Irene Valenzuela

2.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
34 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

Irene Valenzuela is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Irene Valenzuela has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 30 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 14 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Irene Valenzuela's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (31 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (30 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (14 papers). Irene Valenzuela is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (31 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (30 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (14 papers). Irene Valenzuela collaborates with scholars based in Spain, United States and Switzerland. Irene Valenzuela's co-authors include Thomas W. Grimm, Luis E. Ibáñez, José Calderón-Infante, Eran Palti, Marieke van Beest, Miguel Montero, Miguel Montero, Ángel M. Uranga, Cumrun Vafa and Fernando Marchesano and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Reports and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Irene Valenzuela

34 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Lectures on the Swampland Program in String... 2018 2026 2020 2023 2022 2018 2023 50 100 150 200
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. Lectures on the Swampland Program in String Compactifications
    2022 235 citations Marieke van Beest, José Calderón-Infante et al. Physics Reports profile →
  2. Infinite distances in field space and massless towers of states
    2018 198 citations Thomas W. Grimm, Irene Valenzuela et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  3. The dark dimension and the Swampland
    2023 101 citations Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa 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
Irene Valenzuela Spain 21 1.4k 1.1k 410 122 115 34 1.5k
Eran Palti Germany 23 2.0k 1.4× 1.3k 1.2× 565 1.4× 311 2.5× 239 2.1× 52 2.1k
Timm Wrase United States 23 1.2k 0.9× 1.1k 1.0× 274 0.7× 68 0.6× 58 0.5× 42 1.3k
Tom Rudelius United States 20 997 0.7× 650 0.6× 388 0.9× 144 1.2× 76 0.7× 35 1.1k
Arthur Hebecker Germany 30 1.9k 1.4× 1.4k 1.2× 345 0.8× 71 0.6× 50 0.4× 77 2.0k
Evgeny I. Buchbinder Australia 20 1.3k 0.9× 745 0.7× 247 0.6× 142 1.2× 62 0.5× 56 1.4k
Sigbjørn Hervik Norway 22 1.2k 0.9× 1.3k 1.2× 254 0.6× 84 0.7× 77 0.7× 77 1.4k
Diederik Roest Netherlands 26 1.9k 1.4× 1.9k 1.7× 716 1.7× 76 0.6× 98 0.9× 84 2.2k
Tanmoy Paul India 21 1.1k 0.8× 1.4k 1.2× 254 0.6× 35 0.3× 39 0.3× 58 1.5k
Carlo Angelantonj Italy 18 1.1k 0.8× 816 0.7× 330 0.8× 84 0.7× 66 0.6× 39 1.2k
Albion Lawrence United States 23 2.0k 1.4× 1.5k 1.4× 843 2.1× 199 1.6× 117 1.0× 42 2.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Irene Valenzuela

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Fields of papers citing papers by Irene Valenzuela

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Irene Valenzuela

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Heidenreich, Ben, et al.. (2025). Taxonomy of infinite distance limits. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3). 9 indexed citations
2.
Calderón-Infante, José & Irene Valenzuela. (2025). Tensionless string limits in 4d conformal manifolds. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(8). 5 indexed citations
3.
Montero, Miguel, et al.. (2024). On measuring distances in the quantum gravity landscape. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(12). 7 indexed citations
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Valenzuela, Irene, et al.. (2024). Universal Pattern in Quantum Gravity at Infinite Distance. Physical Review Letters. 132(18). 181601–181601. 23 indexed citations
5.
Heidenreich, Ben, et al.. (2023). Running decompactification, sliding towers, and the distance conjecture. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(12). 27 indexed citations
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Calderón-Infante, José, et al.. (2023). Asymptotic accelerated expansion in string theory and the Swampland. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(6). 35 indexed citations
7.
Montero, Miguel, Cumrun Vafa, & Irene Valenzuela. (2023). The dark dimension and the Swampland. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(2). 101 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hamada, Yuta, Miguel Montero, Cumrun Vafa, & Irene Valenzuela. (2022). Finiteness and the swampland. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 55(22). 224005–224005. 34 indexed citations
9.
Martucci, Luca, et al.. (2022). Large Field Distances from EFT strings. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 1 indexed citations
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Beest, Marieke van, et al.. (2022). Lectures on the Swampland Program in String Compactifications. Physics Reports. 989. 1–50. 235 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ibáñez, Luis E., et al.. (2021). AdS swampland conjectures and light fermions. Biblos-e Archivo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid). 20 indexed citations
12.
Marchesano, Fernando, et al.. (2021). The EFT stringy viewpoint on large distances. Padua Research Archive (University of Padova). 72 indexed citations
13.
García‐Etxebarria, Iñaki, et al.. (2020). Nothing is certain in string compactifications. Durham Research Online (Durham University). 36 indexed citations
14.
Cámara, Pablo G., Luis E. Ibáñez, & Irene Valenzuela. (2016). The String Origin of SUSY Flavor Violation. 1 indexed citations
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Ibáñez, Luis E., Miguel Montero, Ángel M. Uranga, & Irene Valenzuela. (2016). Relaxion monodromy and the Weak Gravity Conjecture. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(4). 1–38. 54 indexed citations
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Ibáñez, Luis E., Fernando Marchesano, & Irene Valenzuela. (2015). Higgs-otic inflation and string theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(1). 40 indexed citations
17.
García‐Etxebarria, Iñaki, Thomas W. Grimm, & Irene Valenzuela. (2015). Special points of inflation in flux compactifications. Nuclear Physics B. 899. 414–443. 26 indexed citations
18.
Montero, Miguel, Ángel M. Uranga, & Irene Valenzuela. (2015). Transplanckian axions!?. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(8). 100 indexed citations
19.
Ibáñez, Luis E. & Irene Valenzuela. (2013). The Higgs mass as a signature of heavy SUSY. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013(5). 35 indexed citations
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Aparicio, Luis, Pablo G. Cámara, D. G. Cerdeño, Luis E. Ibáñez, & Irene Valenzuela. (2013). The NMSSM with F-theory unified boundary conditions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013(2). 12 indexed citations

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