R. Kantowski

1.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
49 papers, 1.2k citations indexed

About

R. Kantowski is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, R. Kantowski has authored 49 papers receiving a total of 1.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 19 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 13 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in R. Kantowski's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (32 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (16 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (16 papers). R. Kantowski is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (32 papers), Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena (16 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (16 papers). R. Kantowski collaborates with scholars based in United States, Taiwan and Germany. R. Kantowski's co-authors include Rainer K. Sachs, Kimball A. Milton, Bin Chen, David Branch, Danny Birmingham, Thomas E. Vaughan, R. C. Thomas, Xinyu Dai, R. Thomas and Mark Rakowski and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.

In The Last Decade

R. Kantowski

47 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

Some Spatially Homogeneous Anisotropic Relativistic Cosmo... 1966 2026 1986 2006 1966 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. Some Spatially Homogeneous Anisotropic Relativistic Cosmological Models
    1966 499 citations R. Kantowski, Rainer K. Sachs Journal of Mathematical Physics profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
R. Kantowski United States 14 1.1k 732 235 151 50 49 1.2k
K. K. Nandi India 21 1.4k 1.3× 1.0k 1.4× 244 1.0× 208 1.4× 82 1.6× 78 1.5k
A. O. Petters United States 14 840 0.8× 354 0.5× 54 0.2× 156 1.0× 47 0.9× 27 908
Ibrar Hussain Pakistan 21 1.1k 1.0× 839 1.1× 163 0.7× 78 0.5× 79 1.6× 75 1.1k
H. Dehnen Germany 14 780 0.7× 606 0.8× 147 0.6× 140 0.9× 48 1.0× 110 874
Aritra Banerjee India 18 565 0.5× 583 0.8× 261 1.1× 93 0.6× 19 0.4× 34 807
Simonetta Frittelli United States 17 887 0.8× 676 0.9× 190 0.8× 78 0.5× 31 0.6× 45 992
Sung-Won Kim South Korea 15 790 0.7× 711 1.0× 260 1.1× 87 0.6× 43 0.9× 45 840
B. O. J. Tupper Canada 20 990 0.9× 829 1.1× 231 1.0× 57 0.4× 59 1.2× 60 1.1k
B. Carter France 9 472 0.4× 377 0.5× 134 0.6× 106 0.7× 15 0.3× 13 567
J. Ehlers Germany 4 1.0k 1.0× 297 0.4× 94 0.4× 178 1.2× 49 1.0× 4 1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of R. Kantowski

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All Works

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Chen, Bin, R. Kantowski, & Xinyu Dai. (2015). EMBEDDED LENSING TIME DELAYS, THE FERMAT POTENTIAL, AND THE INTEGRATED SACHS–WOLFE EFFECT. The Astrophysical Journal. 804(1). 73–73. 1 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R., Bin Chen, & Xinyu Dai. (2012). Image properties of embedded lenses. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 86(4). 5 indexed citations
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Chen, Bin, R. Kantowski, & Xinyu Dai. (2010). Time delay in Swiss cheese gravitational lensing. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 82(4). 12 indexed citations
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Chen, Bin & R. Kantowski. (2008). Cosmology with a dark refraction index. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 78(4). 11 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R.. (2003). Lamé equation for the distance redshift in a partially filled beam Friedmann-Lemaître-Robertson-Walker cosmology. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 68(12). 8 indexed citations
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Milton, Kimball A., R. Kantowski, Chung Kao, & Yun Wang. (2001). CONSTRAINTS ON EXTRA DIMENSIONS FROM COSMOLOGICAL AND TERRESTRIAL MEASUREMENTS. Modern Physics Letters A. 16(35). 2281–2289. 22 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R., et al.. (2000). Distance‐Redshift Relations in Inhomogeneous Friedmann‐Lemaitre‐Robertson‐Walker Cosmology. The Astrophysical Journal. 545(2). 549–560. 20 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R.. (1998). The Effects of Inhomogeneities on Evaluating the Mass Parameter Ωmand the Cosmological Constant Λ. The Astrophysical Journal. 507(2). 483–496. 46 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R., et al.. (1995). Unique One-Loop Effective Actoin for the Six-Dimensional Einstein-Hilbert Action. Physical Review Letters. 75(13). 2630–2630. 1 indexed citations
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Milton, Kimball A., R. Kantowski, & Mark A. Samuel. (1991). BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL II. 1–396. 5 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, et al.. (1990). Gauge dependence of theηfunction in Chern-Simons field theory and the Vilkovisky-DeWitt correction. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 42(10). 3476–3487. 9 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, R. Kantowski, & Mark Rakowski. (1990). The eta function in Chern-Simons field theory. Physics Letters B. 251(1). 121–127. 11 indexed citations
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Birmingham, Danny, R. Kantowski, & Kimball A. Milton. (1988). Scalar and spinor Casimir energies in even-dimensional Kaluza-Klein spaces of the formM4×SN1×SN2×⋅⋅⋅. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 38(6). 1809–1822. 22 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R. & Kimball A. Milton. (1987). Casimir energies inM4≥Nfor evenN. Green’s-function and zeta-function techniques. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 36(12). 3712–3721. 18 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R. & Kimball A. Milton. (1987). Scalar Casimir energies inM4≥Nfor evenN. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 35(2). 549–556. 25 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R., et al.. (1982). Jordan–Kaluza–Klein type unified theories of gauge and gravity fields. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 23(1). 128–131. 11 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R., et al.. (1975). Time Delay for Multiply Imaged Quasars. The Astrophysical Journal. 195. L11–L11. 21 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R.. (1969). Corrections in the Luminosity-Redshift Relations of the Homogeneous Fried-Mann Models. The Astrophysical Journal. 155. 89–89. 95 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R.. (1968). Another Interpretation of the Optical Scalars. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 9(2). 336–338. 7 indexed citations
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Kantowski, R. & Rainer K. Sachs. (1966). Some Spatially Homogeneous Anisotropic Relativistic Cosmological Models. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 7(3). 443–446. 499 indexed citations breakdown →

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