2026 Hermann Nicolai: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	83	2792	2655	257	245	317	22241

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Overview

Hermann Nicolai is affiliated with the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics in Germany. Their research primarily spans the fields of physics and astronomy, with work also touching on mathematics. Within these broad areas, Nicolai focuses on nuclear and high energy physics, astronomy and astrophysics, geometry and topology, statistical and nonlinear physics, as well as atomic and molecular physics and optics.

Nicolai's research topics include black holes and theoretical physics, cosmology and gravitation theories, algebraic structures and combinatorial models, particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, noncommutative and quantum gravity theories, nonlinear waves and solitons, and advanced topics in algebra.

Frequent co-authors in their work are Krzysztof A. Meissner, Axel Kleinschmidt, Hannes Malcha, Olaf Lechtenfeld, and Alex J. Feingold.

Key publication venues where Nicolai's work has appeared include arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of High Energy Physics, Communications in Mathematical Physics, Physical Review D, and Physics Letters B.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Hermann Nicolai include:

"Perturbative linearization of supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory" (2020), Institutional Repository of Leibniz Universität Hannover (Leibniz Universität Hannover)
"Origin and growth of primordial black holes" (2021), Physics Letters B
"=4 super-Yang-Mills correlators without anticommuting variables" (2020), Physical Review D
"Searching for supermassive charged gravitinos in underground experiments" (2024), The European Physical Journal C
"Perturbative linearization of super-Yang-Mills theories in general gauges" (2021), Journal of High Energy Physics

Best Publications

On the quantum mechanics of supermembranes

B. de Wit;J. Hoppe;H. Nicolai

1356
Citations
N = 8 supergravity

B. de Wit;H. Nicolai

907
Citations
The consistency of the S7 truncation in d=11 supergravity

B. De Wit;H. Nicolai

567
Citations
THE SUPERMEMBRANE IS UNSTABLE

B. De Wit;M. Lüscher;H. Nicolai

526
Citations
Conformal symmetry and the Standard Model

Krzysztof A. Meissner;Hermann Nicolai

512
Citations
TOPICAL REVIEW: Cosmological billiards

Marc Henneaux;Thibault Damour;Hermann Nicolai

432
Citations
Cosmological Billiards

T. Damour;M. Henneaux;H. Nicolai

398
Citations
E10 and a Small Tension Expansion of M Theory

Thibault Damour;Marc Henneaux;Hermann Nicolai

387
Citations
Hidden constants: The θ parameter of QCD and the cosmological constant of N = 8 supergravity

A. Aurilia;Hermann Nicolai;P. K. Townsend

370
Citations
Loop quantum gravity : an outside view

Hermann Nicolai;Kasper Peeters;Marija Zamaklar

333
Citations
N=8 supergravity with local SO(8) × SU(8) invariance

B. de Wit;H. Nicolai

324
Citations
Maximal gauged supergravity in three dimensions.

Hermann Nicolai;Henning Samtleben

296
Citations
Gauged Supergravities, Tensor Hierarchies, and M-Theory

Bernard de Wit;Hermann Nicolai;Henning Samtleben

292
Citations
On a new characterization of scalar supersymmetric theories

Hermann Nicolai

289
Citations
Supersymmetry and spin systems

Hermann Nicolai

278
Citations
Monte Carlo approach to M theory

Werner Krauth;Hermann Nicolai;Matthias Staudacher

273
Citations
Hyperbolic Kac Moody Algebras and Chaos in Kaluza Klein Models

Thibault Damour;Marc Henneaux;Marc Henneaux;Bernard Julia;Hermann Nicolai

258
Citations
The Embedding of Gauged $N=8$ Supergravity Into $d=11$ Supergravity

Bernard De Wit;Hermann Nicolai

252
Citations
d = 11 supergravity with local SU(8) invariance

B. De Wit;H. Nicolai

247
Citations
The parallelizing S7 torsion in gauged N=8 supergravity

B. De Wit;H. Nicolai

245
Citations