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.
Strings on orbifolds
19851.1k citationsCumrun Vafa et al.Nuclear Physics Bprofile →
Strings on orbifolds (II)
1986890 citationsCumrun Vafa et al.Nuclear Physics Bprofile →
The string landscape, black holes and gravity as the weakest force
2007786 citationsNima Arkani–Hamed, Luboš Motl et al.Journal of High Energy Physicsprofile →
On the geometry of the string landscape and the swampland
This map shows the geographic impact of Cumrun Vafa's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Cumrun Vafa with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Cumrun Vafa more than expected).
This network shows the impact of papers produced by Cumrun Vafa. 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 Cumrun Vafa. The network helps show where Cumrun Vafa may publish in the future.
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.
Hamada, Yuta, Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa, & Irene Valenzuela. (2022). Finiteness and the swampland. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 55(22). 224005–224005.34 indexed citations
7.
Bhardwaj, Lakshya, et al.. (2019). Twisted Circle Compactification of 6d SCFTs. arXiv (Cornell University).2 indexed citations
8.
Agrawal, Prateek, Georges Obied, Paul J. Steinhardt, & Cumrun Vafa. (2018). On the cosmological implications of the string Swampland. Physics Letters B. 784. 271–276.336 indexed citations breakdown →
9.
Ooguri, Hirosi, Eran Palti, Gary Shiu, & Cumrun Vafa. (2018). Distance and de Sitter conjectures on the Swampland. Physics Letters B. 788. 180–184.429 indexed citations breakdown →
10.
Zotto, Michele Del, Jonathan J. Heckman, Alessandro Tomasiello, & Cumrun Vafa. (2015). 6d Conformal matter. Durham Research Online (Durham University).113 indexed citations
11.
Aganagic, Mina, Hirosi Ooguri, Cumrun Vafa, & Masahito Yamazaki. (2011). Wall Crossing and M-Theory. Publications of the Research Institute for Mathematical Sciences. 47(2). 569–584.18 indexed citations
12.
Aganagic, Mina, Miranda C. N. Cheng, Robbert Dijkgraaf, Daniel Krefl, & Cumrun Vafa. (2011). Quantum Geometry of Refined Topological Strings.92 indexed citations
13.
Arkani–Hamed, Nima, Luboš Motl, Alberto Nicolis, & Cumrun Vafa. (2007). The string landscape, black holes and gravity as the weakest force. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2007(6). 60–60.786 indexed citations breakdown →
14.
Ooguri, Hirosi & Cumrun Vafa. (2006). On the geometry of the string landscape and the swampland. Nuclear Physics B. 766(1-3). 21–33.728 indexed citations breakdown →
15.
Zaslow, Eric, Ravi Vakil, Kentaro Hori, et al.. (2003). Mirror Symmetry. arXiv (Cornell University).541 indexed citations breakdown →
16.
Labastida, J.M.F., Marcos Mariño, & Cumrun Vafa. (2000). Knots, Links and Branes at Large N.109 indexed citations
Klemm, Albrecht, W. Lerche, Peter Mayr, Cumrun Vafa, & Nicholas P. Warner. (1996). Self-Dual Strings and N=2 Supersymmetric Field Theory.195 indexed citations
19.
Freed, Daniel S. & Cumrun Vafa. (1988). Comment: ``Global anomalies on orbifolds''. Communications in Mathematical Physics. 117(2). 349–351.1 indexed citations
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incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and
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