J. Polchinski

2.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
17 papers, 1.5k citations indexed

About

J. Polchinski is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, J. Polchinski has authored 17 papers receiving a total of 1.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 8 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 2 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in J. Polchinski's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (13 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (11 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (7 papers). J. Polchinski is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (13 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (11 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (7 papers). J. Polchinski collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. J. Polchinski's co-authors include Mark B. Wise, Luis Álvarez-Gaumé, L. Susskind, Matthew P. A. Fisher, C. L. Kane, Willy Fischler, Hans Peter Nilles, Stuart Raby, Gary T. Horowitz and S. P. de Alwis and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

J. Polchinski

16 papers receiving 1.5k citations

Hit Papers

Minimal low-energy supergravity 1983 2026 1997 2011 1983 200 400 600
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. Minimal low-energy supergravity
    1983 662 citations Luis Álvarez-Gaumé, J. Polchinski et al. Nuclear Physics 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
J. Polchinski United States 12 1.2k 691 303 240 110 17 1.5k
René Meyer Germany 16 493 0.4× 368 0.5× 369 1.2× 196 0.8× 80 0.7× 41 770
Brando Bellazzini Italy 20 1.2k 1.0× 720 1.0× 190 0.6× 164 0.7× 56 0.5× 34 1.4k
Aiichi Iwazaki Japan 17 526 0.4× 243 0.4× 568 1.9× 90 0.4× 383 3.5× 70 1.0k
Hsien-Chung Kao Taiwan 15 390 0.3× 186 0.3× 318 1.0× 247 1.0× 52 0.5× 36 645
Chanyong Park South Korea 17 964 0.8× 739 1.1× 197 0.7× 279 1.2× 40 0.4× 97 1.1k
M. B. Voloshin United States 21 1.4k 1.1× 380 0.5× 176 0.6× 108 0.5× 58 0.5× 62 1.5k
Matthew M. Roberts United States 17 955 0.8× 811 1.2× 262 0.9× 419 1.7× 99 0.9× 29 1.1k
S. T. Love United States 18 1.6k 1.3× 486 0.7× 193 0.6× 197 0.8× 92 0.8× 62 1.7k
José Wudka United States 28 2.3k 1.9× 682 1.0× 123 0.4× 117 0.5× 27 0.2× 113 2.4k
R. Ferrari Italy 13 614 0.5× 110 0.2× 194 0.6× 168 0.7× 33 0.3× 33 789

Countries citing papers authored by J. Polchinski

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Fields of papers citing papers by J. Polchinski

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of J. Polchinski

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of J. Polchinski. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of J. Polchinski 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 J. Polchinski. J. Polchinski is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

17 of 17 papers shown
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Horowitz, Gary T., et al.. (2008). Nonperturbative instability ofAdS5×S5/Zk. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(2). 47 indexed citations
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Polchinski, J.. (2004). Monopoles, Duality, and String Theory. International Journal of Modern Physics A. 19(supp01). 145–154. 123 indexed citations
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Polchinski, J.. (2003). Monopoles, Duality, and String Theory. 145–154. 15 indexed citations
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Giddings, Steven B., Jeffrey A. Harvey, J. Polchinski, Stephen H. Shenker, & Andrew Strominger. (1994). Hairy black holes in string theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 50(10). 6422–6426. 11 indexed citations
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Kane, C. L., Matthew P. A. Fisher, & J. Polchinski. (1994). Randomness at the edge: Theory of quantum Hall transport at filling ν=2/3. Physical Review Letters. 72(26). 4129–4132. 227 indexed citations
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Polchinski, J.. (1993). Strings and QCD. 220. 3 indexed citations
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Harvey, Jeffrey A. & J. Polchinski. (1993). Proceedings, Theoretical Advanced Study Institute (TASI 92): From Black Holes and Strings to Particles. 12 indexed citations
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Fischler, Willy, et al.. (1990). Quantization of false-vacuum bubbles: A Hamiltonian treatment of gravitational tunneling. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 42(12). 4042–4055. 100 indexed citations
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Polchinski, J.. (1990). Strings, quantum gravity, membranes.. 429–442.
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Alwis, S. P. de, J. Polchinski, & Rolf Schimmrigk. (1989). Heterotic strings with tree level cosmological constant. Physics Letters B. 218(4). 449–454. 38 indexed citations
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Polchinski, J. & Mark B. Wise. (1983). On the generality of the mass sum rule. Nuclear Physics B. 218(2). 297–308. 2 indexed citations
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Gaillard, Mary K., Lawrence J. Hall, Bruno Zumino, et al.. (1983). Light scalars in N=1 locally supersymmetric theories. Physics Letters B. 122(5-6). 355–360. 19 indexed citations
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Polchinski, J.. (1983). Effective potentials for supersymmetric three-scale hierarchies. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 27(6). 1320–1330. 5 indexed citations
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Álvarez-Gaumé, Luis, J. Polchinski, & Mark B. Wise. (1983). Minimal low-energy supergravity. Nuclear Physics B. 221(2). 495–523. 662 indexed citations breakdown →
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Polchinski, J.. (1982). Gauge-fermion masses in supersymmetric hierarchy models. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 26(12). 3674–3678. 6 indexed citations
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Polchinski, J. & L. Susskind. (1982). Breaking of supersymmetry at intermediate energy. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 26(12). 3661–3673. 141 indexed citations
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Fischler, Willy, Hans Peter Nilles, J. Polchinski, Stuart Raby, & L. Susskind. (1981). Vanishing Renormalization of theDTerm in Supersymmetric U(1) Theories. Physical Review Letters. 47(11). 757–759. 106 indexed citations

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