Ofer Aharony

13.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
100 papers, 8.2k citations indexed

About

Ofer Aharony is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ofer Aharony has authored 100 papers receiving a total of 8.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 97 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 60 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 26 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Ofer Aharony's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (96 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (60 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (54 papers). Ofer Aharony is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (96 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (60 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (54 papers). Ofer Aharony collaborates with scholars based in Israel, United States and Canada. Ofer Aharony's co-authors include Yaron Oz, Juan Maldacena, Steven S. Gubser, Hirosi Ooguri, Nathan Seiberg, Micha Berkooz, Yuji Tachikawa, David Kutasov, S. Yankielowicz and Shiraz Minwalla and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Reports and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Ofer Aharony

100 papers receiving 7.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Large N field theories, string theory and gravity

2000 3.1k citations Ofer Aharony, Steven S. Gubser et al. Physics Reports profile →
Reading between the lines of four-dimensional gauge theories

2013 280 citations Ofer Aharony, Nathan Seiberg et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →
3d dualities from 4d dualities

2013 171 citations Ofer Aharony, Nathan Seiberg et al. Journal of High Energy Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Ofer Aharony Israel	42	7.8k	5.1k	2.9k	713	703	100	8.2k
Shiraz Minwalla India	32	4.4k 0.6×	2.7k 0.5×	2.0k 0.7×	566 0.8×	460 0.7×	56	4.7k
Yaron Oz Israel	25	4.9k 0.6×	3.7k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	518 0.7×	389 0.6×	108	5.3k
Radu Roiban United States	49	6.4k 0.8×	3.6k 0.7×	2.0k 0.7×	296 0.4×	640 0.9×	124	7.2k
Malcolm J. Perry United States	35	7.5k 1.0×	6.5k 1.3×	3.0k 1.1×	1.1k 1.6×	333 0.5×	86	8.3k
K.S. Stelle United Kingdom	41	7.3k 0.9×	5.4k 1.1×	3.3k 1.1×	523 0.7×	512 0.7×	123	7.8k
Hermann Nicolai Germany	45	6.3k 0.8×	3.6k 0.7×	3.8k 1.3×	692 1.0×	1.1k 1.5×	193	7.0k
Ergin Sezgin United States	42	5.6k 0.7×	3.6k 0.7×	3.4k 1.2×	458 0.6×	725 1.0×	170	6.0k
Warren Siegel United States	45	7.9k 1.0×	3.4k 0.7×	3.6k 1.2×	680 1.0×	852 1.2×	151	8.5k
Herman Verlinde United States	36	5.0k 0.6×	2.9k 0.6×	2.8k 1.0×	642 0.9×	1.5k 2.1×	85	5.9k
Paul Howe United Kingdom	43	5.5k 0.7×	2.6k 0.5×	2.8k 1.0×	588 0.8×	817 1.2×	129	6.0k

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All Works

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Aharony, Ofer, et al.. (2025). Effective strings in QED3. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(3). 1 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, et al.. (2024). A string theory for two dimensional Yang-Mills theory. Part I. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(7). 3 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, et al.. (2024). A chiral limit for Chern-Simons-matter theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(10). 6 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, et al.. (2024). Bethe Ansatz for the superconformal index with unequal angular momenta. Physical review. D. 109(8). 5 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, et al.. (2023). Phases of Wilson Lines in Conformal Field Theories. Physical Review Letters. 130(15). 151601–151601. 23 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, et al.. (2023). Explicit holography for vector models at finite N, volume and temperature. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(3). 5 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, et al.. (2023). Correlation functions in $$ \textrm{T}\overline{\textrm{T}} $$-deformed Conformal Field Theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(8). 20 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, et al.. (2023). Phases of Wilson lines: conformality and screening. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(12). 22 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer. (2022). Loops in AdS from conformal field theory. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 17 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer & Eran Palti. (2021). On Convexity of Charged Operators in CFTs and the Weak Gravity Conjecture. arXiv (Cornell University). 41 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, et al.. (2018). Renormalization Group in Field Theories with Quantum Quenched Disorder. Physical Review Letters. 121(7). 71601–71601. 12 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, Nathan Seiberg, & Yuji Tachikawa. (2013). Reading between the lines of four-dimensional gauge theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2013(8). 280 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aharony, Ofer, Donald Marolf, & Mukund Rangamani. (2011). Conformal field theories in anti-de Sitter space. 31 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, et al.. (2006). A Holographic Model of Deconfinement and Chiral Symmetry Restoration. 156 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, Alex Buchel, & Amos Yarom. (2006). Short distance properties of cascading gauge theories. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2006(11). 69–69. 17 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, Joseph Marsano, Shiraz Minwalla, Kyriakos Papadodimas, & Mark Van Raamsdonk. (2004). The deconfinement and Hagedorn phase transitions in weakly coupled large N gauge theories. Comptes Rendus Physique. 5(9-10). 945–954. 7 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, Micha Berkooz, & Eva Silverstein. (2001). Nonlocal String Theories on AdS-3 x S 3 and Stable Non-Supersymmetric Backgrounds. NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N. 2. 88738. 12 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer, Steven S. Gubser, Juan Maldacena, Hirosi Ooguri, & Yaron Oz. (2000). Large N field theories, string theory and gravity. Physics Reports. 323(3-4). 183–386. 3110 indexed citations breakdown →

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Aharony, Ofer & Edward Witten. (1998). Anti-de Sitter space and the center of the gauge group. Journal of High Energy Physics. 1998(11). 18–18. 74 indexed citations

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Aharony, Ofer. (1995). Remarks on non-abelian duality in N = 1 supersymmetric gauge theories. Physics Letters B. 351(1-3). 220–229. 14 indexed citations

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