2026 Shamit Kachru: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	76	3286	3123	1555	1447	192	30620

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Research.com Recognitions

1998 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation

Overview

Shamit Kachru is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States and primarily conducts research in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several subfields, including Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geometry and Topology, Molecular Biology, and Geophysics.

The main topics Kachru has focused on include:

Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
High-pressure geophysics and materials
Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions
High-Energy Particle Collisions Research

The scientist has published extensively across multiple leading venues. Frequent publication venues include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of High Energy Physics
OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Fortschritte der Physik

Notable recent papers include:

"A model for the interplay between plastic tradeoffs and evolution in changing environments" (2020), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
"Fractons and Exotic Symmetries from Branes" (2021), Fortschritte der Physik
"Supersymmetric Flux Compactifications and Calabi-Yau Modularity" (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)
"de Sitter vacua from ten dimensions" (2021), Journal of High Energy Physics
"Flux Modularity, F-Theory, and Rational Models" (2020), arXiv (Cornell University)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Kachru include:

Max Zimet
Richard Nally
Arnav Tripathy
Andreas Karch
Liam McAllister

In recognition of their contributions, Shamit Kachru was awarded the Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 1998.

Best Publications

De Sitter vacua in string theory

Shamit Kachru;Renata Kallosh;Andrei D. Linde;Sandip P. Trivedi

3920
Citations
Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications

Steven B. Giddings;Shamit Kachru;Shamit Kachru;Joseph Polchinski

2430
Citations
Towards inflation in string theory

Shamit Kachru;Renata Kallosh;Andrei D. Linde;Juan Martin Maldacena

1489
Citations
Gravity Duals of Lifshitz-Like Fixed Points

Shamit Kachru;Xiao Liu;Michael Mulligan

1256
Citations
Observational signatures and non-Gaussianities of general single-field inflation

Xingang Chen;Xingang Chen;Min Xin Huang;Shamit Kachru;Gary Shiu

1112
Citations
Flux Compactification

Michael R. Douglas;Shamit Kachru

1030
Citations
4D Conformal Field Theories and Strings on Orbifolds

Shamit Kachru;Shamit Kachru;Shamit Kachru;Eva Silverstein;Eva Silverstein

914
Citations
Geometric singularities and enhanced gauge symmetries

M. Bershadsky;Kenneth A. Intriligator;S. Kachru;David R. Morrison;David R. Morrison

710
Citations
Exact results for N=2 compactifications of heterotic strings

Shamit Kachru;Cumrun Vafa

642
Citations
N-flation

Savas Dimopoulos;Shamit Kachru;John McGreevy;Jay Wacker

625
Citations
CMBPol Mission Concept Study: Probing Inflation with CMB Polarization

Daniel Baumann;Mark G. Jackson;Peter Adshead;Alexandre Amblard

506
Citations
Type IIA Moduli Stabilization

Oliver DeWolfe;Alexander Giryavets;Shamit Kachru;Washington Taylor

505
Citations
Self-tuning flat domain walls in 5D gravity and string theory

Shamit Kachru;Michael B. Schulz;Eva Silverstein

504
Citations
Brane/Flux Annihilation and the String Dual of a Non-Supersymmetric Field Theory

Shamit Kachru;John Pearson;Herman Louis Verlinde

500
Citations
Moduli Stabilization from Fluxes in a Simple IIB Orientifold

Shamit Kachru;Michael Schulz;Sandip P. Trivedi

500
Citations
Probing inflation with CMB polarization

Daniel Baumann;Daniel Baumann;Mark G. Jackson;Peter Adshead;Alexandre Amblard

486
Citations
D-brane Instantons in Type II String Theory

Ralph Blumenhagen;Mirjam Cvetic;Shamit Kachru;Timo Weigand

434
Citations
Holography of Charged Dilaton Black Holes

Kevin Goldstein;Shamit Kachru;Shiroman Prakash;Sandip P. Trivedi

428
Citations
Aspects of holography for theories with hyperscaling violation

Xi Dong;Xi Dong;Sarah Harrison;Sarah Harrison;Shamit Kachru;Shamit Kachru;Gonzalo Torroba;Gonzalo Torroba

425
Citations
Brane/Flux Annihilation and the String Dual of a Non-Supersymmetric Field Theory

Shamit Kachru

0
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