Thomas Schäfer

10.2k total citations · 4 hit papers
132 papers, 6.6k citations indexed

About

Thomas Schäfer is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Schäfer has authored 132 papers receiving a total of 6.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 96 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 53 papers in Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics and 19 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Thomas Schäfer's work include High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (79 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (69 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (43 papers). Thomas Schäfer is often cited by papers focused on High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (79 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (69 papers) and Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates (43 papers). Thomas Schäfer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and France. Thomas Schäfer's co-authors include Edward Shuryak, Frank Wilczek, Krishna Rajagopal, Mark Alford, Andreas Schmitt, Ralf Rapp, M. Velkovsky, Derek Teaney, Marcus Bluhm and Paulo F. Bedaque and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Physical Review Letters and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Schäfer

124 papers receiving 6.5k citations

Hit Papers

Color superconductivity i... 1998 2026 2007 2016 2008 1998 1998 1999 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. Color superconductivity in dense quark matter
    2008 916 citations Krishna Rajagopal, Thomas Schäfer et al. profile →
  2. Instantons in QCD
    1998 883 citations Thomas Schäfer et al. profile →
  3. Diquark Bose Condensates in High Density Matter and Instantons
    1998 613 citations Thomas Schäfer et al. profile →
  4. Continuity of Quark and Hadron Matter
    1999 231 citations Thomas Schäfer et al. profile →

Author Peers

Peers are selected by citation overlap in the author's most active subfields. citations · hero ref

Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Thomas Schäfer 4.8k 2.4k 1.9k 1.1k 523 132 6.6k
Jean-Paul Blaizot 6.3k 1.3× 2.4k 1.0× 1.3k 0.6× 873 0.8× 293 0.6× 184 7.9k
Krishna Rajagopal 7.6k 1.6× 2.2k 0.9× 3.8k 2.0× 1.4k 1.3× 1.0k 1.9× 109 9.6k
Mikhail Stephanov 7.4k 1.5× 1.6k 0.7× 2.1k 1.1× 969 0.9× 218 0.4× 91 8.4k
Edward Shuryak 13.9k 2.9× 1.9k 0.8× 2.4k 1.3× 904 0.8× 344 0.7× 309 14.9k
Joseph I. Kapusta 6.9k 1.4× 1.3k 0.5× 2.2k 1.1× 432 0.4× 383 0.7× 187 7.6k
Robert D. Pisarski 10.3k 2.1× 2.2k 0.9× 3.0k 1.5× 1.6k 1.5× 454 0.9× 160 11.6k
Larry McLerran 18.3k 3.8× 1.9k 0.8× 4.7k 2.4× 604 0.5× 595 1.1× 201 19.5k
S. D. Katz 11.3k 2.4× 996 0.4× 2.5k 1.3× 547 0.5× 221 0.4× 145 11.8k
Paweł Danielewicz 5.7k 1.2× 1.6k 0.7× 1.9k 1.0× 177 0.2× 844 1.6× 137 7.0k
Zoltán Fodor 10.0k 2.1× 822 0.3× 2.6k 1.3× 551 0.5× 194 0.4× 158 10.4k

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Cuyt, Annie, et al.. (2025). A Fast Exponential Analysis and Variable Projection-Based Method for Linear Array Synthesis. IEEE Antennas and Wireless Propagation Letters. 24(6). 1527–1531.
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Schäfer, Thomas, Frank J. Gareis, Elmar Fuchs, et al.. (2024). Beyond fur color: differences in socio-emotional behavior and the oxytocin system between male BL6 and CD1 mice in adolescence and adulthood. Frontiers in Neuroscience. 18. 1493619–1493619. 2 indexed citations
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Chao, Jingyi & Thomas Schäfer. (2023). N-particle irreducible actions for stochastic fluids. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(6). 4 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Thomas, et al.. (2023). Dynamic scaling of order parameter fluctuations in model B. Physical review. D. 108(7). 10 indexed citations
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Heinz, Ulrich, et al.. (2023). Fluid dynamics from the Boltzmann equation using a maximum entropy distribution. Physical review. C. 108(3). 6 indexed citations
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Heinz, Ulrich, et al.. (2023). Far-off-equilibrium expansion trajectories in the QCD phase diagram. Physical review. C. 107(4). 5 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Thomas & Vladimir V. Skokov. (2022). Dynamics of non-Gaussian fluctuations in model A. Physical review. D. 106(1). 12 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Thomas, et al.. (2021). Dissipative superfluid hydrodynamics for the unitary Fermi gas. Physical review. A. 104(2).
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Behtash, Alireza, Syo Kamata, Mauricio Martínez, Thomas Schäfer, & Vladimir V. Skokov. (2021). Transasymptotics and hydrodynamization of the Fokker-Planck equation for gluons. Physical review. D. 103(5). 13 indexed citations
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Cherman, Aleksey, Syo Kamata, Thomas Schäfer, & Mithat Ünsal. (2020). Flow of Hagedorn singularities and phase transitions in large N gauge theories. Physical review. D. 101(1). 2 indexed citations
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Parotto, Paolo, Marcus Bluhm, Débora Mroczek, et al.. (2020). QCD equation of state matched to lattice data and exhibiting a critical point singularity. Physical review. C. 101(3). 95 indexed citations
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Martínez, Mauricio, Thomas Schäfer, & Vladimir V. Skokov. (2019). Critical behavior of the bulk viscosity in QCD. Physical review. D. 100(7). 31 indexed citations
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Bluhm, Marcus, Marlene Nahrgang, Thomas Schäfer, & Steffen A. Bass. (2018). Fluctuating fluid dynamics for the QGP in the LHC and BES era. Springer Link (Chiba Institute of Technology). 11 indexed citations
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Nahrgang, Marlene, Marcus Bluhm, Thomas Schäfer, & Steffen A. Bass. (2017). Toward the description of fluid dynamical fluctuations in heavy-ion\n collisions. arXiv (Cornell University). 12 indexed citations
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Martínez, Mauricio & Thomas Schäfer. (2017). Hydrodynamic tails and a fluctuation bound on the bulk viscosity. Physical review. A. 96(6). 23 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Thomas. (2007). 1 What atomic liquids can teach us about quark liquids. CERN Bulletin. 7 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Thomas. (2006). From Trapped Atoms to Liberated Quarks. CERN Bulletin. 3 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Thomas. (2005). Phases of QCD. 1 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Thomas, et al.. (2000). Komposition als Kommunikation : zur Musik des 20. Jahrhunderts. P. Lang eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Schäfer, Thomas. (1989). Imperii Insignia : Sella curulis und Fasces zur Repräsentation Römischer Magistrate. 14 indexed citations

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