Tomislav Prokopec

6.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
114 papers, 3.9k citations indexed

About

Tomislav Prokopec is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Tomislav Prokopec has authored 114 papers receiving a total of 3.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 101 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 84 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 25 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Tomislav Prokopec's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (101 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (68 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (23 papers). Tomislav Prokopec is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (101 papers), Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (68 papers) and Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (23 papers). Tomislav Prokopec collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Germany. Tomislav Prokopec's co-authors include Michael G. Schmidt, Michael Joyce, R. P. Woodard, Guy D. Moore, Cristiano Germani, Neil Turok, Steffen Weinstock, Ola Törnkvist, Thomas Konstandin and Robert Brandenberger and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Tomislav Prokopec

113 papers receiving 3.8k citations

Hit Papers

On primordial black holes from an inflection point 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 50 100 150 200 250
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. On primordial black holes from an inflection point
    2017 250 citations Cristiano Germani, Tomislav Prokopec profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Tomislav Prokopec Netherlands 34 3.4k 3.0k 650 597 237 114 3.9k
R. Holman United States 32 2.8k 0.8× 2.6k 0.9× 712 1.1× 682 1.1× 143 0.6× 136 3.5k
Alberto Nicolis United States 30 5.0k 1.5× 4.5k 1.5× 508 0.8× 986 1.7× 318 1.3× 55 5.6k
Leandros Perivolaropoulos Greece 39 5.0k 1.5× 3.4k 1.1× 234 0.4× 431 0.7× 330 1.4× 133 5.3k
R. P. Woodard United States 39 5.0k 1.5× 4.6k 1.5× 712 1.1× 1.3k 2.1× 419 1.8× 167 5.4k
N. Sánchez France 34 2.9k 0.9× 2.6k 0.9× 532 0.8× 789 1.3× 95 0.4× 164 3.4k
Robert J. Scherrer United States 39 4.3k 1.3× 3.8k 1.2× 212 0.3× 459 0.8× 141 0.6× 136 4.8k
I. Tkachev Russia 42 5.1k 1.5× 5.3k 1.7× 881 1.4× 666 1.1× 238 1.0× 135 6.5k
Anne-Christine Davis United Kingdom 36 3.8k 1.1× 3.4k 1.1× 460 0.7× 361 0.6× 273 1.2× 149 4.5k
Glenn D. Starkman United States 39 4.8k 1.4× 3.9k 1.3× 339 0.5× 577 1.0× 219 0.9× 160 5.5k
Richard Easther United States 37 3.4k 1.0× 2.7k 0.9× 273 0.4× 525 0.9× 331 1.4× 79 3.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Tomislav Prokopec

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Tomislav Prokopec

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Liu, Lei-Hua & Tomislav Prokopec. (2025). Appearances are deceptive: can graviton have a mass?. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2025(5). 1 indexed citations
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Canevarolo, S. & Tomislav Prokopec. (2024). Gradient corrections to the quantum effective action. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(12). 1 indexed citations
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Glavan, Dražen & Tomislav Prokopec. (2023). When tadpoles matter: one-loop corrections for spectator Higgs in inflation. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(10). 6 indexed citations
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Glavan, Dražen, S. P. Miao, Tomislav Prokopec, & R. P. Woodard. (2023). Explaining large electromagnetic logarithms from loops of inflationary gravitons. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(8). 7 indexed citations
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Glavan, Dražen & Tomislav Prokopec. (2023). Photon propagator in de Sitter space in the general covariant gauge. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2023(5). 4 indexed citations
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Belgacem, Enis & Tomislav Prokopec. (2022). Quantum origin of dark energy and the Hubble tension. Physics Letters B. 831. 137174–137174. 9 indexed citations
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Prokopec, Tomislav, et al.. (2019). Field-theoretic approach to large-scale structure formation. Physical review. D. 100(10). 6 indexed citations
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Germani, Cristiano, et al.. (2018). Failure of the stochastic approach to inflation in constant-roll and ultra-slow-roll. arXiv (Cornell University). 3 indexed citations
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Prokopec, Tomislav, et al.. (2018). Inflation in an effective gravitational model and asymptotic safety. Physical review. D. 98(4). 36 indexed citations
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Glavan, Dražen, et al.. (2015). Inflation from cosmological constant and nonminimally coupled scalar. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 92(4). 7 indexed citations
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Prokopec, Tomislav, et al.. (2013). Covariant vacuum polarizations on de Sitter background. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 87(4). 14 indexed citations
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Prokopec, Tomislav, et al.. (2012). The Gaussian entropy of fermionic systems. Annals of Physics. 327(12). 3138–3169. 5 indexed citations
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Prokopec, Tomislav, et al.. (2008). Implications of the graviton one-loop effective action on the dynamics of the Universe. arXiv (Cornell University). 4 indexed citations
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Bilandzic, A. & Tomislav Prokopec. (2007). Quantum radiative corrections to slow-roll inflation. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 76(10). 35 indexed citations
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Garbrecht, Björn, Tomislav Prokopec, & Michael G. Schmidt. (2004). Coherent Baryogenesis. Physical Review Letters. 92(6). 61303–61303. 18 indexed citations
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Garbrecht, Björn & Tomislav Prokopec. (2004). Energy density in expanding universes as seen by an Unruh detector. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology. 70(8). 9 indexed citations
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Garbrecht, Björn, Tomislav Prokopec, & Michael G. Schmidt. (2004). Particle number in kinetic theory. The European Physical Journal C. 38(1). 135–143. 29 indexed citations
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Prokopec, Tomislav, Ola Törnkvist, & R. P. Woodard. (2002). Photon Mass from Inflation. Physical Review Letters. 89(10). 101301–101301. 98 indexed citations
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Moore, Guy D. & Tomislav Prokopec. (1995). How fast can the wall move? A study of the electroweak phase transition dynamics. Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields. 52(12). 7182–7204. 179 indexed citations
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Brandenberger, Robert, Viatcheslav Mukhanov, Hume A. Feldman, & Tomislav Prokopec. (1992). Gauge invariant cosmological perturbations: Theory and applications. 13–32. 3 indexed citations

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