François David

6.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

François David is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter Physics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, François David has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 28 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 23 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 21 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in François David's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (25 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (19 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (13 papers). François David is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (25 papers), Theoretical and Computational Physics (19 papers) and Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics (13 papers). François David collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Canada. François David's co-authors include Emmanuel Guitter, Stanislas Leibler, C. I. Westbrook, Robin Kaiser, A. Billoire, Luca Peliti, M. C. Bergère, Th. Jolicœur, Stéphane Ouvry and Alain Comtet and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical review. B, Condensed matter and Physics Reports.

In The Last Decade

François David

76 papers receiving 3.7k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

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Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
François David France	30	2.0k	1.3k	1.1k	798	697	78	3.8k
A. Polyakov Russia	12	3.1k 1.6×	2.0k 1.5×	2.0k 1.8×	1.6k 1.9×	735 1.1×	21	5.9k
Philippe Di Francesco France	27	1.6k 0.8×	1.5k 1.1×	1.2k 1.1×	1.2k 1.6×	1.0k 1.4×	104	4.5k
Robert Schrader Germany	21	1.1k 0.6×	796 0.6×	440 0.4×	717 0.9×	907 1.3×	90	2.8k
Bergfinnur Durhuus Denmark	26	1.2k 0.6×	953 0.7×	646 0.6×	192 0.2×	666 1.0×	66	2.2k
Alain Comtet France	30	447 0.2×	1.1k 0.8×	679 0.6×	1.0k 1.3×	804 1.2×	81	2.7k
Malte Henkel France	30	434 0.2×	1.3k 1.0×	2.1k 1.9×	1.2k 1.5×	822 1.2×	136	3.4k
Jean-Michel Drouffe France	20	1.1k 0.6×	483 0.4×	1.3k 1.2×	699 0.9×	358 0.5×	56	2.6k
Jean-Bernard Zuber France	32	2.8k 1.4×	1.9k 1.4×	1.4k 1.3×	1.1k 1.4×	1.1k 1.6×	80	5.4k
E. Bogomolny France	29	880 0.4×	2.5k 1.9×	650 0.6×	2.1k 2.6×	691 1.0×	85	4.2k
V. Rittenberg Germany	31	834 0.4×	1.3k 1.0×	989 0.9×	1.1k 1.4×	675 1.0×	132	3.2k

Countries citing papers authored by François David

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Fields of papers citing papers by François David

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of François David

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All Works

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David, François & Thórdur Jónsson. (2022). Quantum walk on a comb with infinite teeth. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 55(9). 95304–95304.

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David, François & Bertrand Eynard. (2014). Planar maps, circle patterns and 2D gravity. HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe). 1(2). 139–183. 6 indexed citations

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David, François. (2011). Importance of Reversibility in the Quantum Formalism. Physical Review Letters. 107(18). 180401–180401. 1 indexed citations

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David, François, Philippe Di Francesco, Emmanuel Guitter, & Thórdur Jónsson. (2007). Mass distribution exponents for growing trees. Journal of Statistical Mechanics Theory and Experiment. 2007(2). P02011–P02011. 2 indexed citations

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théorique, École d'été de physique, Robin Kaiser, C. I. Westbrook, & François David. (2001). Coherent atomic matter waves = Ondes de matière cohérentes : Les Houches, session LXXII, 27 July-27 August 1999. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations

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David, François, et al.. (1998). Renormalization Group for Matrix Models with Branching Interactions. 1 indexed citations

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David, François, Bertrand Duplantier, & Emmanuel Guitter. (1994). Renormalization and hyperscaling for self-avoiding manifold models. Physical Review Letters. 72(3). 311–315. 16 indexed citations

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David, François, Bertrand Duplantier, & Emmanuel Guitter. (1993). Renormalization theory for interacting crumpled manifolds. Nuclear Physics B. 394(3). 555–664. 27 indexed citations

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David, François, Bertrand Duplantier, & Emmanuel Guitter. (1993). Renormalization of crumpled manifolds. Physical Review Letters. 70(15). 2205–2208. 12 indexed citations

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David, François. (1992). What is the intrinsic geometry of two-dimensional quantum gravity?. Nuclear Physics B. 368(3). 671–700. 21 indexed citations

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David, François. (1991). NON-PERTURBATIVE EFFECTS IN TWO DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM GRAVITY. 125–141. 1 indexed citations

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David, François. (1991). INTRODUCTION TO THE STATISTICAL MECHANICS OF RANDOM SURFACES AND MEMBRANES. 81–124. 7 indexed citations

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David, François. (1990). Nonperturbative effects in two-dimensional quantum gravity. 125–141. 2 indexed citations

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David, François. (1990). Matrix models and 2-D gravity. 55–90. 3 indexed citations

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David, François. (1990). RENORMALIZATION GROUP TREATMENT OF ENTROPIC INTERACTIONS IN LAMELLAR PHASES. Le Journal de Physique Colloques. 51(C7). C7–115. 5 indexed citations

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David, François & Emmanuel Guitter. (1987). Instabilities in Membrane Models. Europhysics Letters (EPL). 3(11). 1169–1174. 45 indexed citations

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Billoire, A. & François David. (1986). Scaling properties of randomly triangulated planar random surfaces: A numerical study. Nuclear Physics B. 275(4). 617–640. 73 indexed citations

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David, François. (1986). The operator product expansion and renormalons: A comment. Nuclear Physics B. 263(3-4). 637–648. 54 indexed citations

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David, François. (1984). On the ambiguity of composite operators, IR renormalons and the status of the operator product expansion. Nuclear Physics B. 234(1). 237–251. 111 indexed citations

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David, François. (1981). Infrared divergences of membrane models. Physics Letters B. 102(2-3). 193–195. 11 indexed citations

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