Costas Kounnas

10.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
135 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Costas Kounnas is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Costas Kounnas has authored 135 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 127 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 70 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 29 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Costas Kounnas's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (115 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (73 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (66 papers). Costas Kounnas is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (115 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (73 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (66 papers). Costas Kounnas collaborates with scholars based in France, Switzerland and United States. Costas Kounnas's co-authors include S. Ferrara, D.V. Nanopoulos, Massimo Porrati, John Ellis, Elias Kiritsis, Ignatios Antoniadis, D. V. Nanopoulos, Constantin P. Bachas, Fabio Zwirner and Jean-Pierre Derendinger and has published in prestigious journals such as Nuclear Physics B, Physics Letters B and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Costas Kounnas

134 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

Naturally vanishing cosmo... 1983 2026 1997 2011 1983 1987 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. Naturally vanishing cosmological constant in N=1 supergravity
    1983 534 citations S. Ferrara, Costas Kounnas et al. Physics Letters B profile →
  2. Four-dimensional superstrings
    1987 496 citations Costas Kounnas et al. Nuclear Physics B profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Costas Kounnas France 44 6.8k 3.8k 1.7k 443 221 135 7.1k
Luis E. Ibáñez Spain 49 7.7k 1.1× 3.8k 1.0× 1.2k 0.7× 487 1.1× 299 1.4× 120 8.0k
Jonathan Bagger United States 34 6.0k 0.9× 3.0k 0.8× 2.1k 1.3× 739 1.7× 322 1.5× 86 6.4k
Elias Kiritsis Greece 44 4.9k 0.7× 3.3k 0.9× 1.5k 0.9× 531 1.2× 192 0.9× 144 5.4k
Soo-Jong Rey South Korea 32 3.8k 0.6× 2.8k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 317 0.7× 160 0.7× 118 4.2k
Ergin Sezgin United States 42 5.6k 0.8× 3.6k 1.0× 3.4k 2.0× 725 1.6× 296 1.3× 170 6.0k
E. Cremmer France 31 7.0k 1.0× 4.2k 1.1× 2.9k 1.7× 572 1.3× 366 1.7× 55 7.4k
Antoine Van Proeyen Belgium 43 6.7k 1.0× 4.6k 1.2× 2.9k 1.8× 681 1.5× 353 1.6× 139 7.0k
Ralph Blumenhagen Germany 34 3.8k 0.6× 2.4k 0.6× 1.2k 0.7× 592 1.3× 389 1.8× 94 4.2k
Sandip P. Trivedi India 40 6.5k 1.0× 5.6k 1.5× 1.9k 1.2× 170 0.4× 186 0.8× 69 6.9k
B. Juliá France 19 3.7k 0.5× 2.1k 0.6× 1.9k 1.1× 392 0.9× 252 1.1× 31 3.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Costas Kounnas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Costas Kounnas

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kounnas, Costas & Hervé Partouche. (2007). Instanton transition in thermal and moduli deformed de Sitter cosmology. Nuclear Physics B. 793(1-2). 131–159. 5 indexed citations
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Derendinger, Jean-Pierre, Costas Kounnas, P. Marios Petropoulos, & Fabio Zwirner. (2005). Superpotentials in IIA compactifications with general fluxes. Nuclear Physics B. 715(1-2). 211–233. 153 indexed citations
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Faraggi, Alon E., et al.. (2004). TOWARDS THE CLASSIFICATION OF Z2×Z2 FERMIONIC MODELS. 143–151. 2 indexed citations
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Faraggi, Alon E., et al.. (2004). Classification of the chiral Z2×Z2 fermionic models in the heterotic superstring. Nuclear Physics B. 695(1-2). 41–72. 67 indexed citations
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Derendinger, Jean-Pierre, Costas Kounnas, P. Marios Petropoulos, & Fabio Zwirner. (2004). Superpotentials in IIA compactifications with general fluxes. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Kounnas, Costas. (2000). Type II NS Five-Branes: Non Critical Strings and their Topological Sectors. CERN Bulletin. 1 indexed citations
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Kounnas, Costas. (1999). Non-perturbative Supersymmetry Breaking and Finite Temperature Instabilities in N=4 Superstrings. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 74–74. 11 indexed citations
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Kiritsis, Elias, et al.. (1996). ON THE HETEROTIC EFFECTIVE ACTION AT ONE LOOP GAUGE COUPLINGS AND THE GRAVITATIONAL SECTOR. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4 indexed citations
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Kiritsis, Elias, Costas Kounnas, P. Marios Petropoulos, & J. Rizos. (1996). Solving the decompactification problem in string theory. Physics Letters B. 385(1-4). 87–95. 33 indexed citations
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Derendinger, Jean-Pierre, S. Ferrara, Costas Kounnas, & Fabio Zwirner. (1992). On loop corrections to string effective field theories: field-dependent gauge couplings and σ-model anomalies. Nuclear Physics B. 372(1-2). 145–188. 192 indexed citations
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Kounnas, Costas & Dieter Lüst. (1992). Cosmological string backgrounds from gauged WZW models. Physics Letters B. 289(1-2). 56–60. 49 indexed citations
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Kounnas, Costas, et al.. (1991). Heterotic (2,1) supergravity in two dimensions. Nuclear Physics B. 359(2-3). 673–704. 2 indexed citations
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Ferrara, S., Costas Kounnas, Massimo Porrati, & Fabio Zwirner. (1987). Effective super-Higgs and Str M2 from four-dimensional strings. Physics Letters B. 194(3). 366–374. 34 indexed citations
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Enqvist, Kari, D.V. Nanopoulos, M. Quirós, & Costas Kounnas. (1985). Primordial two-component maximally symmetric inflation. Nuclear Physics B. 262(3). 538–555. 6 indexed citations
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Kounnas, Costas, A. Masiero, D.V. Nanopoulos, & Keith A. Olive. (1985). Grand Unification with and without Supersymmetry and Cosmological Implications. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 34 indexed citations
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Ellis, John, Costas Kounnas, & D.V. Nanopoulos. (1984). No-scale supersymmetric GUTs. Nuclear Physics B. 247(2). 373–395. 380 indexed citations
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Ellis, John, Costas Kounnas, & D.V. Nanopoulos. (1984). No-scale supergravity models with a planck mass gravitino. Physics Letters B. 143(4-6). 410–414. 118 indexed citations
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Kounnas, Costas, A.B. Lahanas, D. V. Nanopoulos, & M. Quirós. (1984). Low-energy behaviour of realistic locally-supersymmetric grand unified theories. Nuclear Physics B. 236(2). 438–466. 222 indexed citations
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Antoniadis, Ignatios, Costas Kounnas, & R. Lacaze. (1983). Light gluinos in deep inelastic scattering. Nuclear Physics B. 211(2). 216–238. 44 indexed citations
20.
Baulieu, Laurent & Costas Kounnas. (1979). A direct method for computing QCD predictions for deep inelastic structure functions. Nuclear Physics B. 155(2). 429–446. 20 indexed citations

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