2026 Alexei A. Starobinsky: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	98	1728	4	293	58030

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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

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The Case for a Positive Cosmological Λ-Term

Varun Sahni;Alexei A. Starobinsky

3440
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The Case for a Positive Cosmological Lambda-term

Varun Sahni;Alexei Starobinsky

3427
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Dynamics of phase transition in the new inflationary universe scenario and generation of perturbations

Alexei A. Starobinsky

3425
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Reheating after inflation.

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

2344
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Towards the theory of reheating after inflation

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

2308
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Statefinder: A New geometrical diagnostic of dark energy

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

1517
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Disappearing cosmological constant in f(R) gravity

Alexei A. Starobinsky;Alexei A. Starobinsky

1231
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Exploring the expanding Universe and dark energy using the statefinder diagnostic

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

953
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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

949
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STOCHASTIC DE SITTER (INFLATIONARY) STAGE IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE

Alexei A. Starobinsky

913
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Equilibrium state of a self-interacting scalar field in the de Sitter background

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

805
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RECONSTRUCTING DARK ENERGY

Varun Sahni;Alexei Starobinsky

799
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Is there supernova evidence for dark energy metamorphosis

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

702
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Two new diagnostics of dark energy

Varun Sahni;Arman Shafieloo;Alexei A. Starobinsky

664
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Semiclassicality and decoherence of cosmological perturbations

David Polarski;Alexei A. Starobinsky

638
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Structure of resonance in preheating after inflation

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

558
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The case for dynamical dark energy revisited

Ujjaini Alam;Varun Sahni;A. A. Starobinsky

519
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Reconstructing the cosmic equation of state from supernova distances.

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

481
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Multicomponent de Sitter (inflationary) stages and the generation of perturbations

Alexei A. Starobinsky

470
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