Franz E. Schunck

2.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Franz E. Schunck is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Franz E. Schunck has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 16 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 3 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Franz E. Schunck's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (21 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (13 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (12 papers). Franz E. Schunck is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (21 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (13 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (12 papers). Franz E. Schunck collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Mexico and United Kingdom. Franz E. Schunck's co-authors include Eckehard W. Mielke, Andrew R. Liddle, Anupam Mazumdar, D. F. Torres, Mariusz P. Da̧browski, Yuri N. Obukhov, Octavio Obregón and L. Arturo Ureña–López and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Physics Letters B and Physics Letters A.

In The Last Decade

Franz E. Schunck

27 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

General relativistic boson stars 2003 2026 2010 2018 2003 100 200 300 400 500
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. General relativistic boson stars
    2003 509 citations Franz E. Schunck, Eckehard W. Mielke profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Franz E. Schunck Germany 14 1.3k 947 154 112 99 27 1.4k
Ken-ichi Nakao Japan 21 1.3k 1.0× 1.1k 1.1× 112 0.7× 59 0.5× 194 2.0× 79 1.4k
А. А. Старобинский Russia 13 937 0.7× 756 0.8× 93 0.6× 96 0.9× 134 1.4× 34 999
John T. Giblin United States 24 1.4k 1.0× 957 1.0× 70 0.5× 157 1.4× 82 0.8× 51 1.5k
Sergey V. Sushkov Russia 21 1.7k 1.2× 1.4k 1.5× 147 1.0× 153 1.4× 273 2.8× 46 1.7k
Fernando Quevedo Canada 19 1.4k 1.0× 1.4k 1.5× 99 0.6× 46 0.4× 131 1.3× 38 1.5k
Neil Barnaby Canada 21 1.3k 1.0× 932 1.0× 36 0.2× 164 1.5× 100 1.0× 23 1.4k
Remo Ruffini Italy 8 938 0.7× 647 0.7× 249 1.6× 54 0.5× 163 1.6× 25 1.1k
Gregory W. Horndeski Canada 8 1.9k 1.5× 1.6k 1.6× 63 0.4× 186 1.7× 207 2.1× 17 2.0k
Carlo Ungarelli United Kingdom 11 894 0.7× 610 0.6× 58 0.4× 100 0.9× 79 0.8× 15 946
Chul‐Moon Yoo Japan 20 1.5k 1.1× 1.1k 1.2× 81 0.5× 83 0.7× 133 1.3× 86 1.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Franz E. Schunck

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Franz E. Schunck's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Franz E. Schunck with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Franz E. Schunck more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Franz E. Schunck

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Franz E. Schunck. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Franz E. Schunck. The network helps show where Franz E. Schunck may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Franz E. Schunck

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Franz E. Schunck. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Franz E. Schunck based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Franz E. Schunck. Franz E. Schunck is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
1.
Obregón, Octavio, L. Arturo Ureña–López, & Franz E. Schunck. (2005). Oscillatons formed by nonlinear gravity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 72(2). 8 indexed citations
2.
Schunck, Franz E., et al.. (2005). Dark matter problem and effective curvature Lagrangians. General Relativity and Gravitation. 37(8). 1427–1433. 11 indexed citations
3.
Schunck, Franz E.. (2002). GRAVITATIONAL REDSHIFT AND BOSON STARS. 1683–1684. 1 indexed citations
4.
Mielke, Eckehard W. & Franz E. Schunck. (2002). Nontopological scalar soliton as dark matter halo. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 66(2). 50 indexed citations
5.
Mielke, Eckehard W., et al.. (2002). Scalar Soliton in Newtonian Gravity Modelling Dark Matter Halos. General Relativity and Gravitation. 34(11). 1919–1930. 5 indexed citations
6.
Mielke, Eckehard W. & Franz E. Schunck. (2002). BOSON AND AXION STARS. 581–591. 6 indexed citations
7.
Mielke, Eckehard W. & Franz E. Schunck. (2001). Are Axidilaton Stars Massive Compact Halo Objects?. General Relativity and Gravitation. 33(5). 805–813. 20 indexed citations
8.
Schunck, Franz E. & D. F. Torres. (2000). BOSON STARS WITH GENERIC SELF-INTERACTIONS. International Journal of Modern Physics D. 9(5). 601–618. 38 indexed citations
9.
Da̧browski, Mariusz P. & Franz E. Schunck. (2000). Boson Stars as Gravitational Lenses. The Astrophysical Journal. 535(1). 316–324. 51 indexed citations
10.
Schunck, Franz E. & Eckehard W. Mielke. (2000). Eigenvalues of the Stewart–Lyth equation for inflation with a blue spectrum. Physics Letters B. 485(1-3). 231–238. 2 indexed citations
11.
Schunck, Franz E.. (1999). Boson Halo: Scalar Field Model for Dark Halos of Galaxies. 1447. 1 indexed citations
12.
Schunck, Franz E. & Eckehard W. Mielke. (1999). Boson Stars: Rotation, Formation, and Evolution. General Relativity and Gravitation. 31(5). 787–798. 22 indexed citations
13.
Torres, D. F., Andrew R. Liddle, & Franz E. Schunck. (1998). Gravitational memory of boson stars. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 57(8). 4821–4825. 32 indexed citations
14.
Liddle, Andrew R., Anupam Mazumdar, & Franz E. Schunck. (1998). Assisted inflation. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 58(6). 281 indexed citations
15.
Schunck, Franz E. & Andrew R. Liddle. (1997). The gravitational redshift of boson stars. Physics Letters B. 404(1-2). 25–32. 39 indexed citations
16.
Obukhov, Yuri N. & Franz E. Schunck. (1997). Regular solutions in the Abelian gauge model. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 55(4). 2307–2319. 5 indexed citations
17.
Mielke, Eckehard W., et al.. (1995). Classification of inflationary Einstein-scalar-field models via catastrophe theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 51(2). 924–927. 10 indexed citations
18.
Mielke, Eckehard W. & Franz E. Schunck. (1995). Reconstructing the inflaton potential for an almost flat COBE spectrum. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 52(2). 672–678. 16 indexed citations
19.
Schunck, Franz E. & Eckehard W. Mielke. (1994). Method of generating exact inflationary solutions. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 50(8). 4794–4806. 31 indexed citations
20.
Mielke, Eckehard W., et al.. (1991). Gravitational stability of boson stars. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 43(12). 3895–3901. 103 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Ken-ichi Nakao Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by А. А. Старобинский Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by John T. Giblin Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Sergey V. Sushkov Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Fernando Quevedo Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Neil Barnaby Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Remo Ruffini Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Gregory W. Horndeski Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Carlo Ungarelli Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Chul‐Moon Yoo
Rankless by CCL
2026