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 →

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of David Tong

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Monopoles, scattering, and generalized symmetries 2025 ·Journal of High Energy Physics ·Marieke van Beest, (unknown), (unknown), Zohar Komargodski, David Tong	9
2	A gauge theory for shallow water 2023 ·SciPost Physics ·David Tong	11
3	On discrete anomalies in chiral gauge theories 2022 ·Journal of High Energy Physics ·(unknown), Avner Karasik, (unknown), David Tong	12
4	p53 Frameshift Mutations Couple Loss-of-Function with Unique Neomorphic Activities 2021 ·Molecular Cancer Research ·David Tong, Wen Zhou, Chen Katz, Kausik Regunath, Divya Venkatesh, (unknown), James J. Manfredi, Oleg Laptenko, Carol Prives	6
5	MDM2, MDMX, and p73 regulate cell-cycle progression in the absence of wild-type p53 2021 ·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences ·Alyssa M. Klein, (unknown), David Tong, (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), (unknown), Chen Katz, Carol Prives	29
6	MDM2 and MDMX promote ferroptosis by PPARα-mediated lipid remodeling 2020 ·Genes & Development ·Divya Venkatesh, (unknown), Fereshteh Zandkarimi, David Tong, Michael E. Stokes, Denise Dunn, Everett S. Kengmana, Allegra T. Aron, Alyssa M. Klein, J. Csuka, Sung‐Hwan Moon, Marcus Conrad, Christopher J. Chang, Donald C. Lo, Angelo D’Alessandro, Carol Prives, Brent R. Stockwell	216
7	If the weak were strong and the strong were weak 2019 ·SciPost Physics ·(unknown), David Tong	6
8	A web of 2d dualities: ${\bf Z}_2$ gauge fields and Arf invariants 2019 ·SciPost Physics ·Andreas Karch, David Tong, (unknown)	82
9	Holographic Charge Oscillations 2015 ·Durham Research Online (Durham University) ·Mike Blake, Aristomenis Donos, David Tong	11
10	Holographic Lattices Give the Graviton an Effective Mass 2014 ·Physical Review Letters ·Mike Blake, David Tong, David Vegh	128
11	Fluctuation and Dissipation at a Quantum Critical Point 2013 ·Physical Review Letters ·David Tong, K. W. Wong	25
12	Optical conductivity with holographic lattices 2012 ·Apollo (University of Cambridge) ·Gary T. Horowitz, Jorge E. Santos, David Tong	193
13	Chimeric constructs between two hepatitis B virus genomes confirm transcriptional impact of core promoter mutations and reveal multiple effects of core gene mutations 2009 ·Virology ·(unknown), S Kawai, (unknown), Dina Y. Gewaily, (unknown), David Tong, Jisu Li, Jack R. Wands, Shuping Tong	26
14	Scheme for Building a ’t Hooft–Polyakov Monopole 2009 ·Physical Review Letters ·Julian Sonner, David Tong	8
15	Geometric phase in supersymmetric quantum mechanics 2008 ·Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology ·(unknown), Julian Sonner, David Tong	13
16	Geometric phase and gravitational precession of D-branes 2007 ·Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology ·(unknown), Julian Sonner, David Tong	7
17	TASI Lectures on Solitons Instantons, Monopoles, Vortices and Kinks 2005 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·David Tong	74
18	Skyrmions from Instantons inside Domain Walls 2005 ·Physical Review Letters ·Minoru Eto, Muneto Nitta, Keisuke Ohashi, David Tong	57
19	Supersymmetric Intersecting Domain Walls 2000 ·arXiv (Cornell University) ·Jerome P. Gauntlett, David Tong, Paul Townsend	1
20	Dynamics of Script N = 2 supersymmetric Chern-Simons theories 2000 ·Journal of High Energy Physics ·David Tong	33

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