Nicolás Bernal

2.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Nicolás Bernal is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicolás Bernal has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 55 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 4 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Nicolás Bernal's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (54 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (54 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (38 papers). Nicolás Bernal is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (54 papers), Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena (54 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (38 papers). Nicolás Bernal collaborates with scholars based in Colombia, United Arab Emirates and United States. Nicolás Bernal's co-authors include Óscar Zapata, Yong Xu, Xiaoyong Chu, Matti Heikinheimo, Kimmo Tuominen, Ville Vaskonen, Tommi Tenkanen, Fazlollah Hajkarim, Yann Mambrini and Basabendu Barman and has published in prestigious journals such as Nuclear Physics B, Physics Letters B and Journal of High Energy Physics.

In The Last Decade

Nicolás Bernal

68 papers receiving 1.7k citations

Hit Papers

The dawn of FIMP Dark Matter: A review of models and cons... 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300
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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. The dawn of FIMP Dark Matter: A review of models and constraints
    2017 325 citations Nicolás Bernal 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
Nicolás Bernal Colombia 24 1.6k 1.4k 113 65 36 70 1.8k
Ranjan Laha United States 21 1.2k 0.7× 1.0k 0.7× 103 0.9× 45 0.7× 31 0.9× 38 1.5k
P.F. de Salas Spain 14 1.1k 0.7× 711 0.5× 37 0.3× 46 0.7× 26 0.7× 19 1.3k
M. Lattanzi Italy 20 1.5k 0.9× 1.2k 0.8× 37 0.3× 40 0.6× 46 1.3× 62 1.6k
Andrey Katz United States 19 1.2k 0.7× 813 0.6× 95 0.8× 39 0.6× 12 0.3× 30 1.4k
Morgan Le Delliou Portugal 16 561 0.3× 853 0.6× 63 0.6× 74 1.1× 36 1.0× 47 864
Marieke Postma Netherlands 13 629 0.4× 610 0.4× 51 0.5× 46 0.7× 33 0.9× 33 701
Diego Harari Argentina 15 709 0.4× 573 0.4× 81 0.7× 75 1.2× 27 0.8× 34 815
Savvas M. Koushiappas United States 22 1.3k 0.8× 1.4k 1.0× 40 0.4× 45 0.7× 19 0.5× 38 1.7k
Raymond T. Co United States 18 1000 0.6× 886 0.6× 152 1.3× 27 0.4× 25 0.7× 33 1.1k
Natsumi Nagata Japan 25 1.8k 1.1× 1.1k 0.7× 184 1.6× 24 0.4× 19 0.5× 77 1.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Nicolás Bernal

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicolás Bernal

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicolás Bernal

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Nicolás Bernal. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Nicolás Bernal 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 Nicolás Bernal. Nicolás Bernal 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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Bernal, Nicolás, et al.. (2026). Testing frozen-in pNGB dark matter with a long-lived dark Higgs. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2026(1).
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Bernal, Nicolás, et al.. (2025). Enabling thermal dark matter within the vanilla L μ − L τ model. Physical review. D. 112(7). 1 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás, Chee Sheng Fong, & Óscar Zapata. (2025). Probing low-reheating scenarios with minimal freeze-in dark matter. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(2). 7 indexed citations
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Bélanger, G., Nicolás Bernal, & Alexander Pukhov. (2025). Z′-mediated dark matter with low-temperature reheating. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3). 8 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás, et al.. (2025). Graviton- and inflaton-mediated dark matter production after large field polynomial inflation. Physical review. D. 111(4). 4 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás & Yong Xu. (2025). Thermal gravitational waves during reheating. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(1). 7 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás, et al.. (2024). Probing reheating with graviton bremsstrahlung. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(1). 65–65. 27 indexed citations
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Arias, Paola, et al.. (2024). Revisiting signatures of thermal axions in nonstandard cosmologies. Physical review. D. 109(12). 11 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás, et al.. (2024). Thermal dark matter with low-temperature reheating. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(9). 24–24. 15 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás, et al.. (2024). Unitarity bound on dark matter in low-temperature reheating scenarios. Physical review. D. 109(3). 12 indexed citations
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Barman, Basabendu, Nicolás Bernal, & Yong Xu. (2024). Resonant reheating. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2024(8). 14–14. 14 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás, et al.. (2024). Discovering heavy neutral leptons with the Higgs boson. Physical review. D. 110(5). 3 indexed citations
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Abada, Asmâa, et al.. (2023). Phenomenological and cosmological implications of a scotogenic three-loop neutrino mass model. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(3). 6 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás, et al.. (2023). From WIMPs to FIMPs with low reheating temperatures. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(9). 15–15. 31 indexed citations
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Barman, Basabendu, Nicolás Bernal, Yong Xu, & Óscar Zapata. (2023). Bremsstrahlung-induced gravitational waves in monomial potentials during reheating. Physical review. D. 108(8). 19 indexed citations
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Arias, Paola, et al.. (2023). Dark matter axions in the early universe with a period of increasing temperature. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(5). 28–28. 12 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás, et al.. (2021). Anomaly-free Abelian gauge symmetries with Dirac scotogenic models. Physical review. D. 103(9). 11 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás, Yuber F. Perez-Gonzalez, Yong Xu, & Óscar Zapata. (2021). ALP dark matter in a primordial black hole dominated universe. Physical review. D. 104(12). 40 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás, Xiaoyong Chu, Suchita Kulkarni, & Josef Pradler. (2020). Self-interacting dark matter without prejudice. Physical review. D. 101(5). 26 indexed citations
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Bernal, Nicolás, Camilo García-Cely, & R. Rosenfeld. (2015). Z 3 WIMP and SIMP Dark Matter from a Global U(1) Breaking. Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings. 267-269. 353–355. 11 indexed citations

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