Mark Trodden

14.1k total citations · 5 hit papers
139 papers, 9.4k citations indexed

About

Mark Trodden is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Mark Trodden has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 9.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 125 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 16 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Mark Trodden's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (126 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (101 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (37 papers). Mark Trodden is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (126 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (101 papers) and Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (37 papers). Mark Trodden collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. Mark Trodden's co-authors include Sean M. Carroll, Michael S. Turner, Kurt Hinterbichler, Mark B. Hoffman, Justin Khoury, Austin Joyce, Bhuvnesh Jain, Alessandra Silvestri, Antonio Riotto and Antonio De Felice and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Physics Reports.

In The Last Decade

Mark Trodden

132 papers receiving 9.2k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Is cosmic speed-up due to new gravitational physics?

2004 1.6k citations Mark Trodden et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
Can the dark energy equation-of-state parameterwbe less than−1?

2003 808 citations Mark Trodden et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
Beyond the cosmological standard model

2014 760 citations Bhuvnesh Jain, Justin Khoury et al. profile →
Cosmology of generalized modified gravity models

2005 409 citations Mark Trodden et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →
Early Dark Energy from Massive Neutrinos as a Natural Resolution of the Hubble Tension

2020 185 citations Jeremy Sakstein, Mark Trodden Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Mark Trodden United States	44	8.5k	7.9k	1.0k	632	384	139	9.4k
Misao Sasaki Japan	56	11.4k 1.3×	8.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.1×	997 1.6×	699 1.8×	272	11.8k
Edward W. Kolb United States	57	10.6k 1.2×	11.1k 1.4×	983 0.9×	534 0.8×	910 2.4×	195	13.0k
Antonio Riotto Switzerland	69	14.0k 1.6×	12.9k 1.6×	929 0.9×	972 1.5×	506 1.3×	292	16.6k
Alberto Nicolis United States	30	5.0k 0.6×	4.5k 0.6×	986 0.9×	318 0.5×	508 1.3×	55	5.6k
Edmund J. Copeland United Kingdom	50	13.0k 1.5×	10.9k 1.4×	1.5k 1.4×	859 1.4×	651 1.7×	183	13.7k
David H. Lyth United Kingdom	46	10.6k 1.2×	9.0k 1.1×	779 0.7×	1.0k 1.6×	341 0.9×	137	11.3k
I. Tkachev Russia	42	5.1k 0.6×	5.3k 0.7×	666 0.6×	238 0.4×	881 2.3×	135	6.5k
Justin Khoury United States	43	9.1k 1.1×	7.3k 0.9×	1.2k 1.2×	650 1.0×	983 2.6×	106	9.8k
Rong-Gen Cai China	53	8.5k 1.0×	7.6k 1.0×	2.7k 2.6×	276 0.4×	835 2.2×	155	8.9k
Robert Brandenberger Canada	59	11.6k 1.4×	10.3k 1.3×	2.5k 2.4×	508 0.8×	1.1k 2.9×	322	12.4k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Mark Trodden

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Jaraba, Santiago, et al.. (2025). First astrometric constraints on parity-violation in the gravitational wave background. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(8). 57–57.

Khoury, Justin, Mengxiang Lin, & Mark Trodden. (2025). Apparent w<-1 and a Lower S_{8} from Dark Axion and Dark Baryons Interactions.. PubMed. 135(18). 181001–181001. 9 indexed citations

Luca, Valerio De, et al.. (2025). Tidal Love numbers of analog black holes. Physical review. D. 111(4). 4 indexed citations

Giblin, John T., et al.. (2024). Simulating a numerical UV completion of quartic Galileons. Physical review. D. 109(12). 1 indexed citations

Hu, Wayne, et al.. (2024). Testing gravity with realistic gravitational waveforms in Pulsar Timing Arrays. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(12). 54–54. 1 indexed citations

Luca, Valerio De, et al.. (2024). Tidal Love numbers and Green’s functions in black hole spacetimes. Physical review. D. 110(6). 14 indexed citations

Karwal, Tanvi, Marco Raveri, Bhuvnesh Jain, Justin Khoury, & Mark Trodden. (2022). Chameleon early dark energy and the Hubble tension. CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa). 90 indexed citations

Trodden, Mark, et al.. (2021). Detecting the Stochastic Gravitational Wave Background from Massive Gravity with Pulsar Timing Arrays. arXiv (Cornell University). 31 indexed citations

González, Mariana Carrillo, et al.. (2021). Effective field theory for binary cosmic strings. Physical review. D. 104(4). 1 indexed citations

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Sakstein, Jeremy & Mark Trodden. (2020). Early Dark Energy from Massive Neutrinos as a Natural Resolution of the Hubble Tension. Physical Review Letters. 124(16). 161301–161301. 185 indexed citations breakdown →

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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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Koehn, Michael & Mark Trodden. (2016). Supersymmetric k-defects. Physics Letters B. 755. 498–503. 7 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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Feng, Jonathan L. & Mark Trodden. (2010). Dark worlds. (Cover story). Scientific American. 303(5). 38–45.

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Silvestri, Alessandra & Mark Trodden. (2009). Non-Gaussian Signatures from the Postinflationary Early Universe. Physical Review Letters. 103(25). 251301–251301. 5 indexed citations

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Toharia, Manuel & Mark Trodden. (2008). Metastable Kinks in the Orbifold. Physical Review Letters. 100(4). 41602–41602. 13 indexed citations

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Bean, Rachel, et al.. (2007). Dynamics of linear perturbations inf(R)gravity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 75(6). 218 indexed citations

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Melchiorri, A., Laura Mersini–Houghton, Carolina J. Ödman, & Mark Trodden. (2003). The state of the dark energy equation of state. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 68(4). 294 indexed citations

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Starkman, Glenn D., Dejan Stojković, & Mark Trodden. (2001). Homogeneity, Flatness, and “Large” Extra Dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 87(23). 231303–231303. 75 indexed citations

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Vachaspati, Tanmay & Mark Trodden. (1999). Causality and cosmic inflation. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 61(2). 84 indexed citations

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