Jan Plefka

3.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
66 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Jan Plefka is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jan Plefka has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 59 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 32 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 15 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Jan Plefka's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (56 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (33 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (28 papers). Jan Plefka is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (56 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (33 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (28 papers). Jan Plefka collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and Switzerland. Jan Plefka's co-authors include Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, Jan Steinhoff, Benjamin Sauer, Johannes M. Henn, Matthias Staudacher, Sergey Frolov, Marija Zamaklar, Thomas Klose and Kasper Peeters and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Jan Plefka

66 papers receiving 2.1k citations

Hit Papers

Classical Gravitational Bremsstrahlung from a Worldline Q... 2021 2026 2022 2024 2021 2022 2024 2025 40 80 120

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jan Plefka Germany 26 1.8k 1.2k 575 247 131 66 2.2k
Arjun Bagchi India 27 1.9k 1.0× 1.5k 1.3× 1.1k 2.0× 209 0.8× 158 1.2× 57 2.1k
Alexander Zhiboedov United States 22 1.8k 1.0× 1.1k 0.9× 546 0.9× 123 0.5× 171 1.3× 37 2.1k
Jelle Hartong Denmark 26 1.9k 1.0× 1.6k 1.3× 906 1.6× 96 0.4× 215 1.6× 56 2.1k
Andreas Brandhuber United Kingdom 30 3.0k 1.7× 1.5k 1.3× 654 1.1× 254 1.0× 122 0.9× 69 3.2k
Pierre Vanhove France 29 2.3k 1.2× 1.6k 1.3× 572 1.0× 301 1.2× 124 0.9× 65 2.8k
Simon Caron-Huot Canada 29 1.9k 1.0× 652 0.5× 335 0.6× 254 1.0× 114 0.9× 57 2.2k
Niels A. Obers Denmark 34 2.8k 1.6× 2.3k 2.0× 1.2k 2.1× 247 1.0× 227 1.7× 93 3.1k
N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr Denmark 29 2.3k 1.3× 1.7k 1.4× 612 1.1× 121 0.5× 177 1.4× 52 2.7k
Oliver DeWolfe United States 23 2.5k 1.4× 2.0k 1.7× 717 1.2× 141 0.6× 182 1.4× 43 2.6k
Yu Nakayama Japan 23 1.5k 0.8× 872 0.7× 552 1.0× 217 0.9× 258 2.0× 113 1.8k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jan Plefka

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All Works

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Haddad, Kays, Gustav Uhre Jakobsen, Gustav Mogull, & Jan Plefka. (2025). Spinning bodies in general relativity from bosonic worldline oscillators. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(2). 13 indexed citations
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Jakobsen, Gustav Uhre, Albrecht Klemm, Gustav Mogull, et al.. (2025). Emergence of Calabi–Yau manifolds in high-precision black-hole scattering. Nature. 641(8063). 603–607. 27 indexed citations breakdown →
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Jakobsen, Gustav Uhre, et al.. (2025). Spinning the probe in Kerr with WQFT. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(10). 1 indexed citations
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Jakobsen, Gustav Uhre, et al.. (2024). Conservative Black Hole Scattering at Fifth Post-Minkowskian and First Self-Force Order. Physical Review Letters. 132(24). 241402–241402. 58 indexed citations breakdown →
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Klemm, Albrecht, Christoph Nega, Benjamin Sauer, & Jan Plefka. (2024). Calabi-Yau periods for black hole scattering in classical general relativity. Physical review. D. 109(12). 26 indexed citations
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Jakobsen, Gustav Uhre, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka, & Benjamin Sauer. (2024). Tidal effects and renormalization at fourth post-Minkowskian order. Physical review. D. 109(4). 22 indexed citations
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Badger, Simon, Johannes M. Henn, Jan Plefka, & Simone Zoia. (2023). Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory. Lecture notes in physics. 25 indexed citations
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Jakobsen, Gustav Uhre, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka, & Benjamin Sauer. (2023). Dissipative Scattering of Spinning Black Holes at Fourth Post-Minkowskian Order. Physical Review Letters. 131(24). 241402–241402. 48 indexed citations
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Jakobsen, Gustav Uhre, et al.. (2023). Conservative Scattering of Spinning Black Holes at Fourth Post-Minkowskian Order. Physical Review Letters. 131(15). 151401–151401. 62 indexed citations
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Jakobsen, Gustav Uhre, Gustav Mogull, Jan Plefka, & Jan Steinhoff. (2021). Classical Gravitational Bremsstrahlung from a Worldline Quantum Field Theory. Physical Review Letters. 126(20). 201103–201103. 143 indexed citations breakdown →
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Liendo, Pedro, et al.. (2020). Two-Point Correlator of Chiral Primary Operators with a Wilson Line Defect in $\mathcal{N}=4$ SYM. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13 indexed citations
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Loebbert, Florian, et al.. (2020). Three-Body Effective Potential in General Relativity at 2PM and Resulting PN Contributions. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Loebbert, Florian, et al.. (2019). Consistent conformal extensions of the standard model. Physical review. D. 99(1). 7 indexed citations
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Beisert, Niklas, Dennis Müller, Jan Plefka, & Cristian Vergu. (2015). Smooth Wilson loops in N=4 non-chiral superspace. Repository for Publications and Research Data (ETH Zurich). 8 indexed citations
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Plefka, Jan. (2005). Spinning Strings and Integrable Spin Chains in the AdS/CFT Correspondence. PubMed. 8(1). 9–9. 98 indexed citations
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Fischbacher, Thomas, Thomas Klose, & Jan Plefka. (2005). Planar plane-wave matrix theory at the four loop order. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2005(2). 2 indexed citations
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Nicolai, Hermann, et al.. (2002). An Introduction to the Quantum Supermembrane. Gravitation and Cosmology. 8. 1. 7 indexed citations
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Plefka, Jan. (2001). Vertex Operators for the Supermembrane and Background Field Matrix Theory. International Journal of Modern Physics A. 16(5). 660–660. 2 indexed citations
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Nicolai, Hermann & Jan Plefka. (2000). A note on the supersymmetric effective action of Matrix theory. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Plefka, Jan, Marco Serone, & Andrew Waldron. (1999). Matrix Theory and Feynman Diagrams. CERN Bulletin. 2 indexed citations

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