz Germany
Anna M. M. Scaife United Kingdom
Aleksandar Shulevski Netherlands
Melanie Johnston-Hollitt Australia
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Citations per field
00.5×1.7×
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Citations per year

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authors

The 25 scholars most cited alongside Roberto Pizzo, linked wherever they have co-authored with each other. Click a name or a connecting line to browse the papers they share.

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All Works

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LOFAR: The LOw-Frequency ARray
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·M. P. van Haarlem, Michael W. Wise, André W. Gunst, George H. Heald, John Paul McKean, Jason W. T. Hessels, A. Ger De Bruyn, R. Nijboer
Hit paper breakdown →		20131981
2
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Timothy Shimwell, Huub J. A. Röttgering, P. N. Best, Wendy Williams, Tammo Jan Dijkema, Francesco de Gasperin, Martin Hardcastle, George H. Heald
Hit paper breakdown →		2016483
3
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Timothy Shimwell, Cyril Tasse, Martin Hardcastle, A. P. Mechev, Wendy Williams, P. N. Best, Huub J. A. Röttgering, Joseph Callingham
Hit paper breakdown →		2018452
4
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - I. Survey Description and Preliminary Data Release
Open Research Online - ORO (The Open University) ·Timothy Shimwell, Huub J. A. Röttgering, P. N. Best, Wendy Williams, Tammo Jan Dijkema, Francesco de Gasperin, Martin Hardcastle, George H. Heald
2016183
5
The LOFAR Two-metre Sky Survey - II. First data release
UvA-DARE (University of Amsterdam) ·Timothy Shimwell, Cyril Tasse, Martin Hardcastle, A. P. Mechev, Wendy Williams, P. N. Best, Huub J. A. Röttgering, Joseph Callingham
2018160
6
LOFAR, VLA, AND CHANDRA OBSERVATIONS OF THE TOOTHBRUSH GALAXY CLUSTER
The Astrophysical Journal ·Reinout J. van Weeren, Gianfranco Brunetti, Marcus Brüggen, Felipe Andrade-Santos, G. A. Ogrean, Wendy Williams, Huub J. A. Röttgering, William A. Dawson
2016139
7
Calibrating high-precision Faraday rotation measurements for LOFAR and the next generation of low-frequency radio telescopes
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Carlos Sotomayor-Beltran, Charlotte Sobey, Jason W. T. Hessels, Gianni De Bruyn, A. Noutsos, A. Alexov, James M Anderson, A. Asgekar
2013117
8
LOFAR Facet Calibration
University of Groningen research database (University of Groningen / Centre for Information Technology) ·Reinout J. van Weeren, Wendy Williams, Martin Hardcastle, Timothy Shimwell, David A. Rafferty, J. Sabater, George H. Heald, Sarrvesh Seethapuram Sridhar
2016103
9
A large light-mass component of cosmic rays at 1017–1017.5 electronvolts from radio observations
Nature ·S. Buitink, A. Corstanje, Heino Falcke, J.R. Hörandel, Tim Huege, Anna Nelles, Jörg Paul Rachen, Lorenzo Rossetto
2016101
10
Synchronous X-ray and Radio Mode Switches: A Rapid Global Transformation of the Pulsar Magnetosphere
Science ·W. Hermsen, Jason W. T. Hessels, Lucien Kuiper, Joeri van Leeuwen, Dipanjan Mitra, J. de Plaa, Joanna M. Rankin, Benjamin Stappers
2013100
11
Initial deep LOFAR observations of epoch of reionization windows
Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology) ·S. Yatawatta, A. Ger De Bruyn, Michiel Brentjens, P. Labropoulos, V. N. Pandey, S. Kazemi, Saleem Zaroubi, Luitje Vincent Ewoud Koopmans
201391
12
Needle-like structures discovered on positively charged lightning branches
Nature ·Brian M. Hare, Olaf Scholten, Joseph Dwyer, T. N. G. Trinh, S. Buitink, Sander Ter Veen, A. Bonardi, A. Corstanje
201990
13
M 87 at metre wavelengths: the LOFAR picture
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Francesco de Gasperin, Emanuela Orrú, Matteo Murgia, Andrea Merloni, Heino Falcke, Rainer Beck, Robert Beswick, L. Bırzan
201287
14
LOFAR sparse image reconstruction
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Hugh Garsden, Julien N. Girard, Jean-Luc Starck, Stéphane Corbel, Cyril Tasse, Arnaud Woiselle, John Paul McKean, Alexander S. van Amesfoort
201484
15
The LOFAR Multifrequency Snapshot Sky Survey (MSSS)
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·George H. Heald, Roberto Pizzo, Emanuela Orrú, Rene Breton, D. Carbone, Chiara Ferrari, Martin Hardcastle, W. Jurusik
201576
16
Sub-arcsecond imaging with the International LOFAR Telescope
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Leah K. Morabito, Neal J Jackson, S. Mooney, Frits Sweijen, Shruti Badole, Pranav Kukreti, D. Venkattu, A. Kappes
202176
17
The nature of the low-frequency emission of M 51
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·D. D. Mulcahy, A. Horneffer, Rainer Beck, George H. Heald, Andrew John Fletcher, A. Scaife, Björn Adebahr, James M Anderson
201474
18
Studying Galactic interstellar turbulence through fluctuations in synchrotron emission
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·Marco Iacobelli, Marijke Haverkorn, Emanuela Orrú, Roberto Pizzo, James M Anderson, Rainer Beck, M. R. Bell, Annalisa Bonafede
201374
19
Wide-band simultaneous observations of pulsars: disentangling dispersion measure and profile variations
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·T. E. Hassall, Benjamin Stappers, Jason W. T. Hessels, Michael J. Kramer, A. Alexov, Kevin D. Anderson, Thijs Coenen, A. Karastergiou
201272
20
The LOFAR radio environment
Astronomy and Astrophysics ·André René Offringa, A. Ger De Bruyn, Saleem Zaroubi, Ger van Diepen, O. Martinez-Ruby, P. Labropoulos, Michiel Brentjens, B. Ciardi
201270

About Roberto Pizzo

Roberto Pizzo is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Aerospace Engineering, Oceanography and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, having authored 79 papers that have together received 6.1k indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Radio Astronomy Observations and Technology (65 papers), Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena (57 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (39 papers), Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae (10 papers), Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (5 papers), Solar and Space Plasma Dynamics (5 papers), Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (5 papers) and Radio Wave Propagation Studies (5 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Astronomy and Astrophysics (5.8k citations), Nuclear and High Energy Physics (3.8k citations), Instrumentation (353 citations), Aerospace Engineering (955 citations) and Oceanography (163 citations). Roberto Pizzo has collaborated with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and France. Frequent co-authors include Michiel Brentjens, A. Ger De Bruyn, De Bruyn, Gianni Bernardi, Luigina Feretti, Federica Govoni, Matteo Murgia, Chiara Ferrari, Annalisa Bonafede and Emanuela Orrú. Their work appears in journals such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, Nature, The Astrophysical Journal and Astroparticle Physics.

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