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Steven S. Gubser 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 Steven S. Gubser sits on this spectrum.

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103 publications 1,469+

This scientist: 175 publications — 2nd percentile

2% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Steven S. Gubser 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 Steven S. Gubser sits on this spectrum.

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70 D-Index 185+

This scientist: 83 D-Index — 26th percentile

26% 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

  • 2009 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
  • 2003 - Fellow of Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
  • 2001 - Gribov Medal, European Physical Society For his outstanding work that has revealed a deep connection between gauge theories and gravitational interactions in the framework of string theories. This made it possible to compute and understand interesting properties of a gauge theory in 3+1 dimensions from a gravitational theory in 4+1 dimensions.

Overview

Steven S. Gubser was affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research primarily spanned the fields of Physics and Astronomy as well as Mathematics, with a focus on subfields such as Condensed Matter Physics, Mathematical Physics, Statistics and Probability, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, and Computational Theory and Mathematics.

Their scientific contributions covered several main topics, including:

  • Theoretical and Computational Physics
  • Stochastic processes and statistical mechanics
  • Markov Chains and Monte Carlo Methods
  • Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
  • Topological and Geometric Data Analysis

Steven S. Gubser published papers primarily with the OSTI OAI (U.S. Department of Energy Office of Scientific and Technical Information) as a venue. Among the recent works were:

  • Higher melonic theories, published in 2023
  • Nonlinear sigma models with compact hyperbolic target spaces, published in 2020

They collaborated frequently with several co-authors throughout their career, including Christian Baadsgaard Jepsen, Ziming Ji, Brian Trundy, Zain H. Saleem, and Samuel S. Schoenholz.

Steven S. Gubser received multiple honors, such as being named a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 2009 and a Fellow of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation in 2003. Earlier, in 2001, they were awarded the Gribov Medal by the European Physical Society for work that connected gauge theories and gravitational interactions within the framework of string theories, enabling the computation and understanding of properties of gauge theory in 3+1 dimensions from gravitational theory in 4+1 dimensions.

Best Publications

  • Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory

    S.S. Gubser;Igor R. Klebanov;Alexander M. Polyakov

  • Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon

    Steven S. Gubser

  • Renormalization group flows from holography supersymmetry and a c theorem

    D. Z. Freedman;S. S. Gubser;K. Pilch;N. P. Warner

  • Modeling the fifth dimension with scalars and gravity

    O. DeWolfe;D. Z. Freedman;S. S. Gubser;A. Karch

  • A semi-classical limit of the gauge/string correspondence

    Steven S. Gubser;Igor R. Klebanov;Alexander M. Polyakov

  • Drag force in AdS/CFT

    Steven S. Gubser

  • Curvature Singularities: the Good, the Bad, and the Naked

    Steven S. Gubser

  • Entropy and temperature of black 3-branes.

    Steven S. Gubser;Igor R. Klebanov;A. W. Peet

  • AdS/CFT and gravity

    Steven S. Gubser

  • The gravity dual of a p-wave superconductor

    Steven S. Gubser;Silviu Stefan Pufu

  • Phases of R-charged black holes, spinning branes and strongly coupled gauge theories

    Mirjam Cvetic;Steven S. Gubser

  • Coupling constant dependence in the thermodynamics of N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

    Steven S. Gubser;Igor R. Klebanov;Arkady A. Tseytlin

  • Einstein manifolds and conformal field theories

    Steven S. Gubser

  • Peculiar properties of a charged dilatonic black hole in AdS 5

    Steven S. Gubser;Fabio D. Rocha

  • Baryons and domain walls in an N=1 superconformal gauge theory

    Steven S. Gubser;Igor R. Klebanov

  • Colorful horizons with charge in anti-de Sitter space.

    Steven S. Gubser

  • A Universal result on central charges in the presence of double trace deformations

    Steven S. Gubser;Igor R. Klebanov

  • String theory and classical absorption by three-branes

    Steven S. Gubser;Igor R. Klebanov;Arkady A. Tseytlin

  • The evolution of unstable black holes in anti-de Sitter space

    Steven S. Gubser;Indrajit Mitra

  • Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity

    Juan Maldacena

Frequent Co-Authors

Igor R. Klebanov
Igor R. Klebanov Princeton University
Arkady A. Tseytlin
Arkady A. Tseytlin Imperial College London
Gary T. Horowitz
Gary T. Horowitz University of California, Santa Barbara
Daniel Z. Freedman
Daniel Z. Freedman Stanford University
Sergei Gukov
Sergei Gukov California Institute of Technology
P. J. E. Peebles
P. J. E. Peebles Princeton University
Edward Witten
Edward Witten Institute for Advanced Study
Miklos Gyulassy
Miklos Gyulassy Columbia University
Robert K. Bradley
Robert K. Bradley Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Juan Maldacena
Juan Maldacena Institute for Advanced Study

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