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Researcher · Harvard University · United States

Cumrun Vafa

Cumrun Vafa publishes mostly in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, on topics such as Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories.

ORCID 0000-0002-9658-5044 OpenAlex
World rank
#228
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#118
of 1,627,098
Works
414
Citations
56k
Citations per work
135.7
h-index
124
i10-index 307Top 0.9% in Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Cumrun Vafa

What does Cumrun Vafa research?

Cumrun Vafa's work is mostly in Physics and Astronomy (70%), Mathematics (18%), Computer Science (2%).

Physical Sciences: 368 works · 88.9% of their workPhysics and Astronomy: 288 works · 69.6% of their workNuclear and High Energy Physics: 158 works · 38.2% of their workAstronomy and Astrophysics: 68 works · 16.4% of their workStatistical and Nonlinear Physics: 62 works · 15.0% of their workMathematics: 73 works · 17.7% of their workGeometry and Topology: 49 works · 11.9% of their workMathematical Physics: 24 works · 5.8% of their workComputer Science: 7 works · 1.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 7 works · 1.6% of their workEverything else: 46 works · 11.1% of their workTHEIR WORKCumrun Vafa414works
Physical Sciences89%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Physics and Astronomy28869.6%
    2. Mathematics7317.7%
    3. Computer Science71.6%
  2. Everything else4611.1%
  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics38% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics16% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics15% of their works
  4. 4Geometry and Topology12% of their works
  5. 5Mathematical Physics6% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Cumrun Vafa's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Quantum Gravity, Field Theories, Holographic, Cosmological Parameters, Dark Energy, Lorentz Violation, Noncommutative Field Theory and High-Energy Collider.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Quantum Gravity4122 topics
  2. Field Theories3051 topic
  3. Holographic3051 topic
  4. Cosmological Parameters1511 topic
  5. Dark Energy1511 topic
  6. Lorentz Violation1071 topic
  7. Noncommutative Field Theory1071 topic
  8. High-Energy Collider731 topic
  9. Particle Physics731 topic
  10. Cluster Algebras621 topic
  11. Triangulated Categories621 topic
  12. Nonlinear Equations561 topic
  13. Rogue Waves561 topic
  14. QCD521 topic
  15. charmonium521 topic
  16. Deformation Quantization451 topic
  17. Poisson Manifolds451 topic

Where does Cumrun Vafa work?

Cumrun Vafa's main affiliation in the publication record is Harvard University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Cumrun Vafa have?

OpenAlex counts 414 works and 56,160 citations for Cumrun Vafa, an h-index of 124, ranking #228 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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