Kurt Hinterbichler

6.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
80 papers, 4.0k citations indexed

About

Kurt Hinterbichler is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Kurt Hinterbichler has authored 80 papers receiving a total of 4.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 77 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 76 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 25 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Kurt Hinterbichler's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (77 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (76 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (23 papers). Kurt Hinterbichler is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (77 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (76 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (23 papers). Kurt Hinterbichler collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Kurt Hinterbichler's co-authors include Justin Khoury, Mark Trodden, Rachel A. Rosen, Austin Joyce, Garrett Goon, James Bonifacio, Lam Hui, Daniel Wesley, A. Matas and Ethan Dyer and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Kurt Hinterbichler

79 papers receiving 3.9k citations

Hit Papers

Theoretical aspects of massive gravity 2010 2026 2015 2020 2012 2010 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. Theoretical aspects of massive gravity
    2012 672 citations Kurt Hinterbichler profile →
  2. Screening Long-Range Forces through Local Symmetry Restoration
    2010 469 citations Kurt Hinterbichler, Justin Khoury Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Kurt Hinterbichler United States 32 3.7k 3.4k 836 254 221 80 4.0k
Alex Kehagias Greece 33 3.5k 0.9× 3.3k 1.0× 746 0.9× 131 0.5× 235 1.1× 142 3.8k
Nemanja Kaloper United States 41 5.3k 1.4× 5.3k 1.6× 1.0k 1.2× 429 1.7× 169 0.8× 111 5.8k
Alexander Yu. Kamenshchik Russia 29 4.7k 1.3× 4.0k 1.2× 1.1k 1.3× 424 1.7× 279 1.3× 164 5.0k
Jiro Soda Japan 38 3.9k 1.1× 3.4k 1.0× 780 0.9× 387 1.5× 327 1.5× 153 4.1k
Claudia de Rham United States 41 6.2k 1.7× 5.7k 1.7× 1.2k 1.4× 325 1.3× 501 2.3× 91 6.6k
Gregory Gabadadze United States 32 6.1k 1.6× 5.8k 1.7× 1.3k 1.5× 365 1.4× 366 1.7× 88 6.5k
S. F. Hassan Sweden 17 2.2k 0.6× 2.2k 0.6× 682 0.8× 141 0.6× 149 0.7× 26 2.4k
Andrew J. Tolley United States 39 4.5k 1.2× 4.0k 1.2× 880 1.1× 253 1.0× 338 1.5× 80 4.8k
Ilya L. Shapiro Brazil 34 3.6k 1.0× 3.6k 1.0× 1.5k 1.8× 427 1.7× 150 0.7× 189 4.0k
Rong-Gen Cai China 39 4.9k 1.3× 4.2k 1.2× 1.4k 1.6× 514 2.0× 296 1.3× 143 5.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Kurt Hinterbichler

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Fields of papers citing papers by Kurt Hinterbichler

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Kurt Hinterbichler

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Farnsworth, Kara, et al.. (2025). Hidden conformal symmetry of the discrete series scalars in dS2. Physical review. D. 111(10). 1 indexed citations
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Hinterbichler, Kurt, et al.. (2024). Equivalence of EFTs and timelike extra dimensions. Physical review. D. 109(6). 1 indexed citations
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Bonifacio, James & Kurt Hinterbichler. (2024). Fermionic shift symmetries in (anti) de Sitter space. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(4). 3 indexed citations
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Hinterbichler, Kurt, et al.. (2024). Impossible symmetries and conformal gravity. Physical review. D. 110(8). 4 indexed citations
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Hinterbichler, Kurt. (2023). Massive spin-2 scattering and asymptotic superluminality. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 16 indexed citations
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Hinterbichler, Kurt, et al.. (2023). Gravity as a gapless phase and biform symmetries. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(2). 26 indexed citations
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Blauvelt, Erin, et al.. (2023). Shift Symmetries and AdS/CFT. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(7). 3 indexed citations
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González, Mariana Carrillo, et al.. (2020). Holographic two-point functions in the pseudoconformal universe. Physical review. D. 102(12). 2 indexed citations
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Bettoni, Dario, José María Ezquiaga, Kurt Hinterbichler, & Miguel Zumalacárregui. (2017). Speed of gravitational waves and the fate of scalar-tensor gravity. Physical review. D. 95(8). 111 indexed citations
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Bernard, Laura, Cédric Deffayet, Kurt Hinterbichler, & Mikael von Strauss. (2017). Partially massless graviton on beyond Einstein spacetimes. Physical review. D. 95(12). 18 indexed citations
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García-Sáenz, Sebastián, Kurt Hinterbichler, Austin Joyce, Ermis Mitsou, & Rachel A. Rosen. (2016). No-go for partially massless spin-2 Yang-Mills. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(2). 22 indexed citations
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Goon, Garrett, Kurt Hinterbichler, Austin Joyce, & Mark Trodden. (2015). Einstein gravity, massive gravity, multi-gravity and nonlinear realizations. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(7). 17 indexed citations
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Hinterbichler, Kurt, et al.. (2013). Dirac-Born-Infeld Genesis: An Improved Violation of the Null Energy Condition. Physical Review Letters. 110(24). 241303–241303. 51 indexed citations
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Goon, Garrett, et al.. (2013). Massive Gravity Coupled to Galileons is Ghost-Free. Physical Review Letters. 111(6). 61107–61107. 29 indexed citations
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Gabadadze, Gregory, Kurt Hinterbichler, Justin Khoury, David Pirtskhalava, & Mark Trodden. (2012). Covariant master theory for novel Galilean invariant models and massive gravity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(12). 45 indexed citations
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Hinterbichler, Kurt, et al.. (2011). Symmetron cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 84(10). 187 indexed citations
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Greene, Brian, et al.. (2011). Smooth initial conditions from weak gravity. Physics Letters B. 697(3). 178–183. 9 indexed citations
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Hinterbichler, Kurt & Justin Khoury. (2010). Screening Long-Range Forces through Local Symmetry Restoration. Physical Review Letters. 104(23). 231301–231301. 469 indexed citations breakdown →
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Hinterbichler, Kurt, Justin Khoury, & Horaƫiu Năstase. (2010). Towards a UV Completion for Chameleon Scalar Theories. arXiv (Cornell University). 17 indexed citations
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Dyer, Ethan & Kurt Hinterbichler. (2009). Boundary terms, variational principles, and higher derivative modified gravity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 79(2). 91 indexed citations

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