2026 Peter West: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	80	3035	2882	264	255	296	21146

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Research.com Recognitions

2006 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

Peter West is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their work spans multiple fields, primarily focusing on Physics and Astronomy and Computer Science. Within these fields, they have contributed extensively to subfields such as Artificial Intelligence, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their research covers a range of topics including Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Topic Modeling, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, and Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI).

Peter West has authored numerous publications in leading venues, with frequent contributions to:

arXiv (Cornell University)
International Journal of Modern Physics A
The Philosophical Quarterly
Physics Letters B
Modern Physics Letters A

Their recent papers include the following:

Faith and Fate: Limits of Transformers on Compositionality (2023), published in arXiv (Cornell University)
What We Owe the Future: A Million Year View (2023), published in The Philosophical Quarterly
Metaphysical Animals: How Four Women Brought Philosophy Back to Life (2023), published in The Philosophical Quarterly
Carrollian Conformal Fields and Flat Holography (2023), published in Universe
Quark: Controllable Text Generation with Reinforced Unlearning (2022), published in arXiv (Cornell University)

Throughout their career, Peter West has collaborated frequently with several co-authors, including:

Yejin Choi (21 joint publications)
Ximing Lu (14 joint publications)
Liwei Jiang (9 joint publications)
Sean Welleck (8 joint publications)
Kévin Nguyen (7 joint publications)

Peter West was recognized with the Fellowship of the Royal Society, United Kingdom, awarded in 2006.

Best Publications

Introduction To Supersymmetry And Supergravity

Peter West

1019
Citations
The complete N =2, d = 10 supergravity

Paul S. Howe;Peter C. West

908
Citations
E(11) and M theory

Peter C. West

798
Citations
Anomaly-free chiral theories in six dimensions

Michael B. Green;John H. Schwarz;P.C. West

597
Citations
Symmetries and Transformations of Chiral N=2 D=10 Supergravity

John H. Schwarz;Peter C. West

519
Citations
Minimal auxiliary fields for supergravity

K.S. Stelle;Peter C. West

505
Citations
An Alternative Minimal Off-Shell Version of N=1 Supergravity

Martin F. Sohnius;Peter C. West

422
Citations
A class of finite four-dimensional supersymmetric field theories

Paul S. Howe;K.S. Stelle;Peter C. West;Peter C. West

407
Citations
E11, SL(32) and central charges

Peter C. West

401
Citations
Spontaneously broken de Sitter symmetry and the gravitational holonomy group

K.S. Stelle;Peter C. West

377
Citations
The Self-Dual String Soliton

P.S. Howe;N.D. Lambert;P.C. West

344
Citations
The E-11 origin of all maximal supergravities

Fabio Riccioni;Peter C. West

316
Citations
Finiteness in rigid supersymmetric theories

A. Parkes;Peter C. West

312
Citations
Conformal Invariance in N=4 Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theory

Martin F. Sohnius;Peter C. West

308
Citations
The E_{11} origin of all maximal supergravities

Fabio Riccioni;Peter West

288
Citations
Kac-Moody symmetries of IIB supergravity

Igor Schnakenburg;Peter West

264
Citations
N = 2, D = 10 non-chiral supergravity and its spontaneous compactification

I.C.G. Campbell;Peter C. West

263
Citations
Hidden superconformal symmetry in M-theory

Peter C. West

245
Citations
Multicritical points in two dimensions, the renormalization group and the ϵ expansion

Paul S. Howe;Peter C. West

12
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Supersymmetric Yang-Mills Theories

Martin F. Sohnius;Kellogg S. Stelle;Peter C. West

0
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