Michele Cicoli

4.8k total citations · 2 hit papers
69 papers, 2.2k citations indexed

About

Michele Cicoli is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Oceanography. According to data from OpenAlex, Michele Cicoli has authored 69 papers receiving a total of 2.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 67 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 66 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 3 papers in Oceanography. Recurrent topics in Michele Cicoli's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (64 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (55 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (29 papers). Michele Cicoli is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (64 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (55 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (29 papers). Michele Cicoli collaborates with scholars based in Italy, United Kingdom and Germany. Michele Cicoli's co-authors include Joseph P. Conlon, Fernando Quevedo, Andreas Ringwald, Francisco G. Pedro, Mark D. Goodsell, Fernando Quevedo, Anshuman Maharana, Bhaskar Dutta, Roberto Valandro and Francesco Muia and has published in prestigious journals such as Physics Reports, Journal of High Energy Physics and Physical review. D.

In The Last Decade

Michele Cicoli

69 papers receiving 2.2k citations

Hit Papers

The type IIB string axiverse and its low-energy phenomeno... 2012 2026 2016 2021 2012 2024 100 200 300
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. The type IIB string axiverse and its low-energy phenomenology
    2012 308 citations Michele Cicoli et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
  2. String cosmology: From the early universe to today
    2024 79 citations Michele Cicoli, Joseph P. Conlon et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michele Cicoli Italy 28 2.1k 1.9k 121 97 76 69 2.2k
Arthur Hebecker Germany 30 1.9k 0.9× 1.4k 0.7× 345 2.9× 46 0.5× 59 0.8× 77 2.0k
Timm Wrase United States 23 1.2k 0.6× 1.1k 0.6× 274 2.3× 33 0.3× 28 0.4× 42 1.3k
Tanmoy Paul India 21 1.1k 0.5× 1.4k 0.7× 254 2.1× 138 1.4× 41 0.5× 58 1.5k
Ram Brustein Israel 24 1.7k 0.8× 1.9k 1.0× 483 4.0× 81 0.8× 170 2.2× 117 2.1k
Yuri Shtanov Ukraine 16 1.5k 0.7× 1.8k 0.9× 300 2.5× 85 0.9× 105 1.4× 49 1.9k
Qaisar Shafi United States 31 2.9k 1.4× 2.9k 1.5× 136 1.1× 172 1.8× 76 1.0× 108 3.2k
Alain Riazuelo France 21 993 0.5× 1.4k 0.7× 141 1.2× 109 1.1× 62 0.8× 36 1.4k
Peter K. S. Dunsby South Africa 28 2.1k 1.0× 2.5k 1.3× 251 2.1× 247 2.5× 55 0.7× 94 2.6k
Alexander Vikman Czechia 18 2.0k 1.0× 2.3k 1.2× 311 2.6× 151 1.6× 126 1.7× 31 2.4k
Jean-Luc Lehners Germany 27 2.0k 1.0× 2.1k 1.1× 730 6.0× 97 1.0× 147 1.9× 77 2.2k

Countries citing papers authored by Michele Cicoli

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michele Cicoli

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michele Cicoli

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michele Cicoli. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michele Cicoli 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 Michele Cicoli. Michele Cicoli 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
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2025). Growth of cosmic strings beyond kination. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2025(7). 10–10. 2 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2025). Chiral global embedding of Fibre Inflation with $$ \overline{\textrm{D}3} $$ uplift. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(6). 5 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2025). Back to the origins of brane–antibrane inflation. The European Physical Journal C. 85(3). 6 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2025). Deep observations of the Type IIB flux landscape. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(7). 1 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2024). Loop blow-up inflation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(7). 7 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2024). Higher derivative corrections to string inflation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(2). 10 indexed citations
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Allahverdi, Rouzbeh, et al.. (2024). Phenomenology of superheavy decaying dark matter from string theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(2). 4 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2023). Joint statistics of cosmological constant and SUSY breaking in flux vacua with nilpotent Goldstino. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(1). 3 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2023). Starobinsky inflation from string theory?. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(9). 15 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2023). Early Dark Energy in Type IIB String Theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(6). 19 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2022). Stringy multifield quintessence and the Swampland. Archivio istituzionale della ricerca (Alma Mater Studiorum Università di Bologna). 17 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2022). Systematics of type IIB moduli stabilisation with odd axions. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(4). 19 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2022). Fuzzy Dark Matter candidates from string theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(5). 35 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, Fernando Quevedo, & Roberto Valandro. (2016). De Sitter from T-branes. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2016(3). 70 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, Koushik Dutta, Anshuman Maharana, & Fernando Quevedo. (2016). Moduli vacuum misalignment and precise predictions in string inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2016(8). 6–6. 45 indexed citations
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Aparicio, Luis, Michele Cicoli, Bhaskar Dutta, et al.. (2015). Non-thermal CMSSM with a 125 GeV Higgs. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(5). 24 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, Joseph P. Conlon, M. C. David Marsh, & Markus Rummel. (2014). 3.55 keV photon line and its morphology from a 3.55 keV axionlike particle line. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 90(2). 66 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, et al.. (2013). Power suppression at large scales in string inflation. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2013(12). 7–7. 30 indexed citations
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Allahverdi, Rouzbeh, Michele Cicoli, Bhaskar Dutta, & Kuver Sinha. (2013). Nonthermal dark matter in string compactifications. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 88(9). 53 indexed citations
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Cicoli, Michele, Joseph P. Conlon, & Fernando Quevedo. (2008). General analysis of LARGE Volume Scenarios with string loop moduli stabilisation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2008(10). 105–105. 117 indexed citations

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