2026 Lee Smolin: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	71	3617	3439	87	85	254	25371

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Research.com Recognitions

2010 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
2009 - Klopsteg Memorial Award, American Association of Physics Teachers
2007 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his influential contributions to quantum gravity and for his tireless outreach efforts to communicate the excitement of contemporary physics to philosophers, artists and the lay public

Overview

Lee Smolin is affiliated with the Perimeter Institute in Canada and conducts research primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several subfields including Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Physiology.

The main topics addressed in their research cover Quantum Mechanics and Applications, Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Biofield Effects and Biophysics, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, COVID-19 Digital Contact Tracing, and Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution.

Smolin has contributed to various publication venues, with a notable number of works appearing in arXiv (Cornell University), where they have published thirteen papers. Additional publications include two papers in Physical Review D, and single papers in Advanced Science, the Journal of Consciousness Studies, and the European Economic Review.

Best Publications

The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next

Lee Smolin

1790
Citations
Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity

Carlo Rovelli;Lee Smolin

1552
Citations
Lorentz invariance with an invariant energy scale.

João Magueijo;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin

1464
Citations
The Life of the Cosmos

Lee Smolin;Robert H. March

1278
Citations
Loop space representation of quantum general relativity

Carlo Rovelli;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin

1148
Citations
Three Roads to Quantum Gravity

Lee Smolin

974
Citations
Generalized Lorentz invariance with an invariant energy scale

João Magueijo;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin

869
Citations
Spin networks and quantum gravity.

Carlo Rovelli;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin

771
Citations
Time Reborn: From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

Lee Smolin

716
Citations
Knot theory and quantum gravity.

Carlo Rovelli;Lee Smolin

628
Citations
The principle of relative locality

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia;Laurent Freidel;Jerzy Kowalski-Glikman;Lee Smolin

586
Citations
Weaving a classical metric with quantum threads

Abhay Ashtekar;Abhay Ashtekar;Abhay Ashtekar;Carlo Rovelli;Carlo Rovelli;Carlo Rovelli;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin

517
Citations
Nonperturbative quantum geometries

Ted Jacobson;Ted Jacobson;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin

417
Citations
Towards a theory of spacetime structure at very short distances

Lee Smolin

334
Citations
Linking topological quantum field theory and nonperturbative quantum gravity

Lee Smolin

286
Citations
Covariant action for Ashtekar's form of canonical gravity

Ted Jacobson;Lee Smolin

280
Citations
Did the Universe Evolve

Lee Smolin

279
Citations
Quantum symmetry, the cosmological constant and Planck scale phenomenology

Giovanni Amelino-Camelia;Giovanni Amelino-Camelia;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin;Artem Starodubtsev;Artem Starodubtsev

278
Citations
The physical Hamiltonian in nonperturbative quantum gravity.

Carlo Rovelli;Carlo Rovelli;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin

269
Citations
A theory of everything

Gerard 't Hooft;Leonard Susskind;Edward Witten;Masataka Fukugita

24
Citations