Danny Birmingham

2.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
53 papers, 1.7k citations indexed

About

Danny Birmingham is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Danny Birmingham has authored 53 papers receiving a total of 1.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 31 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 30 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Danny Birmingham's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (45 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (31 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (29 papers). Danny Birmingham is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (45 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (31 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (29 papers). Danny Birmingham collaborates with scholars based in United States, Ireland and Switzerland. Danny Birmingham's co-authors include Ivo Sachs, Sergey N. Solodukhin, Mark Rakowski, Siddhartha Sen, G.E. Thompson, Kumar S. Gupta, R. Kantowski, Matthias Blau, Charles G Torre and Kimball A. Milton and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Reports and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Danny Birmingham

52 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

Topological field theory 1991 2026 2002 2014 1991 100 200 300
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. Topological field theory
    1991 394 citations Danny Birmingham profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Danny Birmingham United States 19 1.5k 1.0k 846 320 250 53 1.7k
A. Stern United States 22 1.4k 1.0× 500 0.5× 780 0.9× 408 1.3× 161 0.6× 108 1.8k
Matthias Blau Italy 21 1.2k 0.8× 639 0.6× 647 0.8× 137 0.4× 339 1.4× 47 1.5k
Chong‐Sun Chu Taiwan 21 1.3k 0.9× 904 0.9× 906 1.1× 322 1.0× 121 0.5× 82 1.6k
Laurent Baulieu France 27 1.9k 1.3× 447 0.4× 1.0k 1.2× 213 0.7× 320 1.3× 120 2.2k
Sunil Mukhi India 24 1.7k 1.1× 838 0.8× 959 1.1× 192 0.6× 230 0.9× 77 2.1k
B.E.W. Nilsson Sweden 28 2.6k 1.8× 1.5k 1.4× 1.2k 1.4× 130 0.4× 153 0.6× 78 2.8k
Fedele Lizzi Italy 19 1.1k 0.8× 407 0.4× 926 1.1× 191 0.6× 291 1.2× 94 1.4k
Nobuyuki Ishibashi Japan 17 1.5k 1.0× 684 0.7× 1.1k 1.2× 186 0.6× 121 0.5× 43 1.7k
M. Pernici Italy 18 1.0k 0.7× 500 0.5× 633 0.7× 158 0.5× 138 0.6× 47 1.2k
Yoshihisa Kitazawa Japan 20 1.7k 1.1× 954 0.9× 1.2k 1.4× 130 0.4× 105 0.4× 60 1.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Danny Birmingham

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Danny Birmingham

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Birmingham, Danny, et al.. (2010). Classical stability of the BTZ black hole in topologically massive gravity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(12). 14 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, et al.. (2006). Exact gravitational quasinormal frequencies of topological black holes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 74(8). 28 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, et al.. (2003). Quasi-normal modes and black-hole quantum mechanics in 2   1 dimensions. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 20(20). L239–L244. 20 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, Ivo Sachs, & Sergey N. Solodukhin. (2002). Conformal Field Theory Interpretation of Black Hole Quasinormal Modes. Physical Review Letters. 88(15). 151301–151301. 330 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, et al.. (2001). The Cardy–Verlinde formula and Taub–Bolt–AdS spacetimes. Physics Letters B. 508(3-4). 365–368. 34 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny. (1998). A Closed Contour of Integration in Regge Calculus. General Relativity and Gravitation. 30(1). 83–103. 2 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny. (1995). Lens spaces in the Regge calculus approach to quantum cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 52(10). 5760–5772. 12 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny & Mark Rakowski. (1992). A field theoretic realization of a universal bundle for gravity. Physics Letters B. 275(3-4). 289–294. 6 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny & Mark Rakowski. (1991). Vector supersymmetry in topological field theory. Physics Letters B. 269(1-2). 103–108. 19 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, et al.. (1991). A Kallosh theorem for BF-type topological field theory. Physics Letters B. 273(1-2). 67–73. 2 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, et al.. (1991). The effective action in (2 + 1)-dimensional gravity and generalized BF topological field theory. Physics Letters B. 263(2). 176–182. 2 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny & Mark Rakowski. (1991). Vector supersymmetry in the universal bundle. Physics Letters B. 272(3-4). 217–222. 16 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny & Mark Rakowski. (1991). THE β-FUNCTION IN TOPOLOGICAL SIGMA MODELS. Modern Physics Letters A. 6(2). 129–136. 2 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, et al.. (1990). Gauge dependence of theηfunction in Chern-Simons field theory and the Vilkovisky-DeWitt correction. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 42(10). 3476–3487. 9 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, R. Kantowski, & Mark Rakowski. (1990). The eta function in Chern-Simons field theory. Physics Letters B. 251(1). 121–127. 11 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny & Mark Rakowski. (1989). SUPERFIELD FORMULATION OF CHERN-SIMONS SUPERSYMMETRY. Modern Physics Letters A. 4(18). 1753–1762. 18 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, Mark Rakowski, & G.E. Thompson. (1989). BRST quantization of topological field theories. Nuclear Physics B. 315(3). 577–605. 49 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, R. Kantowski, & Kimball A. Milton. (1988). Scalar and spinor Casimir energies in even-dimensional Kaluza-Klein spaces of the formM4×SN1×SN2×⋅⋅⋅. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 38(6). 1809–1822. 22 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny. (1987). Conformal anomaly in spherical spacetimes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 36(10). 3037–3047. 10 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny & Siddhartha Sen. (1986). The candelas-weinberg model for spaces M4 × S2N. Annals of Physics. 172(2). 451–482. 10 indexed citations

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