Jerzy Lewandowski

8.4k total citations · 5 hit papers
109 papers, 4.8k citations indexed

About

Jerzy Lewandowski is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Jerzy Lewandowski has authored 109 papers receiving a total of 4.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 90 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 72 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 70 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Jerzy Lewandowski's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (90 papers), Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (69 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (61 papers). Jerzy Lewandowski is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (90 papers), Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (69 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (61 papers). Jerzy Lewandowski collaborates with scholars based in Poland, United States and Germany. Jerzy Lewandowski's co-authors include Abhay Ashtekar, Martin Bojowald, Christopher Beetle, Wojciech Kamiński, Tomasz Pawłowski, Hanno Sahlmann, Cong Zhang, Thomas Thiemann, Yongge Ma and Andrzej Okołów and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Letters B and Physical Review A.

In The Last Decade

Jerzy Lewandowski

107 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

Background independent quantum gravity: a status report 1997 2026 2006 2016 2004 2003 1997 2023 2025 250 500 750 1000
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. Background independent quantum gravity: a status report
    2004 1.1k citations Abhay Ashtekar, Jerzy Lewandowski Classical and Quantum Gravity profile →
  2. Mathematical structure of loop quantum cosmology
    2003 477 citations Abhay Ashtekar, Martin Bojowald et al. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics profile →
  3. Quantum theory of geometry: I. Area operators
    1997 423 citations Abhay Ashtekar, Jerzy Lewandowski Classical and Quantum Gravity profile →
  4. Quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder and Swiss Cheese Models
    2023 121 citations Jerzy Lewandowski, Yongge Ma et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  5. Black holes and covariance in effective quantum gravity
    2025 31 citations Cong Zhang, Jerzy Lewandowski et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jerzy Lewandowski Poland 28 4.3k 3.9k 3.3k 673 313 109 4.8k
Thomas Thiemann Germany 33 4.0k 0.9× 4.1k 1.1× 2.8k 0.8× 702 1.0× 461 1.5× 100 4.4k
Martin Bojowald United States 45 5.2k 1.2× 5.1k 1.3× 4.5k 1.4× 979 1.5× 272 0.9× 171 5.8k
Laurent Freidel Canada 37 3.0k 0.7× 3.0k 0.8× 2.1k 0.6× 516 0.8× 113 0.4× 98 3.6k
Jorge Pullin United States 33 3.2k 0.7× 2.2k 0.6× 3.2k 1.0× 765 1.1× 105 0.3× 164 4.2k
Daniele Oriti Germany 31 2.3k 0.5× 2.3k 0.6× 1.7k 0.5× 445 0.7× 49 0.2× 97 2.6k
V. Alan Kostelecký United States 15 2.5k 0.6× 2.5k 0.6× 1.8k 0.5× 771 1.1× 72 0.2× 18 3.1k
Kirill Krasnov United Kingdom 22 2.1k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 1.8k 0.5× 222 0.3× 38 0.1× 69 2.3k
V. Alan Kostelecký United States 19 2.4k 0.6× 1.6k 0.4× 1.3k 0.4× 571 0.8× 51 0.2× 34 2.8k
Don Colladay United States 19 3.1k 0.7× 3.3k 0.8× 2.1k 0.6× 842 1.3× 166 0.5× 32 3.7k
Saurya Das Canada 27 2.8k 0.7× 2.6k 0.7× 2.5k 0.7× 1.1k 1.7× 42 0.1× 98 3.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Lewandowski, Jerzy, et al.. (2025). Quadrupole formulae with cosmological constant: comparison. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(1). 1 indexed citations
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Lewandowski, Jerzy, Yongge Ma, Jinsong Yang, & Cong Zhang. (2023). Quantum Oppenheimer-Snyder and Swiss Cheese Models. Physical Review Letters. 130(10). 101501–101501. 121 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pawłowski, Tomasz, et al.. (2022). Rainbow black hole from quantum gravitational collapse. Physical review. D. 105(8). 8 indexed citations
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Kamiński, Wojciech, et al.. (2020). Dressed metric predictions revisited. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 37(9). 95001–95001. 8 indexed citations
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Lewandowski, Jerzy, et al.. (2019). Petrov type D equation on horizons of nontrivial bundle topology. Physical review. D. 100(8). 3 indexed citations
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Zhang, Cong, Jerzy Lewandowski, & Yongge Ma. (2018). Towards the self-adjointness of a Hamiltonian operator in loop quantum gravity. Physical review. D. 98(8). 15 indexed citations
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Lewandowski, Jerzy, et al.. (2018). Quantum reference frames via transition amplitudes in timeless quantum gravity. Physical review. D. 98(2). 1 indexed citations
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Kamiński, Wojciech, et al.. (2018). The Near Horizon Geometry equation on compact 2-manifolds including the general solution for g > 0. Physics Letters B. 785. 381–385. 8 indexed citations
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Alesci, Emanuele, Jerzy Lewandowski, & Ilkka Mäkinen. (2016). Coherent3j-symbol representation for the loop quantum gravity intertwiner space. Physical review. D. 94(8). 4 indexed citations
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Lewandowski, Jerzy & Hanno Sahlmann. (2016). Loop quantum gravity coupled to a scalar field. Physical review. D. 93(2). 13 indexed citations
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Kamiński, Wojciech, Jerzy Lewandowski, & Tomasz Pawłowski. (2009). Physical time and other conceptual issues of quantum gravity on the example of loop quantum cosmology. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 26(3). 35012–35012. 29 indexed citations
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Ashtekar, Abhay, Martin Bojowald, & Jerzy Lewandowski. (2003). Mathematical structure of loop quantum cosmology. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 7(2). 233–268. 477 indexed citations breakdown →
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Lewandowski, Jerzy, et al.. (2002). Extremal Isolated Horizons: A Local Uniqueness Theorem. 42 indexed citations
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Lewandowski, Jerzy, et al.. (2002). A 2-SURFACE QUANTIZATION OF THE LORENTZIAN GRAVITY. arXiv (Cornell University). 1269–1270. 3 indexed citations
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Lewandowski, Jerzy, et al.. (2001). Geometric Characterizations of the Kerr Isolated Horizon.. 17 indexed citations
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Lewandowski, Jerzy. (2000). Spacetimes admitting isolated horizons. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 17(4). L53–L59. 43 indexed citations
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Ashtekar, Abhay & Jerzy Lewandowski. (1997). Quantum theory of geometry II: Volume operators. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 1(2). 388–429. 285 indexed citations
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Ashtekar, Abhay, Jerzy Lewandowski, Donald Marolf, José M. Mourão, & Thomas Thiemann. (1996). Coherent State Transforms for Spaces of Connections. Journal of Functional Analysis. 135(2). 519–551. 46 indexed citations
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Lewandowski, Jerzy & Paweł Nurowski. (1990). Algebraically special twisting gravitational fields and CR structures. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 7(3). 309–328. 21 indexed citations

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