Alberto Nicolis

9.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
55 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Alberto Nicolis is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alberto Nicolis has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 40 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 15 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Alberto Nicolis's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (42 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (37 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (12 papers). Alberto Nicolis is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (42 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (37 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (12 papers). Alberto Nicolis collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. Alberto Nicolis's co-authors include Riccardo Rattazzi, Enrico Trincherini, Nima Arkani–Hamed, Paolo Creminelli, Lam Hui, Luboš Motl, Cumrun Vafa, Sergei Dubovsky, Leonardo Senatore and Allan Adams and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Alberto Nicolis

53 papers receiving 5.5k citations

Hit Papers

Galileon as a local modification of gravity 2006 2026 2012 2019 2009 2007 2006 250 500 750 1000
What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Galileon as a local modification of gravity
    2009 1.2k citations Alberto Nicolis, Enrico Trincherini et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  2. The string landscape, black holes and gravity as the weakest force
    2007 786 citations Nima Arkani–Hamed, Luboš Motl et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  3. Causality, analyticity and an IR obstruction to UV completion
    2006 631 citations Nima Arkani–Hamed, Sergei Dubovsky et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alberto Nicolis United States 30 5.0k 4.5k 986 508 318 55 5.6k
Mark Trodden United States 44 8.5k 1.7× 7.9k 1.7× 1.0k 1.1× 384 0.8× 632 2.0× 139 9.4k
V. A. Rubakov Russia 33 4.0k 0.8× 4.5k 1.0× 1.2k 1.2× 727 1.4× 196 0.6× 109 5.3k
Gia Dvali United States 47 8.4k 1.7× 9.3k 2.1× 2.0k 2.0× 990 1.9× 266 0.8× 147 10.5k
Eva Silverstein United States 36 5.2k 1.0× 5.3k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 284 0.6× 283 0.9× 84 5.9k
R. P. Woodard United States 39 5.0k 1.0× 4.6k 1.0× 1.3k 1.3× 712 1.4× 419 1.3× 167 5.4k
Richard A. Battye United Kingdom 39 3.6k 0.7× 3.2k 0.7× 520 0.5× 543 1.1× 229 0.7× 146 4.7k
Rong-Gen Cai China 39 4.9k 1.0× 4.2k 0.9× 1.4k 1.4× 514 1.0× 296 0.9× 143 5.2k
Ignatios Antoniadis France 37 3.2k 0.6× 4.7k 1.0× 1.0k 1.1× 246 0.5× 143 0.4× 165 5.0k
Rong-Gen Cai China 53 8.5k 1.7× 7.6k 1.7× 2.7k 2.7× 835 1.6× 276 0.9× 155 8.9k
M. Gasperini Italy 39 4.8k 1.0× 4.4k 1.0× 1.0k 1.0× 465 0.9× 257 0.8× 170 5.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Nicolis, Alberto. (2025). The connection between nonzero density and spontaneous symmetry breaking for interacting scalars. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 2 indexed citations
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Nicolis, Alberto & Ira Z. Rothstein. (2024). Apparent fine tunings for field theories with broken space-time symmetries. SciPost Physics. 16(2). 2 indexed citations
3.
Hui, Lam, et al.. (2024). S-matrix positivity without Lorentz invariance: a case study. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(4). 9 indexed citations
4.
Nicolis, Alberto, et al.. (2024). Apparently superluminal superfluids. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(1).
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Nicolis, Alberto, et al.. (2023). Cosmology as a weak gravitational field and the trans-Planckian problem. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(5). 5 indexed citations
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Esposito, Angelo, et al.. (2020). Solidity without inhomogeneity: perfectly homogeneous, weakly coupled, UV-complete solids. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020(11). 4 indexed citations
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Esposito, Angelo, et al.. (2019). Gravitational Mass Carried by Sound Waves. Physical Review Letters. 122(8). 84501–84501. 16 indexed citations
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Nicolis, Alberto & Riccardo Penco. (2018). Mutual interactions of phonons, rotons, and gravity. Physical review. B.. 97(13). 23 indexed citations
9.
García-Sáenz, Sebastián, Ermis Mitsou, & Alberto Nicolis. (2018). A multipole-expanded effective field theory for vortex ring-sound interactions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018(2). 4 indexed citations
10.
Delacrétaz, Luca V., Alberto Nicolis, Riccardo Penco, & Rachel A. Rosen. (2015). Wess-Zumino Terms for Relativistic Fluids, Superfluids, Solids, and Supersolids. Physical Review Letters. 114(9). 91601–91601. 24 indexed citations
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Nicolis, Alberto, Riccardo Penco, & Rachel A. Rosen. (2014). Relativistic fluids, superfluids, solids, and supersolids from a coset construction. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 89(4). 92 indexed citations
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Endlich, Solomon, Alberto Nicolis, & Riccardo Penco. (2014). Ultraviolet completion without symmetry restoration. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 89(6). 20 indexed citations
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Nicolis, Alberto & Federico Piazza. (2013). Implications of Relativity on Nonrelativistic Goldstone Theorems: Gapped Excitations at Finite Charge Density. Physical Review Letters. 110(1). 11602–11602. 47 indexed citations
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Arkani–Hamed, Nima, Sergei Dubovsky, Alberto Nicolis, Enrico Trincherini, & Giovanni Villadoro. (2013). A Measure of de Sitter Entropy and Eternal Inflation. 35 indexed citations
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Hui, Lam & Alberto Nicolis. (2012). Proposal for an Observational Test of the Vainshtein Mechanism. Physical Review Letters. 109(5). 51304–51304. 38 indexed citations
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Creminelli, Paolo, Sergei Dubovsky, Alberto Nicolis, Leonardo Senatore, & Matías Zaldarriaga. (2008). The Phase Transition to Slow-roll Eternal Inflation. arXiv (Cornell University). 32 indexed citations
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Arkani–Hamed, Nima, Sergei Dubovsky, Alberto Nicolis, & Giovanni Villadoro. (2007). Quantum Horizons of the Standard Model Landscape. 32 indexed citations
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Arkani–Hamed, Nima, Luboš Motl, Alberto Nicolis, & Cumrun Vafa. (2007). The string landscape, black holes and gravity as the weakest force. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2007(6). 60–60. 786 indexed citations breakdown →
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Creminelli, Paolo, Markus A. Luty, Alberto Nicolis, & Leonardo Senatore. (2006). Starting the Universe: stable violation of the null energy condition and non-standard cosmologies. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2006(12). 80–80. 313 indexed citations
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Creminelli, Paolo, Alberto Nicolis, Michele Papucci, & Enrico Trincherini. (2005). Ghosts in massive gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2005(9). 3–3. 164 indexed citations

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