David Tong

8.2k total citations · 2 hit papers
90 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

David Tong is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, David Tong has authored 90 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 66 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 29 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 27 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in David Tong's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (63 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (28 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (25 papers). David Tong is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (63 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (28 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (25 papers). David Tong collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Japan. David Tong's co-authors include Eva Silverstein, Mohsen Alishahiha, Andreas Karch, Mike Blake, Amihay Hanany, Jorge E. Santos, Gary T. Horowitz, Joseph Polchinski, Sean A. Hartnoll and Jerome P. Gauntlett and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Physical Review Letters and Genes & Development.

In The Last Decade

David Tong

89 papers receiving 4.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

DBI in the sky: Non-Gaussianity from inflation with a speed limit

2004 613 citations David Tong et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
Scalar speed limits and cosmology: Acceleration from D-cceleration

2004 458 citations David Tong et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
David Tong United Kingdom	34	3.7k	2.6k	1.2k	912	509	90	4.8k
Tatsuo Kobayashi Japan	38	5.0k 1.4×	1.3k 0.5×	479 0.4×	147 0.2×	134 0.3×	233	5.7k
Pierre Ramond United States	37	4.9k 1.3×	1.7k 0.7×	1.0k 0.9×	595 0.7×	221 0.4×	136	6.2k
David B. Kaplan United States	49	8.8k 2.4×	4.5k 1.7×	645 0.5×	1.2k 1.3×	394 0.8×	109	10.0k
Zhe Chang China	27	663 0.2×	1.3k 0.5×	473 0.4×	279 0.3×	27 0.1×	171	2.6k
A. Love United Kingdom	23	1.2k 0.3×	687 0.3×	229 0.2×	754 0.8×	315 0.6×	87	2.3k
Norisuke Sakai Japan	35	4.5k 1.2×	1.5k 0.6×	1.2k 1.0×	701 0.8×	639 1.3×	141	5.1k
Marcus Bleicher Germany	43	7.1k 1.9×	1.2k 0.5×	468 0.4×	523 0.6×	80 0.2×	349	7.6k
Michele Caselle Italy	29	730 0.2×	130 0.0×	360 0.3×	344 0.4×	539 1.1×	160	2.5k
Mannque Rho France	48	8.5k 2.3×	1.2k 0.5×	312 0.3×	2.0k 2.2×	579 1.1×	254	9.4k
Luis F. Urrutia Mexico	22	1.5k 0.4×	1.1k 0.4×	1.5k 1.3×	633 0.7×	74 0.1×	116	2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by David Tong

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Tong

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Tong

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of David Tong. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of David Tong 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 David Tong. David Tong is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Beest, Marieke van, et al.. (2025). Monopoles, scattering, and generalized symmetries. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3). 9 indexed citations

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Tong, David. (2023). A gauge theory for shallow water. SciPost Physics. 14(5). 11 indexed citations

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Karasik, Avner, et al.. (2022). On discrete anomalies in chiral gauge theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(1). 12 indexed citations

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Tong, David, Wen Zhou, Chen Katz, et al.. (2021). p53 Frameshift Mutations Couple Loss-of-Function with Unique Neomorphic Activities. Molecular Cancer Research. 19(9). 1522–1533. 6 indexed citations

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Klein, Alyssa M., et al.. (2021). MDM2, MDMX, and p73 regulate cell-cycle progression in the absence of wild-type p53. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 118(44). 29 indexed citations

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Venkatesh, Divya, Fereshteh Zandkarimi, David Tong, et al.. (2020). MDM2 and MDMX promote ferroptosis by PPARα-mediated lipid remodeling. Genes & Development. 34(7-8). 526–543. 216 indexed citations

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Tong, David, et al.. (2019). If the weak were strong and the strong were weak. SciPost Physics. 7(5). 6 indexed citations

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Karch, Andreas, et al.. (2019). A web of 2d dualities: ${\bf Z}_2$ gauge fields and Arf invariants. SciPost Physics. 7(1). 82 indexed citations

9.

Blake, Mike, Aristomenis Donos, & David Tong. (2015). Holographic Charge Oscillations. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 11 indexed citations

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Blake, Mike, David Tong, & David Vegh. (2014). Holographic Lattices Give the Graviton an Effective Mass. Physical Review Letters. 112(7). 71602–71602. 128 indexed citations

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Tong, David & K. W. Wong. (2013). Fluctuation and Dissipation at a Quantum Critical Point. Physical Review Letters. 110(6). 61602–61602. 25 indexed citations

12.

Horowitz, Gary T., Jorge E. Santos, & David Tong. (2012). Optical conductivity with holographic lattices. Apollo (University of Cambridge). 193 indexed citations

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Kawai, S, Dina Y. Gewaily, David Tong, et al.. (2009). Chimeric constructs between two hepatitis B virus genomes confirm transcriptional impact of core promoter mutations and reveal multiple effects of core gene mutations. Virology. 387(2). 364–372. 26 indexed citations

14.

Sonner, Julian & David Tong. (2009). Scheme for Building a ’t Hooft–Polyakov Monopole. Physical Review Letters. 102(19). 191801–191801. 8 indexed citations

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Sonner, Julian, et al.. (2008). Geometric phase in supersymmetric quantum mechanics. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(2). 13 indexed citations

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Sonner, Julian, et al.. (2007). Geometric phase and gravitational precession of D-branes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 76(12). 7 indexed citations

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Tong, David. (2005). TASI Lectures on Solitons Instantons, Monopoles, Vortices and Kinks. arXiv (Cornell University). 74 indexed citations

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Eto, Minoru, Muneto Nitta, Keisuke Ohashi, & David Tong. (2005). Skyrmions from Instantons inside Domain Walls. Physical Review Letters. 95(25). 252003–252003. 57 indexed citations

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Gauntlett, Jerome P., David Tong, & Paul Townsend. (2000). Supersymmetric Intersecting Domain Walls. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

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Tong, David. (2000). Dynamics of Script N = 2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2000(7). 19–19. 33 indexed citations

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