Volker Perlick

4.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
74 papers, 2.9k citations indexed

About

Volker Perlick is a scholar working on Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Volker Perlick has authored 74 papers receiving a total of 2.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics, 26 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics and 13 papers in Statistical and Nonlinear Physics. Recurrent topics in Volker Perlick's work include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (32 papers), Advanced Differential Geometry Research (24 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (24 papers). Volker Perlick is often cited by papers focused on Cosmology and Gravitation Theories (32 papers), Advanced Differential Geometry Research (24 papers) and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations (24 papers). Volker Perlick collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Russia and United Kingdom. Volker Perlick's co-authors include Oleg Yu. Tsupko, Cláus Lämmerzahl, Г. С. Бисноватый-Коган, Arne Grenzebach, W Haße, Wolfgang Rindler, Marcus Kriele, Jonathan Gratus, R.W. Tucker and Jiřı́ Bičák and has published in prestigious journals such as The Astrophysical Journal, Physics Reports and Communications in Mathematical Physics.

In The Last Decade

Volker Perlick

71 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

Calculating black hole shadows: Rev... 2014 2026 2018 2022 2021 2014 2015 100 200 300
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. Calculating black hole shadows: Review of analytical studies
    2021 384 citations Volker Perlick, Oleg Yu. Tsupko profile →
  2. Photon regions and shadows of Kerr-Newman-NUT black holes with a cosmological constant
    2014 288 citations Volker Perlick, Cláus Lämmerzahl et al. profile →
  3. Influence of a plasma on the shadow of a spherically symmetric black hole
    2015 254 citations Volker Perlick, Oleg Yu. Tsupko et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Volker Perlick Germany 24 2.7k 1.7k 401 295 120 74 2.9k
Robert Beig Austria 17 1.0k 0.4× 813 0.5× 274 0.7× 186 0.6× 152 1.3× 48 1.2k
Patricio S. Letelier Brazil 27 2.5k 0.9× 1.9k 1.1× 689 1.7× 300 1.0× 51 0.4× 157 2.8k
R. P. Kerr New Zealand 14 2.3k 0.9× 1.7k 1.0× 508 1.3× 257 0.9× 161 1.3× 25 2.6k
Sean A. Hayward Japan 22 3.0k 1.1× 2.8k 1.6× 835 2.1× 417 1.4× 110 0.9× 65 3.2k
Allen I. Janis United States 13 2.6k 1.0× 2.0k 1.2× 596 1.5× 341 1.2× 124 1.0× 36 2.9k
F. de Felice Italy 22 1.5k 0.6× 776 0.5× 296 0.7× 202 0.7× 41 0.3× 117 1.7k
Burkhard Kleihaus Germany 34 3.7k 1.4× 3.4k 2.0× 652 1.6× 298 1.0× 36 0.3× 143 4.1k
J. G. Pereira Brazil 21 1.7k 0.6× 1.4k 0.8× 571 1.4× 162 0.5× 60 0.5× 81 1.9k
Jiřı́ Bičák Czechia 24 1.8k 0.7× 1.4k 0.8× 376 0.9× 145 0.5× 42 0.3× 103 1.9k
G. David Kerlick United States 14 2.0k 0.7× 1.8k 1.1× 736 1.8× 229 0.8× 101 0.8× 28 2.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Perlick, Volker, et al.. (2025). Waves in Bopp–Landé–Thomas–Podolsky generalized electrodynamics. Annals of Physics. 484. 170286–170286. 1 indexed citations
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Lämmerzahl, Cláus & Volker Perlick. (2024). Potentials for general-relativistic geodesy. Physical review. D. 109(4).
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Perlick, Volker & Oleg Yu. Tsupko. (2024). Light propagation in a plasma on Kerr spacetime. II. Plasma imprint on photon orbits. Physical review. D. 109(6). 13 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker, et al.. (2023). Gravitational lensing in Brill spacetimes. Physical review. D. 107(2). 4 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker, et al.. (2021). Geometrically thick tori around compact objects with a quadrupole moment. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 38(13). 135002–135002. 7 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker, et al.. (2021). Lightlike geodesics and gravitational lensing in the spacetime of an accelerating black hole. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 38(8). 85016–85016. 18 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker, et al.. (2020). Aschenbach effect for spinning particles in Kerr spacetime. Physical review. D. 102(2). 9 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker, et al.. (2020). Application of the Gauss–Bonnet theorem to lensing in the NUT metric. General Relativity and Gravitation. 52(11). 11 indexed citations
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Degollado, Juan Carlos, et al.. (2018). Bose-Einstein condensates in charged black-hole spacetimes. Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics. 2018(1). 43–43. 6 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker, et al.. (2017). Definition of the relativistic geoid in terms of isochronometric surfaces. Physical review. D. 95(10). 9 indexed citations
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Gómez, Gabriel, C. R. Argüelles, Volker Perlick, J. A. Rueda, & R. Ruffini. (2016). Strong lensing by fermionic dark matter in galaxies. Physical review. D. 94(12). 10 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker. (2014). Gravitational lensing beyond the weak-field approximation. AIP conference proceedings. 94–111. 4 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker. (2006). Ehrlich, Paul E. and Dostoglou, Stamatis (eds.): Advances in differential geometry and general relativity: The Beemfest. General Relativity and Gravitation. 38(5). 991–993. 1 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker. (2004). Gravitational Lensing from a Spacetime Perspective. PubMed. 7(1). 9–9. 305 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker. (2000). Book Review: The Global Nonlinear Stability of the Minkowski Space. By Demetrios Christodoulou and Sergiu Klainerman. General Relativity and Gravitation. 32(4). 761–763. 1 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker. (2000). Ray optics, Fermat's principle, and applications to general relativity. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 116 indexed citations
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Giannoni, Fabio, et al.. (1999). Time minimizing trajectories in Lorentzian geometry. Matemática Contemporânea. 17(11). 1 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker. (1998). Application of Morse Theory to Gravitational Lensing. 155. 1 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker. (1992). On Fermat's principle in general relativity.. 745. 13 indexed citations
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Perlick, Volker. (1992). Bertrand spacetimes. Classical and Quantum Gravity. 9(4). 1009–1021. 41 indexed citations

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