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Matt Visser 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 Matt Visser sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 433 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Matt Visser 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 Matt Visser sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 100 D-Index — 56th percentile

56% 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

  • 2022 - Research.com Physics in New Zealand Leader Award
  • 2009 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For contributions to gravity theory, especially the effects of energy condition violations and the development of analog models of black hole and cosmological spacetimes

Overview

Matt Visser is affiliated with Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. Their research focuses primarily on Physics and Astronomy, with particular attention to Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and related subfields such as Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Applied Mathematics.

Their main scholarly topics include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Astrophysical Phenomena and Observations, Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research, Relativity and Gravitational Theory, Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories, and Quantum Electrodynamics and the Casimir Effect.

Visser has published extensively in various academic venues. The most frequent publication platforms include arXiv (Cornell University), Universe, Physical Review D, Journal of High Energy Physics, and MDPI. These venues reflect the breadth of their work across theoretical and observational aspects of physics.

Frequent coauthors contributing jointly to research projects include Stefano Liberati, Raúl Carballo-Rubio, Francesco Di Filippo, Thomas Berry, and Joshua Baines. Collaboration with these scholars is evident in the consistent output of papers on black hole physics and associated fields.

Selected recent papers by Matt Visser demonstrate the focus and scope of their investigations:

  • Novel black-bounce spacetimes: Wormholes, regularity, energy conditions, and causal structure (2021, Physical Review D)
  • Geodesically complete black holes (2020, Physical Review D)
  • Inner horizon instability and the unstable cores of regular black holes (2021, Journal of High Energy Physics)
  • Dynamic thin-shell black-bounce traversable wormholes (2020, Physical Review D)
  • Opening the Pandora's box at the core of black holes (2020, Classical and Quantum Gravity)

In 2009, Matt Visser was recognized as a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) for contributions to gravity theory, particularly in the context of energy condition violations and advancing analog models of black hole and cosmological spacetimes.

Best Publications

  • Lorentzian Wormholes: From Einstein to Hawking

    Matt Visser

  • Analogue Gravity

    Carlos Barcelo;Stefano Liberati;Matt Visser

  • Acoustic black holes: horizons, ergospheres and Hawking radiation

    Matt Visser

  • An exotic class of Kaluza-Klein models

    Matt Visser

  • Traversable wormholes: Some simple examples

    Matt Visser

  • Traversable wormholes with arbitrarily small energy condition violations.

    Matt Visser;Sayan Kar;Naresh Dadhich

  • Jerk, snap, and the cosmological equation of state

    Matt Visser

  • Traversable wormholes from surgically modified Schwarzschild spacetimes

    Matt Visser

  • Stable gravastars—an alternative to black holes?

    Matt Visser;David L Wiltshire

  • Thin-shell wormholes: Linearization stability.

    Eric Poisson;Matt Visser

  • Cosmography: Cosmology without the Einstein equations

    Matt Visser

  • Geometric structure of the generic static traversable wormhole throat

    David Hochberg;Matt Visser

  • Quantum gravity without Lorentz invariance

    Thomas P. Sotiriou;Matt Visser;Silke Weinfurtner

  • TWILIGHT FOR THE ENERGY CONDITIONS

    Carlos Barceló;Matt Visser

  • Dynamic wormholes, anti-trapped surfaces, and energy conditions

    David Hochberg;Matt Visser

  • Artificial black holes

    Mário Novello;Matt Visser;Grigori Volovik

  • Gravastars must have anisotropic pressures

    Celine Cattoen;Tristan Faber;Matt Visser

  • SAKHAROV'S INDUCED GRAVITY: A MODERN PERSPECTIVE

    Matt Visser

  • Lorentz symmetry breaking as a quantum field theory regulator

    Matt Visser

  • Analogue gravity from Bose-Einstein condensates

    Carlos Barcelo;Stefano Liberati;Stefano Liberati;Matt Visser

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco S. N. Lobo
Francisco S. N. Lobo University of Lisbon
Nicolás Yunes
Nicolás Yunes University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bruce A. Bassett
Bruce A. Bassett University of Cape Town
Susan M. Scott
Susan M. Scott Australian National University
Ofer Lahav
Ofer Lahav University College London
Anupam Mazumdar
Anupam Mazumdar University of Groningen
Antonio Riotto
Antonio Riotto University of Geneva
Emanuele Berti
Emanuele Berti Johns Hopkins University
Stuart L. Shapiro
Stuart L. Shapiro University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Hiranya V. Peiris
Hiranya V. Peiris University College London

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