Philip Candelas

11.1k total citations · 2 hit papers
72 papers, 6.9k citations indexed

About

Philip Candelas is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Geometry and Topology and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Philip Candelas has authored 72 papers receiving a total of 6.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 47 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 34 papers in Geometry and Topology and 23 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Philip Candelas's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (47 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (22 papers) and Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory (22 papers). Philip Candelas is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (47 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (22 papers) and Algebraic Geometry and Number Theory (22 papers). Philip Candelas collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Italy. Philip Candelas's co-authors include Xenia C. de la Ossa, Gary T. Horowitz, Andrew Strominger, Edward Witten, David Deutsch, Paul S. Green, Linda Parkes, Derek Raine, Steven Weinberg and D. W. Sciama and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Philip Candelas

70 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

Vacuum configurations for superstrings 1985 2026 1998 2012 1985 1991 500 1000 1.5k
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. Vacuum configurations for superstrings
    1985 1.8k citations Philip Candelas et al. Nuclear Physics B profile →
  2. A pair of Calabi-Yau manifolds as an exactly soluble superconformal theory
    1991 631 citations Philip Candelas et al. Nuclear Physics B profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Philip Candelas United States 34 5.0k 3.3k 2.2k 1.8k 1.6k 72 6.9k
Eric D’Hoker United States 47 4.9k 1.0× 2.1k 0.6× 2.0k 0.9× 1.2k 0.7× 591 0.4× 140 5.8k
Michael R. Douglas United States 41 7.5k 1.5× 4.3k 1.3× 4.9k 2.2× 1.8k 1.0× 972 0.6× 84 8.9k
M. Roček United States 39 5.5k 1.1× 2.6k 0.8× 3.0k 1.4× 1.3k 0.7× 550 0.3× 121 6.4k
Luis Álvarez-Gaumé Switzerland 39 6.1k 1.2× 2.4k 0.7× 2.5k 1.1× 1.4k 0.8× 1.0k 0.7× 84 7.2k
Erik Verlinde Netherlands 34 4.7k 0.9× 3.0k 0.9× 3.0k 1.4× 2.0k 1.1× 920 0.6× 61 6.5k
Tohru Eguchi Japan 33 3.8k 0.8× 1.4k 0.4× 2.0k 0.9× 1.6k 0.9× 535 0.3× 86 5.1k
Daniel Friedan United States 28 5.8k 1.1× 2.0k 0.6× 3.2k 1.4× 2.9k 1.6× 1.1k 0.7× 40 7.7k
Jeffrey A. Harvey United States 44 10.7k 2.1× 5.6k 1.7× 4.3k 1.9× 1.8k 1.0× 1.3k 0.8× 107 12.1k
Emil J. Martinec United States 36 9.1k 1.8× 4.0k 1.2× 3.8k 1.7× 2.3k 1.3× 1.1k 0.7× 77 10.6k
Herman Verlinde United States 36 5.0k 1.0× 2.9k 0.9× 2.8k 1.3× 1.5k 0.8× 642 0.4× 85 5.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Philip Candelas

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Candelas, Philip, et al.. (2023). Flux vacua and modularity for $\mathbb{Z}_2$ symmetric Calabi-Yau manifolds. SciPost Physics. 15(4). 9 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip, et al.. (2023). Mirror symmetry for five-parameter Hulek-Verrill manifolds. SciPost Physics. 15(4). 7 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip, et al.. (2021). Attractors with Large Complex Structure for One-Parameter Families of Calabi-Yau Manifolds. arXiv (Cornell University). 10 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip, et al.. (2019). The Universal Geometry of heterotic vacua. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2019(2). 15 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip, et al.. (2018). Calabi‐Yau Threefolds with Small Hodge Numbers. Fortschritte der Physik. 66(6). 17 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip, et al.. (2013). THE USED OF MASSIVE ON-LINE OPEN COURSES (MOOC) IN PHYSICS, AS A LEVELLING TOOL FOR SCIENCE STUDENTS AT UNIVERSITY. 5699–5704. 2 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip, Xenia de la Ossa, Yang‐Hui He, & Balázs Szendröi. (2008). Triadophilia: A Special Corner of the Landscape. Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics. 12(2). 429–473. 33 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip, Duiliu-Emanuel Diaconescu, Bogdan Florea, David R. Morrison, & Govindan Rajesh. (2000). Codimension-Three Bundle Singularities in F-Theory. 31 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip. (1999). Toric Geometry and Dualities of String Theory. Fortschritte der Physik. 47(1-3). 29–37. 1 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip, et al.. (1997). Toric Geometry and Enhanced Gauge Symmetry of F-Theory/Heterotic Vacua. 52 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip, et al.. (1997). Matter from Toric Geometry. 6 indexed citations
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Berglund, Per, et al.. (1995). On the instanton contributions to the masses and couplings of E6 singlets. Nuclear Physics B. 454(1-2). 127–163. 14 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip, Xenia de la Ossa, Anamarı́a Font, Sheldon Katz, & David R. Morrison. (1994). Mirror symmetry for two-parameter models (I). Nuclear Physics B. 416(2). 481–538. 148 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip, C.A. Lütken, & Rolf Schimmrigk. (1988). Complete Intersection Calabi-Yau Manifolds II Three Generation Manifolds. 435. 4 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip & D. W. Sciama. (1983). Is there a quantum equivalence principle?. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 27(8). 1715–1721. 32 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip. (1982). Vacuum energy in the presence of dielectric and conducting surfaces. Annals of Physics. 143(2). 241–295. 107 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip. (1980). Vacuum polarization in Schwarzschild spacetime. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 21(8). 2185–2202. 290 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip & David Deutsch. (1978). Fermion fields in accelerated states. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 362(1709). 251–262. 38 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip & David Deutsch. (1977). On the vacuum stress induced by uniform acceleration or supporting the ether. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 354(1676). 79–99. 122 indexed citations
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Candelas, Philip & Derek Raine. (1975). General-relativistic quantum field theory: An exactly soluble model. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 12(4). 965–974. 163 indexed citations

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