Cumrun Vafa

47.7k total citations · 14 hit papers
209 papers, 23.6k citations indexed

About

Cumrun Vafa is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Cumrun Vafa has authored 209 papers receiving a total of 23.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 180 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 104 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics and 91 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Cumrun Vafa's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (178 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (89 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (65 papers). Cumrun Vafa is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (178 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (89 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (65 papers). Cumrun Vafa collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Netherlands. Cumrun Vafa's co-authors include Hirosi Ooguri, Edward Witten, David R. Morrison, Lance J. Dixon, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Albrecht Klemm, Nicholas P. Warner, Sergio Cecotti, Sheldon Katz and Gregory Moore and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Cumrun Vafa

206 papers receiving 22.7k citations

Hit Papers

Strings on orbifolds 1985 2026 1998 2012 1985 1986 2007 2006 2003 250 500 750 1000

Peers

Cumrun Vafa
Comparison fields: 5 of 94
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 20.0k
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 9.9k
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 8.4k
  • Geometry and Topology 7.2k
  • Mathematical Physics 3.6k
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Countries citing papers authored by Cumrun Vafa

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Fields of papers citing papers by Cumrun Vafa

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Cumrun Vafa

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Cumrun Vafa. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Cumrun Vafa 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 Cumrun Vafa. Cumrun Vafa 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
# Work Indexed citations
1 26
2 0
3 3
4 0
5 18
6 34
7
Twisted Circle Compactification of 6d SCFTs
2
8
Distance and de Sitter conjectures on the Swampland breakdown →
429
9 113
10 18
11
Quantum Geometry of Refined Topological Strings
92
12
The string landscape, black holes and gravity as the weakest force breakdown →
786
13 106
14 178
15
Mirror Symmetry breakdown →
541
16 123
17
Geometric Physics
10
18
Self-Dual Strings and N=2 Supersymmetric Field Theory
195
19
CONFORMAL ALGEBRA OF RIEMANN SURFACES
2
20
Comment: ``Global anomalies on orbifolds''
1

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