2026 Steven S. Gubser: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	83	2732	1344	175	40857

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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

11336
Citations
Breaking an Abelian gauge symmetry near a black hole horizon

Steven S. Gubser

2047
Citations
Renormalization group flows from holography supersymmetry and a c theorem

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

1714
Citations
Modeling the fifth dimension with scalars and gravity

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

1519
Citations
A semi-classical limit of the gauge/string correspondence

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

1400
Citations
Drag force in AdS/CFT

Steven S. Gubser

1065
Citations
Curvature Singularities: the Good, the Bad, and the Naked

Steven S. Gubser

777
Citations
Entropy and temperature of black 3-branes.

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

715
Citations
AdS/CFT and gravity

Steven S. Gubser

648
Citations
The gravity dual of a p-wave superconductor

Steven S. Gubser;Silviu Stefan Pufu

545
Citations
Phases of R-charged black holes, spinning branes and strongly coupled gauge theories

Mirjam Cvetic;Steven S. Gubser

544
Citations
Coupling constant dependence in the thermodynamics of N = 4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

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

533
Citations
Einstein manifolds and conformal field theories

Steven S. Gubser

477
Citations
Peculiar properties of a charged dilatonic black hole in AdS 5

Steven S. Gubser;Fabio D. Rocha

456
Citations
Baryons and domain walls in an N=1 superconformal gauge theory

Steven S. Gubser;Igor R. Klebanov

428
Citations
Colorful horizons with charge in anti-de Sitter space.

Steven S. Gubser

426
Citations
A Universal result on central charges in the presence of double trace deformations

Steven S. Gubser;Igor R. Klebanov

420
Citations
String theory and classical absorption by three-branes

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

392
Citations
The evolution of unstable black holes in anti-de Sitter space

Steven S. Gubser;Indrajit Mitra

378
Citations
Large N Field Theories, String Theory and Gravity

Juan Maldacena

249
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