2026 John F. Donoghue: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	76	3303	3140	1564	1456	364	23997

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Current World Ranking

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3303

3140

1564

1456

364

23997

John F. Donoghue 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 John F. Donoghue sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 364 publications — 31st percentile

31% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

John F. Donoghue 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 John F. Donoghue sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 76 D-Index — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

John F. Donoghue is affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Amherst in the United States. Their research primarily lies within the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, encompassing 41 publications. Donoghue's work spans several subfields, including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, General Health Professions, and Condensed Matter Physics.

The main topics addressed in their research include:

Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
Quantum Mechanics and Applications
Advanced Thermodynamics and Statistical Mechanics

Donoghue's recent scholarly contributions feature the following papers:

"A Critique of the Asymptotic Safety Program," 2020, Frontiers in Physics
"Ostrogradsky instability can be overcome by quantum physics," 2021, Physical Review D
"Quantum causality and the arrows of time and thermodynamics," 2020, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
"Cosmological constant and the use of cutoffs," 2021, Physical Review D
"Physical Running of Couplings in Quadratic Gravity," 2024, Physical Review Letters

Their work has appeared frequently in publication venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical Review D
Journal of High Energy Physics
Frontiers in Physics
Physical Review Letters

Collaboration has been an important element in their research, with frequent co-authors including Gabriel Menezes, Roberto Percacci, Diego Buccio, N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr, and Eugene Golowich.

In addition to journal publications, Donoghue has contributed to book literature with a title published by Cambridge University Press:

"Dynamics of the Standard Model," 2022

This range of publication activity, throughout journals and books, reflects engagement with foundational and contemporary topics in theoretical and high-energy physics.

Best Publications

Dynamics of the Standard Model

John F. Donoghue;Eugene Golowich;Barry R. Holstein

2213
Citations
General relativity as an effective field theory: The leading quantum corrections

John F. Donoghue

1444
Citations
UNION OF CHIRAL AND HEAVY QUARK SYMMETRIES

Gustavo Burdman;John F. Donoghue

933
Citations
Unified treatment of the parity violating nuclear force

Bertrand Desplanques;John F Donoghue;Barry R Holstein

916
Citations
Leading quantum correction to the Newtonian potential

John F. Donoghue

678
Citations
Quantum gravitational corrections to the nonrelativistic scattering potential of two masses

N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr;N. E. J. Bjerrum-Bohr;John F. Donoghue;Barry R. Holstein

448
Citations
Spectrum of QCD and chiral Lagrangians of the strong and weak interactions

John F. Donoghue;Carlos Ramirez;German Valencia

443
Citations
Properties of charged Higgs bosons

John F. Donoghue;Ling Fong Li

420
Citations
The pion and an improved static bag model

John F. Donoghue;K. Johnson

402
Citations
Flavour changes in locally supersymmetric theories

John Donoghue;H. P. Nilles;D Wyler

388
Citations
The Anthropic principle and the mass scale of the standard model

V. Agrawal;S. M. Barr;John F. Donoghue;D. Seckel

377
Citations
The decay of a light Higgs boson

John F. Donoghue;J. Gasser;H. Leutwyler

376
Citations
The ΔS = 2 matrix element for K0−K̄0 mixing

John F. Donoghue;Eugene Golowich;Barry R. Holstein

368
Citations
Dispersive effects in D 0 -D ¯ 0 mixing

John F. Donoghue;Eugene Golowich;Barry R. Holstein;Josip Trampetić

361
Citations
The quark content of the proton

John F. Donoghue;Chiara R. Nappi

326
Citations
Tensor analysis of hadronic jets in quantum chromodynamics

John F. Donoghue;F. E. Low;So-Young Pi

294
Citations
Equivalence Principle Violations and Couplings of a Light Dilaton

Thibault Damour;John F. Donoghue;John F. Donoghue

282
Citations
Low-energy weak interactions of quarks

John F. Donoghue;Eugene Golowich;Barry R. Holstein

275
Citations
KOBAYASHI-MASKAWA ANGLES AND SU(3) BREAKING IN HYPERON BETA-DECAY

John F. Donoghue;Barry R. Holstein;Stefan W. Klimt

260
Citations
Hyperon decays and CP nonconservation.

John F. Donoghue;Xiao-Gang He;Sandip Pakvasa

258
Citations