Olaf Kaczmarek

10.6k total citations · 4 hit papers
134 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Olaf Kaczmarek is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Condensed Matter Physics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Olaf Kaczmarek has authored 134 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 129 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 15 papers in Condensed Matter Physics and 7 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Olaf Kaczmarek's work include Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (124 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (119 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (95 papers). Olaf Kaczmarek is often cited by papers focused on Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (124 papers), High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (119 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (95 papers). Olaf Kaczmarek collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and China. Olaf Kaczmarek's co-authors include F. Karsch, E. Laermann, Péter Petreczky, Christian Schmidt, F. Zantow, Heng-Tong Ding, W. Soeldner, Shinji Ejiri, Swagato Mukherjee and Simon Hands and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Olaf Kaczmarek

130 papers receiving 6.6k citations

Hit Papers

QCD thermal phase transition in the presence of a small c... 2002 2026 2010 2018 2002 2008 2019 2017 100 200 300 400
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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. QCD thermal phase transition in the presence of a small chemical potential
    2002 419 citations Chris Allton, Shinji Ejiri et al. profile →
  2. QCD equation of state with almost physical quark masses
    2008 389 citations Olaf Kaczmarek, E. Laermann et al. profile →
  3. Chiral crossover in QCD at zero and non-zero chemical potentials
    2019 351 citations Alexei Bazavov, Heng-Tong Ding et al. Physics Letters B profile →
  4. QCD equation of state to O(μB6) from lattice QCD
    2017 287 citations Alexei Bazavov, Heng-Tong Ding et al. Physical review. D profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Olaf Kaczmarek Germany 39 6.6k 818 454 362 122 134 6.7k
Swagato Mukherjee United States 39 6.1k 0.9× 1.0k 1.2× 456 1.0× 261 0.7× 130 1.1× 129 6.4k
Péter Petreczky United States 48 8.9k 1.4× 1.2k 1.5× 561 1.2× 352 1.0× 156 1.3× 183 9.2k
Claudia Ratti United States 36 5.4k 0.8× 1.2k 1.5× 473 1.0× 195 0.5× 191 1.6× 121 5.7k
E. Laermann Germany 43 8.5k 1.3× 1.2k 1.5× 620 1.4× 622 1.7× 179 1.5× 139 8.7k
Heng-Tong Ding China 27 4.7k 0.7× 877 1.1× 392 0.9× 160 0.4× 132 1.1× 91 4.9k
Gergely Endrődi Germany 26 4.5k 0.7× 1.3k 1.6× 542 1.2× 254 0.7× 112 0.9× 86 4.8k
K. K. Szabó Germany 26 5.4k 0.8× 1.3k 1.6× 509 1.1× 194 0.5× 87 0.7× 46 5.7k
Szabolcs Borsányi Germany 26 4.4k 0.7× 1.1k 1.4× 418 0.9× 158 0.4× 86 0.7× 85 4.7k
Alexei Bazavov United States 33 4.7k 0.7× 688 0.8× 572 1.3× 329 0.9× 101 0.8× 99 5.1k
Shinji Ejiri Japan 33 4.0k 0.6× 354 0.4× 274 0.6× 449 1.2× 51 0.4× 123 4.2k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bollweg, Dennis, Olaf Kaczmarek, Guy D. Moore, et al.. (2025). Temperature dependence of heavy quark diffusion from (2+1)-flavor lattice QCD. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(9).
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Kaczmarek, Olaf, et al.. (2025). Finite temperature quarkonia spectral functions in the pseudoscalar channel. 3. 100042–100042. 1 indexed citations
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Kaczmarek, Olaf, et al.. (2025). Spatial String Tension and Its Effects on Screening Correlators in a Thermal QCD Plasma. Physical Review Letters. 135(1). 12301–12301.
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Kaczmarek, Olaf, et al.. (2024). Pseudo-scalar meson spectral properties in the chiral crossover region of QCD. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(5). 9 indexed citations
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Francis, Anthony, et al.. (2024). Lattice QCD estimates of thermal photon production from the QGP. Physical review. D. 110(5). 3 indexed citations
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Francis, Anthony, et al.. (2023). Photon production rate from Transverse-Longitudinal (𝑻 − L) mesonic correlator on the lattice. Proceedings of The 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LATTICE2022). 169–169. 4 indexed citations
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Kaczmarek, Olaf, et al.. (2023). Study of Quarkonium in QGP from Unquenched Lattice QCD. Few-Body Systems. 64(3). 3 indexed citations
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Kaczmarek, Olaf, et al.. (2023). Study of charm and beauty in QGP from unquenched lattice QCD. Proceedings of The 39th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory — PoS(LATTICE2022). 166–166. 1 indexed citations
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Francis, Anthony, et al.. (2023). Viscosity of pure-glue QCD from the lattice. Physical review. D. 108(1). 16 indexed citations
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Ding, Heng-Tong, et al.. (2021). Charm and beauty in the deconfined plasma from quenched lattice QCD. Physical review. D. 104(11). 10 indexed citations
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Bazavov, Alexei, Dennis Bollweg, Heng-Tong Ding, et al.. (2020). Skewness, kurtosis, and the fifth and sixth order cumulants of net baryon-number distributions from lattice QCD confront high-statistics STAR data. Physical review. D. 101(7). 100 indexed citations
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Ding, Heng-Tong, Prasad Hegde, Olaf Kaczmarek, et al.. (2019). Chiral Phase Transition Temperature in (2+1)-Flavor QCD. Physical Review Letters. 123(6). 62002–62002. 139 indexed citations
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Bazavov, Alexei, Heng-Tong Ding, Prasad Hegde, et al.. (2019). Chiral crossover in QCD at zero and non-zero chemical potentials. Physics Letters B. 795. 15–21. 351 indexed citations breakdown →
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Ding, Heng-Tong, Olaf Kaczmarek, L. Mazur, et al.. (2019). Charmonium and bottomonium spectral functions in the vector channel. Nuclear Physics A. 982. 715–718. 8 indexed citations
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Florio, Adrien, Olaf Kaczmarek, & L. Mazur. (2019). Open-boundary conditions in the deconfined phase. The European Physical Journal C. 79(12). 1039–1039. 3 indexed citations
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Burnier, Yannis, Adrien Florio, Olaf Kaczmarek, & L. Mazur. (2018). Thermal Simulations, Open Boundary Conditions and Switches. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 3 indexed citations
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Burnier, Yannis, Olaf Kaczmarek, & Alexander Rothkopf. (2016). The Bayesian reconstruction of the in-medium heavy quark potential from lattice QCD and its stability. AIP conference proceedings. 1701. 100017–100017.
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Kaczmarek, Olaf & F. Zantow. (2005). Static quark anti-quark interactions at zero and finite temperature QCD. II. Quark anti-quark internal energy and entropy. CERN Bulletin. 4 indexed citations
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Ejiri, Shinji, Chris Allton, Simon Hands, et al.. (2004). Study of QCD Thermodynamics at Finite Density by Taylor Expansion (3-color QCD on the lattice). Progress of Theoretical Physics Supplement. 118–126. 1 indexed citations

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