Stephon Alexander

4.5k total citations · 3 hit papers
92 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Stephon Alexander is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Stephon Alexander has authored 92 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 78 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 74 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 35 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Stephon Alexander's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (74 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (53 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (33 papers). Stephon Alexander is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (74 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (53 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (33 papers). Stephon Alexander collaborates with scholars based in United States, Canada and United Kingdom. Stephon Alexander's co-authors include Nicolás Yunes, Evan McDonough, Michael W. Toomey, J. Colin Hill, Michael E. Peskin, M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, Robert Brandenberger, Jérôme Martin, S. James Gates and Damien A. Easson and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, The Astrophysical Journal and Physics Reports.

In The Last Decade

Stephon Alexander

86 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Chern–Simons modified general relativity

2009 478 citations Stephon Alexander, Nicolás Yunes profile →
Early dark energy does not restore cosmological concordance

2020 215 citations Evan McDonough, Michael W. Toomey et al. Physical review. D profile →
Constraining early dark energy with large-scale structure

2020 170 citations Evan McDonough, Michael W. Toomey 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						Papers	Cites
Stephon Alexander United States	25	2.7k	2.3k	525	184	136	92	2.9k
Federico Piazza France	19	2.5k 0.9×	2.0k 0.8×	295 0.6×	259 1.4×	243 1.8×	40	2.8k
Sergey Sibiryakov Russia	27	2.9k 1.0×	2.6k 1.1×	932 1.8×	247 1.3×	134 1.0×	72	3.1k
Alex Kehagias Greece	33	3.5k 1.3×	3.3k 1.4×	746 1.4×	131 0.7×	235 1.7×	142	3.8k
Subenoy Chakraborty India	26	2.7k 1.0×	2.3k 1.0×	548 1.0×	96 0.5×	205 1.5×	278	2.8k
Marco Bruni United Kingdom	30	3.5k 1.3×	2.8k 1.2×	352 0.7×	98 0.5×	216 1.6×	80	3.6k
Gianmassimo Tasinato United Kingdom	38	4.0k 1.5×	3.0k 1.3×	406 0.8×	141 0.8×	444 3.3×	106	4.2k
Yun-Song Piao China	35	4.0k 1.5×	3.3k 1.4×	461 0.9×	86 0.5×	366 2.7×	132	4.1k
Austin Joyce United States	23	2.1k 0.8×	1.8k 0.7×	354 0.7×	114 0.6×	159 1.2×	40	2.3k
M. C. Bento Portugal	21	2.9k 1.1×	2.5k 1.1×	331 0.6×	86 0.5×	142 1.0×	51	3.1k
Jiro Soda Japan	38	3.9k 1.4×	3.4k 1.4×	780 1.5×	387 2.1×	327 2.4×	153	4.1k

Countries citing papers authored by Stephon Alexander

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Stephon Alexander

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2025). Birefringence in fermion-attenuated gravitational wave power spectrum. Physics Letters B. 866. 139499–139499.

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2025). Higgs Inflation and the Electroweak Gauge Sector. Fortschritte der Physik. 73(5).

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2024). A realist interpretation of unitarity in quantum gravity. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 41(11). 115005–115005.

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2024). A path integral formula of quantum gravity emergent from entangled local structures. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(7). 1 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2024). de Sitter State in Heterotic String Theory. Fortschritte der Physik. 72(11). 1 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2024). Kalb-Ramond field and gravitational parity violation. Physical review. D. 110(4). 12 indexed citations

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Philcox, Oliver H. E., et al.. (2024). What can galaxy shapes tell us about physics beyond the standard model?. Physical review. D. 109(6). 7 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2023). π-axion and π-axiverse of dark QCD. Physical review. D. 108(12). 12 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2023). Pure gauge theory for the gravitational spin connection. Physical review. D. 107(6). 1 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2023). Domain Adaptation for Simulation-based Dark Matter Searches with Strong Gravitational Lensing. The Astrophysical Journal. 954(1). 28–28. 3 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2023). Addressing the Hubble and S ₈ tensions with a kinetically mixed dark sector. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(3). 37–37. 21 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon. (2023). Inflation and electroweak symmetry breaking. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2023(9). 8–8. 1 indexed citations

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Addazi, Andrea, Stephon Alexander, & Antonino Marcianò. (2020). Invisible QCD as Dark Energy. Universe. 6(6). 75–75. 3 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2019). Novel Substructure and Superfluid Dark Matter. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon. (2016). Jazz of physics: the secret link between music and the structure of the Universe. CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research). 4 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, et al.. (2011). Towards a Spin-foam unification of gravity, Yang-Mills interactions and matter fields. arXiv (Cornell University). 2 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon & Nicolás Yunes. (2007). New Post-Newtonian Parameter to Test Chern-Simons Gravity. Physical Review Letters. 99(24). 241101–241101. 60 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, Michael E. Peskin, & M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari. (2006). Leptogenesis from Gravity Waves in Models of Inflation. Physical Review Letters. 96(8). 81301–81301. 226 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon. (2000). Topological defects in alternative theories to cosmic inflation and string cosmology. PhDT. 1 indexed citations

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Alexander, Stephon, Robert Brandenberger, & Damien A. Easson. (2000). Brane gases in the early Universe. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 62(10). 141 indexed citations

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