Florian Kühnel

2.6k total citations · 3 hit papers
38 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Florian Kühnel is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Florian Kühnel has authored 38 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 35 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 26 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 4 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Florian Kühnel's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (31 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (17 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (11 papers). Florian Kühnel is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (31 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (17 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (11 papers). Florian Kühnel collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Sweden and United Kingdom. Florian Kühnel's co-authors include B. J. Carr, Marit Sandstad, J. García-Bellido, Sébastien Clesse, Luca Visinelli, Katherine Freese, M. R. S. Hawkins, Tommy Ohlsson, Gia Dvali and Andrei A. Fedorenko and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Florian Kühnel

36 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Primordial black holes as... 2016 2026 2019 2022 2016 2022 2024 200 400 600
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. Primordial black holes as dark matter
    2016 661 citations B. J. Carr, Florian Kühnel et al. Physical review. D profile →
  2. Primordial black holes as dark matter candidates
    2022 122 citations B. J. Carr, Florian Kühnel SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología profile →
  3. Observational evidence for primordial black holes: A positivist perspective
    2024 95 citations B. J. Carr, Sébastien Clesse et al. Physics Reports profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Florian Kühnel Germany 15 1.4k 990 126 86 71 38 1.5k
Franz E. Schunck Germany 14 1.3k 0.9× 947 1.0× 154 1.2× 112 1.3× 99 1.4× 27 1.4k
Martin Bucher United Kingdom 15 929 0.7× 690 0.7× 92 0.7× 82 1.0× 113 1.6× 25 1.0k
Chul‐Moon Yoo Japan 20 1.5k 1.0× 1.1k 1.2× 81 0.6× 83 1.0× 133 1.9× 86 1.6k
Ken-ichi Nakao Japan 21 1.3k 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 112 0.9× 59 0.7× 194 2.7× 79 1.4k
Carlo Ungarelli United Kingdom 11 894 0.6× 610 0.6× 58 0.5× 100 1.2× 79 1.1× 15 946
John T. Giblin United States 24 1.4k 1.0× 957 1.0× 70 0.6× 157 1.8× 82 1.2× 51 1.5k
Patrick B. Greene United States 9 1.1k 0.8× 842 0.9× 103 0.8× 69 0.8× 162 2.3× 9 1.2k
Sergei Dubovsky United States 10 1.7k 1.2× 1.8k 1.8× 266 2.1× 25 0.3× 87 1.2× 11 2.0k
Hassan Firouzjahi Iran 24 1.7k 1.2× 1.3k 1.3× 60 0.5× 201 2.3× 140 2.0× 91 1.8k
N. Riazi Iran 17 933 0.7× 797 0.8× 156 1.2× 94 1.1× 250 3.5× 81 1.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Florian Kühnel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Florian Kühnel

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Zhang, Sai‐Yang, Boyuan Liu, Volker Bromm, & Florian Kühnel. (2026). Primordial Black Holes as Seeds for Extremely Overmassive Active Galactic Nuclei Observed by JWST. The Astrophysical Journal Letters. 1000(1). L19–L19.
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Kühnel, Florian, et al.. (2025). Reconstructing primordial black hole power spectra from gravitational waves. Physical review. D. 111(4). 4 indexed citations
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Liu, Boyuan, et al.. (2025). How do Massive Primordial Black Holes Impact the Formation of the First Stars and Galaxies?. The Astrophysical Journal. 987(2). 185–185. 3 indexed citations
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Dvali, Gia, et al.. (2024). Vortex Effects in Merging Black Holes and Saturons. Physical Review Letters. 132(15). 151402–151402. 8 indexed citations
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Carr, B. J., Sébastien Clesse, J. García-Bellido, M. R. S. Hawkins, & Florian Kühnel. (2024). Observational evidence for primordial black holes: A positivist perspective. Physics Reports. 1054. 1–68. 95 indexed citations breakdown →
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Bertone, Gianfranco, et al.. (2024). Revisiting primordial black hole capture by neutron stars. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(7). 91–91. 5 indexed citations
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Bellinger, Earl P., Taeho Ryu, Warrick H. Ball, et al.. (2023). Solar Evolution Models with a Central Black Hole. The Astrophysical Journal. 959(2). 113–113. 14 indexed citations
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Carr, B. J. & Florian Kühnel. (2022). Primordial black holes as dark matter candidates. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 122 indexed citations breakdown →
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Dvali, Gia, et al.. (2022). Vortices in Black Holes. Physical Review Letters. 129(6). 61302–61302. 13 indexed citations
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Carr, B. J., Florian Kühnel, & Luca Visinelli. (2021). Black holes and WIMPs: all or nothing or something else. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. 506(3). 3648–3661. 55 indexed citations
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Hemphill, Paul B., R. E. Rothschild, Felix Fürst, et al.. (2019). The First NuSTAR Observation of 4U 1538–522: Updated Orbital Ephemeris and a Strengthened Case for an Evolving Cyclotron Line Energy. Maryland Shared Open Access Repository (USMAI Consortium). 16 indexed citations
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Kühnel, Florian & Tommy Ohlsson. (2019). Decaying dark matter in halos of primordial black holes. The European Physical Journal C. 79(8). 1 indexed citations
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Akrami, Y., Florian Kühnel, & Marit Sandstad. (2016). Primordial black holes do not (yet) constrain the primordial power spectrum. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Kühnel, Florian & Marit Sandstad. (2016). Ellipsoidal collapse and primordial black hole formation. Physical review. D. 94(6). 29 indexed citations
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Kühnel, Florian. (2014). Bose-Einstein condensates with derivative and long-range interactions as set-ups for analog black holes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90(8). 13 indexed citations
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Kühnel, Florian. (2013). Instability of certain bimetric and massive-gravity theories. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 88(6). 8 indexed citations
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Dietrich, Dennis D., et al.. (2012). Island of Stability for Consistent Deformations of Einstein’s Gravity. Physical Review Letters. 108(13). 131102–131102. 5 indexed citations
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Burnier, Yannis & Florian Kühnel. (2011). Axion arising from warped extra-dimensional gauge fields. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 83(11). 1 indexed citations
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Kühnel, Florian & Dominik J. Schwarz. (2010). Large-Scale Suppression from Stochastic Inflation. Physical Review Letters. 105(21). 211302–211302. 5 indexed citations
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Kühnel, Florian & Dominik J. Schwarz. (2008). Stochastic inflation and dimensional reduction. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 78(10). 5 indexed citations

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