Joan Soto

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
83 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Joan Soto is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Joan Soto has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 71 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 14 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 9 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Joan Soto's work include Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (63 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (56 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (52 papers). Joan Soto is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (63 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (56 papers) and High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (52 papers). Joan Soto collaborates with scholars based in Spain, Switzerland and Germany. Joan Soto's co-authors include Antonio Pineda, Nora Brambilla, Antonio Vairo, Miguel Ángel Escobedo, Xavier Garcia i Tormo, Antonio Vairo, Jaume Tarrús Castellà, Péter Petreczky, Massimo Mannarelli and E. Elizalde and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

Joan Soto

78 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Potential NRQCD: an effective theory for heavy quarkonium 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 2005 100 200 300 400
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. Potential NRQCD: an effective theory for heavy quarkonium
    2000 469 citations Nora Brambilla, Antonio Pineda et al. Nuclear Physics B profile →
  2. Effective-field theories for heavy quarkonium
    2005 453 citations Nora Brambilla, Antonio Pineda et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joan Soto Spain 27 2.7k 311 218 164 62 83 2.9k
Antonio Pineda Spain 29 2.7k 1.0× 302 1.0× 125 0.6× 104 0.6× 45 0.7× 62 2.8k
Richard F. Lebed United States 31 3.2k 1.2× 220 0.7× 101 0.5× 105 0.6× 57 0.9× 115 3.3k
Antonio Vairo Germany 30 3.7k 1.3× 264 0.8× 224 1.0× 167 1.0× 51 0.8× 75 3.8k
Yoichi Ikeda Japan 24 1.9k 0.7× 229 0.7× 143 0.7× 79 0.5× 23 0.4× 75 2.1k
É. A. Kuraev Russia 20 2.6k 1.0× 190 0.6× 173 0.8× 48 0.3× 63 1.0× 188 2.8k
W.M. Alberico Italy 24 2.0k 0.7× 330 1.1× 162 0.7× 90 0.5× 69 1.1× 78 2.0k
H. Fujii Japan 22 1.2k 0.4× 165 0.5× 133 0.6× 88 0.5× 42 0.7× 61 1.3k
Chueng‐Ryong Ji United States 32 3.2k 1.2× 232 0.7× 129 0.6× 89 0.5× 89 1.4× 196 3.3k
Vladimir Pascalutsa Germany 26 2.0k 0.7× 402 1.3× 80 0.4× 59 0.4× 54 0.9× 85 2.1k
M. K. Volkov Russia 21 1.9k 0.7× 191 0.6× 119 0.5× 106 0.6× 55 0.9× 166 2.0k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joan Soto

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joan Soto

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Carrington, M. E., Cristina Manuel, & Joan Soto. (2025). The high temperature QCD static potential beyond leading order. Proceedings Of Science. 109–109.
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Carrington, M. E., Cristina Manuel, & Joan Soto. (2025). High-Temperature QCD Static Potential beyond Leading Order. Physical Review Letters. 134(1). 11905–11905.
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Soto, Joan, et al.. (2023). Hyperfine splittings of heavy quarkonium hybrids. Physical review. D. 108(1). 10 indexed citations
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Kniehl, Bernd A., et al.. (2023). Matching the Standard Model to heavy-quark effective theory and nonrelativistic QCD. Nuclear Physics B. 992. 116173–116173. 1 indexed citations
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Brambilla, Nora, Xavier Garcia i Tormo, Péter Petreczky, et al.. (2019). Determination of the QCD coupling from the static energy and the free energy. Physical review. D. 100(11). 35 indexed citations
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Manuel, Cristina, et al.. (2017). OSEFT or how to go beyond hard thermal loops. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations
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Soto, Joan, et al.. (2017). Heavy quarkonium hybrids: Spectrum, decay, and mixing. Physical review. D. 96(1). 53 indexed citations
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Escobedo, Miguel Ángel, Floriana Giannuzzi, Massimo Mannarelli, & Joan Soto. (2013). Heavy quarkonium moving in a quark-gluon plasma. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 87(11). 40 indexed citations
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Brambilla, Nora, Xavier Garcia i Tormo, Joan Soto, & Antonio Vairo. (2010). Precision Determination ofr0ΛMS¯from the QCD Static Energy. Physical Review Letters. 105(21). 212001–212001. 38 indexed citations
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Tormo, Xavier Garcia i & Joan Soto. (2006). Radiative Decays and the Nature of Heavy Quarkonia. Physical Review Letters. 96(11). 111801–111801. 10 indexed citations
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Tormo, Xavier Garcia i & Joan Soto. (2005). Semi-inclusive radiative decays ofΥ(1S). Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 72(5). 10 indexed citations
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Barberán, N. & Joan Soto. (2002). Low-energy excitations of double quantum dots in the lowest Landau level regime. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 66(20). 2 indexed citations
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Brambilla, Nora, et al.. (2001). New Predictions for Inclusive Heavy-QuarkoniumP-Wave Decays. Physical Review Letters. 88(1). 12003–12003. 42 indexed citations
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García-Cerezo, Alfonso, et al.. (2001). A method for calculating the magnetic field produced by a coil of any shape. Sensors and Actuators A Physical. 91(1-2). 230–232. 10 indexed citations
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Pineda, Antonio & Joan Soto. (1998). Potential NRQED: The positronium case. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 59(1). 99 indexed citations
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Pineda, Antonio & Joan Soto. (1998). Matching at one loop for the four-quark operators in NRQCD. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 58(11). 66 indexed citations
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Goity, J. L. & Joan Soto. (1993). TWO COMPONENT ANYON SUPERFLUID WITH COMPLEMENTARY STATISTICS: A MODEL WITH SUPPRESSED PARITY VIOLATION. International Journal of Modern Physics B. 7(27). 4595–4614. 2 indexed citations
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Goity, J. L. & Joan Soto. (1989). Effective action induced by fermions with large Majorana masses. Physics Letters B. 233(3-4). 400–406. 2 indexed citations
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Soto, Joan. (1985). Relations between quark and gluon condensates from one-loop effective actions in constant background fields. Physics Letters B. 165(4-6). 389–394. 1 indexed citations

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