Top Cited Articles of All Time (1980 edition)

Top Cited Articles of All Time (1980 edition)

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (1980 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. 2089
    A Model of Leptons
    By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
    [6220 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 1570
    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. 945
    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]
  4. 900
    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]
  5. 899
    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]
  6. 874
    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]
  7. 835
    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]
  8. 721
    Unity of All Elementary Particle Forces
    By H. Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.32:438-441,1974
    [2870 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 670
    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]
  10. 654
    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]
  11. 634
    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]
  12. 595
    Confinement of Quarks
    By Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D10:2445-2459,1974
    [2930 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 593
    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]
  14. 588
    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. 587
    CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction
    By Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa (Kyoto U.).
    Published in:Prog.Theor.Phys.49:652-657,1973
    [4988 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 574
    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]
  17. 560
    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]
  18. 539
    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]
  19. 534
    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]
  20. 530
    Asymptotic Sum Rules at Infinite Momentum
    By J.D. Bjorken (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.179:1547-1553,1969
    [970 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 526
    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]
  22. 510
    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]
  23. 498
    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]
  24. 497
    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]
  25. 491
    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]
  26. 489
    Lepton Number as the Fourth Color
    By Jogesh C. Pati (Maryland U.), Abdus Salam (ICTP, Trieste & Imperial Coll., London).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D10:275-289,1974, Erratum-ibid.D11:703-703,1975
    [2651 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 489
    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]
  28. 485
    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]
  29. 485
    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]
  30. 480
    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]
  31. 466
    Quark Elastic Scattering as a Source of High Transverse Momentum Mesons
    By R.D. Field, R.P. Feynman (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D15:2590-2616,1977
    [937 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 463
    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]
  33. 461
    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]
  34. 461
    Magnetic Monopoles in Unified Gauge Theories
    By Gerard 't Hooft (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B79:276-284,1974
    [1845 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 444
    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]
  36. 437
    Radiative Corrections as the Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
    By Sidney R. Coleman, E. Weinberg (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D7:1888-1910,1973
    [2339 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 437
    Symmetry Breaking Through Bell-Jackiw Anomalies
    By Gerard 't Hooft (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.37:8-11,1976
    [2314 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 421
    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]
  39. 420
    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]
  40. 417
    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]
  41. 414
    Computation of the Quantum Effects Due to a Four-Dimensional Pseudoparticle
    By Gerard 't Hooft (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D14:3432-3450,1976, Erratum-ibid.D18:2199,1978
    [2687 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 412
    Hierarchy of Interactions in Unified Gauge Theories
    By H. Georgi, Helen R. Quinn, Steven Weinberg (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.33:451-454,1974
    [1378 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 408
    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]
  44. 406
    Phi meson and unitary symmetry model
    By S. Okubo (Rochester U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.5:165-168,1963
    [759 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 397
    Unified Lepton-Hadron Symmetry and a Gauge Theory of the Basic Interactions
    By Jogesh C. Pati (Maryland U.), Abdus Salam (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D8:1240-1251,1973
    [897 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 394
    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]
  47. 392
    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. 387
    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]
  49. 383
    Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. 1.
    By Yoichiro Nambu, G. Jona-Lasinio (Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.122:345-358,1961
    [2760 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 382
    Asymptotic Freedom in Parton Language
    By Guido Altarelli (Ecole Normale Superieure), G. Parisi (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B126:298,1977
    [3488 Total citations in HEP]