Top Cited Articles during 1981

Top Cited Articles during 1981

The 50 most highly cited papers during 1981

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. 282
    A Model of Leptons
    By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
    [6220 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 261
    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]
  3. 202
    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. 159
    Confinement of Quarks
    By Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D10:2445-2459,1974
    [2930 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 154
    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]
  6. 148
    Partial Symmetries of Weak Interactions
    By S.L. Glashow (Copenhagen U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.22:579-588,1961
    [3297 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 146
    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]
  8. 136
    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]
  9. 127
    Aspects of the Grand Unification of Strong, Weak and Electromagnetic Interactions
    By A.J. Buras, John R. Ellis (CERN), M.K. Gaillard (CERN & Orsay), Dimitri V. Nanopoulos (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B135:66-92,1978
    [1044 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 127
    Dynamics of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking in the Weinberg-Salam Theory
    By Leonard Susskind (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D20:2619-2625,1979
    [1303 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 126
    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]
  12. 119
    QCD and Resonance Physics. Sum Rules
    By Mikhail A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, Valentin I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B147:385-447,1979
    [3185 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 118
    A Parametrization of the Properties of Quark Jets
    By R.D. Field, R.P. Feynman (Caltech).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B136:1,1978
    [1301 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 116
    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]
  15. 110
    Implications of Dynamical Symmetry Breaking: An Addendum
    By Steven Weinberg (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D19:1277-1280,1979
    [1088 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 108
    Unified Interactions of Leptons and Hadrons
    By Harald Fritzsch, Peter Minkowski (Caltech).
    Published in:Annals Phys.93:193-266,1975
    [1014 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 100
    Monte Carlo Study of Quantized SU(2) Gauge Theory
    By M. Creutz (Brookhaven).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D21:2308-2315,1980
    [730 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 99
    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]
  19. 95
    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]
  20. 93
    QCD and Resonance Physics: Applications
    By Mikhail A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, Valentin I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B147:448-518,1979
    [1993 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 90
    Masses and Other Parameters of the Light Hadrons
    By Thomas A. DeGrand, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, J.E. Kiskis (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D12:2060,1975
    [1255 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 89
    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]
  23. 87
    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]
  24. 87
    GRAVITATIONAL WAVE RESEARCH: CURRENT STATUS AND FUTURE PROSPECTS
    By K.S. Thorne (Caltech).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.52:285-297,1980
    [261 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 86
    Implications of Dynamical Symmetry Breaking
    By Steven Weinberg (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D13:974-996,1976
    [826 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 84
    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]
  27. 84
    Deep Inelastic Scattering Beyond the Leading Order in Asymptotically Free Gauge Theories
    By William A. Bardeen, A.J. Buras, D.W. Duke, T. Muta (Fermilab).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D18:3998,1978
    [1081 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 84
    Mass Without Scalars
    By Savas Dimopoulos (Columbia U.), Leonard Susskind (Stanford U., ITP).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B155:237-252,1979
    [704 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 82
    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]
  30. 81
    Problem of Strong p and t Invariance in the Presence of Instantons
    By Frank Wilczek (Columbia U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.40:279-282,1978
    [1247 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 81
    Dynamical Breaking of Weak Interaction Symmetries
    By Estia Eichten, Kenneth D. Lane (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B90:125-130,1980
    [697 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 81
    CP Conservation in the Presence of Instantons
    By R.D. Peccei, Helen R. Quinn (Stanford U., ITP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.38:1440-1443,1977
    [1707 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 81
    Asymptotic Freedom in Deep Inelastic Processes in the Leading Order and Beyond
    By Andrzej J. Buras (Fermilab).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.52:199,1980
    [555 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 80
    Infrared Singularities and Massive Fields
    By Thomas Appelquist, J. Carazzone (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D11:2856,1975
    [1126 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 79
    Magnetic Monopoles in Unified Gauge Theories
    By Gerard 't Hooft (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B79:276-284,1974
    [1845 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 77
    A New Light Boson?
    By Steven Weinberg (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.40:223-226,1978
    [1310 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 75
    A SCHEMATIC MODEL OF QUARKS AND LEPTONS
    By Haim Harari (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B86:83,1979
    [315 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 72
    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]
  39. 72
    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]
  40. 70
    Dimensional regularization and the renormalization group
    By Gerard 't Hooft (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B61:455-468,1973
    [918 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 69
    COSMOLOGICAL PRODUCTION OF BARYONS
    By Steven Weinberg (Harvard U. & Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.42:850-853,1979
    [468 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 68
    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]
  43. 68
    On the Phase Transition Towards Permanent Quark Confinement
    By Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B138:1,1978
    [935 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 68
    A GRAND UNIFIED THEORY OBTAINED FROM BROKEN SUPERGRAVITY
    By John R. Ellis (CERN), Mary K. Gaillard (Annecy, LAPP), Bruno Zumino (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B94:343,1980
    [210 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 68
    Charmonium: Comparison with Experiment
    By E. Eichten, K. Gottfried, T. Kinoshita, K.D. Lane, Tung-Mow Yan (Cornell U., LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D21:203,1980
    [1048 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 68
    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]
  47. 67
    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]
  48. 66
    Particle Spectrum in the Quantum Field Theory
    By Alexander M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.).
    Published in:JETP Lett.20:194-195,1974, Pisma Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz.20:430-433,1974
    [1448 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 66
    Constraints Imposed by CP Conservation in the Presence of Instantons
    By R.D. Peccei, Helen R. Quinn (Stanford U., ITP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D16:1791-1797,1977
    [1121 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 65
    Simple Parametrizations of Parton Distributions with q**2 Dependence Given by Asymptotic Freedom
    By A.J. Buras, K.J.F. Gaemers (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B132:249,1978
    [643 Total citations in HEP]
  51. 65
    ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM SCALES
    By Michael Creutz (Brookhaven).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.45:313,1980
    [382 Total citations in HEP]