Alejandro Pérez

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
87 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Alejandro Pérez is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alejandro Pérez has authored 87 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 53 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 51 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Alejandro Pérez's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (56 papers), Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (53 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (48 papers). Alejandro Pérez is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (56 papers), Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (53 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (48 papers). Alejandro Pérez collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Argentina. Alejandro Pérez's co-authors include Carlo Rovelli, Karim Noui, Seth Teller, Emilio Frazzoli, Sertaç Karaman, Matthew R. Walter, Daniel Sudarsky, Amit Ghosh, Jonathan Engle and Daniele Pranzetti and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Alejandro Pérez

84 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

Anytime Motion Planning using the RRT* 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 2013 200 400 600
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. Anytime Motion Planning using the RRT*
    2011 613 citations Alejandro Pérez et al. profile →
  2. The Spin-Foam Approach to Quantum Gravity
    2013 323 citations Alejandro Pérez PubMed profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alejandro Pérez France 30 2.1k 2.0k 1.7k 881 537 87 3.5k
J. Vega Spain 21 1.1k 0.5× 66 0.0× 179 0.1× 101 0.1× 358 0.7× 228 2.0k
Masako Bando Japan 25 3.5k 1.7× 241 0.1× 604 0.3× 42 0.0× 17 0.0× 100 6.6k
Ulrich Pinkall Germany 31 62 0.0× 423 0.2× 227 0.1× 515 0.6× 66 0.1× 83 3.4k
Paul Zarchan United States 21 144 0.1× 556 0.3× 76 0.0× 286 0.3× 2.6k 4.8× 50 3.1k
Bernard Grossman United States 24 469 0.2× 226 0.1× 103 0.1× 30 0.0× 447 0.8× 89 1.8k
Andrei Agrachev Italy 24 33 0.0× 369 0.2× 448 0.3× 111 0.1× 204 0.4× 104 2.8k
Ryan P. Russell United States 27 49 0.0× 155 0.1× 1.3k 0.8× 198 0.2× 1.6k 3.0× 138 2.3k
Pini GurŽfil Israel 31 39 0.0× 131 0.1× 1.5k 0.9× 279 0.3× 2.7k 5.1× 206 3.3k
M. Pierini Switzerland 27 2.2k 1.0× 46 0.0× 342 0.2× 126 0.1× 33 0.1× 104 2.6k
Roberto Barrio Spain 24 57 0.0× 1.1k 0.6× 222 0.1× 56 0.1× 118 0.2× 122 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Alejandro Pérez

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alejandro Pérez

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alejandro Pérez

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Alejandro Pérez. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Alejandro Pérez based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Alejandro Pérez. Alejandro Pérez is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bengochea, Gabriel R., Gabriel León, & Alejandro Pérez. (2025). Is Planckian Discreteness Observable in Cosmology?. Universe. 11(5). 139–139. 2 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro, et al.. (2024). Light-cone thermodynamics: Purification of the Minkowski vacuum. Physical review. D. 109(12). 1 indexed citations
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Christodoulou, Marios, Alejandro Pérez, & Carlo Rovelli. (2024). Detecting Planck-Scale Dark Matter with Quantum Interference. Physical Review Letters. 133(11). 111001–111001. 3 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro, et al.. (2023). Modeling Quantum Particles Falling into a Black Hole: The Deep Interior Limit. Universe. 9(2). 75–75. 3 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro, et al.. (2023). Landscape of polymer quantum cosmology. Physical review. D. 107(8). 3 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro & Daniel Sudarsky. (2022). A dialog on the fate of information in black hole evaporation. AVS Quantum Science. 4(4). 2 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro & Daniel Sudarsky. (2021). Black holes, Planckian granularity, and the changing cosmological ‘constant’. General Relativity and Gravitation. 53(4). 3 indexed citations
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Gallo, Emanuel, et al.. (2021). Spherically symmetric black holes and affine-null metric formulation of Einstein's equations. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro & Daniel Sudarsky. (2019). Dark Energy from Quantum Gravity Discreteness. Physical Review Letters. 122(22). 221302–221302. 32 indexed citations
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Freidel, Laurent & Alejandro Pérez. (2018). Quantum Gravity at the Corner. Universe. 4(10). 107–107. 22 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro, et al.. (2017). Dark Energy from Violation of Energy Conservation. Physical Review Letters. 118(2). 21102–21102. 117 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro, et al.. (2015). Evolution of the environmental justice movement: activism, formalization and differentiation. Environmental Research Letters. 10(10). 105002–105002. 43 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro. (2013). The Spin-Foam Approach to Quantum Gravity. PubMed. 16(1). 3–3. 323 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pérez, Alejandro, et al.. (2013). Optimal sampling-based planning for linear-quadratic kinodynamic systems. 2429–2436. 43 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro, Robert W. Platt, George Konidaris, Leslie Pack Kaelbling, & Tomás Lozano‐Pérez. (2012). LQR-RRT*: Optimal sampling-based motion planning with automatically derived extension heuristics. 2537–2542. 149 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro, et al.. (2009). Prevalence and Distribution of Sub-Clinical Atherosclerosis by Screening Vascular Ultrasound in Low and Intermediate Risk Adults: The New York Physicians Study. Journal of the American Society of Echocardiography. 22(10). 1145–1151. 33 indexed citations
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Pérez, Alejandro, et al.. (2009). Cardiovascular comorbidities and blood pressure control in stroke survivors. Journal of Hypertension. 27(5). 1056–1063. 35 indexed citations
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Montesinos, Merced & Alejandro Pérez. (2008). Two-dimensional topological field theories coupled to four-dimensional BF theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(10). 10 indexed citations
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Collins, John C., Alejandro Pérez, Daniel Sudarsky, Luis F. Urrutia, & H. Vucetich. (2004). Lorentz invariance: an additional fine-tuning problem. arXiv (Cornell University). 19 indexed citations
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Collins, John C., Alejandro Pérez, Daniel Sudarsky, Luis F. Urrutia, & H. Vucetich. (2004). Lorentz Invariance and Quantum Gravity: An Additional Fine-Tuning Problem?. Physical Review Letters. 93(19). 191301–191301. 190 indexed citations

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