Alexander Westphal

12.3k total citations · 2 hit papers
84 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Alexander Westphal is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Cognitive Neuroscience. According to data from OpenAlex, Alexander Westphal has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 57 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 10 papers in Cognitive Neuroscience. Recurrent topics in Alexander Westphal's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (59 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (54 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (20 papers). Alexander Westphal is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (59 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (54 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (20 papers). Alexander Westphal collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Alexander Westphal's co-authors include Eva Silverstein, Liam McAllister, S. Baeßler, V. V. Nesvizhevsky, H. Abele, Francisco G. Pedro, Hans G. Börner, A. M. Gagarski, G. A. Petrov and Raphael Flauger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Alexander Westphal

82 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Monodromy in the CMB: Gravity waves and string inflation 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2010 100 200 300 400 500
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. Monodromy in the CMB: Gravity waves and string inflation
    2008 562 citations Alexander Westphal et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  2. Gravity waves and linear inflation from axion monodromy
    2010 501 citations Liam McAllister, Alexander Westphal et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alexander Westphal Germany 30 3.0k 2.8k 673 500 263 84 4.0k
Francesco Sannino Denmark 47 3.0k 1.0× 7.6k 2.7× 433 0.6× 390 0.8× 31 0.1× 270 8.2k
Vera Rubin United States 29 4.3k 1.4× 1.7k 0.6× 269 0.4× 423 0.8× 119 0.5× 151 4.9k
M. T. Murphy Australia 47 5.3k 1.8× 1.9k 0.7× 1.4k 2.1× 365 0.7× 209 0.8× 196 7.2k
W. Voges Germany 42 6.9k 2.3× 2.2k 0.8× 226 0.3× 206 0.4× 45 0.2× 187 7.4k
M. S. Roberts United States 28 4.4k 1.5× 1.7k 0.6× 425 0.6× 69 0.1× 509 1.9× 126 5.6k
N. W. Evans United Kingdom 52 6.9k 2.3× 1.2k 0.4× 693 1.0× 731 1.5× 59 0.2× 171 7.9k
Peter W. Graham United States 39 2.5k 0.8× 3.5k 1.2× 2.1k 3.1× 206 0.4× 73 0.3× 105 5.1k
Matthew Kleban United States 19 1.1k 0.4× 1.1k 0.4× 105 0.2× 300 0.6× 41 0.2× 50 1.5k
Alan P. Lightman United States 21 2.3k 0.8× 918 0.3× 379 0.6× 164 0.3× 158 0.6× 53 2.8k
H. Lü United States 50 7.6k 2.5× 8.4k 3.0× 400 0.6× 4.0k 7.9× 100 0.4× 307 9.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Alexander Westphal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alexander Westphal

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kaloper, Nemanja & Alexander Westphal. (2024). Falsifying anthropics. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(12). 17–17. 1 indexed citations
2.
Dimastrogiovanni, Emanuela, et al.. (2024). Gravitational axiverse spectroscopy: seeing the forest for the axions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(8). 10 indexed citations
3.
Robison, John Elder, Alexander Westphal, Rachel Loftin, et al.. (2024). Neurodivergence and the Rabbit Hole of Extremism: Uncovering Lived Experience. Autism in Adulthood. 8(1). 102–111.
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Kaloper, Nemanja & Alexander Westphal. (2024). Implications of the weak gravity conjecture for de Sitter space decay by flux discharge. Physical review. D. 109(8). 1 indexed citations
5.
Westphal, Alexander, et al.. (2023). Heterotic de Sitter beyond modular symmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(2). 30 indexed citations
6.
Woodbury‐Smith, Marc, Rachel Loftin, Alexander Westphal, & Fred R. Volkmar. (2022). Vulnerability to Ideologically-Motivated Violence Among Individuals With Autism Spectrum Disorder. Frontiers in Psychiatry. 13. 873121–873121. 7 indexed citations
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Senman, Lili, Rachel Loftin, John Elder Robison, et al.. (2022). Understanding the Use of the Term “Weaponized Autism” in An Alt-Right Social Media Platform. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 53(10). 4035–4046. 4 indexed citations
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Domcke, Valerie, et al.. (2020). Resonant backreaction in axion inflation. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 57 indexed citations
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Dias, Mafalda, et al.. (2019). Primordial Gravitational Waves and the Swampland. DESY Publication Database (PUBDB) (Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron). 21 indexed citations
10.
Westphal, Alexander, et al.. (2018). Conformational state and charge determine the interfacial stabilization process of beta-lactoglobulin at preoccupied interfaces. Journal of Colloid and Interface Science. 536. 300–309. 47 indexed citations
11.
Pedro, Francisco G. & Alexander Westphal. (2017). Nonequilibrium random matrix theory: Transition probabilities. Physical review. E. 95(3). 32144–32144. 3 indexed citations
12.
Westphal, Alexander. (2016). Trauma and Violence in Autism.. PubMed. 44(2). 198–9. 2 indexed citations
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Pedro, Francisco G., et al.. (2015). Starobinsky-Type Inflation from $\alpha'$-Corrections. DESY (CERN, DESY, Fermilab, IHEP, and SLAC). 24 indexed citations
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Ben-Dayan, Ido, Francisco G. Pedro, & Alexander Westphal. (2014). Hierarchical Axion Inflation. Physical Review Letters. 113(26). 261301–261301. 40 indexed citations
15.
Alwis, S. P. de, Jan Louis, Liam McAllister, Hagen Triendl, & Alexander Westphal. (2013). On Moduli Spaces in AdS 4 Supergravity. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Mehta, Dhagash, et al.. (2013). Finding all flux vacua in an explicit example. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013(6). 28 indexed citations
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Hebecker, Arthur, et al.. (2013). Evading the Lyth bound in hybrid natural inflation. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 88(12). 13 indexed citations
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Westphal, Alexander, Stefanie Schelinski, Fred R. Volkmar, & Kevin A. Pelphrey. (2012). Revisiting Regression in Autism: Heller’s Dementia Infantilis. Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders. 43(2). 265–271. 15 indexed citations
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Nesvizhevsky, V. V., A. K. Petukhov, Hans G. Börner, et al.. (2005). Investigation of the neutron quantum states in the Earth's gravitational field. Journal of Research of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. 110(3). 263–263. 11 indexed citations
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Nesvizhevsky, V. V., Hans G. Börner, A. K. Petukhov, et al.. (2002). Quantum states of neutrons in the Earth's gravitational field. Nature. 415(6869). 297–299. 366 indexed citations

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