Top Cited Articles during 1993 by astro-ph

Top Cited Articles during 1993 by astro-ph

The 50 most highly cited papers during 1993 cited by papers in the astro-ph archive

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 Mon 12-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. 77
    Structure in the COBE differential microwave radiometer first year maps
    By George F. Smoot, C.L. Bennett, A. Kogut, E.L. Wright, J. Aymon, N.W. Boggess, E.S. Cheng, G. De Amici, S. Gulkis, M.G. Hauser, G. Hinshaw, C. Lineweaver, K. Loewenstein, P.D. Jackson, M. Janssen, E. Kaita, T. Kelsall, P. Keegstra, P. Lubin, John C. Mather, S.S. Meyer, S.H. Moseley, T. Murdock, L. Rokke, R.F. Silverberg, L. Tenorio, R. Weiss, D.T. Wilkinson (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley, Space Sci. Dept. & UC, Berkeley, CfPA & NASA, Goddard & Universities Space Research Assoc. & UCLA & Caltech, JPL & Hughes STX, Greenbelt & UC, Santa Barbara & MIT, LNS & General Research, Danvers & Princeton U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.396:L1-L5,1992
    [1290 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 32
    Primordial nucleosynthesis redux
    By Terry P. Walker (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Ohio State U.), Gary Steigman (Ohio State U.), David N. Schramm (Chicago U. & Fermilab), Keith A. Olive (Minnesota U. & Annecy, LAPP), Ho-Shik Kang (Ohio State U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.376:51-69,1991
    [653 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 32
    The Inflationary Universe: A Possible Solution to the Horizon and Flatness Problems
    By Alan H. Guth (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D23:347-356,1981
    [2826 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 28
    Gravitational instability: An Approximate theory for large density perturbations
    By Ya.B. Zeldovich (Moscow, IPM).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.5:84-89,1970
    [551 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 26
    The Statistics of Peaks of Gaussian Random Fields
    By James M. Bardeen (Washington U., Seattle & Santa Barbara, KITP), J.R. Bond (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & Santa Barbara, KITP), Nick Kaiser (UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron. & Santa Barbara, KITP), A.S. Szalay (Fermilab & Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.304:15-61,1986
    [1129 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 25
    Perturbations of a cosmological model and angular variations of the microwave background
    By R.K. Sachs, A.M. Wolfe (Texas U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.147:73-90,1967
    [654 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 24
    The Evolution of Large Scale Structure in a Universe Dominated by Cold Dark Matter
    By Marc Davis (Santa Barbara, KITP & UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & UC, Berkeley), George Efstathiou (Santa Barbara, KITP & Cambridge U.), Carlos S. Frenk (Santa Barbara, KITP & Sussex U.), Simon D.M. White (Santa Barbara, KITP & Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.292:371-394,1985
    [632 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 21
    Extended Inflationary Cosmology
    By Daile La, Paul J. Steinhardt (Pennsylvania U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.62:376,1989, Erratum-ibid.62:1066,1989
    [544 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 19
    Spontaneous Creation of Almost Scale - Free Density Perturbations in an Inflationary Universe
    By James M. Bardeen (Washington U., Seattle), Paul J. Steinhardt (Pennsylvania U.), Michael S. Turner (Chicago U., Astron. Astrophys. Ctr.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D28:679,1983
    [959 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 19
    Chaotic Inflation
    By Andrei D. Linde (Lebedev Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B129:177-181,1983
    [1009 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 17
    Gauge Invariant Cosmological Perturbations
    By James M. Bardeen (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D22:1882-1905,1980
    [880 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 16
    Gravitational microlensing by the galactic halo
    By Bohdan Paczynski (Princeton U. Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.304:1-5,1986
    [507 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 16
    A New Inflationary Universe Scenario: A Possible Solution of the Horizon, Flatness, Homogeneity, Isotropy and Primordial Monopole Problems
    By Andrei D. Linde (Lebedev Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B108:389-393,1982
    [1632 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 15
    Dynamics of Phase Transition in the New Inflationary Universe Scenario and Generation of Perturbations
    By Alexei A. Starobinsky (Landau Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B117:175-178,1982
    [985 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 15
    Fluctuations in the New Inflationary Universe
    By A.H. Guth (MIT, LNS), S.Y. Pi (Harvard U. & New Hampshire U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.49:1110-1113,1982
    [965 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 14
    Cosmology for Grand Unified Theories with Radiatively Induced Symmetry Breaking
    By Andreas Albrecht, Paul J. Steinhardt (Pennsylvania U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.48:1220-1223,1982
    [1557 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 14
    The Development of Irregularities in a Single Bubble Inflationary Universe
    By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B115:295,1982
    [883 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 13
    Formation of galaxies and clusters of galaxies by selfsimilar gravitational condensation
    By William H. Press, Paul Schechter (Caltech).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.187:425-438,1974
    [1269 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 11
    Theory of cosmological perturbations. Part 1. Classical perturbations. Part 2. Quantum theory of perturbations. Part 3. Extensions
    By Viatcheslav F. Mukhanov (Brown U. & Moscow, INR), H.A. Feldman (Canadian Inst. Theor. Astrophys.), Robert H. Brandenberger (Brown U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.215:203-333,1992
    [1012 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 11
    Cosmic Separation of Phases
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D30:272-285,1984
    [987 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 10
    Cosmic Strings and Domain Walls
    By Alexander Vilenkin (Tufts U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.121:263,1985
    [908 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 9
    LIGO: The Laser interferometer gravitational wave observatory
    By Alex Abramovici, William E. Althouse, Ronald W.P. Drever, Yekta Gursel, Seiji Kawamura, Frederick J. Raab, David Shoemaker, Lisa Sievers, Robert E. Spero, Kip S. Thorne, Rochus E. Vogt, Rainer Weiss, Stanley E. Whitcomb, Michael E. Zucker (Caltech & Caltech, JPL & MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Science 256:325-333,1992
    [563 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 8
    An analytic expression for the luminosity function for galaxies
    By P. Schechter.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.203:297-306,1976
    [629 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 8
    On the infall of matter into cluster of galaxies and some effects on their evolution
    By James E. Gunn (Caltech & Carnegie Inst., Wash., D.C.), J. Richard Gott, III (Princeton U. Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.176:1-19,1972
    [605 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 8
    Strange Matter
    By Edward Farhi, R.L. Jaffe (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D30:2379,1984
    [535 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 8
    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
    [1704 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 7
    The Cosmological constant
    By Sean M. Carroll, William H. Press (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), Edwin L. Turner (Princeton U. Observ.).
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.30:499-542,1992
    [513 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 7
    Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance
    By N.I. Shakura (Sternberg Astron. Inst.), R.A. Sunyaev (Moscow, IPM).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.24:337-355,1973
    [1035 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 7
    Topology of Cosmic Domains and Strings
    By T.W.B. Kibble (Imperial Coll., London).
    Published in:J.Phys.A9:1387-1398,1976
    [1128 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 6
    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
    [1245 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 6
    A New Light Boson?
    By Steven Weinberg (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.40:223-226,1978
    [1308 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 6
    Core condensation in heavy halos: A Two stage theory for galaxy formation and clusters
    By Simon D.M. White, M.J. Rees (Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.183:341-358,1978
    [630 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 5
    The Fate of the False Vacuum. 1. Semiclassical Theory
    By Sidney R. Coleman (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D15:2929-2936,1977, Erratum-ibid.D16:1248,1977
    [893 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 5
    Gravitational Field of Vacuum Domain Walls and Strings
    By A. Vilenkin (Tufts U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D23:852-857,1981
    [537 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 5
    Cosmology of the Invisible Axion
    By John Preskill, Mark B. Wise (Harvard U.), Frank Wilczek (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B120:127-132,1983
    [557 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 5
    A Cosmological Bound on the Invisible Axion
    By L.F. Abbott (Brandeis U.), P. Sikivie (Florida U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B120:133-136,1983
    [529 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 5
    A New Type of Isotropic Cosmological Models Without Singularity
    By Alexei A. Starobinsky (Cambridge U. & Landau Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B91:99-102,1980
    [679 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 4
    Cosmological Production of Superheavy Magnetic Monopoles
    By John Preskill (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.43:1365,1979
    [515 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 4
    The Fate of the False Vacuum. 2. First Quantum Corrections
    By Curtis G. Callan, Jr. (Princeton U.), Sidney R. Coleman (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D16:1762-1768,1977
    [612 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 4
    The Not So Harmless Axion
    By Michael Dine (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Willy Fischler (Pennsylvania U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B120:137-141,1983
    [523 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 4
    Neutrino Oscillations in Matter
    By L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D17:2369,1978
    [2801 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 4
    Resonance Amplification of Oscillations in Matter and Spectroscopy of Solar Neutrinos
    By S.P. Mikheev, A.Yu. Smirnov (Moscow, INR).
    Published in:Sov.J.Nucl.Phys.42:913-917,1985, Yad.Fiz.42:1441-1448,1985
    [2091 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 4
    A powerful local shear instability in weakly magnetized disks. 1. Linear analysis. 2. Nonlinear evolution
    By Steven A. Balbus, John F. Hawley.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.376:214-233,1991
    [581 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 4
    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
    [1119 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 4
    Supersymmetric Relics from the Big Bang
    By John R. Ellis, J.S. Hagelin (SLAC), Dimitri V. Nanopoulos, Keith A. Olive, M. Srednicki (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B238:453-476,1984
    [763 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 3
    Symmetry Behavior at Finite Temperature
    By L. Dolan, R. Jackiw (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D9:3320-3341,1974
    [1692 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 3
    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
    [2338 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 3
    HI in the galaxy
    By John M. Dickey, Felix J. Lockman.
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.28:215-261,1990
    [904 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 3
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  50. 3
    Vortex Line Models for Dual Strings
    By Holger Bech Nielsen, P. Olesen (Bohr Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B61:45-61,1973
    [1558 Total citations in HEP]
  51. 3
    Merger rates in hierarchical models of galaxy formation
    By Cedric G. Lacey, Shaun Cole.
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.262:627-649,1993
    [698 Total citations in HEP]
  52. 3
    Mach's principle and a relativistic theory of gravitation
    By C. Brans, R.H. Dicke (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.124:925-935,1961
    [965 Total citations in HEP]
  53. 3
    The Search for Supersymmetry: Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model
    By Howard E. Haber (UC, Santa Cruz & SLAC), Gordon L. Kane (Michigan U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.117:75,1985
    [3022 Total citations in HEP]