John McGreevy

6.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
70 papers, 3.6k citations indexed

About

John McGreevy is a scholar working on Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, John McGreevy has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 3.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 33 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, 32 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 24 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in John McGreevy's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (31 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (24 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (20 papers). John McGreevy is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (31 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (24 papers) and Quantum many-body systems (20 papers). John McGreevy collaborates with scholars based in United States, Cameroon and Haiti. John McGreevy's co-authors include Koushik Balasubramanian, David Vegh, Hong Liu, Shamit Kachru, Thomas Faulkner, Herman Verlinde, Brian Swingle, Savas Dimopoulos, Jay G. Wacker and Maissam Barkeshli and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and Physical Review B.

In The Last Decade

John McGreevy

68 papers receiving 3.5k citations

Hit Papers

Gravity Duals for Nonrelativistic Conformal Field Theories 2008 2026 2014 2020 2008 2010 2022 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. Gravity Duals for Nonrelativistic Conformal Field Theories
    2008 428 citations Koushik Balasubramanian, John McGreevy Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Holographic Duality with a View Toward Many‐Body Physics
    2010 330 citations John McGreevy profile →
  3. Generalized Symmetries in Condensed Matter
    2022 177 citations John McGreevy Annual Review of Condensed Matter 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
John McGreevy United States 28 2.8k 2.1k 1.1k 1.0k 525 70 3.6k
Johanna Erdmenger Germany 28 3.1k 1.1× 2.2k 1.0× 907 0.8× 638 0.6× 216 0.4× 112 3.5k
Andreas Karch United States 39 5.7k 2.1× 4.1k 1.9× 1.8k 1.6× 1.2k 1.2× 382 0.7× 118 6.5k
R. Casalbuoni Italy 38 4.5k 1.6× 1.2k 0.6× 890 0.8× 1.4k 1.3× 705 1.3× 176 5.7k
Eliezer Rabinovici Israel 33 2.7k 1.0× 1.2k 0.6× 1.3k 1.2× 833 0.8× 505 1.0× 110 3.4k
Shu-Heng Shao United States 31 2.0k 0.7× 889 0.4× 972 0.9× 1.1k 1.1× 645 1.2× 59 3.1k
Kazuo Fujikawa Japan 27 3.8k 1.4× 954 0.5× 940 0.9× 1.3k 1.3× 332 0.6× 154 4.9k
Satoshi Iso Japan 29 2.3k 0.8× 1.6k 0.8× 1.2k 1.1× 944 0.9× 184 0.4× 87 2.9k
Stuart Samuel United States 31 3.7k 1.4× 1.9k 0.9× 2.1k 2.0× 732 0.7× 524 1.0× 92 4.4k
Shmuel Elitzur Israel 20 1.7k 0.6× 732 0.3× 729 0.7× 669 0.7× 639 1.2× 44 2.4k

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Fields of papers citing papers by John McGreevy

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of John McGreevy

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Xiangdong, et al.. (2025). Conformal geometry from entanglement. SciPost Physics. 18(3).
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Li, Xiangdong, et al.. (2024). Chiral Virasoro algebra from a single wavefunction. Annals of Physics. 471. 169849–169849. 1 indexed citations
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McGreevy, John. (2022). Generalized Symmetries in Condensed Matter. Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics. 14(1). 57–82. 177 indexed citations breakdown →
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McGreevy, John, et al.. (2019). Effects of dissipation on solitons in the hydrodynamic regime of graphene. Physical review. B.. 99(23). 6 indexed citations
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McGreevy, John, et al.. (2018). Strange metal from local quantum chaos. Physical review. B.. 97(15). 30 indexed citations
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Kravec, Shauna & John McGreevy. (2013). Gauge theory generalization of the fermion doubling theorem. Physical Review Letters. 111(16). 161603–161603. 24 indexed citations
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Allais, Andrea & John McGreevy. (2013). How to construct a gravitating quantum electron star. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 88(6). 12 indexed citations
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Allais, Andrea, John McGreevy, & S. Josephine Suh. (2012). Quantum Electron Star. Physical Review Letters. 108(23). 231602–231602. 20 indexed citations
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Barkeshli, Maissam & John McGreevy. (2012). Continuous transitions between composite Fermi liquid and Landau Fermi liquid: A route to fractionalized Mott insulators. Physical Review B. 86(7). 33 indexed citations
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Faulkner, Thomas, Hong Liu, John McGreevy, & David Vegh. (2011). Emergent quantum criticality, Fermi surfaces, and AdS[subscript 2]. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 1 indexed citations
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Mross, David F., John McGreevy, Hong Liu, & T. Senthil. (2010). Controlled expansion for certain non-Fermi-liquid metals. Physical Review B. 82(4). 42 indexed citations
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Balasubramanian, Koushik & John McGreevy. (2009). An analytic Lifshitz black hole. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 80(10). 117 indexed citations
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Balasubramanian, Koushik & John McGreevy. (2008). Gravity Duals for Nonrelativistic Conformal Field Theories. Physical Review Letters. 101(6). 61601–61601. 428 indexed citations breakdown →
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Itzhaki, Nissan & John McGreevy. (2005). Large-Nharmonic oscillator as a string theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 71(2). 18 indexed citations
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McGreevy, John, J. Teschner, & Herman Verlinde. (2004). Classical and Quantum D-branes in 2D String Theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2004(1). 39–39. 63 indexed citations
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Hellerman, Simeon, et al.. (2004). Geometric Constructions of Nongeometric String Theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2004(1). 24–24. 120 indexed citations
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Lawrence, Albion & John McGreevy. (2004). Local string models of soft supersymmetry breaking. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2004(6). 7–7. 32 indexed citations
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Fabinger, Michal & John McGreevy. (2003). On smooth time-dependent orbifolds and null singularities. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2003(6). 42–42. 41 indexed citations
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Kleban, Matthew & John McGreevy. (2001). Photon telegram to S. Claus: consequences for holography and causality in AdS. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Oliveira, Paulo C. de, John McGreevy, & N. M. Lawandy. (1997). Speckle-mirror laser. Optics Letters. 22(10). 700–700. 5 indexed citations

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