Ted Jacobson

14.7k total citations · 3 hit papers
122 papers, 8.8k citations indexed

About

Ted Jacobson is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Ted Jacobson has authored 122 papers receiving a total of 8.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 105 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 92 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 55 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Ted Jacobson's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (90 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (89 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (45 papers). Ted Jacobson is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (90 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (89 papers) and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories (45 papers). Ted Jacobson collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and United Kingdom. Ted Jacobson's co-authors include David Mattingly, Robert C. Myers, Christopher Eling, Stefano Liberati, Thomas P. Sotiriou, Steven Corley, G. Kang, Lee Smolin, Riccardo Capovilla and Raf Guedens and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Physics Today.

In The Last Decade

Ted Jacobson

117 papers receiving 8.5k citations

Hit Papers

Thermodynamics of Spacetime: The Einstein Equation of State 1994 2026 2004 2015 1995 2001 1994 400 800 1.2k
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. Thermodynamics of Spacetime: The Einstein Equation of State
    1995 1.4k citations Ted Jacobson Physical Review Letters profile →
  2. Gravity with a dynamical preferred frame
    2001 578 citations Ted Jacobson, David Mattingly Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →
  3. On black hole entropy
    1994 447 citations Ted Jacobson, G. Kang et al. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Ted Jacobson United States 46 7.6k 7.0k 4.6k 2.0k 134 122 8.8k
Τ. Padmanabhan India 47 8.4k 1.1× 6.5k 0.9× 3.5k 0.8× 1.9k 1.0× 48 0.4× 306 9.4k
Steven B. Giddings United States 50 7.2k 0.9× 8.0k 1.1× 3.2k 0.7× 1.4k 0.7× 252 1.9× 133 8.8k
Leonard Parker United States 40 5.9k 0.8× 4.9k 0.7× 1.8k 0.4× 2.6k 1.3× 68 0.5× 115 6.9k
Friedrich W. Hehl Germany 42 6.1k 0.8× 5.2k 0.7× 2.5k 0.5× 1.4k 0.7× 102 0.8× 149 7.7k
João Magueijo United Kingdom 39 5.1k 0.7× 4.3k 0.6× 2.8k 0.6× 678 0.3× 64 0.5× 157 5.9k
Valeri P. Frolov Canada 42 5.7k 0.8× 5.2k 0.7× 1.8k 0.4× 1.2k 0.6× 144 1.1× 209 6.2k
Stefano Liberati Italy 44 5.2k 0.7× 4.1k 0.6× 3.1k 0.7× 2.9k 1.5× 45 0.3× 180 6.7k
Orfeu Bertolami Portugal 40 6.8k 0.9× 6.0k 0.9× 1.9k 0.4× 919 0.5× 132 1.0× 222 7.9k
Malcolm J. Perry United States 35 6.5k 0.9× 7.5k 1.1× 3.0k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 249 1.9× 86 8.3k
N. D. Birrell United Kingdom 14 4.7k 0.6× 4.0k 0.6× 2.0k 0.4× 2.7k 1.4× 104 0.8× 19 5.9k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Ted Jacobson

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Ted Jacobson

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Jacobson, Ted, et al.. (2025). The enigmatic gravitational partition function. General Relativity and Gravitation. 57(2). 3 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted. (2025). Guiding-centre Lagrangian and quasi-symmetry. Journal of Plasma Physics. 91(2).
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Jacobson, Ted, et al.. (2025). On the viability of minimal Hořava gravity. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical. 58(31). 315404–315404.
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Jacobson, Ted & Manus R. Visser. (2023). Partition Function for a Volume of Space. Physical Review Letters. 130(22). 221501–221501. 14 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted, et al.. (2023). The minus sign in the first law of de Sitter horizons. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(1). 37 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted, et al.. (2023). Causal diamonds in (2+1)-dimensional quantum gravity. Physical review. D. 107(2). 2 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted. (2016). Entanglement Equilibrium and the Einstein Equation. Physical Review Letters. 116(20). 201101–201101. 144 indexed citations
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Gralla, Samuel E., et al.. (2013). Time-dependent, Non-Axisymmetric Exact Solutions to Force-Free Electrodynamics in Black Hole Backgrounds. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations
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Garfinkle, David & Ted Jacobson. (2011). A Positive-Energy Theorem for Einstein-Aether and Hořava Gravity. Physical Review Letters. 107(19). 191102–191102. 49 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted. (2008). Einstein-æther gravity: a status report. 20–20. 139 indexed citations
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Eling, Christopher, Raf Guedens, & Ted Jacobson. (2006). Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Spacetime. Physical Review Letters. 96(12). 121301–121301. 315 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted, Stefano Liberati, & David Mattingly. (2005). Lorentz violation at high energy: concepts, phenomena and astrophysical constraints. 189 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted, Stefano Liberati, David Mattingly, & F. W. Stecker. (2004). New Limits on Planck Scale Lorentz Violation in QED. Physical Review Letters. 93(2). 21101–21101. 120 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted & Renaud Parentani. (2003). Horizon Entropy. arXiv (Cornell University). 44 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted, Stefano Liberati, & David Mattingly. (2003). A strong astrophysical constraint on the violation of special relativity by quantum gravity. Nature. 424(6952). 1019–1021. 187 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted & David Mattingly. (2001). Gravity with a dynamical preferred frame. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 64(2). 578 indexed citations breakdown →
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Myers, Robert C., Ted Jacobson, & G. Kang. (1996). Entropy Increase for Black Holes in Higher Curvature Gravity. 937. 1 indexed citations
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Hu, B. L. & Ted Jacobson. (1993). Papers in honor of Dieter Brill. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted & Lee Smolin. (1988). Nonperturbative quantum geometries. Nuclear Physics B. 299(2). 295–345. 168 indexed citations
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Jacobson, Ted. (1983). Quantum Gravitation and the Distinction Between Inertial Mass and Active Gravitational Mass: AN Experimental Proposal. 1. 990.

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