Alfred D. Shapere

6.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
38 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Alfred D. Shapere is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alfred D. Shapere has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 17 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 7 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Alfred D. Shapere's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (18 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (15 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (10 papers). Alfred D. Shapere is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (18 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (15 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (10 papers). Alfred D. Shapere collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and Sweden. Alfred D. Shapere's co-authors include Frank Wilczek, Jonathan L. Feng, Philip C. Argyres, Sandip P. Trivedi, Haim Goldberg, John Moody, Shing‐Tung Yau, Brian Greene, Cumrun Vafa and M. Ronen Plesser and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Journal of Fluid Mechanics and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Alfred D. Shapere

38 papers receiving 4.0k citations

Hit Papers

Geometric Phases in Physics 1989 2026 2001 2013 1989 1989 1991 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. Geometric Phases in Physics
    1989 1.1k citations Frank Wilczek, Alfred D. Shapere profile →
  2. Geometry of self-propulsion at low Reynolds number
    1989 263 citations Alfred D. Shapere, Frank Wilczek Journal of Fluid Mechanics profile →
  3. LIMITATIONS ON THE STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF BLACK HOLES
    1991 182 citations John Preskill, Patricia M. Schwarz et al. Modern Physics Letters A profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Alfred D. Shapere United States 25 2.1k 1.5k 1.3k 1.1k 560 38 4.2k
Robert G. Littlejohn United States 29 1.5k 0.7× 1.9k 1.3× 1.0k 0.8× 1.6k 1.5× 138 0.2× 91 3.9k
François David France 30 2.0k 0.9× 798 0.5× 680 0.5× 1.3k 1.2× 1.1k 2.0× 78 3.8k
Michael E. Peskin United States 38 8.2k 4.0× 1.4k 0.9× 3.0k 2.3× 1.0k 1.0× 674 1.2× 94 9.5k
A. Zee United States 56 7.8k 3.8× 3.1k 2.1× 2.5k 1.9× 1.3k 1.2× 1.8k 3.2× 208 11.5k
A. O. Barut United States 35 1.1k 0.6× 2.8k 1.8× 556 0.4× 1.5k 1.4× 169 0.3× 238 5.1k
R. Stora France 21 3.3k 1.6× 716 0.5× 984 0.8× 1.5k 1.4× 349 0.6× 70 4.4k
Mikio Nakahara Japan 22 548 0.3× 1.7k 1.1× 404 0.3× 600 0.6× 402 0.7× 108 2.8k
Mark Alford United States 43 4.6k 2.2× 2.5k 1.6× 4.5k 3.4× 308 0.3× 1.2k 2.1× 172 8.4k
Henri Verschelde Belgium 30 2.0k 1.0× 1.5k 1.0× 339 0.3× 536 0.5× 456 0.8× 116 3.8k
B. B. Kadomtsev Russia 22 1.3k 0.6× 879 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 769 0.7× 85 0.2× 145 3.1k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Dymarsky, Anatoly & Alfred D. Shapere. (2025). TQFT gravity and ensemble holography. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(2). 5 indexed citations
2.
Niemi, Antti J., et al.. (2022). Frank Wilczek. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Dymarsky, Anatoly & Alfred D. Shapere. (2021). Solutions of Modular Bootstrap Constraints from Quantum Codes. Physical Review Letters. 126(16). 161602–161602. 30 indexed citations
4.
Kim, Bom Soo & Alfred D. Shapere. (2016). Skyrmions and Hall Transport. Physical Review Letters. 117(11). 116805–116805. 10 indexed citations
5.
Shapere, Alfred D., et al.. (2014). Bounds on operator dimensions in 2D conformal field theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2014(5). 29 indexed citations
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Shapere, Alfred D. & Frank Wilczek. (2012). Classical Time Crystals. Physical Review Letters. 109(16). 160402–160402. 208 indexed citations
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Shapere, Alfred D. & Frank Wilczek. (2012). Branched Quantization. Physical Review Letters. 109(20). 200402–200402. 17 indexed citations
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Anchordoqui, Luis A., Jonathan L. Feng, Haim Goldberg, & Alfred D. Shapere. (2004). Inelastic black hole production and large extra dimensions. Physics Letters B. 594(3-4). 363–367. 37 indexed citations
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Anchordoqui, Luis A., Jonathan L. Feng, Haim Goldberg, & Alfred D. Shapere. (2003). Updated limits on TeV-scale gravity from the absence of neutrino cosmic ray showers mediated by black holes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 68(10). 58 indexed citations
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Shapere, Alfred D.. (2002). Black Hole Production by Cosmic Rays. APS. 6 indexed citations
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Anchordoqui, Luis A., Jonathan L. Feng, Haim Goldberg, & Alfred D. Shapere. (2002). Black holes from cosmic rays: Probes of extra dimensions and new limits on TeV-scale gravity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 65(12). 148 indexed citations
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Feng, Jonathan L. & Alfred D. Shapere. (2001). Black Hole Production by Cosmic Rays. Physical Review Letters. 88(2). 21303–21303. 176 indexed citations
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Evans, Nick, Clifford V. Johnson, & Alfred D. Shapere. (1997). Orientifolds, Branes, and Duality of 4D Gauge Theories. 72 indexed citations
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Argyres, Philip C., M. Ronen Plesser, & Alfred D. Shapere. (1995). Coulomb Phase ofN=2Supersymmetric QCD. Physical Review Letters. 75(9). 1699–1702. 158 indexed citations
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Argyres, Philip C., Alon E. Faraggi, & Alfred D. Shapere. (1995). Curves of Marginal Stability in N=2 Super-QCD. ArXiv.org. 1–2. 5 indexed citations
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Preskill, John, Patricia M. Schwarz, Alfred D. Shapere, Sandip P. Trivedi, & Frank Wilczek. (1991). LIMITATIONS ON THE STATISTICAL DESCRIPTION OF BLACK HOLES. Modern Physics Letters A. 6(26). 2353–2361. 182 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wilczek, Frank & Alfred D. Shapere. (1989). Geometric Phases in Physics. 1104 indexed citations breakdown →
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Shapere, Alfred D. & Frank Wilczek. (1989). Efficiencies of self-propulsion at low Reynolds number. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 198. 587–599. 69 indexed citations
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Shapere, Alfred D. & Frank Wilczek. (1987). Self-Propulsion at Low Reynolds Number. Physical Review Letters. 58(20). 2051–2054. 138 indexed citations
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Nair, V. P., Alfred D. Shapere, Andrew Strominger, & Frank Wilczek. (1987). Compactification of the twisted heterotic string. Nuclear Physics B. 287. 402–418. 161 indexed citations

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