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Alexei A. Starobinsky publication distribution in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Physics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexei A. Starobinsky sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 293 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 1,469 publications or more.

Alexei A. Starobinsky D-index placement in Physics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Physics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Alexei A. Starobinsky sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 98 D-Index — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 185 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2011 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his pioneering contributions to cosmology, especially to inflationary cosmology, phase transitions in the early universe, and cosmic acceleration
  • 2010 - German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - Deutsche Akademie der Naturforscher Leopoldina – Nationale Akademie der Wissenschaften Physics
  • 2010 - Oskar Klein Medal, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences
  • 1996 - Friedmann Prize, Russian Academy of Sciences For a series of papers on the theory of the Deutter (inflation) stage in the early universe and its observational manifestations

Overview

Alexei A. Starobinsky was affiliated with the Landau Institute for Theoretical Physics in the Russian Federation. Their research primarily focused on the fields of physics and astronomy, with significant contributions to subfields including astronomy and astrophysics, nuclear and high energy physics, oceanography, instrumentation, and atomic and molecular physics, and optics.

Their scholarly work centered around key topics such as cosmology and gravitation theories, galaxies: formation, evolution, phenomena, black holes and theoretical physics, geophysics and gravity measurements, astronomy and astrophysical research, solar and space plasma dynamics, and particle physics theoretical and experimental studies.

Starobinsky's notable recent papers include:

  • Scalar-tensor theories of gravity, neutrino physics, and the H0 tension, 2020, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Curing inflationary degeneracies using reheating predictions and relic gravitational waves, 2021, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Occurrence of tachyonic preheating in the mixed Higgs-R2 model, 2021, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Anisotropy screening in Horndeski cosmologies, 2020, Physical Review D
  • Anisotropic instability in a higher order gravity theory, 2020, Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics

Frequent collaborators throughout their career included:

  • R. Burenin
  • E. Churazov
  • N. Lyskova
  • Ildar Khabibullin
  • Arman Shafieloo

Their work was published across several prominent venues, notably:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
  • Physical Review D
  • Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
  • Astronomy Letters

Throughout their career, Starobinsky received several distinctions including membership in the National Academy of Sciences, fellowship in the American Physical Society for contributions to cosmology, the Oskar Klein Medal from the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, and recognition by the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina for physics. Earlier achievements included the Friedmann Prize from the Russian Academy of Sciences for work on the inflationary stage of the early universe and its observational implications.

Best Publications

  • A new type of isotropic cosmological models without singularity

    Alexei A. Starobinsky;Alexei A. Starobinsky

  • The Case for a Positive Cosmological Λ-Term

    Varun Sahni;Alexei A. Starobinsky

  • The Case for a Positive Cosmological Lambda-term

    Varun Sahni;Alexei Starobinsky

  • Dynamics of phase transition in the new inflationary universe scenario and generation of perturbations

    Alexei A. Starobinsky

  • Reheating after inflation.

    Lev Kofman;Andrei D. Linde;Alexei A. Starobinsky;Alexei A. Starobinsky

  • Towards the theory of reheating after inflation

    Lev Kofman;Andrei D. Linde;Alexei A. Starobinsky

  • Statefinder: A New geometrical diagnostic of dark energy

    Varun Sahni;Tarun Deep Saini;A. A. Starobinsky;Ujjaini Alam

  • Disappearing cosmological constant in f(R) gravity

    Alexei A. Starobinsky;Alexei A. Starobinsky

  • Exploring the expanding Universe and dark energy using the statefinder diagnostic

    Ujjaini Alam;Varun Sahni;Tarun Deep Saini;A. A. Starobinsky

  • Reconstruction of a scalar tensor theory of gravity in an accelerating universe

    B. Boisseau;Gilles Esposito-Farese;D. Polarski;Alexei A. Starobinsky;Alexei A. Starobinsky

  • STOCHASTIC DE SITTER (INFLATIONARY) STAGE IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE

    Alexei A. Starobinsky

  • Equilibrium state of a self-interacting scalar field in the de Sitter background

    Alexei A. Starobinsky;Alexei A. Starobinsky;Jun’ichi Yokoyama

  • RECONSTRUCTING DARK ENERGY

    Varun Sahni;Alexei Starobinsky

  • Is there supernova evidence for dark energy metamorphosis

    Ujjaini Alam;Varun Sahni;Tarun Deep Saini;A. A. Starobinsky

  • Two new diagnostics of dark energy

    Varun Sahni;Arman Shafieloo;Alexei A. Starobinsky

  • Semiclassicality and decoherence of cosmological perturbations

    David Polarski;Alexei A. Starobinsky

  • Structure of resonance in preheating after inflation

    Patrick B. Greene;Lev Kofman;Andrei D. Linde;Alexei A. Starobinsky

  • The case for dynamical dark energy revisited

    Ujjaini Alam;Varun Sahni;A. A. Starobinsky

  • Reconstructing the cosmic equation of state from supernova distances.

    Tarun Deep Saini;Somak Raychaudhury;Varun Sahni;A. A. Starobinsky

  • Multicomponent de Sitter (inflationary) stages and the generation of perturbations

    Alexei A. Starobinsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Jun'ichi Yokoyama
Jun'ichi Yokoyama University of Tokyo
George F. Smoot
George F. Smoot Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Fabio Finelli
Fabio Finelli National Institute for Astrophysics
François R. Bouchet
François R. Bouchet Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris
P. de Bernardis
P. de Bernardis Sapienza University of Rome
Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin
Jose Alberto Rubino-Martin University of La Laguna
Stefan Gottlöber
Stefan Gottlöber Leibniz Institute for Astrophysics Potsdam
Andrei Linde
Andrei Linde Stanford University
Sabino Matarrese
Sabino Matarrese University of Padua
Licia Verde
Licia Verde University of Barcelona

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