Yuri V. Kovchegov

9.4k total citations · 3 hit papers
96 papers, 5.6k citations indexed

About

Yuri V. Kovchegov is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Mathematical Physics. According to data from OpenAlex, Yuri V. Kovchegov has authored 96 papers receiving a total of 5.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 95 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 12 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics and 2 papers in Mathematical Physics. Recurrent topics in Yuri V. Kovchegov's work include High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (88 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (77 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (77 papers). Yuri V. Kovchegov is often cited by papers focused on High-Energy Particle Collisions Research (88 papers), Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (77 papers) and Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (77 papers). Yuri V. Kovchegov collaborates with scholars based in United States, Israel and Finland. Yuri V. Kovchegov's co-authors include E. Levin, Kirill Tuchin, Heribert Weigert, Matthew D. Sievert, Dmitri E. Kharzeev, Javier L. Albacete, Larry McLerran, Dirk H. Rischke, Daniel Pitonyak and Jamal Jalilian-Marian and has published in prestigious journals such as Physical Review Letters, Nuclear Physics B and Physics Letters B.

In The Last Decade

Yuri V. Kovchegov

93 papers receiving 5.5k 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.

  1. Small-xF2structure function of a nucleus including multiple Pomeron exchanges
    1999 1.0k citations Yuri V. Kovchegov profile →
  2. Unitarization of the BFKL Pomeron on a nucleus
    2000 586 citations Yuri V. Kovchegov profile →
  3. Quantum Chromodynamics at High Energy
    2012 283 citations Yuri V. Kovchegov 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
Yuri V. Kovchegov United States 35 5.6k 518 111 94 93 96 5.6k
Heribert Weigert United States 22 5.1k 0.9× 496 1.0× 93 0.8× 65 0.7× 106 1.1× 34 5.2k
Jamal Jalilian-Marian United States 28 5.1k 0.9× 410 0.8× 89 0.8× 58 0.6× 88 0.9× 77 5.1k
Andrei Leonidov Russia 11 3.8k 0.7× 338 0.7× 79 0.7× 55 0.6× 102 1.1× 20 3.8k
T. Lappi Finland 37 3.7k 0.7× 449 0.9× 126 1.1× 45 0.5× 193 2.1× 111 3.8k
N. Armesto Spain 33 3.2k 0.6× 181 0.3× 99 0.9× 33 0.4× 51 0.5× 120 3.3k
Adam Bzdak Poland 23 1.9k 0.3× 292 0.6× 149 1.3× 27 0.3× 100 1.1× 70 2.0k
A.H. Mueller United States 18 3.5k 0.6× 408 0.8× 61 0.5× 29 0.3× 130 1.4× 27 3.6k
Volodymyr Vovchenko Germany 23 1.5k 0.3× 359 0.7× 58 0.5× 16 0.2× 255 2.7× 102 1.7k
S. Soff Germany 21 2.2k 0.4× 203 0.4× 277 2.5× 33 0.4× 81 0.9× 44 2.3k
Michael Lublinsky Israel 28 1.8k 0.3× 293 0.6× 35 0.3× 10 0.1× 93 1.0× 72 1.8k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Adamiak, Daniel, Yuri V. Kovchegov, Ming Li, et al.. (2025). First study of polarized proton-proton scattering with small- x helicity evolution. Physical review. D. 112(9). 1 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V., et al.. (2024). Novel cross section ratios as possible signals of saturation in ultraperipheral collisions. Physical review. D. 109(9). 6 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V., et al.. (2024). Orbital angular momentum at small x revisited. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(2). 11 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V., et al.. (2024). Helicity evolution at small x: quark to gluon and gluon to quark transition operators. Journal of High Energy Physics. 2024(9). 7 indexed citations
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Adamiak, Daniel, Yuri V. Kovchegov, Wally Melnitchouk, et al.. (2023). Global analysis of polarized DIS and SIDIS data with improved small-x helicity evolution. Physical review. D. 108(11). 9 indexed citations
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Adamiak, Daniel, et al.. (2023). Helicity evolution at small x: Revised asymptotic results at large Nc and Nf. Physical review. D. 108(5). 9 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V.. (2022). Orbital angular momentum at small x. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 22 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V., et al.. (2021). Quark Sivers Function at Small $x$: Spin-Dependent Odderon and the Sub-Eikonal Evolution. arXiv (Cornell University). 34 indexed citations
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Adamiak, Daniel, Yuri V. Kovchegov, Wally Melnitchouk, et al.. (2021). First analysis of world polarized DIS data with small-x helicity evolution. Physical review. D. 104(3). 24 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V., et al.. (2020). Lensing Mechanism Meets Small- x Physics: Single Transverse Spin Asymmetry in p ↑ + p and p ↑ + A Collisions. 2020.
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Kovchegov, Yuri V. & Matthew D. Sievert. (2019). Valence quark transversity at small x. Physical review. D. 99(5). 24 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V. & Vladimir V. Skokov. (2018). How classical gluon fields generate odd azimuthal harmonics for the two-gluon correlation function in high-energy collisions. Physical review. D. 97(9). 27 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V., Daniel Pitonyak, & Matthew D. Sievert. (2017). Small-x asymptotics of the quark helicity distribution: Analytic results. Physics Letters B. 772. 136–140. 49 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V., Daniel Pitonyak, & Matthew D. Sievert. (2017). Helicity evolution at smallx: Flavor singlet and nonsinglet observables. Physical review. D. 95(1). 58 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V., Daniel Pitonyak, & Matthew D. Sievert. (2017). Helicity Evolution at Small $x$. OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information). 8–8. 4 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V.. (2010). Introduction to the physics of saturation. Nuclear Physics A. 854(1). 3–9. 5 indexed citations
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Albacete, Javier L., et al.. (2008). Heavy Quark Potential at Finite Temperature in AdS/CFT Revisited. arXiv (Cornell University). 15 indexed citations
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Albacete, Javier L. & Yuri V. Kovchegov. (2006). Baryon stopping in proton–nucleus collisions. Nuclear Physics A. 781(1-2). 122–149. 8 indexed citations
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Kovchegov, Yuri V.. (2005). Thoughts on non-perturbative thermalization and jet quenching in heavy ion collisions. Nuclear Physics A. 764. 476–497. 13 indexed citations

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