Roberto Contino

8.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
39 papers, 3.7k citations indexed

About

Roberto Contino is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Roberto Contino has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 3.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 17 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 3 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Roberto Contino's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (37 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (21 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (17 papers). Roberto Contino is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (37 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (21 papers) and Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (17 papers). Roberto Contino collaborates with scholars based in Italy, Switzerland and Spain. Roberto Contino's co-authors include Alex Pomarol, Kaustubh Agashe, Leandro Da Rold, Yasunori Nomura, Riccardo Rattazzi, Aleksandr Azatov, Margherita Ghezzi, Christophe Grojean, Giuliano Panico and Margarete Mühlleitner and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Roberto Contino

38 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

The minimal composite Higgs model 2003 2026 2010 2018 2005 2003 2006 2007 250 500 750
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. The minimal composite Higgs model
    2005 833 citations Kaustubh Agashe, Roberto Contino et al. Nuclear Physics B profile →
  2. Higgs as a holographic pseudo-Goldstone boson
    2003 425 citations Roberto Contino, Yasunori Nomura et al. Nuclear Physics B profile →
  3. A custodial symmetry for Zbb¯
    2006 399 citations Kaustubh Agashe, Roberto Contino et al. Physics Letters B profile →
  4. Light custodians in natural composite Higgs models
    2007 376 citations Roberto Contino, Leandro Da Rold et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Roberto Contino Italy 25 3.6k 1.4k 92 71 38 39 3.7k
R. Sekhar Chivukula United States 30 3.6k 1.0× 1.2k 0.9× 73 0.8× 69 1.0× 42 1.1× 142 3.6k
José Santiago Spain 29 2.2k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 107 1.2× 36 0.5× 34 0.9× 67 2.2k
Giuliano Panico Italy 26 1.9k 0.5× 719 0.5× 43 0.5× 79 1.1× 40 1.1× 43 2.0k
Bohdan Grza̧dkowski Poland 28 3.2k 0.9× 890 0.7× 82 0.9× 74 1.0× 89 2.3× 108 3.2k
Ulrich Haisch Germany 29 3.0k 0.8× 705 0.5× 44 0.5× 89 1.3× 43 1.1× 69 3.0k
P. Perez United States 33 2.8k 0.8× 968 0.7× 45 0.5× 64 0.9× 27 0.7× 101 2.8k
Kaustubh Agashe United States 30 4.2k 1.2× 1.8k 1.3× 73 0.8× 50 0.7× 25 0.7× 70 4.2k
Tianjun Li China 24 2.2k 0.6× 1.0k 0.7× 71 0.8× 100 1.4× 16 0.4× 124 2.2k
Martin Gorbahn United Kingdom 25 2.5k 0.7× 302 0.2× 42 0.5× 59 0.8× 29 0.8× 38 2.5k
W. Hollik Germany 28 2.2k 0.6× 560 0.4× 32 0.3× 68 1.0× 40 1.1× 71 2.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Roberto Contino

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Fields of papers citing papers by Roberto Contino

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Roberto Contino

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Roberto Contino. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Roberto Contino based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Roberto Contino. Roberto Contino is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Contino, Roberto, et al.. (2025). A novel strategy to prove chiral symmetry breaking in QCD-like theories. Physics Letters B. 862. 139367–139367. 3 indexed citations
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Contino, Roberto, et al.. (2025). On the proof of chiral symmetry breaking through anomaly matching in QCD-like theories: An exemplification. Nuclear Physics B. 1017. 116957–116957.
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Contino, Roberto, et al.. (2024). Proof of chiral symmetry breaking from anomaly matching in QCD-like theories. Physical review. D. 110(11). 3 indexed citations
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Contino, Roberto, et al.. (2022). Chiral models of composite axions and accidental Peccei-Quinn symmetry. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2022(4). 18 indexed citations
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Contino, Roberto, et al.. (2017). Precision tests and fine tuning in twin Higgs models. Physical review. D. 96(9). 25 indexed citations
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Contino, Roberto, et al.. (2015). One-loop effects from spin-1 resonances in Composite Higgs models. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2015(7). 30 indexed citations
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Contino, Roberto, et al.. (2015). Dispersion relations for electroweak observables in composite Higgs models. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 92(11). 6 indexed citations
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Contino, Roberto, Margherita Ghezzi, Christophe Grojean, Margarete Mühlleitner, & Michael Spira. (2014). eHDECAY: An implementation of the Higgs effective Lagrangian into HDECAY. Computer Physics Communications. 185(12). 3412–3423. 41 indexed citations
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Azatov, Aleksandr, et al.. (2013). New prospects for Higgs compositeness inh→Zγ. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 88(7). 40 indexed citations
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Contino, Roberto, Margherita Ghezzi, M. Moretti, et al.. (2012). Anomalous couplings in double Higgs production. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2012(8). 89 indexed citations
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Contino, Roberto, Duccio Pappadopulo, David Marzocca, & Riccardo Rattazzi. (2011). On the effect of resonances in composite Higgs phenomenology. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2011(10). 112 indexed citations
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Agashe, Kaustubh & Roberto Contino. (2009). Composite Higgs-mediated flavor-changing neutral current. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 80(7). 72 indexed citations
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Contino, Roberto, Leandro Da Rold, & Alex Pomarol. (2007). Light custodians in natural composite Higgs models. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 75(5). 376 indexed citations breakdown →
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Contino, Roberto & Alex Pomarol. (2007). The holographic composite Higgs. Comptes Rendus Physique. 8(9). 1058–1067. 4 indexed citations
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Agashe, Kaustubh, Roberto Contino, Leandro Da Rold, & Alex Pomarol. (2006). A custodial symmetry for Zbb¯. Physics Letters B. 641(1). 62–66. 399 indexed citations breakdown →
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Agashe, Kaustubh, Roberto Contino, & Raman Sundrum. (2005). Top Compositeness and Precision Unification. Physical Review Letters. 95(17). 171804–171804. 58 indexed citations
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Agashe, Kaustubh, Roberto Contino, & Alex Pomarol. (2005). The minimal composite Higgs model. Nuclear Physics B. 719(1-2). 165–187. 833 indexed citations breakdown →
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Contino, Roberto, Yasunori Nomura, & Alex Pomarol. (2003). Higgs as a holographic pseudo-Goldstone boson. Nuclear Physics B. 671. 148–174. 425 indexed citations breakdown →
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Contino, Roberto & Luigi Pilo. (2001). A note on regularization methods in Kaluza–Klein theories. Physics Letters B. 520(3-4). 357–360. 2 indexed citations
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Contino, Roberto & Ignazio Scimemi. (1999). The supersymmetric-flavor problem for heavy first-two-generation scalars at next-to-leading order. The European Physical Journal C. 10(2). 347–356. 15 indexed citations

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