Antonio Padilla

7.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
61 papers, 4.7k citations indexed

About

Antonio Padilla is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Antonio Padilla has authored 61 papers receiving a total of 4.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 58 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 53 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 11 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Antonio Padilla's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (56 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (49 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (11 papers). Antonio Padilla is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (56 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (49 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (11 papers). Antonio Padilla collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Italy. Antonio Padilla's co-authors include Constantinos Skordis, Pedro G. Ferreira, Timothy Clifton, Paul M. Saffin, Nemanja Kaloper, Christos Charmousis, Edmund J. Copeland, Gustavo Niz, Ruth Gregory and Shuang-Yong Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Reports and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Antonio Padilla

61 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Modified gravity and cosmology 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2012 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k 2.5k
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. Modified gravity and cosmology
    2012 2.7k citations Antonio Padilla, Constantinos Skordis et al. profile →
  2. General Second-Order Scalar-Tensor Theory and Self-Tuning
    2012 275 citations Christos Charmousis, Edmund J. Copeland et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Antonio Padilla United Kingdom 26 4.6k 3.9k 644 377 156 61 4.7k
Timothy Clifton United Kingdom 25 4.7k 1.0× 3.7k 0.9× 438 0.7× 500 1.3× 156 1.0× 70 4.8k
Gianmassimo Tasinato United Kingdom 38 4.0k 0.9× 3.0k 0.8× 406 0.6× 444 1.2× 141 0.9× 106 4.2k
Marco Peloso United States 37 4.8k 1.0× 3.7k 1.0× 303 0.5× 622 1.6× 167 1.1× 95 5.0k
Jun’ichi Yokoyama Japan 43 5.6k 1.2× 4.5k 1.2× 363 0.6× 574 1.5× 254 1.6× 169 5.8k
Paolo Creminelli Italy 32 3.9k 0.9× 3.4k 0.9× 391 0.6× 359 1.0× 83 0.5× 56 4.4k
David F. Mota Norway 45 5.3k 1.2× 4.0k 1.0× 430 0.7× 361 1.0× 233 1.5× 143 5.5k
David Polarski France 25 3.4k 0.7× 2.6k 0.7× 379 0.6× 389 1.0× 195 1.3× 67 3.4k
Lavinia Heisenberg Switzerland 35 4.4k 1.0× 3.7k 0.9× 462 0.7× 584 1.5× 121 0.8× 101 4.5k
F. Finelli⋆ Italy 34 3.9k 0.8× 2.8k 0.7× 363 0.6× 369 1.0× 140 0.9× 108 4.0k
Constantinos Skordis United Kingdom 31 4.9k 1.1× 3.7k 0.9× 394 0.6× 407 1.1× 117 0.8× 53 5.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Antonio Padilla

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Antonio Padilla

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Babichev, Eugeny, et al.. (2025). Horndeski speed tests with scalar-photon couplings. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(1). 41–41. 3 indexed citations
2.
Padilla, Antonio, et al.. (2024). de Sitter vacua in O(d,d) invariant cosmology. Physical review. D. 110(6). 2 indexed citations
3.
Padilla, Antonio, et al.. (2024). The cosmological constant and the weak gravity conjecture. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(8). 3 indexed citations
4.
Padilla, Antonio, et al.. (2024). Ringdowns for black holes with scalar hair: The large mass case. Physical review. D. 109(8). 4 indexed citations
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Padilla, Antonio, et al.. (2024). Smoothed asymptotics: From number theory to QFT. Physical review. D. 110(2). 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Yang, Antonio Padilla, & Francisco G. Pedro. (2023). The cosmological constant is probably still zero. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(10). 5 indexed citations
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Padilla, Antonio, et al.. (2020). Natural theory of dark energy. Physical review. D. 101(8). 4 indexed citations
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Padilla, Antonio. (2019). Monodromy inflation and an emergent mechanism for stabilising the cosmological constant. Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham). 5 indexed citations
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El-Menoufi, Basem Kamal, Silvia Nagy, Florian Niedermann, & Antonio Padilla. (2019). Quantum corrections to vacuum energy sequestering (with monodromy). Classical and Quantum Gravity. 36(21). 215014–215014. 3 indexed citations
10.
Copeland, Edmund J., Michael Kopp, Antonio Padilla, Paul M. Saffin, & Constantinos Skordis. (2019). Dark Energy after GW170817 Revisited. Physical Review Letters. 122(6). 61301–61301. 55 indexed citations
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Padilla, Antonio, et al.. (2017). Probing scalar effective field theories with the soft limits of scattering amplitudes. Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham). 15 indexed citations
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Millington, Peter, Antonio Padilla, & Florian Niedermann. (2017). Galileon apples and free oranges. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Niedermann, Florian & Antonio Padilla. (2017). Gravitational Mechanisms to Self-Tune the Cosmological Constant: Obstructions and Ways Forward. Physical Review Letters. 119(25). 251306–251306. 9 indexed citations
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Kaloper, Nemanja & Antonio Padilla. (2015). Sequestration of Vacuum Energy and the End of the Universe. Physical Review Letters. 114(10). 101302–101302. 30 indexed citations
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Kaloper, Nemanja & Antonio Padilla. (2014). Sequestering the Standard Model Vacuum Energy. Physical Review Letters. 112(9). 91304–91304. 101 indexed citations
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Padilla, Antonio & Paul M. Saffin. (2012). Classical duals, Legendre transforms and the Vainshtein mechanism. Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham). 3 indexed citations
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Charmousis, Christos, Edmund J. Copeland, Antonio Padilla, & Paul M. Saffin. (2012). General Second-Order Scalar-Tensor Theory and Self-Tuning. Physical Review Letters. 108(5). 51101–51101. 275 indexed citations breakdown →
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Padilla, Antonio, Paul M. Saffin, & Shuang-Yong Zhou. (2011). Bi-galileon theory II: phenomenology. Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham). 60 indexed citations
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Kaloper, Nemanja, Antonio Padilla, & Norihiro Tanahashi. (2011). Galileon Hairs of Dyson Spheres, Vainshtein’s Coiffure and Hirsute Bubbles. 47 indexed citations
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Padilla, Antonio, Paul M. Saffin, & Shuang-Yong Zhou. (2010). Bi-galileon theory I: motivation and formulation. Repository@Nottingham (University of Nottingham). 66 indexed citations

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