Top Cited Articles of All Time (1978 edition)

Top Cited Articles of All Time (1978 edition)

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (1978 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. 1392
    A Model of Leptons
    By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
    [6220 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 1219
    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]
  3. 807
    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]
  4. 747
    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]
  5. 646
    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]
  6. 619
    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]
  7. 594
    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]
  8. 561
    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]
  9. 519
    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]
  10. 491
    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]
  11. 473
    Asymptotic Sum Rules at Infinite Momentum
    By J.D. Bjorken (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.179:1547-1553,1969
    [970 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 460
    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]
  13. 458
    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]
  14. 445
    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]
  15. 441
    Pseudoparticle Solutions of the Yang-Mills Equations
    By A.A. Belavin, Alexander M. Polyakov, A.S. Shvarts, Yu.S. Tyupkin (Landau Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B59:85-87,1975
    [1940 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 429
    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]
  17. 421
    Evidence for Anomalous Lepton Production in e+ - e- Annihilation
    By Martin L. Perl, G.S. Abrams, A. Boyarski, Martin Breidenbach, D. Briggs, F. Bulos, William Chinowsky, J.T. Dakin, G.J. Feldman, C.E. Friedberg, D. Fryberger, G. Goldhaber, G. Hanson, F.B. Heile, B. Jean-Marie, J.A. Kadyk, Rudolf R. Larsen, A. Litke, D. Luke, B. Lulu, V. Luth, D. Lyon, Charles C. Morehouse, J.M. Paterson, F. Pierre, T. Pun, Petros A. Rapidis, Burton Richter, B. Sadoulet, R. Schwitters, William M. Tanenbaum, G. Trilling, F. Vannucci, J.S. Whitaker, F.C. Winkelmann, J. Wiss (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley & SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.35:1489-1492,1975
    [896 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 390
    The Spectrum of Charmonium
    By E. Eichten, K. Gottfried, T. Kinoshita, John B. Kogut, K.D. Lane, Tung-Mow Yan (Cornell U., LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.34:369-372,1975, Erratum-ibid.36:1276,1976
    [746 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 390
    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]
  20. 382
    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]
  21. 381
    Gauge Theories
    By E.S. Abers, B.W. Lee (SUNY, Stony Brook).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.9:1-141,1973
    [1070 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 380
    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]
  23. 368
    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]
  24. 364
    Hadron Masses in a Gauge Theory
    By A. De Rujula, Howard Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D12:147-162,1975
    [1795 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 363
    Observation of a Dimuon Resonance at 9.5-GeV in 400-GeV Proton-Nucleus Collisions
    By S.W. Herb, D.C. Hom, L.M. Lederman, J.C. Sens, H.D. Snyder, J.K. Yoh (Columbia U.), J.A. Appel, B.C. Brown, C.N. Brown, Walter R. Innes, K. Ueno, T. Yamanouchi (Fermilab), A.S. Ito, H. Jostlein, D.M. Kaplan, Robert D. Kephart (SUNY, Stony Brook).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.39:252-255,1977
    [1106 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 361
    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]
  27. 360
    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]
  28. 356
    Phi meson and unitary symmetry model
    By S. Okubo (Rochester U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.5:165-168,1963
    [759 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 353
    Scaling Laws at Large Transverse Momentum
    By Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC), Glennys R. Farrar (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.31:1153-1156,1973
    [1195 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 343
    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]
  31. 341
    A New Extended Model of Hadrons
    By A. Chodos, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, Charles B. Thorn, V.F. Weisskopf (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D9:3471-3495,1974
    [1642 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 339
    Confinement of Quarks
    By Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D10:2445-2459,1974
    [2930 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 339
    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]
  34. 338
    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]
  35. 330
    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]
  36. 329
    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]
  37. 320
    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]
  38. 315
    Observation in e+ e- Annihilation of a Narrow State at 1865-MeV/c**2 Decaying to K pi and K pi pi pi
    By G. Goldhaber, F. Pierre, G.S. Abrams, M.S. Alam, A. Boyarski, Martin Breidenbach, W.C. Carithers, William Chinowsky, S. Cooper, R. DeVoe, J. Dorfan, G.J. Feldman, C.E. Friedberg, D. Fryberger, G. Hanson, J. Jaros, Alfred D. Johnson, J.A. Kadyk, Rudolf R. Larsen, D. Luke, V. Luth, H.L. Lynch, R. Madaras, Charles C. Morehouse, H.K. Nguyen, J.M. Paterson, Martin L. Perl, I. Peruzzi, M. Piccolo, T. Pun, Petros A. Rapidis, Burton Richter, B. Sadoulet, R.H. Schindler, R. Schwitters, J. Siegrist, William M. Tanenbaum, G. Trilling, F. Vannucci, J.S. Whitaker, J. Wiss (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley & SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.37:255-259,1976
    [558 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 315
    Massive Lepton Pair Production in Hadron-Hadron Collisions at High-Energies
    By S.D. Drell, Tung-Mow Yan (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.25:316-320,1970, Erratum-ibid.25:902,1970
    [852 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 314
    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]
  41. 310
    ASYMPTOTICALLY FREE GAUGE THEORIES. 2.
    By D.J. Gross, Frank Wilczek (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D9:980-993,1974
    [857 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 309
    OBSERVATION OF NEW PARTICLE PRODUCTION BY HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS AND ANTI-NEUTRINOS
    By A.C. Benvenuti, D. Cline, W.T. Ford, R. Imlay, T.Y. Ling, A.K. Mann, F. Messing, R. Orr, D.D. Reeder, C. Rubbia, R. Stefanski, L. Sulak, P. Wanderer (Harvard U. & Pennsylvania U. & Wisconsin U., Madison & Fermilab).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.34:419,1975
    [388 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 308
    Magnetic Monopoles in Unified Gauge Theories
    By Gerard 't Hooft (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B79:276-284,1974
    [1845 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 307
    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]
  45. 306
    Systematics and phenomenology of meson family
    By Jugoro Iizuka (Kanazawa U.).
    Published in:Prog.Theor.Phys.Suppl.37:21-34,1966
    [678 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 296
    Symmetries of baryons and mesons
    By Murray Gell-Mann (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.125:1067-1084,1962
    [631 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 295
    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]
  48. 294
    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]
  49. 294
    Asymptotic Freedom: An Approach to Strong Interactions
    By H.David Politzer (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.14:129-180,1974
    [891 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 289
    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]