David Wands

41.7k total citations · 11 hit papers
144 papers, 12.8k citations indexed

About

David Wands is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, David Wands has authored 144 papers receiving a total of 12.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 143 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 110 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 19 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in David Wands's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (142 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (102 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (78 papers). David Wands is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (142 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (102 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (78 papers). David Wands collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Japan and France. David Wands's co-authors include David H. Lyth, Andrew R. Liddle, Edmund J. Copeland, Karim A. Malik, Bruce A. Bassett, J. García-Bellido, Roy Maartens, Shinji Tsujikawa, Misao Sasaki and Carlo Ungarelli and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Physics Reports.

In The Last Decade

David Wands

143 papers receiving 12.5k citations

Hit Papers

Exponential potentials and cosmological scaling solutions 1994 2026 2004 2015 1998 2002 1994 2006 2000 250 500 750
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. Exponential potentials and cosmological scaling solutions
    1998 938 citations Edmund J. Copeland, David Wands et al. profile →
  2. Generating the curvature perturbation without an inflaton
    2002 851 citations David Wands et al. profile →
  3. False vacuum inflation with Einstein gravity
    1994 705 citations Edmund J. Copeland, David Wands et al. profile →
  4. Inflation dynamics and reheating
    2006 653 citations David Wands et al. profile →
  5. New approach to the evolution of cosmological perturbations on large scales
    2000 527 citations David Wands, Karim A. Malik et al. profile →
  6. Density perturbations and black hole formation in hybrid inflation
    1996 518 citations J. García-Bellido, David Wands et al. profile →
  7. Primordial density perturbation in the curvaton scenario
    2003 501 citations David Wands et al. profile →
  8. Adiabatic and entropy perturbations from inflation
    2000 457 citations Chris Gordon, David Wands et al. profile →
  9. Cosmological gravitational wave background from primordial density perturbations
    2007 456 citations David Wands et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
  10. Cosmological perturbations
    2009 382 citations Karim A. Malik, David Wands profile →
  11. Primordial black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures
    2025 32 citations Valerio De Luca, José María Ezquiaga et al. PubMed profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
David Wands United Kingdom 54 12.6k 10.0k 1.2k 1.1k 297 144 12.8k
David H. Lyth United Kingdom 46 10.6k 0.8× 9.0k 0.9× 779 0.7× 1.0k 1.0× 321 1.1× 137 11.3k
Shinji Tsujikawa Japan 58 15.8k 1.3× 12.9k 1.3× 1.6k 1.4× 1.4k 1.3× 122 0.4× 198 16.0k
Antonio Riotto Switzerland 69 14.0k 1.1× 12.9k 1.3× 929 0.8× 972 0.9× 172 0.6× 292 16.6k
Misao Sasaki Japan 56 11.4k 0.9× 8.1k 0.8× 1.1k 1.0× 997 0.9× 289 1.0× 272 11.8k
Edmund J. Copeland United Kingdom 50 13.0k 1.0× 10.9k 1.1× 1.5k 1.3× 859 0.8× 121 0.4× 183 13.7k
Viatcheslav Mukhanov Germany 36 12.1k 1.0× 9.9k 1.0× 2.0k 1.7× 785 0.7× 276 0.9× 84 12.5k
Bharat Ratra United States 45 12.1k 1.0× 8.3k 0.8× 962 0.8× 929 0.9× 97 0.3× 127 12.4k
J. García-Bellido Spain 46 7.3k 0.6× 5.0k 0.5× 448 0.4× 770 0.7× 120 0.4× 161 7.6k
Alexei A. Starobinsky Russia 50 21.0k 1.7× 16.7k 1.7× 2.2k 1.9× 2.1k 2.0× 460 1.5× 152 21.5k
Lev Kofman Canada 41 7.7k 0.6× 5.7k 0.6× 973 0.8× 553 0.5× 121 0.4× 82 8.2k

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Fields of papers citing papers by David Wands

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bacon, David, et al.. (2025). Fast Radio Bursts and Artificial Neural Networks: a cosmological-model-independent estimation of the Hubble constant. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(1). 18–18. 6 indexed citations
2.
Luca, Valerio De, José María Ezquiaga, Gabriele Franciolini, et al.. (2025). Primordial black holes and their gravitational-wave signatures. PubMed. 28(1). 1–1. 32 indexed citations breakdown →
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Vennin, Vincent, et al.. (2025). On the Hamilton-Jacobi approach to inflation beyond slow roll. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(8). 32–32. 2 indexed citations
4.
Mangano, G., et al.. (2025). Steepest growth in the primordial power spectrum from excited states at a sudden transition. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(4). 7–7. 8 indexed citations
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Assadullahi, Hooshyar, et al.. (2024). The separate-universe approach and sudden transitions during inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(5). 53–53. 29 indexed citations
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Assadullahi, Hooshyar, et al.. (2023). Observational constraints on interacting vacuum energy with linear interactions. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(1). 42–42. 5 indexed citations
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Gow, Andrew D., et al.. (2023). Non-perturbative non-Gaussianity and primordial black holes. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 142(4). 49001–49001. 69 indexed citations
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Iacconi, Laura, Matteo Fasiello, J. Väliviita, & David Wands. (2023). Novel CMB constraints on the α parameter in alpha-attractor models. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(10). 15–15. 10 indexed citations
9.
Assadullahi, Hooshyar, et al.. (2020). Qualitative dynamics of interacting vacuum cosmologies. Physical review. D. 102(12). 7 indexed citations
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Borges, H. A. & David Wands. (2020). Growth of structure in interacting vacuum cosmologies. Physical review. D. 101(10). 13 indexed citations
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Hardwick, Robert J., Vincent Vennin, & David Wands. (2017). A quantum window onto early inflation. International Journal of Modern Physics D. 26(12). 1743025–1743025. 5 indexed citations
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Vennin, Vincent, Hooshyar Assadullahi, Hassan Firouzjahi, Mahdiyar Noorbala, & David Wands. (2017). Critical Number of Fields in Stochastic Inflation. Physical Review Letters. 118(3). 31301–31301. 31 indexed citations
13.
Cailleteau, Thomas, et al.. (2008). Singularities in Loop Quantum Cosmology. Physical Review Letters. 101(25). 251302–251302. 30 indexed citations
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Wands, David, et al.. (2008). Generalized perturbation equations in bouncing cosmologies. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(12). 15 indexed citations
15.
Langlois, David, Filippo Vernizzi, & David Wands. (2008). Non-linear isocurvature perturbations and non-Gaussianities. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2008(12). 4–4. 88 indexed citations
16.
Malik, Karim A. & David Wands. (2004). Evolution of second-order cosmological perturbations. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 21(11). L65–L71. 108 indexed citations
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Langlois, David, Kei-ichi Maeda, & David Wands. (2002). Conservation Laws for Collisions of Branes and Shells in General Relativity. Physical Review Letters. 88(18). 181301–181301. 34 indexed citations
18.
Amendola, Luca, Chris Gordon, David Wands, & Misao Sasaki. (2002). Correlated Perturbations from Inflation and the Cosmic Microwave Background. Physical Review Letters. 88(21). 211302–211302. 77 indexed citations
19.
Copeland, Edmund J., James E. Lidsey, & David Wands. (1997). Four-dimensional Dual Effective Action for the Type IIB Superstring. arXiv (Cornell University).
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Copeland, Edmund J., James E. Lidsey, & David Wands. (1997). S-duality-invariant perturbations in string cosmology. Nuclear Physics B. 506(1-2). 407–420. 35 indexed citations

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