Michael R. Douglas

17.2k total citations · 6 hit papers
84 papers, 8.9k citations indexed

About

Michael R. Douglas is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Geometry and Topology. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael R. Douglas has authored 84 papers receiving a total of 8.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 32 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 26 papers in Geometry and Topology. Recurrent topics in Michael R. Douglas's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (62 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (30 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (18 papers). Michael R. Douglas is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (62 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (30 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (18 papers). Michael R. Douglas collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Michael R. Douglas's co-authors include Nikita Nekrasov, Albert Schwarz, Alain Connes, Stephen H. Shenker, Frederik Denef, Shamit Kachru, Nathan Seiberg, Vladimir Kazakov, Bogdan Florea and Brian Greene and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Reviews of Modern Physics and Physical review. B, Condensed matter.

In The Last Decade

Michael R. Douglas

81 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

Noncommutative field theory 1990 2026 2002 2014 2001 1998 1997 1990 2007 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. Noncommutative field theory
    2001 1.3k citations Michael R. Douglas et al. profile →
  2. Noncommutative geometry and Matrix theory
    1998 803 citations Michael R. Douglas et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  3. Noncommutative Geometry and Matrix Theory: Compactification on Tori
    1997 780 citations Michael R. Douglas et al. arXiv (Cornell University) profile →
  4. Strings in less than one dimension
    1990 698 citations Michael R. Douglas, Stephen H. Shenker Nuclear Physics B profile →
  5. Flux compactification
    2007 460 citations Michael R. Douglas et al. profile →
  6. Flux Compactification
    2006 385 citations Michael R. Douglas, Shamit Kachru University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael R. Douglas United States 41 7.5k 4.9k 4.3k 1.8k 977 84 8.9k
Hirosi Ooguri United States 51 10.7k 1.4× 5.0k 1.0× 7.2k 1.7× 2.0k 1.1× 939 1.0× 133 12.0k
Luis Álvarez-Gaumé Switzerland 39 6.1k 0.8× 2.5k 0.5× 2.4k 0.6× 1.4k 0.8× 823 0.8× 84 7.2k
Erik Verlinde Netherlands 34 4.7k 0.6× 3.0k 0.6× 3.0k 0.7× 2.0k 1.1× 1.0k 1.0× 61 6.5k
J. Ambjørn Denmark 52 6.3k 0.8× 4.5k 0.9× 3.5k 0.8× 785 0.4× 987 1.0× 268 8.5k
Herman Verlinde United States 36 5.0k 0.7× 2.8k 0.6× 2.9k 0.7× 1.5k 0.8× 719 0.7× 85 5.9k
Daniel Friedan United States 28 5.8k 0.8× 3.2k 0.6× 2.0k 0.5× 2.9k 1.6× 846 0.9× 40 7.7k
M. Roček United States 39 5.5k 0.7× 3.0k 0.6× 2.6k 0.6× 1.3k 0.7× 608 0.6× 121 6.4k
Emil J. Martinec United States 36 9.1k 1.2× 3.8k 0.8× 4.0k 0.9× 2.3k 1.3× 692 0.7× 77 10.6k
Hermann Nicolai Germany 45 6.3k 0.8× 3.8k 0.8× 3.6k 0.8× 1.1k 0.6× 460 0.5× 193 7.0k
J. Wess Germany 32 8.1k 1.1× 3.2k 0.7× 2.5k 0.6× 1.2k 0.6× 609 0.6× 86 9.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Wang, Jie, Semyon Klevtsov, & Michael R. Douglas. (2023). Fractional quantum Hall states on CP2 space. Physical Review Research. 5(2).
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Bachas, Constantin P., Ilka Brunner, Michael R. Douglas, & Leonardo Rastelli. (2014). Calabi’s diastasis as interface entropy. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90(4). 8 indexed citations
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Bern, Zvi, John Joseph M. Carrasco, Lance J. Dixon, et al.. (2012). D = 5 maximally supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory diverges at six loops. University of North Texas Digital Library (University of North Texas). 15 indexed citations
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Kachru, Shamit, Michael R. Douglas, & Frederik Denef. (2009). Physics of String Flux Compactifications. Digital Access to Scholarship at Harvard (DASH) (Harvard University). 61 indexed citations
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Denef, Frederik & Michael R. Douglas. (2008). Complexity and Landscape in String Theory. 81–100. 2 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R. & Zhiqin Lu. (2006). ON THE GEOMETRY OF MODULI SPACE OF POLARIZED CALABI-YAU MANIFOLDS(Analytic Geometry of the Bergman Kernel and Related Topics). Kyoto University Research Information Repository (Kyoto University). 1487. 55–68. 1 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R. & Bartomeu Fiol. (2005). D-branes and discrete torsion II. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2005(9). 53–53. 40 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R., Bartomeu Fiol, & Christian Römelsberger. (2005). The spectrum of BPS branes on a noncompact Calabi-Yau. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2005(9). 57–57. 81 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R.. (2004). Basic results in vacuum statistics. Comptes Rendus Physique. 5(9-10). 965–977. 72 indexed citations
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Banks, Tom, Michael Dine, & Michael R. Douglas. (2002). Time-Varyingαand Particle Physics. Physical Review Letters. 88(13). 131301–131301. 46 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R., Liu Hong, Gregory Moore, & Barton Zwiebach. (2002). Open String Star as a Continuous Moyal Product. 35 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R.. (2001). D-BRANES AND N = 1 SUPERSYMMETRY. CERN Bulletin. 4 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R.. (1998). Gauge fields and D-branes. Journal of Geometry and Physics. 28(3-4). 255–262. 122 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R., et al.. (1997). D-brane actions on Kähler manifolds. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 1(2). 237–258. 27 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R., Hirosi Ooguri, & Stephen H. Shenker. (1997). Issues in (M)atrix Model Compactification. arXiv (Cornell University). 8 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R., et al.. (1995). Free variables and the two-matrix model. Physics Letters B. 348(3-4). 360–364. 17 indexed citations
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Crnković, Č., Michael R. Douglas, & Gregory Moore. (1991). Physical solutions for unitary matrix models. Nuclear Physics B. 360(2-3). 507–523. 18 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R., Nathan Seiberg, & Stephen H. Shenker. (1990). Flow and instability in quantum gravity. Physics Letters B. 244(3-4). 381–386. 75 indexed citations
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Douglas, Michael R.. (1990). Strings in less than one dimension and the generalized KdV hierarchies. Physics Letters B. 238(2-4). 176–180. 319 indexed citations
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Applegate, James H., Michael R. Douglas, Yekta Gürsel, Gerald Jay Sussman, & Jack Wisdom. (1986). The outer solar system for 200 million years. The Astronomical Journal. 92. 176–176. 72 indexed citations

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