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Citation List of Elias Kiritsis CITATION LIST OF ELIAS KIRITSIS This list includes SPIRES Citations as well as those from Physics Citation Index. Those that are in SPIRES are in black letters while additional ones from Physics Citation Index, books and PhD theses are in red. The total number of citations minus self-citations is given at the end of the file. Also given at the end of the file is the total number of citations from journals acceptable by the Science Citation Index. There are 2 papers with more than 250 citations, 25 with more than 100 citations and 32 with more than 50 citations. The h-index is 54 Available (with hyperlinks) from http://hep.physics.uoc.gr/ kiritsis/test/cit.pdf Total Number of Citations List of Citing Publications: List of Cited Publications: 1 Citing articles CITATIONS FOR [1] 1. Asymptotic freedom, asymptotic flatness and cosmology Elias Kiritsis (APC, Paris & Crete U. & CERN). Jul 22, 2013. 17 pp. Published in JCAP 1311 (2013) 011 CCTP-2013-11 DOI: 10.1088/1475-7516/2013/11/011 e-Print: arXiv:1307.5873 [hep-th] CITATIONS FOR [2] 1. Holographic RG flows and nearly-marginal operators Jun Bourdier, Elias Kiritsis. Oct 2, 2013. 23 pp. CCTP-2013-16, CCQCN-2013-11, CERN-PH-TH-2013-265, KCL-MTH-13-10, CCQCN-2013-11, CERN-PH-TH- 2013-265, KCL-MTH-13-10 e-Print: arXiv:1310.0858 [hep-th] CITATIONS FOR [3] 1. Introductory lectures to large-N QCD phenomenology and lattice results Biagio Lucini, Marco Panero. Sep 14, 2013. 60 pp. HIP-2013-18-TH e-Print: arXiv:1309.3638 [hep-th] CITATIONS FOR [4] 1. Gravitational collapse and thermalization in the hard wall model Ben Craps, Elias Kiritsis, Christopher Rosen, Anastasios Taliotis, Joris Vanhoof, Hongbao Zhang. Nov 29, 2013. 32 pp. e-Print: arXiv:1311.7560 [hep-th] 2. Energy Momentum Tensor Correlators in Improved Holographic QCD Martin Krssak. Oct 1, 2013. 107 pp. e-Print: arXiv:1310.0222 [hep-ph] 3. The discontinuities of conformal transitions and mass spectra of V-QCD Daniel Arean, Ioannis Iatrakis, Matti Jarvinen, Elias Kiritsis. Sep 9, 2013. 45 pp. Published in JHEP 1311 (2013) 068 CCTP-2013-7 e-Print: arXiv:1309.2286 [hep-ph] 4. Energy momentum tensor correlators in hot Yang-Mills theory: holography confronts lattice and perturbation theory K. Kajantie, Martin Krssak, Aleksi Vuorinen. Feb 6, 2013. 13 pp. BI-TP-2012-53, HIP-2013-03-TH e-Print: arXiv:1302.1432 [hep-ph]; Published in JHEP 1305 (2013) 140 CITATIONS FOR [5] 1. Dark Energy from holographic theories with hyperscaling violation Mariano Cadoni (Cagliari U. & INFN, Cagliari), Matteo Ciulu (Cagliari U.). Nov 16, 2013. 18 pp. e-Print: arXiv:1311.4098 [hep-th] 2. Vector Beta function Yu Nakayama. Oct 2, 2013. 27 pp. IPMU13-0186 e-Print: arXiv:1310.0574 [hep-th] 3. Universal scaling properties of extremal cohesive holographic phases B. Goute'raux. Aug 9, 2013. 28 pp. NORDITA-2013-59 Published in JHEP 1310 (2013) 064 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)064 e-Print: arXiv:1308.2084 [hep-th] 4. Bose-Fermi competition in holographic metals Yan Liu, Koenraad Schalm, Ya-Wen Sun, Jan Zaanen. Jul 17, 2013. 35 pp. e-Print: arXiv:1307.4572 [hep-th] 5. Dressing the Electron Star in a Holographic Superconductor Francesco Nitti, Giuseppe Policastro, Thomas Vanel. Jul 17, 2013. 31 pp. LPTENS-13-17 Published in JHEP 1310 (2013) 019 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP10(2013)019 e-Print: arXiv:1307.4558 [hep-th] 6. Holographic geometries for condensed matter applications V. Keranen, L. Thorlacius. Jul 10, 2013. 20 pp. NORDITA-2013-47 Conference: C12-07-01.1 e-Print: arXiv:1307.2882 [gr-qc] 7. Probing holographic semi-local quantum liquids with D-branes Da-Wei Pang. Jun 17, 2013. 18 pp. MPP-2013-157 Published in Phys.Rev. D88 (2013) 046002 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.046002 e-Print: arXiv:1306.3816 [hep-th] 2 8. Lifshitz from AdS at finite temperature and top down models Yegor Korovin, Kostas Skenderis, Marika Taylor. Jun 14, 2013. 35 pp. Published in JHEP 1311 (2013) 127 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)127 e-Print: arXiv:1306.3344 [hep-th] 9. Emergent Lorentz invariance from Strong Dynamics: Holographic examples Grigory Bednik (McMaster U.), Oriol Pujolas (Barcelona, IFAE Barcelona, Autonoma U.), Sergey Sibiryakov (Moscow, INR Moscow State U.). Apr 30, 2013. 48 pp. Published in JHEP 1311 (2013) 064 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)064 e-Print: arXiv:1305.0011 [hep-th] 10. Infrared Behavior of Scalar Condensates in Effective Holographic Theories Mariano Cadoni, Paolo Pani, Matteo Serra. Apr 11, 2013. 32 pp. e-Print: arXiv:1304.3279 [hep-th]; Published in JHEP 1306 (2013) 029 11. Transitions in Dilaton Holography with Global or Local Symmetries Alberto Salvio (Madrid, Autonoma U. & Madrid, IFT). Feb 20, 2013. 21 pp. Published in JHEP 1303 (2013) 136 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP03(2013)136 e-Print: arXiv:1302.4898 [hep-th] 12. On hvLif-like solutions in gauged Supergravity. Pablo Bueno, W. Chemissany, C.S. Shahbazi. Dec 2012. 31 pp. FT-UAM-CSIC-12-121 e-Print: arXiv:1212.4826 [hep-th] 13. Spatially Modulated Instabilities of Geometries with Hyperscaling Violation. Sera Cremonini, Annamaria Sinkovics. Dec 2012. 23 pp. e-Print: arXiv:1212.4172 [hep-th] 14. Holographic Models for Theories with Hyperscaling Violation. Jakob Gath, Jelle Hartong, Ricardo Monteiro, Niels A. Obers. Dec 2012. 50 pp. e-Print: arXiv:1212.3263 [hep-th]; Published in JHEP 1304 (2013) 159 CITATIONS FOR [6] 1. The discontinuities of conformal transitions and mass spectra of V-QCD Daniel Arean, Ioannis Iatrakis, Matti Jarvinen, Elias Kiritsis. Sep 9, 2013. 45 pp. Published in JHEP 1311 (2013) 068 CCTP-2013-7 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)068 e-Print: arXiv:1309.2286 [hep-ph] 2. Dynamic AdS/QCD and the Spectrum of Walking Gauge Theories Timo Alho, Nick Evans, Kimmo Tuominen. Jul 18, 2013. 12 pp. Published in Phys.Rev. D88 (2013) 105016 DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.88.105016 e-Print: arXiv:1307.4896 [hep-ph] 3. The spectrum of (h)QCD in the Veneziano limit Daniel Arean, Ioannis Iatrakis, Matti Jarvinen. May 27, 2013. 16 pp. CCTP-2013-03 Conference: C12-09-08.2 Published in PoS Corfu2012 (2013) 129 e-Print: arXiv:1305.6294 [hep-ph] 4. Heavy ions and string theory Oliver DeWolfe, Steven S. Gubser, Christopher Rosen, Derek Teaney. Apr 29, 2013. 81 pp. COLO-HEP-579, PUPT-2446 e-Print: arXiv:1304.7794 [hep-th] 5. Standard Model-like corrections to Dilatonic Dynamics Oleg Antipin, Jens Krog, Esben M?lgaard, Francesco Sannino. Mar 28, 2013. 15 pp. Published in JHEP 1309 (2013) 122 CP3-ORIGINS-2013-6-DNRF90, DIAS-2013-6 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP09(2013)122 e-Print: arXiv:1303.7213 [hep-ph] 6. Holographic Modelling of a Light Techni-Dilaton Nick Evans, Kimmo Tuominen (Southampton U.). Feb 19, 2013. 8 pp. SHEP-13-04 Published in Phys. Rev. D 87 086003 (2013); DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevD.87.086003 e-Print: arXiv:1302.4553 [hep- ph] 7. Quantum critical lines in holographic phases with (un)broken symmetry B. Gouteraux (Nordita & APC, Paris & Crete U.), E. Kiritsis (APC, Paris & Crete U.). Dec 2012. 54 pp. Published in JHEP 1304 (2013) 053 CCTP-2012-24, NORDITA-2012-101 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP04(2013)053 e- Print: arXiv:1212.2625 [hep-th] 8. Glueball Spectrum in a Gauge Theory with Two Dynamical Scales Lilia Anguelova (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Peter Suranyi, L.C.R. Wijewardhana (Cincinnati U.). Dec 2012. 44 pp. Published in JHEP 1305 (2013) 003 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP05(2013)003 e-Print: arXiv:1212.1176 [hep-th] 9. On finite-temperature holographic QCD in the Veneziano limit T. Alho (Jyvaskyla U.), M. Ja"rvinen (Crete U.), K. Kajantie (Helsinki Inst. of Phys.), E. Kiritsis (Crete U. & APC, Paris), K. Tuominen (Jyvaskyla U. & Helsinki Inst. of Phys.). Oct 2012. 67 pp. Published in JHEP 1301 (2013) 093 CCTP-2012-17, HIP-2012-16-TH DOI: 10.1007/JHEP01(2013)093 e-Print: arXiv:1210.4516 [hep-ph] CITATIONS FOR [7] 3 1. Transport properties of spacetime-filling branes Javier Tarrio. Dec 10, 2013. 27 pp. ICCUB-13-247 e-Print: arXiv:1312.2902 [hep-th] 2. A holographic calculation of the electric conductivity of the strongly coupled quark-gluon plasma near the deconfinement transition Stefano I. Finazzo, Jorge Noronha (Sao Paulo U.). Nov 26, 2013. 19 pp. e-Print: arXiv:1311.6675 [hep-th] 3. Global Structure of Conformal Theories in the SU(3) Gauge Theory K. -I. Ishikawa, Y. Iwasaki, Yu Nakayama, T. Yoshie. Oct 18, 2013. 46 pp. e-Print: arXiv:1310.5049 [hep-lat] 4. Introductory lectures to large-N QCD phenomenology and lattice results Biagio Lucini, Marco Panero. Sep 14, 2013. 60 pp. HIP-2013-18-TH e-Print: arXiv:1309.3638 [hep-th] 5. The discontinuities of conformal transitions and mass spectra of V-QCD Daniel Arean, Ioannis Iatrakis, Matti Jarvinen, Elias Kiritsis. Sep 9, 2013. 45 pp. Published in JHEP 1311 (2013) 068 CCTP-2013-7 DOI: 10.1007/JHEP11(2013)068 e-Print: arXiv:1309.2286 [hep-ph] 6. The spectrum of (h)QCD in the Veneziano limit Daniel Arean, Ioannis Iatrakis, Matti Jarvinen. May 27, 2013. 16 pp. CCTP-2013-03 Conference: C12-09-08.2 Published in PoS Corfu2012 (2013) 129 e-Print: arXiv:1305.6294 [hep-ph] 7. Heavy ions and string theory Oliver DeWolfe, Steven S. Gubser, Christopher Rosen, Derek Teaney. Apr 29, 2013. 81 pp. COLO-HEP-579, PUPT-2446 e-Print: arXiv:1304.7794 [hep-th] 8. Mesons in large-N QCD Gunnar S. Bali, Francis Bursa, Luca Castagnini, Sara Collins, Luigi Del Debbio, Biagio Lucini, Marco Panero.
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