L. Herrera

11.3k total citations · 4 hit papers
183 papers, 8.7k citations indexed

About

L. Herrera is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, L. Herrera has authored 183 papers receiving a total of 8.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 155 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 82 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 31 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in L. Herrera's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (138 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (78 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (51 papers). L. Herrera is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (138 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (78 papers) and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research (51 papers). L. Herrera collaborates with scholars based in Venezuela, Spain and Brazil. L. Herrera's co-authors include A. Di Prisco, J. Ospino, N. O. Santos, W. Barreto, R. Chan, N. O. Santos, J. Ponce de León, E. Fuenmayor, M. Esculpi and G. Le Denmat and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Physics Reports and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

L. Herrera

178 papers receiving 8.4k citations

Hit Papers

Local anisotropy in self-... 1992 2026 2003 2014 1997 1992 1993 2018 250 500 750
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. Local anisotropy in self-gravitating systems
    1997 889 citations L. Herrera profile →
  2. Cracking of self-gravitating compact objects
    1992 758 citations L. Herrera profile →
  3. Dynamical instability for radiating anisotropic collapse
    1993 466 citations L. Herrera et al. profile →
  4. New definition of complexity for self-gravitating fluid distributions: The spherically symmetric, static case
    2018 231 citations L. Herrera Physical review. D profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
L. Herrera 8.2k 5.3k 1.4k 802 368 183 8.7k
M. Sharif 9.8k 1.2× 8.0k 1.5× 1.6k 1.1× 912 1.1× 174 0.5× 657 10.2k
Mark Scheel 8.9k 1.1× 3.2k 0.6× 807 0.6× 373 0.5× 162 0.4× 171 9.3k
Larry Kidder 8.3k 1.0× 2.6k 0.5× 818 0.6× 296 0.4× 170 0.5× 156 8.7k
Lee Lindblom 5.0k 0.6× 1.9k 0.4× 900 0.6× 308 0.4× 313 0.9× 115 5.5k
J. M. Cordes 7.3k 0.9× 2.6k 0.5× 966 0.7× 137 0.2× 165 0.4× 199 7.6k
Emanuele Berti 15.2k 1.8× 8.4k 1.6× 703 0.5× 1.0k 1.3× 62 0.2× 233 15.9k
B. Bertotti 2.8k 0.3× 1.3k 0.3× 560 0.4× 404 0.5× 35 0.1× 105 3.2k
B. M. Gaensler 8.1k 1.0× 4.6k 0.9× 306 0.2× 147 0.2× 222 0.6× 280 8.5k
Ewald Müller 4.9k 0.6× 2.5k 0.5× 171 0.1× 61 0.1× 534 1.5× 117 5.5k
S. C. Cowley 4.8k 0.6× 3.3k 0.6× 139 0.1× 106 0.1× 277 0.8× 130 5.8k

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Fields of papers citing papers by L. Herrera

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of L. Herrera

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Herrera, L., A. Di Prisco, & J. Ospino. (2025). Complexity Hierarchies in Euclidean Stars. Symmetry. 17(9). 1517–1517. 1 indexed citations
2.
Herrera, L., A. Di Prisco, & J. Ospino. (2025). The Birth of a Ghost Star. Entropy. 27(4). 412–412.
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Herrera, L., et al.. (2025). Axially symmetric ghost stars. The European Physical Journal C. 85(6).
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Herrera, L., A. Di Prisco, & J. Ospino. (2024). The Post-Quasi-Static Approximation: An Analytical Approach to Gravitational Collapse. Symmetry. 16(3). 341–341. 4 indexed citations
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Herrera, L. & A. Di Prisco. (2024). Cracking and complexity of self-gravitating dissipative compact objects. Physical review. D. 109(6). 13 indexed citations
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Herrera, L., A. Di Prisco, & J. Ospino. (2024). Ghost Stars in General Relativity. Symmetry. 16(5). 562–562. 6 indexed citations
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Herrera, L., A. Di Prisco, J. Ospino, & J. Carot. (2023). Quasi-Hyperbolically Symmetric γ-Metric. Entropy. 25(9). 1338–1338. 1 indexed citations
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Herrera, L., A. Di Prisco, & J. Ospino. (2023). Expansion-Free Dissipative Fluid Spheres: Analytical Solutions. Symmetry. 15(3). 754–754. 17 indexed citations
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Herrera, L., A. Di Prisco, & J. Ospino. (2022). Non-Static Fluid Spheres Admitting a Conformal Killing Vector: Exact Solutions. Universe. 8(6). 296–296. 19 indexed citations
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Herrera, L., A. Di Prisco, & J. Ospino. (2021). Dynamics of Hyperbolically Symmetric Fluids. Symmetry. 13(9). 1568–1568. 15 indexed citations
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Herrera, L.. (2021). Complexity of Self-Gravitating Systems. Entropy. 23(7). 802–802. 23 indexed citations
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Herrera, L., A. Di Prisco, & J. Ospino. (2021). Hyperbolically symmetric static fluids: A general study. Physical review. D. 103(2). 47 indexed citations
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Herrera, L.. (2021). Deconstructing Frame-Dragging. Universe. 7(2). 27–27. 3 indexed citations
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Herrera, L.. (2020). Landauer Principle and General Relativity. Entropy. 22(3). 340–340. 17 indexed citations
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Herrera, L., A. Di Prisco, J. Ospino, & Louis Witten. (2020). Geodesics of the hyperbolically symmetric black hole. Physical review. D. 101(6). 22 indexed citations
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Herrera, L.. (2020). Stability of the isotropic pressure condition. Physical review. D. 101(10). 139 indexed citations
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Herrera, L.. (2019). Gravitational Radiation, Vorticity And Super–Energy: A Conspicuous Threesome. Universe. 5(7). 164–164. 3 indexed citations
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Herrera, L.. (2019). Causal Heat Conduction Contravening the Fading Memory Paradigm. Entropy. 21(10). 950–950. 10 indexed citations
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Herrera, L. & Louis Witten. (2018). An Alternative Approach to the Static Spherically Symmetric, Vacuum Global Solution to the Einstein Equations. Advances in High Energy Physics. 2018. 1–5. 19 indexed citations
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Herrera, L. & A. Di Prisco. (2017). Self-similarity in static axially symmetric relativistic fluids. International Journal of Modern Physics D. 27(1). 1750176–1750176. 6 indexed citations

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