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Nima Arkani-Hamed 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 Nima Arkani-Hamed sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 185 publications — 3rd percentile

3% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Nima Arkani-Hamed 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 Nima Arkani-Hamed sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 95 D-Index — 49th percentile

49% 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

  • 2017 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 2012 - Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics Original approaches to outstanding problems in particle physics
  • 2009 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2003 - Gribov Medal, European Physical Society For his original approaches to hierarchy problems in the theories of fundamental interactions. In particular for exploring the possibility of large extra dimensions where only gravity can propagate.
  • 2000 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Nima Arkani-Hamed is affiliated with the Institute for Advanced Study in the United States and has a substantial body of work in physics and mathematics. Their research has contributed significantly to fields including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Geometry and Topology, Astronomy and Astrophysics, and Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics.

The main topics explored in their research encompass Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Algebraic structures and combinatorial models, Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions, Nonlinear Waves and Solitons, and Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories.

Arkani-Hamed has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including Carolina Figueiredo, Howard Burton, Song He, Giulio Salvatori, and Hugh Thomas.

Their research has been published predominantly in the Journal of High Energy Physics and arXiv (Cornell University), with multiple works also appearing in the OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information), Physical Review D, and Physical Review Letters.

Among notable recent papers are:

  • Scattering amplitudes for all masses and spins, 2021, Journal of High Energy Physics
  • The EFT-hedron, 2021, Journal of High Energy Physics
  • Positive geometries and canonical forms, 2023, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
  • The Muon Smasher's Guide, 2023, VUBIR (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)

In addition to journal publications, Arkani-Hamed has contributed to book publications, including a title published by Open Agenda Publishing eBooks titled The Power of Principles: Physics Revealed in 2020.

Their recognitions include:

  • Member of the National Academy of Sciences (2017)
  • Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics (2012) for original approaches to outstanding problems in particle physics
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2009)
  • Gribov Medal from the European Physical Society (2003) for original approaches to hierarchy problems in the theories of fundamental interactions, particularly exploring large extra dimensions where only gravity can propagate
  • Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation (2000)

Best Publications

  • The Hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Savas Dimopoulos;G.R. Dvali

  • New dimensions at a millimeter to a Fermi and superstrings at a TeV

    Ignatios Antoniadis;Nima Arkani-Hamed;Savas Dimopoulos;Gia Dvali

  • Phenomenology, astrophysics and cosmology of theories with submillimeter dimensions and TeV scale quantum gravity

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Savas Dimopoulos;Gia Dvali

  • A theory of dark matter

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Douglas P. Finkbeiner;Tracy R. Slatyer;Neal Weiner

  • Electroweak symmetry breaking from dimensional deconstruction

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Andrew G. Cohen;Howard Georgi

  • The Littlest Higgs

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Andrew Glen Cohen;Emanuel Katz;Ann E. Nelson

  • The String landscape, black holes and gravity as the weakest force

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Luboš Motl;Alberto Nicolis;Cumrun Vafa

  • Supersymmetric unification without low energy supersymmetry and signatures for fine-tuning at the LHC

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Savas Dimopoulos

  • De)Constructing dimensions

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Andrew G. Cohen;Howard Georgi

  • Simplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches

    Daniele Alves;Nima Arkani-Hamed;Sanjay Arora;Yang Bai

  • Causality, analyticity and an IR obstruction to UV completion

    Allan Adams;Nima Arkani-Hamed;Sergei Dubovsky;Sergei Dubovsky;Sergei Dubovsky;Alberto Nicolis

  • Ghost condensation and a consistent infrared modification of gravity

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Hsin-Chia Cheng;Markus A. Luty;Markus A. Luty;Markus A. Luty;Shinji Mukohyama

  • Hierarchies without symmetries from extra dimensions

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Martin Schmaltz

  • The Minimal Moose for a Little Higgs

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Andrew Glen Cohen;Emanuel Katz;Ann E. Nelson

  • Effective field theory for massive gravitons and gravity in theory space

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Howard Georgi;Matthew D. Schwartz

  • Aspects of Split Supersymmetry

    N. Arkani-Hamed;S. Dimopoulos;G.F. Giudice;A. Romanino

  • Neutrino masses from large extra dimensions

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Savas Dimopoulos;Gia Dvali;Gia Dvali;John March-Russell

  • The Amplituhedron

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Jaroslav Trnka

  • The All-Loop Integrand For Scattering Amplitudes in Planar N=4 SYM

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Jacob L. Bourjaily;Freddy Cachazo;Simon Caron-Huot

  • Small neutrino masses from supersymmetry breaking

    Nima Arkani-Hamed;Nima Arkani-Hamed;Lawrence Hall;Lawrence Hall;Hitoshi Murayama;Hitoshi Murayama;David Smith;David Smith

Frequent Co-Authors

Savas Dimopoulos
Savas Dimopoulos Stanford University
Lawrence J. Hall
Lawrence J. Hall Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Hitoshi Murayama
Hitoshi Murayama University of California, Berkeley
Gia Dvali
Gia Dvali Max Planck Society
Howard Georgi
Howard Georgi Harvard University
Tao Han
Tao Han University of Pittsburgh
Shinji Mukohyama
Shinji Mukohyama Kyoto University
Gian F. Giudice
Gian F. Giudice European Organization for Nuclear Research
Jonathan L. Feng
Jonathan L. Feng University of California, Irvine
Daniel P Cronin-Hennessy
Daniel P Cronin-Hennessy University of Minnesota

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