Top Cited Articles of All Time (1975 edition)

Top Cited Articles of All Time (1975 edition)

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (1975 edition)

Keep in mind that citation counts can never be exact, there is something like a 5% error in most of these numbers. Please do not fret about number 32 versus 33, as this is often not a statistically significant difference. Remember the detailed warning about the accuracy of these counts.

Also note that the counts shown, and used in the rankings, are the counts as of Tue 20-Mar-2007. Further, the counts shown by the ranking are only the cites satisfying the criteria for that list. Actual citation numbers in the database may change as corrections are made and papers are added, the links will take you to the updated numbers. The lists, however, will not update.

  1. 547
    A Model of Leptons
    By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
    [6220 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 517
    Experimental Observation of a Heavy Particle J
    By E598 Collaboration (J.J. Aubert et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1404-1406,1974
    [1506 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 506
    Discovery of a Narrow Resonance in e+ e- Annihilation
    By SLAC-SP-017 Collaboration (J.E. Augustin et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1406-1408,1974
    [1417 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 447
    Weak Interactions with Lepton-Hadron Symmetry
    By S.L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, L. Maiani (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D2:1285-1292,1970
    [3525 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 357
    The Discovery of a Second Narrow Resonance in e+ e- Annihilation
    By G.S. Abrams, D. Briggs, William Chinowsky, C.E. Friedberg, G. Goldhaber, R.J. Hollebeek, J.A. Kadyk, A. Litke, B. Lulu, F. Pierre, B. Sadoulet, G. Trilling, J.S. Whitaker, J. Wiss, J.E. Zipse (LBL, Berkeley), J.E. Augustin, A. Boyarski, Martin Breidenbach, F. Bulos, G.J. Feldman, G.E. Fischer, D. Fryberger, G. Hanson, B. Jean-Marie, Rudolf R. Larsen, V. Luth, H.L. Lynch, D. Lyon, Charles C. Morehouse, J.M. Paterson, Martin L. Perl, Burton Richter, Petros A. Rapidis, R. Schwitters, William M. Tanenbaum, F. Vannucci (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1453-1455,1974
    [634 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 355
    Very high-energy collisions of hadrons
    By Richard P. Feynman (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.23:1415-1417,1969
    [1109 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 345
    Asymptotic Sum Rules at Infinite Momentum
    By J.D. Bjorken (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.179:1547-1553,1969
    [970 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 313
    Preliminary Result of Frascati (ADONE) on the Nature of a New 3.1-GeV Particle Produced in e+ e- Annihilation
    By C. Bacci, et al..
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1408,1974, Erratum-ibid.33:1649,1974
    [450 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 310
    Nonlagrangian models of current algebra
    By Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.179:1499-1512,1969
    [1338 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 299
    Inelastic Electron Proton and gamma Proton Scattering, and the Structure of the Nucleon
    By J.D. Bjorken, Emmanuel A. Paschos (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.185:1975-1982,1969
    [874 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 284
    Behavior of current divergences under SU(3) x SU(3)
    By Murray Gell-Mann (Caltech), R.J. Oakes (Northwestern U.), B. Renner (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.175:2195-2199,1968
    [1105 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 282
    Ultraviolet Behavior of Nonabelian Gauge Theories
    By D.J. Gross, Frank Wilczek (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.30:1343-1346,1973
    [2265 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 265
    Reliable Perturbative Results for Strong Interactions?
    By H.David Politzer (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.30:1346-1349,1973
    [2279 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 265
    Review of Particle Physics
    By Particle Data Group (W.-M. Yao et al.).
    Citations are counted for all versions of the RPP, most recent version is:
    Published in:J.Phys.G33:1-1232,2006
    [673 Total citations in HEP]
    [27778 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]
  15. 254
    O(2,1) ANALYSIS OF SINGLE PARTICLE SPECTRA AT HIGH-ENERGY
    By Alfred H. Mueller (Brookhaven).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D2:2963-2968,1970
    [465 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 251
    Three Triplet Model with Double SU(3) Symmetry
    By M.Y. Han (Syracuse U.), Yoichiro Nambu (Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.139:B1006-B1010,1965
    [622 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 239
    Theory of high-energy scattering and multiple production
    By D. Amati, A. Stanghellini, S. Fubini.
    Published in:Nuovo Cim.26:896-954,1962
    [370 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 231
    Symmetries of baryons and mesons
    By Murray Gell-Mann (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.125:1067-1084,1962
    [631 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 223
    Construction of a crossing - symmetric, Regge behaved amplitude for linearly rising trajectories
    By G. Veneziano (CERN).
    Published in:Nuovo Cim.A57:190-197,1968
    [652 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 218
    PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN A CONVERGENT THEORY OF THE WEAK AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS
    By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.27:1688-1691,1971
    [490 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 209
    Applications of the Chiral U(6) x (6) Algebra of Current Densities
    By J.D. Bjorken (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.148:1467-1478,1966
    [1039 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 204
    Observation of Neutrino Like Interactions Without Muon Or Electron in the Gargamelle Neutrino Experiment
    By Gargamelle Neutrino Collaboration (F.J. Hasert et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B46:138-140,1973
    [758 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 200
    Regularization and Renormalization of Gauge Fields
    By Gerard 't Hooft, M.J.G. Veltman (Utrecht U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B44:189-213,1972
    [2307 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 199
    Small distance behavior in field theory and power counting
    By K. Symanzik (Hamburg U.).
    Published in:Commun.Math.Phys.18:227-246,1970
    [666 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 198
    Broken scale invariance in scalar field theory
    By Curtis G. Callan, Jr. (Caltech & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D2:1541-1547,1970
    [659 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 189
    On the general theory of collisions for particles with spin
    By M. Jacob, G.C. Wick (Brookhaven).
    Published in:Annals Phys.7:404-428,1959, Annals Phys.281:774-799,2000
    [692 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 187
    HYPOTHESIS OF LIMITING FRAGMENTATION IN HIGH-ENERGY COLLISIONS
    By J. Benecke, T.T. Chou, Chen-Ning Yang, E. Yen (SUNY, Stony Brook).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.188:2159-2169,1969
    [379 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 182
    Axial vector vertex in spinor electrodynamics
    By Stephen L. Adler (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.177:2426-2438,1969
    [2268 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 181
    The axial vector current in beta decay
    By Murray Gell-Mann, M Levy.
    Published in:Nuovo Cim.16:705,1960
    [1012 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 178
    Pion scattering lengths
    By Steven Weinberg (UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.17:616-621,1966
    [934 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 178
    Quantum electrodynamics at small distances
    By Murray Gell-Mann, F.E. Low (Illinois U., Urbana).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.95:1300-1312,1954
    [780 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 177
    Asymptotically Free Gauge Theories. 1
    By D.J. Gross (Fermilab & Princeton U.), Frank Wilczek (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D8:3633-3652,1973
    [1433 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 175
    Effects of a neutral intermediate boson in semileptonic processes
    By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D5:1412-1417,1972
    [576 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 174
    A REGGEON DIAGRAM TECHNIQUE
    By V.N. Gribov (Ioffe Phys. Tech. Inst.).
    Published in:Sov.Phys.JETP 26:414-422,1968, Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz.53:654-672,1967
    [470 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 171
    The Energy dependence of the proton proton total cross-section for center-of-mass energies between 23 and 53 GeV
    By U. Amaldi, R. Biancastelli, C. Bosio, G. Matthiae (Rome, ISS & INFN, Rome), J.V. Allaby, W. Bartel, G. Cocconi, A.N. Diddens, R.W. Dobinson, A.M. Wetherell (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B44:112-118,1973
    [339 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 171
    Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance
    By Chen-Ning Yang, Robert L. Mills (Brookhaven).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.96:191-195,1954
    [1199 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 170
    Renormalizable Lagrangians for Massive Yang-Mills Fields
    By Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B35:167-188,1971
    [977 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 168
    Elementary Particles and SU(4)
    By J.D. Bjorken, S.L. Glashow (Bohr Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.11:255-257,1964
    [505 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 166
    Breaking chiral symmetry
    By S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.), Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.20:224-227,1968
    [345 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 158
    Orthocharmonium and e+ e- Annihilation
    By Thomas Appelquist, H.David Politzer (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.34:43,1975
    [946 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 157
    Search for Charm
    By Mary K. Gaillard, Benjamin W. Lee (Fermilab), Jonathan L. Rosner (Minnesota U.).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.47:277,1975
    [919 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 155
    Measurement of the total proton proton cross-section at the ISR
    By S.R. Amendolia, G. Bellettini, P.L. Braccini, C. Bradaschia, R. Castaldi, V. Cavasinni, C. Cerri, T. del Prete, L. Foa, P. Giromini, P. Laurelli, A. Menzione, L. Ristori, G. Sanguinetti, M. Valdata (INFN, Pisa & Pisa U. & Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore), G. Finocchiaro, P. Grannis, D. Green, R. Mustard, R. Thun (SUNY, Stony Brook).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B44:119-124,1973
    [305 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 154
    Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown Without Massless Bosons
    By Peter W. Higgs (North Carolina U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.145:1156-1163,1966
    [1027 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 152
    Current matrix elements from a relativistic quark model
    By R.P. Feynman, M. Kislinger, F. Ravndal (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D3:2706-2732,1971
    [702 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 151
    SCALING, DUALITY, AND THE BEHAVIOR OF RESONANCES IN INELASTIC ELECTRON - PROTON SCATTERING
    By Elliott D. Bloom, Frederick J. Gilman (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.25:1140,1970
    [382 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 149
    Broken symmetries, massless particles and gauge fields
    By Peter W. Higgs (Edinburgh U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.12:132-133,1964
    [1275 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 147
    Inclusive Processes at High Transverse Momentum
    By S.M. Berman, J.D. Bjorken, John B. Kogut (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D4:3388,1971
    [584 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 147
    Finite energy sum rules and their application to pi N charge exchange
    By R. Dolen, D. Horn, C. Schmid (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.166:1768-1781,1968
    [271 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 145
    Statistical thermodynamics of strong interactions at high-energies
    By R. Hagedorn (CERN).
    Published in:Nuovo Cim.Suppl.3:147-186,1965
    [839 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 145
    High-energy electroproduction and the constitution of the electric current
    By Curtis G. Callan, Jr., David J. Gross (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.22:156-159,1969
    [568 Total citations in HEP]