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Joseph Polchinski

Joseph Polchinski 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.

World rank
#9,299
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#4,489
of 358,040
Works
51
Citations
2.5k
Citations per work
49.8

What does Joseph Polchinski research?

Nuclear and High Energy Physics: 33.7%Astronomy and Astrophysics: 19.8%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics: 12.8%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics: 7.0%other fields: 26.7%34%top field
Nuclear and High Energy Physics33.7%Astronomy and Astrophysics19.8%Statistical and Nonlinear Physics12.8%Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7.0%other fields26.7%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Nuclear and High Energy Physics34% of their works
  2. 2Astronomy and Astrophysics20% of their works
  3. 3Statistical and Nonlinear Physics13% of their works
  4. 4Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics7% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence5% of their works
  6. 6Mathematical Physics4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Joseph Polchinski's research?

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

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.

All 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Quantum Gravity292 topics
  2. Field Theories201 topic
  3. Holographic201 topic
  4. Cosmological Parameters141 topic
  5. Dark Energy141 topic
  6. Lorentz Violation91 topic
  7. Noncommutative Field Theory91 topic
  8. QCD31 topic
  9. charmonium31 topic
  10. Compression21 topic
  11. Geometry21 topic
  12. Hyperbolic21 topic
  13. Interacting Particle Systems21 topic
  14. Python21 topic
  15. Scaling Limits21 topic
  16. Scientific Computing21 topic
  17. Suffix Arrays21 topic

Where does Joseph Polchinski work?

Joseph Polchinski's main affiliation in the publication record is University of California, Santa Barbara, United States.

How many publications and citations does Joseph Polchinski have?

Science Explorer counts 51 works and 2,540 citations for Joseph Polchinski, ranking #9,299 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite score.

Ranked on field-normalised 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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