2026 Ted Jacobson: Physics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Physics	74	3444	3272	1632	1518	202	22989

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Physics

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3272

1632

1518

202

22989

Overview

Ted Jacobson is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States and has contributed to research primarily in the field of Physics and Astronomy. Their work spans several subfields, including Astronomy and Astrophysics, Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, General Health Professions, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

The main topics in Jacobson's research include Cosmology and Gravitation Theories, Black Holes and Theoretical Physics, Noncommutative and Quantum Gravity Theories, Quantum Electrodynamics and Casimir Effect, Particle Physics theoretical and experimental studies, Relativity and Gravitational Theory, and Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research.

Recent notable papers authored by Jacobson include:

Partition Function for a Volume of Space, 2023, Physical Review Letters
Entropy of causal diamond ensembles, 2023, SciPost Physics

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Jacobson include Batoul Banihashemi, Manus R. Visser, Andrew Svesko, Andrea Caputo, and Samuel J. Witte.

Jacobson's work has appeared in various publication venues with multiple papers in the following:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Physical review. D/Physical review. D.
Journal of High Energy Physics
Physical Review Letters
Classical and Quantum Gravity

Best Publications

Thermodynamics of spacetime: The Einstein equation of state.

Ted Jacobson

2774
Citations
Gravity with a dynamical preferred frame

Ted Jacobson;David Mattingly

993
Citations
On black hole entropy

Ted Jacobson;Ted Jacobson;Gungwon Kang;Gungwon Kang;Robert C. Myers;Robert C. Myers

843
Citations
Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics of Spacetime

Christopher Eling;Raf Guedens;Ted Jacobson

523
Citations
Lorentz violation at high energy: Concepts, phenomena, and astrophysical constraints

Ted Jacobson;Stefano Liberati;David Mattingly

458
Citations
Black-hole evaporation and ultrashort distances.

Theodore Jacobson

454
Citations
Black hole entropy and higher curvature interactions.

Ted Jacobson;Ted Jacobson;Robert C. Myers

453
Citations
Nonperturbative quantum geometries

Ted Jacobson;Ted Jacobson;Lee Smolin;Lee Smolin

417
Citations
Vector two-point functions in maximally symmetric spaces

Bruce Allen;Theodore Jacobson

413
Citations
Hawking spectrum and high frequency dispersion.

Steven Corley;Ted Jacobson

413
Citations
Einstein-aether waves

T. Jacobson;D. Mattingly

407
Citations
Entanglement Equilibrium and the Einstein Equation.

Ted Jacobson

377
Citations
Self-dual 2-forms and gravity

R. Capovilla;J. Dell;T. Jacobson;L.J. Mason

357
Citations
A strong astrophysical constraint on the violation of special relativity by quantum gravity

T. Jacobson;Stefano Liberati;D. Mattingly

335
Citations
Relativistic Extension of the Analogy between Quantum Mechanics and Brownian Motion

B. Gaveau;T. Jacobson;M. Kac;L. S. Schulman

319
Citations
Threshold effects and Planck scale Lorentz violation: Combined constraints from high energy astrophysics

T. Jacobson;S. Liberati;D. Mattingly

306
Citations
General relativity without the metric

Riccardo Capovilla;Ted Jacobson;John Dell

293
Citations
TeV astrophysics constraints on Planck scale Lorentz violation

Ted Jacobson;Stefano Liberati;David Mattingly

288
Citations
Einstein-aether gravity: A Status report

Ted Jacobson

288
Citations
Increase of black hole entropy in higher curvature gravity.

Ted Jacobson;Gungwon Kang;Robert C. Myers

287
Citations