Michael Nauenberg

7.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
139 papers, 5.4k citations indexed

About

Michael Nauenberg is a scholar working on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Condensed Matter Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Nauenberg has authored 139 papers receiving a total of 5.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 46 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, 41 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 33 papers in Condensed Matter Physics. Recurrent topics in Michael Nauenberg's work include Theoretical and Computational Physics (28 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (20 papers) and Quantum chaos and dynamical systems (13 papers). Michael Nauenberg is often cited by papers focused on Theoretical and Computational Physics (28 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (20 papers) and Quantum chaos and dynamical systems (13 papers). Michael Nauenberg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and United Kingdom. Michael Nauenberg's co-authors include T. D. Lee, Bernard Nienhuis, D. J. Scalapino, Bernard Nienhuis, B. Lautrup, George Chapline, Joseph Rudnick, C. Itzykson, S. Chandrasekhar and Richard C. Brower and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Michael Nauenberg

132 papers receiving 5.2k citations

Hit Papers

Degenerate Systems and Ma... 1964 2026 1984 2005 1964 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. Degenerate Systems and Mass Singularities
    1964 946 citations Michael Nauenberg et al. profile →

Author Peers

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

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Michael Nauenberg 2.1k 1.7k 1.6k 1.3k 867 139 5.4k
G. Jona‐Lasinio 5.3k 2.6× 1.5k 0.9× 1.9k 1.2× 1.7k 1.3× 1.1k 1.3× 75 8.4k
Harvey A. Rose 2.3k 1.1× 688 0.4× 2.3k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 1.0k 1.2× 110 5.2k
H. Osborn 3.9k 1.9× 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.7× 1.5k 1.2× 1.7k 2.0× 83 5.7k
H. Kleinert 2.6k 1.3× 2.5k 1.5× 5.4k 3.3× 2.7k 2.1× 1.1k 1.3× 367 9.9k
Michael Creutz 3.2k 1.5× 2.3k 1.4× 1.3k 0.8× 789 0.6× 186 0.2× 149 5.5k
R. Brout 2.6k 1.2× 1.3k 0.8× 1.9k 1.1× 1.0k 0.8× 1.4k 1.6× 110 5.3k
Walter Thirring 1.7k 0.8× 564 0.3× 2.5k 1.5× 1.9k 1.5× 770 0.9× 154 5.2k
R. Balescu 1.0k 0.5× 519 0.3× 1.4k 0.9× 1.8k 1.4× 923 1.1× 120 4.2k
C. Rebbi 7.0k 3.4× 2.1k 1.3× 2.6k 1.6× 1.3k 1.0× 1.3k 1.5× 206 9.8k
Kerson Huang 1.1k 0.5× 877 0.5× 3.3k 2.1× 1.1k 0.8× 503 0.6× 82 5.0k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Nauenberg

Since Specialization
Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Michael Nauenberg's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Michael Nauenberg with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Michael Nauenberg more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Nauenberg

Since Specialization
Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Michael Nauenberg. 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 Michael Nauenberg. The network helps show where Michael Nauenberg may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Nauenberg

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Nauenberg. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Nauenberg 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 Michael Nauenberg. Michael Nauenberg 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
1.
Nauenberg, Michael. (2015). Solution to the long-standing puzzle of Huygens’ “anomalous suspension”. Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 69(3). 327–341. 2 indexed citations
2.
Nauenberg, Michael. (2014). Perturbation approximation for orbits in axially symmetric funnels. American Journal of Physics. 82(11). 1047–1052. 1 indexed citations
3.
Nauenberg, Michael. (2012). Comment on “Is Newton’s second law really Newton’s?” by Bruce Pourciau [Am. J. Phys. 79(10), 1015–1022 (2011)]. American Journal of Physics. 80(10). 931–933. 2 indexed citations
4.
Moore, Cristopher & Michael Nauenberg. (2006). New Periodic Orbits for the n-Body Problem. Journal of Computational and Nonlinear Dynamics. 1(4). 307–311. 15 indexed citations
5.
Nauenberg, Michael. (2004). Hooke and Newton: ‘Divining’ Planetary Motions. Physics Today. 57(2). 13–13. 1 indexed citations
6.
Nauenberg, Michael. (2003). Kepler's area law in the Principia: filling in some details in Newton's proof of Proposition 1. Historia Mathematica. 30(4). 441–456. 11 indexed citations
7.
Nauenberg, Michael. (2003). Critique ofq-entropy for thermal statistics. Physical review. E, Statistical physics, plasmas, fluids, and related interdisciplinary topics. 67(3). 36114–36114. 88 indexed citations
8.
Nauenberg, Michael. (2001). Periodic orbits for three particles with finite angular momentum. Physics Letters A. 292(1-2). 93–99. 13 indexed citations
9.
Dalitz, R.H. & Michael Nauenberg. (2000). The Foundations of Newtonian Scholarship. WORLD SCIENTIFIC eBooks. 8 indexed citations
10.
Nauenberg, Michael. (1998). On Hooke's 1685 Manuscript on Orbital Mechanics. Historia Mathematica. 25(1). 89–93. 4 indexed citations
11.
Nauenberg, Michael, et al.. (1993). Semiclassical theory of quantum propagation: The Coulomb potential. Physical Review Letters. 71(13). 1961–1964. 39 indexed citations
12.
Nauenberg, Michael. (1990). Autocorrelation function and quantum recurrence of wavepackets. Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics. 23(15). L385–L390. 74 indexed citations
13.
Brower, Richard C., David A. Kessler, T. Schalk, Herbert Levine, & Michael Nauenberg. (1982). SU(2) adjoint Higgs model. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 25(12). 3319–3324. 28 indexed citations
14.
Nauenberg, Michael & Joseph Rudnick. (1981). Universality and the power spectrum at the onset of chaos. Physical review. B, Condensed matter. 24(1). 493–495. 38 indexed citations
15.
Lautrup, B. & Michael Nauenberg. (1980). Correlations and Specific Heat of the SU(2) Lattice Gauge Model. Physical Review Letters. 45(22). 1755–1758. 103 indexed citations
16.
Brower, Richard C., Fred Kuttner, Michael Nauenberg, & S. Krishna Prasad. (1977). Renormalization Transformations for Quantum Spin Systems. Physical Review Letters. 38(22). 1231–1234. 42 indexed citations
17.
Nienhuis, Bernard & Michael Nauenberg. (1975). Renormalization-group calculation for the equation of state of an Ising ferromagnet. Physical review. B, Solid state. 11(11). 4152–4155. 50 indexed citations
18.
Nauenberg, Michael & Bernard Nienhuis. (1974). Critical Surface for Square Ising Spin Lattice. Physical Review Letters. 33(16). 944–946. 116 indexed citations
19.
Nauenberg, Michael, et al.. (1973). DETERMINAT10N of Properties of Cold Stars in General Relativity by a Variational Method . .. The Astrophysical Journal. 179. 277–277. 50 indexed citations
20.
Nauenberg, Michael. (1969). Photon Absorption in Nuclei and Vector-Meson Dominance. Physical Review Letters. 22(11). 556–558. 27 indexed citations

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact

Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by G. Jona‐Lasinio Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Harvey A. Rose Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by H. Osborn Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by H. Kleinert Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Michael Creutz Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by R. Brout Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Walter Thirring Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by R. Balescu Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by C. Rebbi Breakdown of academic impact, for papers by Kerson Huang
Rankless by CCL
2026