Joshua Erlich

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
43 papers, 2.4k citations indexed

About

Joshua Erlich is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Joshua Erlich has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 2.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 41 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 27 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 7 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Joshua Erlich's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (36 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (27 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (21 papers). Joshua Erlich is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (36 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (27 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (21 papers). Joshua Erlich collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Costa Rica. Joshua Erlich's co-authors include Csaba Csáki, Emanuel Katz, Mikhail Stephanov, D. Son, Timothy J. Hollowood, Yuri Shirman, Stanley J. Brodsky, Guy F. de Téramond, H. G. Dosch and Christophe Grojean and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Reports and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Joshua Erlich

40 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Hit Papers

QCD and a Holographic Model of Hadrons 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 2015 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. QCD and a Holographic Model of Hadrons
    2005 742 citations Joshua Erlich, Emanuel Katz et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Light-front holographic QCD and emerging confinement
    2015 322 citations Joshua Erlich 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
Joshua Erlich United States 18 2.3k 1.3k 407 119 51 43 2.4k
Michael Haack Germany 16 1.3k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 236 0.6× 127 1.1× 38 0.7× 28 1.4k
Diana Vaman United States 19 1.1k 0.5× 813 0.6× 379 0.9× 189 1.6× 49 1.0× 49 1.2k
Gastón Giribet Argentina 23 2.0k 0.8× 1.8k 1.4× 908 2.2× 183 1.5× 59 1.2× 108 2.1k
Toby Wiseman United Kingdom 18 1.2k 0.5× 1.1k 0.8× 399 1.0× 142 1.2× 26 0.5× 42 1.3k
Luboš Motl United States 11 1.5k 0.6× 1.3k 1.0× 541 1.3× 109 0.9× 49 1.0× 13 1.6k
Eric G Gimon United States 16 1.1k 0.5× 852 0.6× 457 1.1× 51 0.4× 71 1.4× 19 1.1k
Ioannis Papadimitriou United Kingdom 16 892 0.4× 696 0.5× 308 0.8× 84 0.7× 48 0.9× 33 950
Dionysios Anninos United States 18 1.0k 0.4× 917 0.7× 546 1.3× 116 1.0× 52 1.0× 34 1.1k
Oleg Lunin United States 20 1.5k 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 658 1.6× 75 0.6× 63 1.2× 47 1.6k
Boris Körs Germany 16 1.5k 0.6× 1.1k 0.8× 256 0.6× 41 0.3× 50 1.0× 24 1.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joshua Erlich

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joshua Erlich

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Erlich, Joshua. (2024). The Minkowski vacuum of stochastic composite gravity. Modern Physics Letters A. 39(37).
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Erlich, Joshua, et al.. (2021). Background-independent composite gravity. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 38(9). 95008–95008. 2 indexed citations
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Erlich, Joshua, et al.. (2016). The field-space metric in spiral inflation and related models. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2016(9). 39–39. 1 indexed citations
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Erlich, Joshua. (2014). An introduction to holographic QCD for nonspecialists. Contemporary Physics. 56(2). 159–171. 6 indexed citations
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Carone, Christopher D., et al.. (2014). Permutation on hybrid natural inflation. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90(6). 5 indexed citations
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Erlich, Joshua. (2012). Recent developments in AdS/QCD. 32–32.
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Erlich, Joshua. (2011). The AdS/CFT Correspondence and Holographic QCD. Few-Body Systems. 52(3-4). 195–202. 3 indexed citations
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Carone, Christopher D., Joshua Erlich, & Reinard Primulando. (2010). Decaying dark matter from dark instantons. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(5). 11 indexed citations
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Erlich, Joshua, et al.. (2010). Pion condensation in holographic QCD. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(9). 17 indexed citations
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Carone, Christopher D., Joshua Erlich, & Marc Sher. (2008). Extra gauge invariance from an extra dimension. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 78(1). 14 indexed citations
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Erlich, Joshua, Emanuel Katz, D. Son, & Mikhail Stephanov. (2005). QCD and a Holographic Model of Hadrons. Physical Review Letters. 95(26). 261602–261602. 742 indexed citations breakdown →
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Erlich, Joshua, Sungho Hong, & Mithat Ünsal. (2004). Matrix Models, Monopoles and Modified Moduli. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2004(9). 24–24. 2 indexed citations
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Csáki, Csaba, Joshua Erlich, & John Terning. (2003). Seiberg-Witten description of the deconstructed 6D (0,2) theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 67(2). 6 indexed citations
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Csáki, Csaba, Joshua Erlich, & Christophe Grojean. (2001). Essay on gravitation: The cosmological constant problem in brane-worlds and gravitational Lorentz violations. General Relativity and Gravitation. 33(11). 5 indexed citations
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Csáki, Csaba, Joshua Erlich, & Christophe Grojean. (2001). Gravitational Lorentz Violations and Adjustment of the Cosmological Constant in Asymmetrically Warped Spacetimes. 101 indexed citations
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Csáki, Csaba, Joshua Erlich, & Christophe Grojean. (2001). ESSAY: The Cosmological Constant Problem in Brane-Worlds and Gravitational Lorentz Violations. General Relativity and Gravitation. 33(11). 1921–1927. 18 indexed citations
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Csáki, Csaba, Joshua Erlich, Christophe Grojean, & Graham D. Kribs. (2001). 4D constructions of supersymmetric extra dimensions and gaugino mediation. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 65(1). 72 indexed citations
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Csáki, Csaba, Joshua Erlich, & Timothy J. Hollowood. (2000). Quasilocalization of Gravity on a Brane by Resonant Modes. Physical Review Letters. 84(26). 5932–5935. 80 indexed citations
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Anselmi, Damiano, et al.. (1998). Positivity constraints on anomalies in supersymmetric gauge theories. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 57(12). 7570–7588. 133 indexed citations
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Csáki, Csaba, Joshua Erlich, Daniel Z. Freedman, & Witold Skiba. (1997). N=1supersymmetric product group theories in the Coulomb phase. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 56(8). 5209–5217. 22 indexed citations

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