2026 Nima Arkani-Hamed: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	95	1898	1803	984	919	185	63290

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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

10055
Citations
New dimensions at a millimeter to a Fermi and superstrings at a TeV

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

5864
Citations
Phenomenology, astrophysics and cosmology of theories with submillimeter dimensions and TeV scale quantum gravity

Nima Arkani-Hamed;Savas Dimopoulos;Gia Dvali

4039
Citations
A theory of dark matter

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

2210
Citations
Electroweak symmetry breaking from dimensional deconstruction

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

1883
Citations
The Littlest Higgs

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

1828
Citations
The String landscape, black holes and gravity as the weakest force

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

1440
Citations
Supersymmetric unification without low energy supersymmetry and signatures for fine-tuning at the LHC

Nima Arkani-Hamed;Savas Dimopoulos

1280
Citations
De)Constructing dimensions

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

1230
Citations
Simplified Models for LHC New Physics Searches

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

1146
Citations
Causality, analyticity and an IR obstruction to UV completion

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

1138
Citations
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

1130
Citations
Hierarchies without symmetries from extra dimensions

Nima Arkani-Hamed;Martin Schmaltz

1043
Citations
The Minimal Moose for a Little Higgs

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

1015
Citations
Effective field theory for massive gravitons and gravity in theory space

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

898
Citations
Aspects of Split Supersymmetry

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

848
Citations
Neutrino masses from large extra dimensions

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

841
Citations
The Amplituhedron

Nima Arkani-Hamed;Jaroslav Trnka

819
Citations
The All-Loop Integrand For Scattering Amplitudes in Planar N=4 SYM

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

798
Citations
Small neutrino masses from supersymmetry breaking

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

283
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