Curtis G. Callan

25.9k total citations · 11 hit papers
105 papers, 17.3k citations indexed

About

Curtis G. Callan is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Curtis G. Callan has authored 105 papers receiving a total of 17.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 23 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 22 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Curtis G. Callan's work include Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (41 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (38 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (36 papers). Curtis G. Callan is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (41 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (38 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (36 papers). Curtis G. Callan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Slovakia and France. Curtis G. Callan's co-authors include Sidney Coleman, David J. Gross, Roger Dashen, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Malcolm J. Perry, Frank Wilczek, Andrew Strominger, Igor R. Klebanov, J. Wess and Bruno Zumino and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Nature Biotechnology.

In The Last Decade

Curtis G. Callan

104 papers receiving 16.8k citations

Hit Papers

Fate of the false vacuum. II. First quantum corrections 1969 2026 1988 2007 1977 1969 1985 1976 1970 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. Fate of the false vacuum. II. First quantum corrections
    1977 1.3k citations Curtis G. Callan et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  2. Structure of Phenomenological Lagrangians. II
    1969 1.2k citations Curtis G. Callan et al. Physical Review profile →
  3. Strings in background fields
    1985 1.1k citations Curtis G. Callan et al. Nuclear Physics B profile →
  4. The structure of the gauge theory vacuum
    1976 881 citations Curtis G. Callan, Roger Dashen et al. Physics Letters B profile →
  5. A new improved energy-momentum tensor
    1970 848 citations Curtis G. Callan et al. profile →
  6. Evanescent black holes
    1992 690 citations Curtis G. Callan, Jeffrey A. Harvey et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  7. Broken Scale Invariance in Scalar Field Theory
    1970 594 citations Curtis G. Callan Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  8. Strings in Background Fields
    1989 583 citations Curtis G. Callan profile →
  9. Toward a theory of the strong interactions
    1978 575 citations Curtis G. Callan, Roger Dashen et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  10. On geometric entropy
    1994 531 citations Curtis G. Callan, Frank Wilczek Physics Letters B profile →
  11. Anomalies and fermion zero modes on strings and domain walls
    1985 518 citations Curtis G. Callan, Jeffrey A. Harvey 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
Curtis G. Callan United States 56 13.1k 6.5k 3.9k 3.2k 1.4k 105 17.3k
J. M. Greene United States 50 5.0k 0.4× 4.6k 0.7× 5.6k 1.4× 2.5k 0.8× 1.7k 1.2× 157 14.0k
David J. Gross United States 80 20.9k 1.6× 7.3k 1.1× 6.4k 1.6× 4.1k 1.3× 898 0.6× 319 30.9k
M. Reuter Germany 47 4.8k 0.4× 3.8k 0.6× 2.4k 0.6× 583 0.2× 1.3k 0.9× 144 7.8k
G. E. Brown United Kingdom 65 8.0k 0.6× 2.4k 0.4× 392 0.1× 3.1k 1.0× 2.4k 1.7× 388 16.1k
Pierre Ramond United States 37 4.9k 0.4× 1.7k 0.3× 1.0k 0.3× 595 0.2× 298 0.2× 136 6.2k
Brian Greene United States 39 4.4k 0.3× 2.9k 0.5× 1.6k 0.4× 360 0.1× 331 0.2× 112 5.9k
R. Sugar United States 51 6.3k 0.5× 429 0.1× 506 0.1× 3.3k 1.0× 624 0.4× 204 11.3k
A. Neveu France 40 4.9k 0.4× 1.1k 0.2× 2.9k 0.7× 2.1k 0.7× 51 0.0× 124 7.6k
Richard S. Ellis United States 81 2.9k 0.2× 19.8k 3.1× 2.0k 0.5× 1.5k 0.5× 178 0.1× 456 24.2k
David Tong United Kingdom 34 3.7k 0.3× 2.6k 0.4× 1.2k 0.3× 912 0.3× 246 0.2× 90 4.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Yaojun, et al.. (2025). Maximum entropy models for patterns of gene expression. Physical review. E. 112(1). 14408–14408.
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Sethna, Zachary, Yuval Elhanati, Curtis G. Callan, Aleksandra M. Walczak, & Thierry Mora. (2019). OLGA: fast computation of generation probabilities of B- and T-cell receptor amino acid sequences and motifs. Bioinformatics. 35(17). 2974–2981. 113 indexed citations
3.
Sethna, Zachary, Yuval Elhanati, Crissy Dudgeon, et al.. (2017). Insights into immune system development and function from mouse T-cell repertoires. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 114(9). 2253–2258. 26 indexed citations
4.
Elhanati, Yuval, Zachary Sethna, Quentin Marcou, et al.. (2015). Inferring processes underlying B-cell repertoire diversity. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 370(1676). 20140243–20140243. 124 indexed citations
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Elhanati, Yuval, Anand Murugan, Curtis G. Callan, Thierry Mora, & Aleksandra M. Walczak. (2014). Quantifying selection in immune receptor repertoires. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 111(27). 9875–9880. 97 indexed citations
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Callan, Curtis G., Tristan McLoughlin, & Ian Swanson. (2004). Higher impurity AdS/CFT correspondence in the near-BMN limit. Nuclear Physics B. 700(1-3). 271–312. 60 indexed citations
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Callan, Curtis G., et al.. (1996). Black holes in string theory. Prepared for. 13. 1–65. 6 indexed citations
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Bialek, William, Curtis G. Callan, & Steven Strong. (1996). Field Theories for Learning Probability Distributions. Physical Review Letters. 77(23). 4693–4697. 75 indexed citations
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Callan, Curtis G. & Juan Maldacena. (1996). D-brane approach to black hole quantum mechanics. Nuclear Physics B. 472(3). 591–608. 406 indexed citations
10.
Callan, Curtis G. & Frank Wilczek. (1994). On geometric entropy. Physics Letters B. 333(1-2). 55–61. 531 indexed citations breakdown →
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Callan, Curtis G. & Lárus Thorlacius. (1990). Open string theory as dissipative quantum mechanics. Nuclear Physics B. 329(1). 117–138. 44 indexed citations
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Callan, Curtis G., C. Lovelace, Chiara R. Nappi, & S.A. Yost. (1987). Adding holes and crosscaps to the superstring. Nuclear Physics B. 293. 83–113. 188 indexed citations
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Bagger, Jonathan, Curtis G. Callan, & Jeffrey A. Harvey. (1986). Cosmic strings as orbifolds. Nuclear Physics B. 278(3). 550–576. 15 indexed citations
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Callan, Curtis G. & Igor R. Klebanov. (1985). Bound-state approach to strangeness in the Skyrme model. Nuclear Physics B. 262(2). 365–382. 256 indexed citations
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Callan, Curtis G. & Edward Witten. (1984). Monopole catalysis of Skyrmion decay. Nuclear Physics B. 239(1). 161–176. 92 indexed citations
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Callan, Curtis G., Roger Dashen, & David J. Gross. (1979). Instantons as a bridge between weak and strong coupling in quantum chromodynamics. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 20(12). 3279–3291. 55 indexed citations
17.
Callan, Curtis G., Roger Dashen, & David J. Gross. (1978). The structure of hadrons in QCD. Physics Letters B. 78(2-3). 307–312. 44 indexed citations
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Callan, Curtis G., Roger Dashen, David J. Gross, Frank Wilczek, & A. Zee. (1978). Effect of instantons on the heavy-quark potential. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 18(12). 4684–4692. 51 indexed citations
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Callan, Curtis G., Michael Gronau, A. Pais, E. A. Paschos, & S. B. Treiman. (1972). Light-Cone Approach to Structure-Function Inequalities. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 6(1). 387–390. 12 indexed citations
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Abarbanel, Henry D. I., Curtis G. Callan, & David H. Sharp. (1966). Calculation of the Nucleon Magnetic Moments by Dispersion-Theory Methods. Physical Review. 143(4). 1225–1238. 8 indexed citations

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