2026 Larry McLerran: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	91	2145	2039	1094	1022	316	40014

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Physics

2145

2039

1094

1022

316

40014

Larry McLerran 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 Larry McLerran sits on this spectrum.

103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 316 publications — 20th percentile

20% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Larry McLerran 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 Larry McLerran sits on this spectrum.

70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 91 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

2015 - Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society
1989 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For theoretical contributions to collision of nuclei at extremely high energies
1982 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Larry McLerran is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, with a focus on Nuclear and High Energy Physics as well as Astronomy and Astrophysics. Additional areas of study include Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Geophysics, and Condensed Matter Physics.

Their scientific contributions center on topics such as High-Energy Particle Collisions Research, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions, Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Cold Atom Physics and Bose-Einstein Condensates, and Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations.

Frequent coauthors collaborating with Larry McLerran include:

Yuki Fujimoto
Agnieszka Sorensen
Michał Marczenko
K. Redlich
Volker Koch

The scientist's papers have appeared regularly in several publication venues, notably:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical review. C
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
Physical Review Letters
EPJ Web of Conferences

Selected recent papers include:

Dense nuclear matter equation of state from heavy-ion collisions, 2023, Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
Trace Anomaly as Signature of Conformality in Neutron Stars, 2022, Physical Review Letters
Dynamically generated momentum space shell structure of quarkyonic matter via an excluded volume model, 2020, Physical review. C
Reaching percolation and conformal limits in neutron stars, 2023, Physical review. C
Sensitivity of Au + Au collisions to the symmetric nuclear matter equation of state at 2-5 nuclear saturation densities, 2023, Physical review. C

Larry McLerran has received several awards throughout their career, including:

Herman Feshbach Prize in Theoretical Nuclear Physics, American Physical Society, 2015
Fellow of American Physical Society (APS), 1989, with a citation for theoretical contributions to collisions of nuclei at extremely high energies
Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, 1982

Best Publications

Computing quark and gluon distribution functions for very large nuclei.

Larry D. McLerran;Raju Venugopalan

2817
Citations
The effects of topological charge change in heavy ion collisions: “Event by event P and CP violation”

Dmitri E. Kharzeev;Larry D. McLerran;Harmen J. Warringa

2172
Citations
Gluon distribution functions for very large nuclei at small transverse momentum.

Larry D. McLerran;Raju Venugopalan

2055
Citations
Nonlinear gluon evolution in the color glass condensate: I

Edmond Iancu;Andrei Leonidov;Larry D. McLerran

1581
Citations
New forms of QCD matter discovered at RHIC

Miklos Gyulassy;Larry McLerran

1561
Citations
Green's function in the color field of a large nucleus.

Larry D. McLerran;Raju Venugopalan

1197
Citations
Nonlinear Gluon Evolution in the Color Glass Condensate: II

Elena Ferreiro;Edmond Iancu;Andrei Leonidov;Larry McLerran

1075
Citations
Intrinsic glue distribution at very small x

Jamal Jalilian-Marian;Alex Kovner;Larry D. McLerran;Heribert Weigert

961
Citations
Sphalerons, small fluctuations, and baryon-number violation in electroweak theory.

Peter Brockway Arnold;Larry D. McLerran

929
Citations
Phases of cold, dense quarks at large N(c)

Larry McLerran;Robert D. Pisarski

905
Citations
Quark liberation at high temperature: A Monte Carlo study of SU(2) gauge theory

Larry D. McLerran;Benjamin Svetitsky

879
Citations
The renormalization group equation for the color glass condensate

Edmond Iancu;Andrei Leonidov;Larry D. McLerran

815
Citations
Photon and dilepton emission from the quark-gluon plasma: Some general considerations.

Larry D. McLerran;T. Toimela

736
Citations
A Monte Carlo study of SU(2) Yang-Mills theory at finite temperature

Larry D. McLerran;Benjamin Svetitsky

715
Citations
Some features of the glasma

T. Lappi;L. McLerran

650
Citations
Gluon production from non-Abelian Weizsäcker-Williams fields in nucleus-nucleus collisions.

Alex Kovner;Larry D. McLerran;Heribert Weigert

560
Citations
Strongly interacting low-viscosity matter created in relativistic nuclear collisions.

Laszlo P. Csernai;Joseph I. Kapusta;Larry D. McLerran

546
Citations
Geometric Scaling above the Saturation Scale

Edmond Iancu;Kazunori Itakura;Larry McLerran

501
Citations
Parton saturation and Npart scaling of semi-hard processes in QCD

Dmitri Kharzeev;Eugene Levin;Larry McLerran

490
Citations
Gluon production at high transverse momentum in the McLerran-Venugopalan model of nuclear structure functions

Alex Kovner;Larry D. McLerran;Heribert Weigert

484
Citations