Francesco Benini

4.8k total citations · 3 hit papers
48 papers, 2.6k citations indexed

About

Francesco Benini is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Francesco Benini has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 30 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 22 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Francesco Benini's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (47 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (30 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (16 papers). Francesco Benini is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (47 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (30 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (16 papers). Francesco Benini collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United States and Israel. Francesco Benini's co-authors include Stefano Cremonesi, Nikolay Bobev, Yuji Tachikawa, Alberto Zaffaroni, Kiril Hristov, Kentaro Hori, Richard Eager, Cyril Closset, Dan Xie and Carlos Núñez and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Francesco Benini

46 papers receiving 2.5k citations

Hit Papers

Localization techniques in quantum field theories 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 2022 2025 50 100 150
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. Localization techniques in quantum field theories
    2017 175 citations Francesco Benini, Yuji Tachikawa et al. profile →
  2. On 2-group global symmetries and their anomalies
    2022 140 citations Francesco Benini OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) profile →
  3. Anomalies and gauging of U(1) symmetries
    2025 21 citations Francesco Benini et al. profile →

Peers

Francesco Benini
Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki United Kingdom
Nobuyuki Ishibashi Japan
Philip C. Argyres United States
A. Lerda Italy
Jaume Gomis Canada
Simone Giombi United States
Sunil Mukhi India
Gleb Arutyunov Germany
Nadav Drukker United Kingdom
Clay Córdova United States
Sakura Schäfer‐Nameki United Kingdom
Francesco Benini
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Countries citing papers authored by Francesco Benini

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Benini, Francesco, et al.. (2025). The holography of non-invertible self-duality symmetries. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3). 14 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco, et al.. (2025). N=2 SYK models with dynamical bosons and fermions. Physical review. D. 112(6). 1 indexed citations
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Argurio, Riccardo, et al.. (2024). On the symmetry TFT of Yang-Mills-Chern-Simons theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(7). 22 indexed citations
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Damia, Jeremías Aguilera, Riccardo Argurio, Francesco Benini, et al.. (2024). Non-invertible symmetries along 4d RG flows. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(2). 23 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco, et al.. (2024). Holographic Duals of Symmetry Broken Phases. Fortschritte der Physik. 72(12). 10 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco, et al.. (2023). A quantum mechanics for magnetic horizons. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(5). 11 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco. (2023). Rotating black hole entropy from M5-branes. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 22 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco. (2023). Factorization and global symmetries in holography. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 58 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco. (2022). On 2-group global symmetries and their anomalies. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 140 indexed citations breakdown →
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Benini, Francesco. (2022). Comments on global symmetries, anomalies, and duality in (2 + 1)d. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 13 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco, et al.. (2021). Superconformal index of low-rank gauge theories via the Bethe Ansatz. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2021(5). 19 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco, Cristoforo Iossa, & Marco Serone. (2020). Conformality Loss, Walking, and 4D Complex Conformal Field Theories at Weak Coupling. Physical Review Letters. 124(5). 51602–51602. 24 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco. (2018). Three-dimensional dualities with bosons and fermions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2018(2). 34 indexed citations
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Aharony, Ofer, Francesco Benini, Po-Shen Hsin, & Nathan Seiberg. (2017). Chern-Simons-matter dualities with SO and USp gauge groups. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2017(2). 76 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco & Alberto Zaffaroni. (2016). Supersymmetric partition functions on Riemann surfaces. BOA (University of Milano-Bicocca). 96. 13–46. 44 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco & Nikolay Bobev. (2013). Exact Two-Dimensional SuperconformalRSymmetry andcExtremization. Physical Review Letters. 110(6). 61601–61601. 94 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco. (2012). Holography and condensed matter. Fortschritte der Physik. 60(7-8). 810–821. 8 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco, Yuji Tachikawa, & Dan Xie. (2010). Mirrors of 3d Sicilian theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2010(9). 105 indexed citations
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Alday, Luis F., Yuji Tachikawa, & Francesco Benini. (2010). Central Charges of Liouville and Toda Theories fromM5-Branes. Physical Review Letters. 105(14). 141601–141601. 45 indexed citations
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Benini, Francesco. (2008). A chiral cascade via backreacting D7-branes with flux. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2008(10). 51–51. 35 indexed citations

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