Brian Greene

9.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
112 papers, 5.9k citations indexed

About

Brian Greene is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Brian Greene has authored 112 papers receiving a total of 5.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 69 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 41 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 22 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Brian Greene's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (66 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (36 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (23 papers). Brian Greene is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (66 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (36 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (23 papers). Brian Greene collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and France. Brian Greene's co-authors include David R. Morrison, Joseph Polchinski, Gary Shiu, Paul J. Miron, Kelley H. Kirklin, M. Ronen Plesser, Richard Easther, G.G. Ross, William H. Kinney and Jacques Distler and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Environmental Science & Technology.

In The Last Decade

Brian Greene

106 papers receiving 5.6k citations

Hit Papers

String theory 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 400 800 1.2k
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. String theory
    1998 1.2k citations Brian Greene et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Brian Greene United States 39 4.4k 2.9k 1.6k 1.1k 541 112 5.9k
Pierre Ramond United States 37 4.9k 1.1× 1.7k 0.6× 1.0k 0.6× 324 0.3× 189 0.3× 136 6.2k
P. Di Vecchia Italy 48 6.8k 1.5× 2.5k 0.8× 2.4k 1.5× 1.4k 1.3× 371 0.7× 197 9.2k
A. Neveu France 40 4.9k 1.1× 1.1k 0.4× 2.9k 1.8× 1.3k 1.2× 483 0.9× 124 7.6k
George Ellis South Africa 57 12.4k 2.8× 15.7k 5.4× 3.6k 2.2× 365 0.3× 490 0.9× 316 17.9k
Clifford Henry Taubes United States 36 884 0.2× 455 0.2× 417 0.3× 2.4k 2.2× 2.1k 3.8× 94 4.1k
Brandon Carter France 32 2.8k 0.6× 3.8k 1.3× 882 0.5× 43 0.0× 87 0.2× 85 5.1k
Peter West United Kingdom 41 5.0k 1.2× 2.6k 0.9× 2.6k 1.6× 698 0.7× 263 0.5× 169 5.8k
John Cardy United States 67 6.4k 1.5× 3.1k 1.1× 6.1k 3.8× 2.9k 2.8× 2.8k 5.1× 181 20.9k
R. Friedberg United States 37 1.6k 0.4× 897 0.3× 750 0.5× 216 0.2× 390 0.7× 150 5.5k
Iosif Bena France 32 2.7k 0.6× 2.1k 0.7× 1.3k 0.8× 160 0.2× 121 0.2× 111 3.4k

Countries citing papers authored by Brian Greene

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Fields of papers citing papers by Brian Greene

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Brian Greene. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Brian Greene. The network helps show where Brian Greene may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Brian Greene

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Brian Greene. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Brian Greene 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 Brian Greene. Brian Greene 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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Greene, Brian, et al.. (2011). Smooth initial conditions from weak gravity. Physics Letters B. 697(3). 178–183. 9 indexed citations
2.
Greene, Brian, Maulik Parikh, & Jan Pieter van der Schaar. (2006). Universal correction to the inflationary vacuum. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2006(4). 57–57. 26 indexed citations
3.
Einstein, Albert & Brian Greene. (2005). The meaning of relativity : including the relativistic theory of the non-symmetric field. Princeton University Press eBooks. 13 indexed citations
4.
Easther, Richard, Brian Greene, Mark Jackson, & Daniel Kabat. (2004). String Windings in the Early Universe. 58 indexed citations
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Greene, Brian, et al.. (2000). Proceedings of the 1999 Spring Workshop on Superstrings and Related Matters, the Abdus Salam ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 22-30 March 1999. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 2 indexed citations
6.
Zhang, Zhixian, Brian Greene, Pamela A. Thuman-Commike, et al.. (2000). Visualization of the maturation transition in bacteriophage P22 by electron cryomicroscopy. Journal of Molecular Biology. 297(3). 615–626. 65 indexed citations
7.
Greene, Brian, Shu‐Hui Liu, Andrew Wilde, & Frances M. Brodsky. (2000). Complete Reconstitution of Clathrin Basket Formation with Recombinant Protein Fragments: Adaptor Control of Clathrin Self‐Assembly. Traffic. 1(1). 69–75. 37 indexed citations
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Thuman-Commike, Pamela A., et al.. (1999). Solution X-Ray Scattering-Based Estimation of Electron Cryomicroscopy Imaging Parameters for Reconstruction of Virus Particles. Biophysical Journal. 76(4). 2249–2261. 30 indexed citations
9.
Greene, Brian & Jonathan King. (1999). In Vitro Unfolding/Refolding of Wild Type Phage P22 Scaffolding Protein Reveals Capsid-binding Domain. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 274(23). 16135–16140. 15 indexed citations
10.
Thuman-Commike, Pamela A., Brian Greene, Justine A. Malinski, Jonathan King, & Wah Chiu. (1998). Role of the Scaffolding Protein in P22 Procapsid Size Determination Suggested by T=4 and T=7 Procapsid Structures. Biophysical Journal. 74(1). 559–568. 88 indexed citations
11.
Greene, Brian & M. Ronen Plesser. (1998). An introduction to mirror manifolds. 9. 1–30. 1 indexed citations
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Efthimiou, Costas & Brian Greene. (1997). Fields, strings and duality : TASI 96, Boulder, Colorado, US, 2-28 June 1996. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Greene, Brian, et al.. (1997). Small volumes in compactified string theory. Nuclear Physics B. 497(1-2). 127–145. 13 indexed citations
14.
Greene, Brian. (1996). String Theory on Calabi-Yau Manifolds. CERN Bulletin. 543–726. 15 indexed citations
15.
Greene, Brian & Jonathan King. (1996). Scaffolding Mutants Identifying Domains Required for P22 Procapsid Assembly and Maturation. Virology. 225(1). 82–96. 50 indexed citations
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Thuman-Commike, Pamela A., Brian Greene, Joanita Jakana, et al.. (1996). Three-dimensional Structure of Scaffolding-containing Phage P22 Procapsids by Electron Cryo-microscopy. Journal of Molecular Biology. 260(1). 85–98. 82 indexed citations
17.
Greene, Brian & Shing‐Tung Yau. (1996). Mirror symmetry II. 38 indexed citations
18.
Greene, Brian. (1995). Spacetime Topology Change and Stringy Geometry. 201. 1 indexed citations
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Greene, Brian & Jonathan King. (1994). Binding of Scaffolding Subunits within the P22 Procapsid Lattice. Virology. 205(1). 188–197. 39 indexed citations
20.
Greene, Brian. (1990). Lectures on String Theory in Four Dimensions. 7. 334–420. 1 indexed citations

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