Lee Smolin

14.8k total citations · 4 hit papers
154 papers, 7.8k citations indexed

About

Lee Smolin is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Nuclear and High Energy Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lee Smolin has authored 154 papers receiving a total of 7.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 100 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 94 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 87 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Recurrent topics in Lee Smolin's work include Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (88 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (85 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (85 papers). Lee Smolin is often cited by papers focused on Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (88 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (85 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (85 papers). Lee Smolin collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and United Kingdom. Lee Smolin's co-authors include Carlo Rovelli, João Magueijo, Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Ted Jacobson, Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman, Abhay Ashtekar, Laurent Freidel, Fotini Markopoulou, Marina Cortês and Artem Starodubtsev and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Lee Smolin

150 papers receiving 7.3k citations

Hit Papers

Lorentz Invariance with an Invariant Energy Scale 1990 2026 2002 2014 2002 1995 1990 2003 250 500 750

Peers

Lee Smolin
Comparison fields: 5 of 119
  • Statistical and Nonlinear Physics 6.1k
  • Nuclear and High Energy Physics 6.0k
  • Astronomy and Astrophysics 5.2k
  • Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics 1.6k
  • Mathematical Physics 399
Replace Carlo Rovelli with:
Carlo Rovelli France
Giovanni Amelino-Camelia Italy
John H. Schwarz United States
Abhay Ashtekar United States
Ted Jacobson United States
Jorge Pullin United States
C. J. Isham United Kingdom
Bryce S. DeWitt United States
Rodolfo Gambini United States
Don N. Page Canada
Carlo Rovelli France View profile →
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Countries citing papers authored by Lee Smolin

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lee Smolin

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Lee Smolin. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Lee Smolin. The network helps show where Lee Smolin may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lee Smolin

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Lee Smolin. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Lee Smolin based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Lee Smolin. Lee Smolin is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
# Work Indexed citations
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2 2
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Einstein's unfinished revolution: the search for what lies beyond the quantum
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4 4
5 1
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Why gravity codes the renormalization of conformal field theories
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7 75
8 78
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Quantum Graphity
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10 5
11 6
12 14
13 42
14 14
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16 3
17 92
18 32
19 44
20 168

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