Ralph Blumenhagen

7.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
94 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Ralph Blumenhagen is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ralph Blumenhagen has authored 94 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 81 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 51 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 34 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Ralph Blumenhagen's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (80 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (48 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (32 papers). Ralph Blumenhagen is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (80 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (48 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (32 papers). Ralph Blumenhagen collaborates with scholars based in Germany, United States and Italy. Ralph Blumenhagen's co-authors include Dieter Lüst, Timo Weigand, Erik Plauschinn, Mirjam Cvetič, Boris Körs, Stephan Stieberger, Gary Shiu, Paul Langacker, Volker Braun and Thomas W. Grimm and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physics Reports and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

Ralph Blumenhagen

93 papers receiving 4.1k citations

Hit Papers

Four-dimensional string compactifications with D-branes, ... 2007 2026 2013 2019 2007 100 200 300 400
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. Four-dimensional string compactifications with D-branes, orientifolds and fluxes
    2007 476 citations Ralph Blumenhagen, Dieter Lüst et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ralph Blumenhagen Germany 34 3.8k 2.4k 1.2k 592 389 94 4.2k
Stephan Stieberger Germany 38 3.5k 0.9× 1.9k 0.8× 1.1k 0.9× 417 0.7× 224 0.6× 86 3.7k
Rajesh Gopakumar India 33 3.3k 0.9× 1.9k 0.8× 1.8k 1.6× 774 1.3× 346 0.9× 56 3.6k
Anastasia Volovich United States 34 3.0k 0.8× 1.2k 0.5× 935 0.8× 464 0.8× 156 0.4× 77 3.3k
Riccardo D’Auria Italy 36 3.7k 1.0× 2.2k 0.9× 2.1k 1.8× 688 1.2× 369 0.9× 151 4.1k
David Berenstein United States 25 3.8k 1.0× 2.2k 0.9× 1.6k 1.4× 420 0.7× 216 0.6× 89 4.0k
Elias Kiritsis Greece 44 4.9k 1.3× 3.3k 1.4× 1.5k 1.3× 531 0.9× 192 0.5× 144 5.4k
E. Sokatchev France 38 5.3k 1.4× 1.8k 0.8× 2.1k 1.8× 674 1.1× 236 0.6× 120 5.6k
Krzysztof Pilch United States 27 2.3k 0.6× 1.6k 0.7× 1.3k 1.1× 421 0.7× 274 0.7× 63 2.6k
Amihay Hanany United Kingdom 36 4.7k 1.2× 1.8k 0.8× 1.7k 1.5× 1.7k 2.9× 630 1.6× 105 5.1k
B. Juliá France 19 3.7k 1.0× 2.1k 0.9× 1.9k 1.6× 392 0.7× 252 0.6× 31 3.9k

Countries citing papers authored by Ralph Blumenhagen

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ralph Blumenhagen

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ralph Blumenhagen

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, et al.. (2025). Emergence of CY triple intersection numbers in M-theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(10). 1 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, et al.. (2024). Emergent M-theory limit. Physical review. D. 109(2). 15 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, et al.. (2023). Dynamical Cobordism Conjecture: solutions for end-of-the-world branes. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(5). 26 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, et al.. (2023). The emergence proposal and the emergent string. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(10). 33 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, et al.. (2023). Dimensional Reduction of Cobordism and K-theory. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(3). 12 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, et al.. (2018). On the uniqueness of L∞ bootstrap: Quasi-isomorphisms are Seiberg-Witten maps. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 59(12). 15 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, et al.. (2016). The Flux-Scaling scenario: De sitter uplift and axion inflation. Fortschritte der Physik. 64(6-7). 536–550. 22 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, et al.. (2014). A note on the CFT origin of the strong constraint of DFT. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2014(5). 5 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph. (2009). Gauge Coupling Unification inF-Theory Grand Unified Theories. Physical Review Letters. 102(7). 71601–71601. 67 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph & Erik Plauschinn. (2009). Introduction to Conformal Field Theory. Lecture notes in physics. 89 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, Mirjam Cvetič, Dieter Lüst, R. Richter, & Timo Weigand. (2008). Nonperturbative Yukawa Couplings from String Instantons. Physical Review Letters. 100(6). 61602–61602. 67 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph & Erik Plauschinn. (2006). Intersecting D-branes on shift Bbb Z2× Bbb Z2orientifolds. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2006(8). 31–31. 9 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, Gabriele Honecker, & Timo Weigand. (2005). Non-Abelian Brane Worlds: The Open String Story. CERN Bulletin. 3 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph. (2004). STRING UNIFICATION OF GAUGE COUPLINGS WITH INTERSECTING D-BRANES. 46–53. 3 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph & Timo Weigand. (2004). A note on partition functions of Gepner model orientifolds. Physics Letters B. 591(1-2). 161–169. 13 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, Volker Braun, & Robert C. Helling. (2001). Bound states of D(2p)–D0 systems supersymmetric p-cycles. Physics Letters B. 510(1-4). 311–319. 15 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph. (1999). Issues of Heterotic (0,2) Compactifications. CERN Bulletin. 1 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, et al.. (1998). Spectra of 4D, N=1 type I string vacua on non-toroidal CY threefolds. Physics Letters B. 438(1-2). 52–60. 41 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, et al.. (1995). Exactly solvable (0,2) supersymmetric string vacua with GUT gauge groups. Nuclear Physics B. 454(3). 561–583. 20 indexed citations
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Blumenhagen, Ralph, et al.. (1994). A NOTE ON REPRESENTATIONS OF N=2 SW-ALGEBRAS. Modern Physics Letters A. 9(34). 3193–3204. 1 indexed citations

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