Robert M. Wald

42.0k total citations · 10 hit papers
176 papers, 23.5k citations indexed

About

Robert M. Wald is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Robert M. Wald has authored 176 papers receiving a total of 23.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 153 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 113 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 57 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Robert M. Wald's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (125 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (110 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (42 papers). Robert M. Wald is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (125 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (110 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (42 papers). Robert M. Wald collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and Germany. Robert M. Wald's co-authors include W. G. Unruh, Bernard S. Kay, Stefan Hollands, Joohan Lee, D. E. Holz, Samuel E. Gralla, Stephen Green, Éanna É. Flanagan, Sijie Gao and Daniel Sudarsky and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Physical Review Letters.

In The Last Decade

Robert M. Wald

173 papers receiving 22.5k citations

Hit Papers

General Relativity 1974 2026 1991 2008 1984 1984 1993 1994 1994 1000 2.0k 3.0k 4.0k
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. General Relativity
    1984 4.1k citations Robert M. Wald profile →
  2. General Relativity
    1984 3.9k citations Robert M. Wald profile →
  3. Black hole entropy is the Noether charge
    1993 1.5k citations Robert M. Wald Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  4. Some properties of the Noether charge and a proposal for dynamical black hole entropy
    1994 1.3k citations Robert M. Wald et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  5. Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time and Black Hole Thermodynamics
    1994 979 citations Robert M. Wald CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) profile →
  6. Black hole in a uniform magnetic field
    1974 528 citations Robert M. Wald Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  7. Asymptotic behavior of homogeneous cosmological models in the presence of a positive cosmological constant
    1983 525 citations Robert M. Wald Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  8. Local symmetries and constraints
    1990 436 citations Robert M. Wald et al. Journal of Mathematical Physics profile →
  9. Black hole shadows, photon rings, and lensing rings
    2019 413 citations Samuel E. Gralla, Robert M. Wald et al. Physical review. D profile →
  10. Gravitationally mediated entanglement: Newtonian field versus gravitons
    2022 108 citations Gautam Satishchandran, Robert M. Wald 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
Robert M. Wald United States 63 20.4k 17.7k 8.2k 5.1k 869 176 23.5k
S. Deser United States 68 17.0k 0.8× 19.8k 1.1× 9.9k 1.2× 3.8k 0.7× 912 1.0× 310 23.5k
Abhay Ashtekar United States 64 14.1k 0.7× 15.9k 0.9× 13.2k 1.6× 2.6k 0.5× 658 0.8× 196 17.9k
Andrew Strominger United States 75 16.5k 0.8× 20.3k 1.1× 9.2k 1.1× 2.3k 0.5× 1000 1.2× 198 21.9k
Bryce S. DeWitt United States 32 7.2k 0.4× 6.9k 0.4× 4.2k 0.5× 3.8k 0.7× 408 0.5× 81 10.9k
Claudio Teitelboim United States 48 9.4k 0.5× 10.5k 0.6× 6.6k 0.8× 1.9k 0.4× 599 0.7× 94 12.5k
W. Israel Canada 39 10.4k 0.5× 9.1k 0.5× 2.8k 0.3× 2.0k 0.4× 248 0.3× 109 12.2k
G. Veneziano Switzerland 64 6.8k 0.3× 13.9k 0.8× 3.7k 0.4× 2.2k 0.4× 424 0.5× 242 16.3k
Robert C. Myers Canada 66 14.9k 0.7× 16.6k 0.9× 7.3k 0.9× 2.3k 0.5× 636 0.7× 222 18.1k
T. W. B. Kibble United Kingdom 42 6.5k 0.3× 8.3k 0.5× 2.4k 0.3× 4.4k 0.9× 268 0.3× 112 13.2k
James B. Hartle United States 45 7.7k 0.4× 5.7k 0.3× 3.5k 0.4× 2.8k 0.6× 213 0.2× 140 9.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Satishchandran, Gautam, et al.. (2023). Killing horizons decohere quantum superpositions. Physical review. D. 108(2). 18 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M.. (2013). Dynamic and Thermodynamic Stability of Black Holes. Bulletin of the American Physical Society. 2013. 1 indexed citations
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Gralla, Samuel E. & Robert M. Wald. (2011). A rigorous derivation of gravitational self-force. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 28(15). 159501–159501. 33 indexed citations
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Hollands, Stefan & Robert M. Wald. (2005). CONSERVATION OF THE STRESS TENSOR IN PERTURBATIVE INTERACTING QUANTUM FIELD THEORY IN CURVED SPACETIMES. Reviews in Mathematical Physics. 17(3). 227–311. 82 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M.. (2004). Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time. Physics Today. 57(9). 57–57. 11 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M.. (1998). Black holes and relativistic stars. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 65 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M.. (1994). Quantum Field Theory in Curved Space-Time and Black Hole Thermodynamics. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 979 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wald, Robert M.. (1993). The present status of general relativity. General Relativity and Gravitation. 317. 1 indexed citations
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Rácz, István & Robert M. Wald. (1992). Extensions of spacetimes with Killing horizons. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 9(12). 2643–2656. 101 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M.. (1992). Correlations beyond the horizon. General Relativity and Gravitation. 24(11). 1111–1116. 5 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M.. (1990). Vacuum States in Space-Times with Killing Horizons. 230. 203. 1 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M., et al.. (1990). A conserved current for perturbations of Einstein-Maxwell space-times. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London Series A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 430(1878). 57–67. 31 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M., et al.. (1990). Proof of the closed-universe recollapse conjecture for general bianchi type-IX cosmologies. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 41(8). 2444–2448. 44 indexed citations
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Kay, Bernard S. & Robert M. Wald. (1987). A uniqueness result for quantum field theory on spacetimes with bifurcate Killing horizons. 279. 1 indexed citations
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Garfinkle, David & Robert M. Wald. (1985). On the possibility of a box for holding gravitational radiation in thermal equilibrium. General Relativity and Gravitation. 17(5). 461–473. 9 indexed citations
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Unruh, W. G. & Robert M. Wald. (1983). How to mine energy from a black hole. General Relativity and Gravitation. 15(3). 195–199. 17 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M. & Ping Yip. (1981). On the existence of simultaneous synchronous coordinates in spacetimes with spacelike singularities. Journal of Mathematical Physics. 22(11). 2659–2665. 13 indexed citations
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Horowitz, Gary T. & Robert M. Wald. (1980). Quantum stress energy in nearly conformally flat spacetimes. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 21(6). 1462–1465. 23 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M.. (1979). Construction of metric and vector potential perturbations of a Reissner–Nordström black hole. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 369(1736). 67–81. 12 indexed citations
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Wald, Robert M.. (1977). Space, time, and gravity : the theory of the big bang and black holes. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 3 indexed citations

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