So-Young Pi

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
52 papers, 4.3k citations indexed

About

So-Young Pi 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, So-Young Pi has authored 52 papers receiving a total of 4.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 34 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 23 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 17 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics. Recurrent topics in So-Young Pi's work include Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (22 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (21 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (19 papers). So-Young Pi is often cited by papers focused on Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (22 papers), Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (21 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (19 papers). So-Young Pi collaborates with scholars based in United States, Switzerland and Italy. So-Young Pi's co-authors include Alan H. Guth, R. Jackiw, Paul Langacker, Giovanni Amelino-Camelia, Claudio Chamon, O. J. P. Éboli, A. I. Sanda, Guido Altarelli, G. Martinelli and R. Keith Ellis and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Physical Review B and Nuclear Physics B.

In The Last Decade

So-Young Pi

50 papers receiving 4.2k citations

Hit Papers

Fluctuations in the New Inflationary Universe 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 500 1000 1.5k
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. Fluctuations in the New Inflationary Universe
    1982 1.5k citations Alan H. Guth, So-Young Pi 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
So-Young Pi United States 27 2.8k 2.4k 1.1k 907 271 52 4.3k
Alan Chodos United States 23 4.2k 1.5× 2.4k 1.0× 1.1k 1.0× 897 1.0× 156 0.6× 79 5.3k
Yuval Ne’eman Israel 24 2.7k 1.0× 1.7k 0.7× 619 0.6× 1.2k 1.3× 259 1.0× 155 3.9k
Erick J. Weinberg United States 37 6.3k 2.2× 4.4k 1.8× 1.4k 1.3× 1.4k 1.6× 452 1.7× 80 7.8k
Charles B. Thorn United States 34 5.2k 1.9× 1.8k 0.7× 991 0.9× 1.4k 1.6× 312 1.2× 117 6.4k
K. Johnson United States 30 5.6k 2.0× 1.4k 0.6× 1.5k 1.4× 759 0.8× 210 0.8× 54 7.0k
M. Veltman United States 28 8.4k 3.0× 2.7k 1.1× 872 0.8× 1.0k 1.1× 226 0.8× 69 9.4k
D. Boyanovsky United States 40 2.9k 1.0× 2.5k 1.0× 1.6k 1.5× 887 1.0× 102 0.4× 178 4.6k
P. Freund United States 34 4.3k 1.5× 2.1k 0.9× 742 0.7× 1.3k 1.4× 766 2.8× 166 5.6k
R. Arnowitt United States 36 5.9k 2.1× 4.1k 1.7× 937 0.9× 1.5k 1.7× 132 0.5× 148 7.3k
S. Templeton United States 9 3.5k 1.2× 2.0k 0.8× 1.3k 1.3× 2.0k 2.2× 343 1.3× 9 4.4k

Countries citing papers authored by So-Young Pi

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Fields of papers citing papers by So-Young Pi

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of So-Young Pi

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of So-Young Pi. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of So-Young Pi 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 So-Young Pi. So-Young Pi 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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Jackiw, R. & So-Young Pi. (2014). Fake Conformal Symmetry in Conformal Inflationary Models. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Iadecola, Thomas, Claudio Chamon, Chang-Yu Hou, et al.. (2013). Materials Design from Nonequilibrium Steady States: Driven Graphene as a Tunable Semiconductor with Topological Properties. Physical Review Letters. 110(17). 176603–176603. 58 indexed citations
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Jackiw, R., Yusuke Nishida, Luiz H. Santos, Claudio Chamon, & So-Young Pi. (2010). Quantizing Majorana fermions in a superconductor. DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). 4 indexed citations
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Chamon, Claudio, Chang-Yu Hou, R. Jackiw, et al.. (2008). Irrational Versus Rational Charge and Statistics in Two-Dimensional Quantum Systems. Physical Review Letters. 100(11). 110405–110405. 55 indexed citations
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Dvali, Gia, R. Jackiw, & So-Young Pi. (2006). Topological Mass Generation in Four Dimensions. Physical Review Letters. 96(8). 24 indexed citations
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Jackiw, R. & So-Young Pi. (1996). Threshhold singularities and the magnetic mass in hot QCD. Physics Letters B. 368(1-2). 131–136. 36 indexed citations
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Amelino-Camelia, Giovanni & So-Young Pi. (1993). Self-consistent improvement of the finite-temperature effective potential. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 47(6). 2356–2362. 109 indexed citations
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Jackiw, R. & So-Young Pi. (1991). Time-dependent Chern-Simons solitons and their quantization. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 44(8). 2524–2532. 53 indexed citations
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Jackiw, R. & So-Young Pi. (1991). Semiclassical Landau levels of anyons. Physical Review Letters. 67(4). 415–418. 22 indexed citations
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Pi, So-Young, et al.. (1987). Renormalizability of the time-dependent variational equations in quantum field theory. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 36(10). 3128–3137. 53 indexed citations
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Guth, Alan H. & So-Young Pi. (1986). The behavior of the Higgs field in the new inflationary universe. CERN Bulletin. 345–351.
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Guth, Alan H. & So-Young Pi. (1985). Quantum mechanics of the scalar field in the new inflationary universe. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 32(8). 1899–1920. 313 indexed citations
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Guth, Alan H. & So-Young Pi. (1982). Fluctuations in the New Inflationary Universe. Physical Review Letters. 49(15). 1110–1113. 1510 indexed citations breakdown →
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Pi, So-Young. (1982). Cosmological consequences of a hierarchical supersymmetric model. Physics Letters B. 112(6). 441–445. 14 indexed citations
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Sanda, A. I. & So-Young Pi. (1978). Dynamics of theτDecay. Physical Review Letters. 40(5). 286–289. 3 indexed citations
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Pi, So-Young, R. L. Jaffe, & F. E. Low. (1978). Azimuthal Correlations ine+e−Jets: A Test of Quantum Chromodynamics. Physical Review Letters. 41(3). 142–145. 27 indexed citations
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Pi, So-Young & A. I. Sanda. (1977). e+ + e− → U+ + U− → μ∓ + e± + neutrinos: General considerations. Annals of Physics. 106(1). 171–204. 25 indexed citations
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Pi, So-Young & A. I. Sanda. (1976). Leptonic-Decay Distributions for Heavy-Lepton Pairs Produced by Colliding Beams.. Physical Review Letters. 36(8). 453–453. 2 indexed citations
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Pi, So-Young & A. I. Sanda. (1976). Effects of transverse beam polarization on anomalousμ−eevents. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 14(7). 1772–1775. 10 indexed citations
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Pi, So-Young, et al.. (1975). Axial-vector anomaly in asymptotically free theories. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 11(10). 2946–2949. 6 indexed citations

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