2026 Steven B. Giddings: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	78	3168	3011	1507	1404	160	22187

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Research.com Recognitions

2012 - Fellow of American Physical Society (APS) Citation For his wide ranging contributions to gravitational physics at its intersection with elementary particle physics, especially his work on the quantum properties of black holes in the universe and in accelerators

Overview

Steven B. Giddings is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Barbara in the United States. Their research primarily falls within the broad field of Physics and Astronomy, with significant contributions across several subfields including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Atomic and Molecular Physics and Optics, and General Health Professions.

The main topics of their work include:

Cosmology and Gravitation Theories
Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories
Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect
Relativity and Gravitational Theory
Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research
Hermeneutics and Narrative Identity

Giddings has published extensively in various scientific journals, with frequent appearances in:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical Review D
OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
Journal of High Energy Physics
Classical and Quantum Gravity

Notable recent papers include:

Hilbert space structure in quantum gravity: an algebraic perspective, 2022, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
Wormhole calculus, replicas, and entropies, 2023, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
Gauge-invariant observables, gravitational dressings, and holography in AdS, 2023, OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information)
Gauge-invariant observables in gravity and electromagnetism: Black hole backgrounds and null dressings, 2020, Physical Review D
On the questions of asymptotic recoverability of information and subsystems in quantum gravity, 2022, Journal of High Energy Physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Giddings include:

Bianca Dittrich
Astrid Eichhorn
Stefano Liberati
Daniele Oriti
Mairi Sakellariadou

In 2012, Giddings was named a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS) with a citation acknowledging contributions to gravitational physics at the intersection with elementary particle physics and work on the quantum properties of black holes in various contexts.

Best Publications

Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications

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

2430
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Evanescent black holes.

Curtis Gove Callan;Steven B. Giddings;Jeffrey A. Harvey;Andrew Strominger

1518
Citations
High-energy colliders as black hole factories: The End of short distance physics

Steven B. Giddings;Scott D. Thomas;Scott D. Thomas

1442
Citations
Loss of Incoherence and Determination of Coupling Constants in Quantum Gravity

Steven B. Giddings;Andrew Strominger

749
Citations
Axion-induced topology change in quantum gravity and string theory

Steven B. Giddings;Steven B. Giddings;Andrew Strominger

697
Citations
Classical black hole production in high-energy collisions

Douglas M. Eardley;Steven B. Giddings

637
Citations
Linearized gravity in brane backgrounds

Steven B. Giddings;Emanuel Katz;Lisa Randall;Lisa Randall;Lisa Randall

554
Citations
Inflation Physics from the Cosmic Microwave Background and Large Scale Structure.

K. N. Abazajian;K. Arnold;J. Austermann;B. A. Benson

362
Citations
Baby universe, third quantization and the cosmological constant

Steven B. Giddings;Andrew Strominger

361
Citations
Scales and hierarchies in warped compactifications and brane worlds

Oliver DeWolfe;Steven B. Giddings;Steven B. Giddings

340
Citations
Local bulk S-matrix elements and conformal field theory singularities

Michael Gary;Steven B. Giddings;João Miguel Penedones

328
Citations
Einstein's theory in a three-dimensional space-time

Steven Giddings;James Abbott;Karel Kuchar

299
Citations
Prospects for Fundamental Physics with LISA

Enrico Barausse;Emanuele Berti;Thomas Hertog;Scott A. Hughes

295
Citations
Dynamics of warped compactifications and the shape of the warped landscape

Steven B. Giddings;Anshuman Maharana

286
Citations
Conformal geometry and string field theory

Steven B. Giddings;Emil J. Martinec

249
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Black holes and massive remnants

Steven B. Giddings

247
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Axionic black holes and an Aharonov-Bohm effect for strings.

Mark J. Bowick;Steven B. Giddings;Jeffrey A. Harvey;Gary T. Horowitz

240
Citations
Boundary S Matrix and the Anti–de Sitter Space to Conformal Field Theory Dictionary

Steven B. Giddings

239
Citations
Observables in effective gravity

Steven B. Giddings;Donald Marolf;James B. Hartle

236
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Gravity and Strings

Steven B. Giddings

4
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