Juan Maldacena

56.5k total citations · 21 hit papers
115 papers, 33.5k citations indexed

About

Juan Maldacena is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Juan Maldacena has authored 115 papers receiving a total of 33.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 77 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 39 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Juan Maldacena's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (100 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (76 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (37 papers). Juan Maldacena is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (100 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (76 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (37 papers). Juan Maldacena collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Argentina. Juan Maldacena's co-authors include Douglas Stanford, Hirosi Ooguri, Carlos Núñez, Ofer Aharony, Steven S. Gubser, Yaron Oz, Luis F. Alday, Andrew Strominger, Stephen H. Shenker and David Berenstein and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Juan Maldacena

112 papers receiving 32.8k citations

Hit Papers

The large $N$ limit of superconformal field theories and ... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 2000 2003 2016 2002 2.5k 5.0k 7.5k

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Juan Maldacena United States 63 30.1k 22.9k 13.1k 4.5k 1.9k 115 33.5k
Andrew Strominger United States 75 20.3k 0.7× 16.5k 0.7× 9.2k 0.7× 2.3k 0.5× 1.7k 0.9× 198 21.9k
Joseph Polchinski United States 63 17.1k 0.6× 11.8k 0.5× 6.4k 0.5× 2.1k 0.5× 1.4k 0.7× 130 19.0k
Gerard ’t Hooft Netherlands 45 22.9k 0.8× 8.7k 0.4× 5.4k 0.4× 4.5k 1.0× 665 0.3× 163 26.9k
R. Jackiw United States 77 21.7k 0.7× 10.9k 0.5× 10.5k 0.8× 10.9k 2.4× 1.1k 0.6× 256 31.3k
Nathan Seiberg United States 90 21.7k 0.7× 9.5k 0.4× 8.2k 0.6× 3.2k 0.7× 4.6k 2.4× 163 25.2k
S. Deser United States 68 19.8k 0.7× 17.0k 0.7× 9.9k 0.8× 3.8k 0.8× 675 0.4× 310 23.5k
S. Ferrara Switzerland 70 19.9k 0.7× 12.1k 0.5× 7.6k 0.6× 1.1k 0.3× 1.8k 0.9× 405 21.2k
Cumrun Vafa United States 85 20.0k 0.7× 9.9k 0.4× 8.4k 0.6× 1.1k 0.2× 7.2k 3.8× 209 23.6k
A.A. Tseytlin United Kingdom 75 17.3k 0.6× 10.8k 0.5× 6.9k 0.5× 920 0.2× 1.8k 0.9× 298 18.1k
Gary T. Horowitz United States 57 14.2k 0.5× 12.5k 0.5× 5.7k 0.4× 2.2k 0.5× 648 0.3× 164 15.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Li, Yue-Zhou, et al.. (2025). The no boundary density matrix. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(2). 8 indexed citations
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Maldacena, Juan, et al.. (2024). Three point amplitudes in matrix theory. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 57(16). 165401–165401. 8 indexed citations
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Maldacena, Juan, et al.. (2024). Comments on the double cone wormhole. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(4). 21 indexed citations
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Maldacena, Juan, et al.. (2024). Soft theorems in matrix theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(11). 4 indexed citations
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Maldacena, Juan, et al.. (2024). A supersymmetric SYK model with a curious low energy behavior. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(8). 7 indexed citations
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Bah, Ibrahima, Yiming Chen, & Juan Maldacena. (2023). Estimating global charge violating amplitudes from wormholes. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(4). 25 indexed citations
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Maldacena, Juan, et al.. (2023). On the black hole/string transition. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(1). 33 indexed citations
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Lin, Henry W., et al.. (2023). Looking at supersymmetric black holes for a very long time. SciPost Physics. 14(5). 37 indexed citations
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Almheiri, Ahmed, Thomas Hartman, Juan Maldacena, Edgar Shaghoulian, & Amirhossein Tajdini. (2021). The entropy of Hawking radiation. Reviews of Modern Physics. 93(3). 397 indexed citations breakdown →
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Almheiri, Ahmed, Thomas Hartman, Juan Maldacena, Edgar Shaghoulian, & Amirhossein Tajdini. (2020). Replica wormholes and the entropy of Hawking radiation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2020(5). 499 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gaiotto, Davide, Juan Maldacena, Amit Sever, & Pedro Vieira. (2016). Pulling the straps of polygons. 76 indexed citations
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Lewkowycz, Aitor & Juan Maldacena. (2013). Generalized gravitational entropy. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013(8). 632 indexed citations breakdown →
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Maldacena, Juan & Alexander Zhiboedov. (2013). Constraining conformal field theories with a higher spin symmetry. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 46(21). 214011–214011. 279 indexed citations breakdown →
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Gaiotto, Davide & Juan Maldacena. (2012). The gravity duals of $ \mathcal{N}=2 $ superconformal field theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2012(10). 160 indexed citations
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Maldacena, Juan. (2005). The Illusion of Gravity. Scientific American. 293(5). 56–63. 26 indexed citations
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Maldacena, Juan & Liat Maoz. (2003). Strings on pp-waves and massive two-dimensional field theories. Comptes Rendus Physique. 4(3). 371–385. 17 indexed citations
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Bachas, Constantin P., et al.. (2001). Proceedings of the Trieste 2000 Spring Workshop on Superstrings and Related Matters, ICTP, Trieste, Italy, 27 March - 4 April 2000. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 2 indexed citations
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Atiyah, Michael, Juan Maldacena, & Cumrun Vafa. (2001). An M-theory flop as a large N duality. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 42(7). 3209–3220. 138 indexed citations
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Maldacena, Juan. (2000). Strings in AdS{sub 3} and the SL(2,R) WZW Model. Part 1: The spectrum. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 2 indexed citations
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Maldacena, Juan. (1999). The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity. AIP conference proceedings. 51–63. 872 indexed citations breakdown →

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