Michael Buballa

4.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
78 papers, 3.3k citations indexed

About

Michael Buballa is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Buballa has authored 78 papers receiving a total of 3.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 62 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 35 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 16 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Michael Buballa's work include Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (53 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (44 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (26 papers). Michael Buballa is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (53 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (44 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (26 papers). Michael Buballa collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Poland and United States. Michael Buballa's co-authors include Stefano Carignano, Micaela Oertel, J. Wambach, I. A. Shovkovy, Dominik Nickel, Dirk H. Rischke, D. Blaschke, Stefan B. Rüster, M. R. Frank and Mi­chael Urban and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Reports and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Michael Buballa

78 papers receiving 3.3k citations

Hit Papers

NJL-model analysis of dense quark matter 2005 2026 2012 2019 2005 250 500 750 1000
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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. NJL-model analysis of dense quark matter
    2005 1.1k citations Michael Buballa profile →

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Buballa Germany 28 2.7k 1.3k 906 511 431 78 3.3k
Hong-Shi Zong China 30 2.6k 1.0× 955 0.7× 623 0.7× 173 0.3× 152 0.4× 249 3.2k
Sidney S. Avancini Brazil 25 1.7k 0.6× 1.5k 1.2× 491 0.5× 538 1.1× 76 0.2× 89 2.4k
Ariel Zhitnitsky Canada 34 3.9k 1.4× 2.0k 1.5× 868 1.0× 105 0.2× 183 0.4× 146 4.3k
Claudia Ratti United States 36 5.4k 2.0× 1.2k 1.0× 473 0.5× 191 0.4× 195 0.5× 121 5.7k
Efrain J. Ferrer United States 24 1.3k 0.5× 1.1k 0.9× 727 0.8× 424 0.8× 233 0.5× 79 1.9k
À. Ramos Spain 42 5.1k 1.9× 823 0.6× 955 1.1× 468 0.9× 148 0.3× 190 5.6k
Micaela Oertel France 30 1.7k 0.6× 2.4k 1.9× 552 0.6× 873 1.7× 120 0.3× 75 3.3k
Heng-Tong Ding China 27 4.7k 1.7× 877 0.7× 392 0.4× 132 0.3× 160 0.4× 91 4.9k
Armen Sedrakian Germany 35 1.6k 0.6× 3.0k 2.3× 1.4k 1.5× 1.1k 2.2× 319 0.7× 140 4.0k
S. P. Klevansky Germany 18 2.4k 0.9× 601 0.5× 651 0.7× 188 0.4× 233 0.5× 55 2.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Buballa, Michael, et al.. (2025). Renormalization-group consistent treatment of color superconductivity in the NJL model. Physical review. D. 111(1). 6 indexed citations
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Buballa, Michael, et al.. (2025). Astrophysical constraints on color-superconducting phases in compact stars within the RG-consistent NJL model. Physical review. D. 111(10). 9 indexed citations
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Buballa, Michael, et al.. (2023). Toward a stability analysis of inhomogeneous phases in QCD. Physical review. D. 108(11). 9 indexed citations
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Wink, Nicolas, et al.. (2022). Numerical fluid dynamics for FRG flow equations: Zero-dimensional QFTs as numerical test cases. I. The O(N) model. Physical review. D. 106(6). 20 indexed citations
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Buballa, Michael, et al.. (2021). Role of baryon resonances in the π−p→ne+e− reaction within an effective-Lagrangian model. Physical review. C. 104(1). 2 indexed citations
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Buballa, Michael, et al.. (2021). Regulator dependence of inhomogeneous phases in the (2+1)-dimensional Gross-Neveu model. Physical review. D. 103(3). 20 indexed citations
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Buballa, Michael, et al.. (2019). Baryon number fluctuations in the QCD phase diagram from Dyson-Schwinger equations. Physical review. D. 100(7). 63 indexed citations
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Márquez, Federico, et al.. (2015). The dual quark condensate in local and nonlocal NJL models: An order parameter for deconfinement?. Physics Letters B. 747. 529–535. 14 indexed citations
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Buballa, Michael, et al.. (2013). Dyson-Schwinger approach to color superconductivity at finite temperature and density. The European Physical Journal A. 49(8). 24 indexed citations
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Carignano, Stefano & Michael Buballa. (2012). . Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement. 5(3). 641–641. 22 indexed citations
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Benić, Sanjin, D. Blaschke, & Michael Buballa. (2012). Thermodynamic instabilities in dynamical quark models with complex conjugate mass poles. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(7). 18 indexed citations
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Buballa, Michael, et al.. (2009). Solitonic ground states in (color) superconductivity. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 7 indexed citations
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Nickel, Dominik & Michael Buballa. (2009). Solitonic ground states in (color) superconductivity. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 79(5). 36 indexed citations
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Buballa, Michael & I. A. Shovkovy. (2005). Note on color neutrality in Nambu-Jona-Lasinio-type models. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 72(9). 53 indexed citations
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Rüster, Stefan B., et al.. (2005). Phase diagram of neutral quark matter: Self-consistent treatment of quark masses. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 72(3). 183 indexed citations
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Buballa, Michael. (2004). NJL-model analysis of quark matter at large density. arXiv (Cornell University). 46 indexed citations
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Buballa, Michael, Jiří Hošek, & Micaela Oertel. (2003). Anisotropic Admixture in Color-Superconducting Quark Matter. Physical Review Letters. 90(18). 182002–182002. 41 indexed citations
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Urban, Mi­chael, Michael Buballa, & J. Wambach. (2002). Temperature Dependence ofρanda1-Meson Masses and Mixing of Vector and Axial-Vector Correlators. Physical Review Letters. 88(4). 42002–42002. 22 indexed citations
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Oertel, Micaela, Michael Buballa, & J. Wambach. (2000). Pion properties in the 1/N-corrected NJL model. Physics Letters B. 477(1-3). 77–82. 18 indexed citations
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Buballa, Michael & Micaela Oertel. (1998). 1 Quark Droplets in the NJL Mean Field. 13 indexed citations

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