George Sterman

17.2k total citations · 3 hit papers
145 papers, 10.2k citations indexed

About

George Sterman is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, George Sterman has authored 145 papers receiving a total of 10.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 135 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 9 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 5 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in George Sterman's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (123 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (114 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (105 papers). George Sterman is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (123 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (114 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (105 papers). George Sterman collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Germany. George Sterman's co-authors include Jian-Wei Qiu, John C. Collins, Davison E. Soper, Steven Weinberg, Nikolaos Kidonakis, Werner Vogelsang, James Botts, Eric Laenen, Hsiang-nan Li and Stephen B. Libby and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

George Sterman

144 papers receiving 10.0k citations

Hit Papers

Transverse momentum distribution in Drell-Yan pair and W ... 1977 2026 1993 2009 1985 1987 1977 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. Transverse momentum distribution in Drell-Yan pair and W and Z boson production
    1985 839 citations George Sterman et al. Nuclear Physics B profile →
  2. Summation of large corrections to short-distance hadronic cross sections
    1987 542 citations George Sterman Nuclear Physics B profile →
  3. Jets from Quantum Chromodynamics
    1977 485 citations George Sterman et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
George Sterman United States 55 9.9k 585 217 178 130 145 10.2k
Davison E. Soper United States 46 8.9k 0.9× 594 1.0× 420 1.9× 240 1.3× 226 1.7× 113 9.4k
Guido Altarelli Italy 46 11.1k 1.1× 991 1.7× 232 1.1× 171 1.0× 167 1.3× 161 11.4k
R. Keith Ellis United States 49 9.6k 1.0× 624 1.1× 138 0.6× 79 0.4× 187 1.4× 109 9.8k
Bernd A. Kniehl Germany 53 9.1k 0.9× 1.1k 1.9× 222 1.0× 199 1.1× 139 1.1× 298 9.4k
B.R. Webber United Kingdom 45 9.9k 1.0× 1.2k 2.0× 198 0.9× 232 1.3× 292 2.2× 157 10.2k
Stefano Catani Italy 54 10.7k 1.1× 584 1.0× 110 0.5× 97 0.5× 245 1.9× 107 10.9k
J.H. Kühn Germany 48 7.3k 0.7× 525 0.9× 187 0.9× 59 0.3× 168 1.3× 149 7.5k
Kirill Melnikov United States 51 8.1k 0.8× 827 1.4× 532 2.5× 155 0.9× 266 2.0× 187 8.6k
Yuri L. Dokshitzer Russia 39 7.5k 0.8× 553 0.9× 105 0.5× 95 0.5× 145 1.1× 93 7.7k
Alexander V. Smirnov Russia 31 2.9k 0.3× 466 0.8× 252 1.2× 236 1.3× 163 1.3× 112 3.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by George Sterman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of George Sterman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Anastasiou, Charalampos, et al.. (2024). Locally finite two-loop amplitudes for electroweak production through gluon fusion. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(11). 5 indexed citations
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Sterman, George, et al.. (2024). Local infrared safety in time-ordered perturbation theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(2). 6 indexed citations
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Anastasiou, Charalampos & George Sterman. (2023). Locally finite two-loop QCD amplitudes from IR universality for electroweak production. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(5). 11 indexed citations
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Sterman, George & Werner Vogelsang. (2023). Power corrections to electroweak boson production from threshold resummation. Physical review. D. 107(1). 6 indexed citations
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Lee, Kyle, Jian-Wei Qiu, George Sterman, & K. Watanabe. (2022). QCD factorization for hadronic quarkonium production at high $p_T$. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 5 indexed citations
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Sterman, George, et al.. (2016). A coordinate description of partonic processes. 27–27. 2 indexed citations
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Sterman, George. (2016). Yang–Mills theories at high energy accelerators. International Journal of Modern Physics A. 31(9). 1630005–1630005. 2 indexed citations
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Ma, Yan-Qing, Jian-Wei Qiu, George Sterman, & Hong Zhang. (2014). Factorized Power Expansion for High-pTHeavy Quarkonium Production. Physical Review Letters. 113(14). 142002–142002. 26 indexed citations
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Kang, Zhong-Bo, Jian-Wei Qiu, & George Sterman. (2012). Heavy Quarkonium Production and Polarization. Physical Review Letters. 108(10). 102002–102002. 69 indexed citations
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Nayak, Gouranga C., Jian-Wei Qiu, & George Sterman. (2007). Color Transfer in Associated Heavy-Quarkonium Production. Physical Review Letters. 99(21). 212001–212001. 26 indexed citations
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Lee, Christopher & George Sterman. (2006). Universality of nonperturbative effects in event shapes. CERN Bulletin. 8 indexed citations
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Sterman, George. (2004). QCD and jets. 67–145. 1 indexed citations
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Goldhaber, Alfred S., et al.. (2003). Symmetry & modern physics : Yang Retirement Symposium : State University of New York, Stony Brook, 21-22 May 1999. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Berger, Carola F. & George Sterman. (2003). Scaling rule for nonperturbative radiation in a class of event shapes. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2003(9). 58–58. 23 indexed citations
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Sterman, George & María Elena Tejeda-Yeomans. (2002). Multi-loop Amplitudes and Ressumation. arXiv (Cornell University). 5 indexed citations
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Qiu, Jian-Wei & George Sterman. (2001). QCD and Rescattering in Nuclear Targets. 24 indexed citations
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Contopanagos, Harry & George Sterman. (1993). Normalization of the Drell-Yan cross section in QCD. Nuclear Physics B. 400(1-3). 211–224. 15 indexed citations
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Magnea, Lorenzo & George Sterman. (1990). Analytic continuation of the Sudakov form factor in QCD. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 42(12). 4222–4227. 186 indexed citations
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Sen, Ashoke & George Sterman. (1983). Cancellation of Sudakov effects in the Drell-Yan process. Nuclear Physics B. 229(1). 231–250. 5 indexed citations
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Libby, Stephen B. & George Sterman. (1978). High-energy behavior of jet and lepton-pair production. Physics Letters B. 78(5). 618–622. 42 indexed citations

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