2026 Frithjof Karsch: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	96	1864	1774	166	159	515	38522

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1864

1774

166

159

515

38522

Frithjof Karsch 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 Frithjof Karsch sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 515 publications — 58th percentile

58% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Frithjof Karsch 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 Frithjof Karsch sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 96 D-Index — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Frithjof Karsch is affiliated with Bielefeld University in Germany and has contributed extensively to the field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Nuclear and High Energy Physics. Their research encompasses several specialized subfields including Condensed Matter Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, as well as Geophysics.

The main areas of Karsch's work include:

High-Energy Particle Collisions Research
Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Theoretical and Computational Physics
Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena
High-pressure geophysics and materials

Karsch frequently publishes in a number of scientific venues, with the highest concentration of works appearing in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
Proceedings of The 38th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - PoS(LATTICE2021)
Acta Physica Polonica B Proceedings Supplement
Proceedings of 37th International Symposium on Lattice Field Theory - PoS(LATTICE2019)

Their recent published papers include the following:

"Skewness, kurtosis, and the fifth and sixth order cumulants of net baryon-number distributions from lattice QCD confront high-statistics STAR data," 2020, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
"50 Years of quantum chromodynamics," 2023, The European Physical Journal C
"Taylor expansions and Padé approximants for cumulants of conserved charge fluctuations at nonvanishing chemical potentials," 2022, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
"Phase Transitions in Particle Physics," 2023, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
"Second order cumulants of conserved charge fluctuations revisited: Vanishing chemical potentials," 2021, Physical review. D/Physical review. D.

Karsch collaborates regularly with several researchers, including:

Christian Schmidt
Olaf Kaczmarek
Swagato Mukherjee
Anirban Lahiri
Jishnu Goswami

Best Publications

Chiral and deconfinement aspects of the QCD transition

A. Bazavov;T. Bhattacharya;M. Cheng;C. Detar

1502
Citations
Equation of state in ( 2+1 )-flavor QCD

A. Bazavov;Tanmoy Bhattacharya;C. Detar;H. T. Ding

1205
Citations
Thermodynamics of SU(3) lattice gauge theory

G Boyd;Jürgen Engels;Frithjof Karsch;Edwin Laermann

1115
Citations
Thermodynamics of SU(3) Lattice Gauge Theory

G. Boyd;J. Engels;F. Karsch;E. Laermann

906
Citations
QCD thermal phase transition in the presence of a small chemical potential

C. R Allton;C. R Allton;S. Ejiri;S. J Hands;S. J Hands;Olaf Kaczmarek

892
Citations
Equation of state and QCD transition at finite temperature

A. Bazavov;T. Bhattacharya;M. Cheng;N. H. Christ

846
Citations
QCD equation of state with almost physical quark masses

M. Cheng;N. H Christ;S. Datta;J. van der Heide

798
Citations
Thermodynamics of two flavor QCD to sixth order in quark chemical potential

C. R. Allton;M. Döring;S. Ejiri;S. J. Hands

678
Citations
Color screening and deconfinement for bound states of heavy quarks

Frithjof Karsch;M. T. Mehr;Helmut Satz;Helmut Satz

642
Citations
Lattice QCD at High Temperature and Density

Frithjof Karsch

604
Citations
Behavior of charmonium systems after deconfinement

Saumen Datta;Frithjof Karsch;Peter Petreczky;Ines Wetzorke

586
Citations
Quark Mass and Flavour Dependence of the QCD Phase Transition

Frithjof Karsch;Edwin Laermann;A Peikert

571
Citations
Equation of state for two flavor QCD at nonzero chemical potential

C. R Allton;S. Ejiri;S. Ejiri;S. J Hands;Olaf Kaczmarek

565
Citations
Chiral crossover in QCD at zero and non-zero chemical potentials

A. Bazavov;H.-T. Ding;P. Hegde;O. Kaczmarek;O. Kaczmarek

553
Citations
Heavy quark-antiquark free energy and the renormalized Polyakov loop

Olaf Kaczmarek;Frithjof Karsch;Peter Petreczky;F. Zantow

520
Citations
QCD phase transition with chiral quarks and physical quark masses.

Tanmoy Bhattacharya;Michael I. Buchoff;Norman H. Christ;H. T. Ding

503
Citations
QCD equation of state to O (μB6) from lattice QCD

A. Bazavov;H. T. Ding;P. Hegde;Olaf Kaczmarek;Olaf Kaczmarek

472
Citations
Lattice results on QCD thermodynamics

Frithjof Karsch

458
Citations
Universal properties of bulk viscosity near the QCD phase transition

Frithjof Karsch;Dmitri Kharzeev;Kirill Tuchin

440
Citations
The pressure in 2, 2+1 and 3 flavour QCD

Frithjof Karsch;Frithjof Karsch;Edwin Laermann;A Peikert;A Peikert

438
Citations