Harald Fritzsch

10.9k total citations · 3 hit papers
151 papers, 7.1k citations indexed

About

Harald Fritzsch 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, Harald Fritzsch has authored 151 papers receiving a total of 7.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 126 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 26 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 9 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Harald Fritzsch's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (120 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (78 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (45 papers). Harald Fritzsch is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (120 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (78 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (45 papers). Harald Fritzsch collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Switzerland and United States. Harald Fritzsch's co-authors include Peter Minkowski, Zhi‐zhong Xing, H. Leutwyler, Z. Z. Xing, Xavier Calmet, K. H. Streng, J.D. Jackson, U. Baur, D. Schildknecht and Shun Zhou and has published in prestigious journals such as Physics Today, Physics Reports and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Harald Fritzsch

140 papers receiving 6.9k citations

Hit Papers

Unified interactions of leptons and hadrons 1973 2026 1990 2008 1975 1973 1978 400 800 1.2k
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. Unified interactions of leptons and hadrons
    1975 1.2k citations Harald Fritzsch, Peter Minkowski profile →
  2. Advantages of the color octet gluon picture
    1973 659 citations Harald Fritzsch et al. Physics Letters B profile →
  3. Weak-interaction mixing in the six-quark theory
    1978 469 citations Harald Fritzsch Physics Letters B profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Harald Fritzsch Germany 37 6.9k 887 299 202 87 151 7.1k
F. Halzen United States 42 6.6k 1.0× 1.6k 1.8× 325 1.1× 189 0.9× 93 1.1× 368 6.9k
J. Schechter United States 42 9.0k 1.3× 1.1k 1.2× 373 1.2× 185 0.9× 65 0.7× 191 9.3k
Toshihide Maskawa Japan 18 4.7k 0.7× 505 0.6× 391 1.3× 219 1.1× 37 0.4× 45 4.9k
K. S. Babu United States 49 8.6k 1.3× 1.7k 1.9× 294 1.0× 183 0.9× 86 1.0× 244 8.8k
Eugene Golowich United States 31 3.3k 0.5× 329 0.4× 297 1.0× 144 0.7× 61 0.7× 107 3.6k
Jogesh C. Pati United States 26 7.1k 1.0× 1.4k 1.6× 289 1.0× 369 1.8× 136 1.6× 124 7.3k
Peter Minkowski Switzerland 24 6.3k 0.9× 1.3k 1.5× 145 0.5× 221 1.1× 73 0.8× 96 6.4k
Ernest Ma United States 53 12.5k 1.8× 3.1k 3.5× 226 0.8× 151 0.7× 130 1.5× 409 12.7k
Duane A. Dicus United States 40 5.0k 0.7× 1.6k 1.8× 270 0.9× 142 0.7× 64 0.7× 193 5.3k
F.A. Berends Netherlands 36 3.2k 0.5× 611 0.7× 256 0.9× 443 2.2× 51 0.6× 83 3.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Harald Fritzsch

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Fritzsch, Harald. (2018). Murray Gell-Mann and the Physics of Quarks. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald, Zhi‐zhong Xing, & Di Zhang. (2017). The breaking of flavor democracy in the quark sector. Chinese Physics C. 41(9). 93104–93104. 9 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald, Zhi‐zhong Xing, & Shun Zhou. (2016). Two-zero Textures of the Majorana Neutrino Mass Matrix and Current Experimental Tests. 45 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald & Joan Solà. (2016). Matter Non-conservation in the Universe and Dynamical Dark Energy. 25 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald, et al.. (2011). Proceedings of the conference in Honour of Murray Gell-Mann's 80th birthday : quantum mechanics, elementary particles, quantum cosmology and complexity : Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, 24-26 February 2010. 1 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald. (2011). Fundamental constants and their time variation. Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics. 66(2). 193–196. 9 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald & Murray Gell‐Mann. (2010). Current Algebra: Quarks and What Else?. CERN Bulletin. 241–261. 19 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald, et al.. (2007). Deviations from tribimaximal neutrino mixing in the type-II seesaw model and leptogenesis. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 76(7). 30 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald & Yu-Feng Zhou. (2003). GluonicBandJ/ψdecays into theη′meson. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 68(3). 5 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald. (1999). Die Sprache der Eichfeldtheorie verständlich gemacht: Physik‐Nobelpreis 1999. Physikalische Blätter. 55(12). 20–21. 1 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald & F. Rohrlich. (1998). An Equation that Changed the World: Newton, Einstein, and the Theory of Relativity. Physics Today. 51(8). 62–63. 3 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald. (1992). Das Problem der Masse in der Elementarteilchenphysik. Physikalische Blätter. 48(9). 711–714. 1 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald. (1990). Chirale Symmetrie und die innere Spinstruktur des Nukleons. Physikalische Blätter. 46(10). 395–397. 1 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald. (1988). Eine Formel verändert die Welt : Newton, Einstein und die Relativitätstheorie. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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Fritzsch, Harald. (1984). THE DEVELOPMENT OF QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS. 593–612. 2 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald. (1984). The creation of matter : the universe from beginning to end. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research).
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Fritzsch, Harald. (1981). QCD - Theory of Hadrons. Physica Scripta. 24(5). 847–853. 2 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald & Peter Minkowski. (1980). Tests of the quark annihilation hypothesis for D and F decays. Nuclear Physics B. 171. 413–419. 18 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald. (1978). Heavy quarks as color sextets. Physics Letters B. 78(5). 611–614. 11 indexed citations
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Fritzsch, Harald & Peter Minkowski. (1973). Inclusive current-induced reactions and light-cone singularities. Nuclear Physics B. 55(2). 363–396. 9 indexed citations

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