Ralf Rapp

13.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
166 papers, 6.7k citations indexed

About

Ralf Rapp is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralf Rapp has authored 166 papers receiving a total of 6.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 161 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 12 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 12 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in Ralf Rapp's work include High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (156 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (146 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (129 papers). Ralf Rapp is often cited by papers focused on High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (156 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (146 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (129 papers). Ralf Rapp collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and China. Ralf Rapp's co-authors include Hendrik van Hees, M. He, Edward Shuryak, Xingbo Zhao, Thomas Schäfer, M. Velkovsky, Vincenzo Greco, Rainer J. Fries, J. Wambach and Charles Gale and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología and The Astrophysical Journal.

In The Last Decade

Ralf Rapp

159 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

Diquark Bose Condensates in High Density Matter and Insta... 1998 2026 2007 2016 1998 200 400 600
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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. Diquark Bose Condensates in High Density Matter and Instantons
    1998 613 citations Ralf Rapp et al. Physical Review Letters profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ralf Rapp United States 47 6.3k 771 460 278 196 166 6.7k
Swagato Mukherjee United States 39 6.1k 1.0× 1.0k 1.3× 456 1.0× 261 0.9× 130 0.7× 129 6.4k
Claudia Ratti United States 36 5.4k 0.9× 1.2k 1.6× 473 1.0× 195 0.7× 191 1.0× 121 5.7k
Péter Petreczky United States 48 8.9k 1.4× 1.2k 1.6× 561 1.2× 352 1.3× 156 0.8× 183 9.2k
Heng-Tong Ding China 27 4.7k 0.7× 877 1.1× 392 0.9× 160 0.6× 132 0.7× 91 4.9k
Gergely Endrődi Germany 26 4.5k 0.7× 1.3k 1.7× 542 1.2× 254 0.9× 112 0.6× 86 4.8k
Olaf Kaczmarek Germany 39 6.6k 1.0× 818 1.1× 454 1.0× 362 1.3× 122 0.6× 134 6.7k
Harmen J. Warringa United States 11 2.9k 0.5× 1.1k 1.4× 943 2.0× 201 0.7× 170 0.9× 14 3.4k
K. K. Szabó Germany 26 5.4k 0.9× 1.3k 1.7× 509 1.1× 194 0.7× 87 0.4× 46 5.7k
Xu-Guang Huang China 31 3.2k 0.5× 1.2k 1.5× 1.1k 2.3× 197 0.7× 150 0.8× 103 3.7k
Jinfeng Liao United States 33 3.6k 0.6× 1.1k 1.4× 696 1.5× 110 0.4× 90 0.5× 106 3.7k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ralf Rapp

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralf Rapp

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All Works

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Seck, F., Bengt Friman, T. Galatyuk, et al.. (2025). Polarization of thermal dilepton radiation. Physics Letters B. 861. 139267–139267. 2 indexed citations
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Grefa, Joaquin, Konstantin A. Maslov, Yuhan Wang, et al.. (2025). Interacting mesons as degrees of freedom in a chiral model. Physical review. D. 111(7). 2 indexed citations
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Rapp, Ralf, et al.. (2024). Charmonium Transport in Heavy-Ion Collisions at the LHC. Universe. 10(6). 244–244. 6 indexed citations
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He, M. & Ralf Rapp. (2023). Bottom Hadrochemistry in High-Energy Hadronic Collisions. Physical Review Letters. 131(1). 12301–12301. 8 indexed citations
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Rapp, Ralf, et al.. (2023). Electric conductivity of hot pion matter. Nuclear Physics A. 1037. 122704–122704. 3 indexed citations
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Rapp, Ralf. (2023). Bottomonium suppression in heavy-ion collisions and the in-medium strong force. Nuclear Science and Techniques. 34(4). 7 indexed citations
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He, M., et al.. (2023). Charmonium, Bc and X(3872) Transport at the LHC. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 276. 2001–2001. 2 indexed citations
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Du, Xiaojian, Shuai Y. F. Liu, & Ralf Rapp. (2019). Extraction of the heavy-quark potential from bottomonium observables in heavy-ion collisions. Physics Letters B. 796. 20–25. 24 indexed citations
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Liu, Shuai Y. F. & Ralf Rapp. (2018). T-matrix approach to quark-gluon plasma. Physical review. C. 97(3). 47 indexed citations
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He, M., Rainer J. Fries, & Ralf Rapp. (2017). Open Heavy Flavor Transport in s NN = 5.02  TeV Pb+Pb Collisions. Nuclear and Particle Physics Proceedings. 289-290. 265–268. 1 indexed citations
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Du, Xiaojian, et al.. (2017). Color Screening and Regeneration of Bottomonia at RHIC and the LHC. arXiv (Cornell University).
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He, M., Hendrik van Hees, Pol-Bernard Gossiaux, Rainer J. Fries, & Ralf Rapp. (2013). Relativistic Langevin dynamics in expanding media. Physical Review E. 88(3). 32138–32138. 30 indexed citations
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Zhao, Xingbo & Ralf Rapp. (2008). Charmonium Production at High p(t) at RHIC. Presented at. 1 indexed citations
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David, G. & Ralf Rapp. (2008). Electromagnetic Probes at RHIC-II. 15 indexed citations
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Hees, Hendrik van, Massimo Mannarelli, Vincenzo Greco, & Ralf Rapp. (2008). Nonperturbative Heavy-Quark Diffusion in the Quark-Gluon Plasma. Physical Review Letters. 100(19). 192301–192301. 176 indexed citations
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Hees, Hendrik van & Ralf Rapp. (2006). Comprehensive Interpretation of Thermal Dileptons Measured at the CERN Super Proton Synchrotron. Physical Review Letters. 97(10). 102301–102301. 87 indexed citations
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Hees, Hendrik van & Ralf Rapp. (2004). Δ(1232) and nucleon spectral functions in hot hadronic matter. Physics Letters B. 606(1-2). 59–66. 13 indexed citations
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Rapp, Ralf & Charles Gale. (1999). Rho Properties in a hot gas: dynamics of meson resonances. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations
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Brown, G. E., et al.. (1998). Medium dependence of the vector-meson mass: dynamical and/or Brown-Rho scaling?. Acta Physica Polonica B. 29(9). 2309. 11 indexed citations

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