Giuseppe Policastro

4.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
36 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Giuseppe Policastro 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, Giuseppe Policastro has authored 36 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 18 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Giuseppe Policastro's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (32 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (18 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (9 papers). Giuseppe Policastro is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (32 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (18 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (9 papers). Giuseppe Policastro collaborates with scholars based in France, United States and Italy. Giuseppe Policastro's co-authors include Andrei O. Starinets, D. T. Son, D. Son, Shira Chapman, Pietro Antonio Grassi, P. van Nieuwenhuizen, Dimitrios Tsimpis, Massimo Porrati, Manuela Kulaxizi and Andrei Parnachev and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Giuseppe Policastro

35 papers receiving 2.3k citations

Hit Papers

Shear Viscosity of Strong... 2001 2026 2009 2017 2001 2002 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. Shear Viscosity of Strongly CoupledN=4Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Plasma
    2001 997 citations Giuseppe Policastro, D. T. Son et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. From AdS/CFT correspondence to hydrodynamics
    2002 548 citations Giuseppe Policastro, D. Son et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Giuseppe Policastro France 17 2.2k 1.6k 570 440 80 36 2.4k
Sergei Dubovsky United States 21 2.0k 0.9× 1.8k 1.1× 499 0.9× 223 0.5× 58 0.7× 37 2.3k
Jelle Hartong Denmark 26 1.9k 0.8× 1.6k 1.0× 906 1.6× 215 0.5× 59 0.7× 56 2.1k
G. Kunstatter Canada 30 2.3k 1.0× 1.9k 1.2× 1.1k 1.9× 501 1.1× 59 0.7× 149 2.6k
S. Randjbar‐Daemi Italy 25 1.8k 0.8× 1.3k 0.9× 631 1.1× 315 0.7× 86 1.1× 87 2.1k
Márk Mezei United States 21 1.1k 0.5× 845 0.5× 549 1.0× 518 1.2× 159 2.0× 34 1.4k
D. T. Son United States 8 1.6k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 380 0.7× 361 0.8× 123 1.5× 12 1.9k
Daniel Kabat United States 23 1.9k 0.9× 1.6k 1.0× 1000 1.8× 355 0.8× 39 0.5× 64 2.1k
Johanna Erdmenger Germany 28 3.1k 1.4× 2.2k 1.4× 907 1.6× 638 1.4× 216 2.7× 112 3.5k
Kristan Jensen United States 25 2.0k 0.9× 1.4k 0.9× 852 1.5× 749 1.7× 256 3.2× 53 2.5k
Ana Achúcarro Spain 23 2.2k 1.0× 2.1k 1.4× 841 1.5× 183 0.4× 140 1.8× 55 2.6k

Countries citing papers authored by Giuseppe Policastro

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Fields of papers citing papers by Giuseppe Policastro

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Giuseppe Policastro

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Giuseppe Policastro. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Giuseppe Policastro 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 Giuseppe Policastro. Giuseppe Policastro 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
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Mukhopadhyay, Ayan, et al.. (2024). Nambu-Goto equation from three-dimensional gravity. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(9). 2 indexed citations
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Chapman, Shira, et al.. (2024). The Complexity of Being Entangled. Quantum. 8. 1472–1472. 2 indexed citations
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Douçot, Benoît, et al.. (2024). An effective framework for strange metallic transport. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(12).
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Bachas, Constantin P., et al.. (2023). Energy Transport for Thick Holographic Branes. Physical Review Letters. 131(2). 21601–21601. 16 indexed citations
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Medenjak, Marko, Giuseppe Policastro, & Takato Yoshimura. (2021). TT¯-Deformed Conformal Field Theories out of Equilibrium. Physical Review Letters. 126(12). 121601–121601. 20 indexed citations
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Douçot, Benoît, et al.. (2021). Linear-in-T resistivity from semiholographic non-Fermi liquid models. Physical review. D. 104(8). 6 indexed citations
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Bachas, Constantin P., et al.. (2020). Energy Reflection and Transmission at 2D Holographic Interfaces. Physical Review Letters. 125(23). 231602–231602. 30 indexed citations
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Douçot, Benoît, Christian Ecker, Ayan Mukhopadhyay, & Giuseppe Policastro. (2017). Density response and collective modes of semiholographic non-Fermi liquids. Physical review. D. 96(10). 6 indexed citations
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Benakli, Karim, Yaron Oz, & Giuseppe Policastro. (2014). The super-Higgs mechanism in fluids. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2014(2). 8 indexed citations
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Mukhopadhyay, Ayan & Giuseppe Policastro. (2013). Phenomenological Characterization of Semiholographic Non-Fermi Liquids. Physical Review Letters. 111(22). 221602–221602. 12 indexed citations
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Policastro, Giuseppe, et al.. (2008). T-duality in Ramond–Ramond backgrounds. Physics Letters B. 661(2-3). 192–195. 18 indexed citations
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Hartnoll, Sean A. & Giuseppe Policastro. (2006). Spacetime foam in twistor string theory. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 10(2). 181–216. 6 indexed citations
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Grassi, Pietro Antonio, Giuseppe Policastro, & P. van Nieuwenhuizen. (2003). The Quantum Superstring as a WZNW Model. arXiv (Cornell University). 14 indexed citations
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Grassi, Pietro Antonio, Giuseppe Policastro, & P. van Nieuwenhuizen. (2003). An introduction to the covariant quantization of superstrings. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 20(12). S395–S410. 22 indexed citations
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Grassi, Pietro Antonio, Giuseppe Policastro, & P. van Nieuwenhuizen. (2003). The covariant quantum superstring and superparticle from their classical actions. Physics Letters B. 553(1-2). 96–104. 25 indexed citations
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Grassi, Pietro Antonio, P. van Nieuwenhuizen, Giuseppe Policastro, & Massimo Porrati. (2002). Towards covariant quantization of superstrings without pure spinor constraints. Journal of High Energy Physics. 6(10). 1215–1243. 1 indexed citations
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Policastro, Giuseppe, D. Son, & Andrei O. Starinets. (2002). From AdS/CFT correspondence to hydrodynamics. II. Sound waves. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2002(12). 54–54. 235 indexed citations
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Policastro, Giuseppe, D. Son, & Andrei O. Starinets. (2002). From AdS/CFT correspondence to hydrodynamics. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2002(9). 43–43. 548 indexed citations breakdown →
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Grassi, Pietro Antonio, Giuseppe Policastro, & Massimo Porrati. (2001). Covariant quantization of the CBS superparticle. Nuclear Physics B. 606(1-2). 380–400. 7 indexed citations
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Policastro, Giuseppe, D. T. Son, & Andrei O. Starinets. (2001). Shear Viscosity of Strongly CoupledN=4Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Plasma. Physical Review Letters. 87(8). 81601–81601. 997 indexed citations breakdown →

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