Lev Kofman

12.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
82 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Lev Kofman is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Lev Kofman has authored 82 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 80 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 49 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 13 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Lev Kofman's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (73 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (37 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (35 papers). Lev Kofman is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (73 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (37 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (35 papers). Lev Kofman collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Russia. Lev Kofman's co-authors include Andrei Linde, Alexei A. Starobinsky, Gary Felder, J. Richard Bond, Patrick B. Greene, Dmitry Pogosyan, Marco Peloso, Andrei V. Frolov, Рената Каллош and D. Pogosyan and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Lev Kofman

82 papers receiving 8.0k citations

Hit Papers

Towards the theory of reheating after inflation 1994 2026 2004 2015 1997 1994 1996 400 800 1.2k
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. Towards the theory of reheating after inflation
    1997 1.3k citations Lev Kofman, Andrei Linde et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  2. Reheating after Inflation
    1994 1.2k citations Lev Kofman, Andrei Linde et al. Physical Review Letters profile →
  3. How filaments of galaxies are woven into the cosmic web
    1996 704 citations J. Richard Bond, Lev Kofman et al. Nature profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Lev Kofman Canada 41 7.7k 5.7k 973 555 553 82 8.2k
Varun Sahni India 38 7.2k 0.9× 5.3k 0.9× 810 0.8× 279 0.5× 460 0.8× 97 7.3k
Roy Maartens United Kingdom 61 11.4k 1.5× 8.8k 1.5× 1.9k 2.0× 405 0.7× 519 0.9× 241 11.9k
Pedro G. Ferreira United Kingdom 48 10.8k 1.4× 7.8k 1.4× 987 1.0× 431 0.8× 819 1.5× 185 11.3k
Hiranya V. Peiris United Kingdom 39 10.8k 1.4× 7.1k 1.2× 776 0.8× 368 0.7× 650 1.2× 122 11.6k
R. Chris Smith United States 18 11.9k 1.5× 8.0k 1.4× 1.1k 1.1× 356 0.6× 689 1.2× 33 12.2k
Ron Gilliland United States 4 11.2k 1.5× 7.7k 1.3× 1.1k 1.1× 349 0.6× 688 1.2× 4 11.5k
Bharat Ratra United States 45 12.1k 1.6× 8.3k 1.5× 962 1.0× 282 0.5× 929 1.7× 127 12.4k
Edmund J. Copeland United Kingdom 50 13.0k 1.7× 10.9k 1.9× 1.5k 1.5× 651 1.2× 859 1.6× 183 13.7k
J. Spyromilio Germany 27 13.0k 1.7× 8.2k 1.4× 1.1k 1.1× 634 1.1× 697 1.3× 111 13.6k
E. P. S. Shellard United Kingdom 39 5.4k 0.7× 4.7k 0.8× 752 0.8× 868 1.6× 244 0.4× 109 6.5k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Lev Kofman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Kofman, Lev, Jean–Philippe Uzan, & Cyril Pitrou. (2011). Perturbations of generic Kasner spacetimes and their stability. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2011(5). 11–11. 9 indexed citations
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Bond, J. Richard, et al.. (2009). Non-Gaussian Curvature Spikes from Chaotic Billiards in Inflation Preheating. Physical Review Letters. 103(7). 71301–71301. 69 indexed citations
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Dufaux, Jean-François, Lev Kofman, & Marco Peloso. (2008). Dangerous angular Kaluza-Klein/glueball relics in string theory cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 78(2). 11 indexed citations
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Kofman, Lev & Shinji Mukohyama. (2008). Rapid roll inflation with conformal coupling. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 77(4). 30 indexed citations
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Frolov, Andrei V. & Lev Kofman. (2004). Can inflating braneworlds be stabilized?. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 69(4). 26 indexed citations
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Kofman, Lev, et al.. (2004). Exact identification of the radion and its coupling to the observable sector. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 70(8). 53 indexed citations
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Kofman, Lev, et al.. (2002). Inflationary Theory and Alternative Cosmology. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2002(10). 57–57. 55 indexed citations
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Frolov, Andrei V. & Lev Kofman. (2002). Gravitational waves from brane world inflation. CERN Bulletin. 1 indexed citations
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Felder, Gary, J. García-Bellido, Patrick B. Greene, et al.. (2001). Dynamics of Symmetry Breaking and Tachyonic Preheating. Physical Review Letters. 87(1). 11601–11601. 300 indexed citations
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Felder, Gary, Lev Kofman, & Andrei Linde. (2001). Tachyonic instability and dynamics of spontaneous symmetry breaking. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 64(12). 204 indexed citations
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Pogosyan, D., J. Richard Bond, & Lev Kofman. (1998). Origin and observables of the cosmic web.. JRASC. 92(6). 313. 2 indexed citations
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Khlebnikov, Sergei, Lev Kofman, Andrei Linde, & I. Tkachev. (1998). First-Order Nonthermal Phase Transition after Preheating. Physical Review Letters. 81(10). 2012–2015. 52 indexed citations
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Pogosyan, Dmitry, J. Richard Bond, Lev Kofman, & James Wadsley. (1998). Cosmic Web: Origin and Observables. CERN Bulletin. 14. 61. 1 indexed citations
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Kofman, Lev, Nick Kaiser, Man Hoi Lee, & Arif Babul. (1997). Statistics of Gravitational Microlensing Magnification. I. Two‐dimensional Lens Distribution. The Astrophysical Journal. 489(2). 508–521. 15 indexed citations
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Bond, J. Richard, Lev Kofman, & Dmitry Pogosyan. (1996). How filaments of galaxies are woven into the cosmic web. Nature. 380(6575). 603–606. 704 indexed citations breakdown →
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Kofman, Lev, et al.. (1987). The evolution of inhomogeneities in inflationary models in the theory of gravitation with higher derivatives. 93. 769–783. 2 indexed citations
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Kofman, Lev & Viatcheslav Mukhanov. (1986). Evolution of perturbations in an inflationary universe. 44(11). 481–483. 3 indexed citations
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Kofman, Lev & А. А. Старобинский. (1985). Effect of the Cosmological Constant on Largescale Anisotropies in the Microwave Background. 11. 271–274. 11 indexed citations
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Kofman, Lev, et al.. (1983). Anisotropic cosmological model created by quantum polarization of vacuum. Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Physics. 58(6). 1090–325. 4 indexed citations
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Kofman, Lev. (1983). Space-time foam, induced by one-loop quantum-gravitational corrections. Physics Letters B. 124(3-4). 165–167. 8 indexed citations

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