2026 Katherine Freese: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	70	3660	3475	1707	1585	296	22427

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Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
2019 - Lilienfeld Prize, American Physical Society
2009 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For pioneering work on the theories of inflation, dark matter, and dark energy
1989 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Katherine Freese is affiliated with The University of Texas at Austin in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Physics and Astronomy, with prominent work within subfields such as Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Instrumentation, Oceanography, and Statistical and Nonlinear Physics.

The scientist's main research topics cover a diverse range of areas including Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena, Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Galaxies: Formation, Evolution, Phenomena, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, and Stellar, planetary, and galactic studies.

Katherine Freese has authored numerous papers published in several key venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
The Astrophysical Journal

Notable recent papers are:

The First Three Seconds: a Review of Possible Expansion Histories of the Early Universe (2021), The Open Journal of Astrophysics
Updated neutrino mass constraints from galaxy clustering and CMB lensing-galaxy cross-correlation measurements (2022), Institutional Research Information System (Università degli Studi di Trento)
Bounds on light sterile neutrino mass and mixing from cosmology and laboratory searches (2021), Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
A Constraint on Primordial B-modes from the First Flight of the Spider Balloon-borne Telescope (2022), The Astrophysical Journal
Probing the nature of dark matter with accreted globular cluster streams (2020), Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

The scientist has collaborated frequently with a number of coauthors, including:

Gabriele Montefalcone
Martin Wolfgang Winkler
Patrick Stengel
Luca Visinelli
Adriaan J. Duivenvoorden

Awards received by Katherine Freese include:

Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2020)
Lilienfeld Prize, American Physical Society (2019)
Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) (2009) with citation for pioneering work on the theories of inflation, dark matter, and dark energy
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (1989)

Best Publications

Natural inflation with pseudo Nambu-Goldstone bosons

Katherine Freese;Joshua A. Frieman;Angela V. Olinto

1566
Citations
Detecting cold dark-matter candidates.

Andrzej K. Drukier;Katherine Freese;David N. Spergel

1312
Citations
The Simons Observatory : Science goals and forecasts

Peter Ade;James Aguirre;Zeeshan Ahmed;Simone Aiola;Simone Aiola

1250
Citations
Natural inflation: Particle physics models, power-law spectra for large-scale structure, and constraints from the Cosmic Background Explorer.

Fred C. Adams;J. Richard Bond;Katherine Freese;Joshua A. Frieman

827
Citations
Signal Modulation in Cold Dark Matter Detection

Katherine Freese;Joshua Frieman;Andrew Gould

810
Citations
Cosmology with Decaying Vacuum Energy

Katherine Freese;Fred C. Adams;Joshua A. Frieman;Emil Mottola

639
Citations
Compatibility of DAMA/LIBRA dark matter detection with other searches

Christopher Savage;Graciela Gelmini;Paolo Gondolo;Katherine Freese

621
Citations
Cardassian expansion: a model in which the universe is flat, matter dominated, and accelerating

Katherine Freese;Matthew Lewis

619
Citations
Unveiling $ν$ secrets with cosmological data: neutrino masses and mass hierarchy

Sunny Vagnozzi;Elena Giusarma;Elena Giusarma;Elena Giusarma;Olga Mena;Katherine Freese;Katherine Freese

574
Citations
Colloquium: Annual modulation of dark matter

Katherine Freese;Mariangela Lisanti;Christopher Savage

495
Citations
The Simons Observatory: Science goals and forecasts

Peter Ade;James Aguirre;Zeeshan Ahmed

399
Citations
Testing the rotational nature of the supermassive object M87* from the circularity and size of its first image

Cosimo Bambi;Katherine Freese;Katherine Freese;Katherine Freese;Sunny Vagnozzi;Sunny Vagnozzi;Sunny Vagnozzi;Luca Visinelli;Luca Visinelli;Luca Visinelli

395
Citations
Apparent shape of super-spinning black holes

Cosimo Bambi;Katherine Freese

356
Citations
Constraints on the sum of the neutrino masses in dynamical dark energy models with $w(z) \geq -1$ are tighter than those obtained in $\Lambda$CDM

Sunny Vagnozzi;Suhail Dhawan;Martina Gerbino;Katherine Freese

284
Citations
Dark Matter and the First Stars: A New Phase of Stellar Evolution

Douglas Spolyar;Katherine Freese;Katherine Freese;Paolo Gondolo

266
Citations
Can Scalar Neutrinos Or Massive Dirac Neutrinos Be the Missing Mass

Katherine Freese

257
Citations
Cold dark matter candidates and the solar neutrino problem

L.M. Krauss;K. Freese;D.N. Spergel;W.H. Press

240
Citations
Cosmic ray positron excess and neutralino dark matter

Edward A. Baltz;Joakim Edsjö;Katherine Freese;Paolo Gondolo

232
Citations
Cosmological challenges in theories with extra dimensions and remarks on the horizon problem

Daniel J. H. Chung;Katherine Freese

226
Citations
The Simons Observatory

Adrian Lee;Maximilian H. Abitbol;Shunsuke Adachi;Peter Ade

6
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