Top Cited Articles during 1996

Top Cited Articles during 1996

The 50 most highly cited papers during 1996

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 Wed 21-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. 1337
    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
    [676 Total citations in HEP]
    [27783 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]
  2. 283
    Observation of the top quark
    By D0 Collaboration (S. Abachi et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.74:2632-2637,1995 [arXiv: hep-ex/9503003]
    [1293 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 281
    Observation of top quark production in anti-p p collisions
    By CDF Collaboration (F. Abe et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.74:2626-2631,1995 [arXiv: hep-ex/9503002]
    [1347 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 245
    Electric - magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B426:19-52,1994, Erratum-ibid.B430:485-486,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9407087]
    [1845 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 237
    String theory dynamics in various dimensions
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B443:85-126,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9503124]
    [1461 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 217
    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
    [3025 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 216
    Dirichlet Branes and Ramond-Ramond charges
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.75:4724-4727,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9510017]
    [1553 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 212
    Supersymmetry, Supergravity and Particle Physics
    By Hans Peter Nilles (Geneva U. & CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.110:1,1984
    [3088 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 190
    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]
  10. 189
    Monopoles, duality and chiral symmetry breaking in N=2 supersymmetric QCD
    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B431:484-550,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9408099]
    [1340 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 188
    High-energy physics event generation with PYTHIA 5.7 and JETSET 7.4
    By Torbjorn Sjostrand (CERN).
    Published in:Comput.Phys.Commun.82:74-90,1994
    [2427 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 179
    Unity of superstring dualities
    By C.M. Hull (Queen Mary, U. of London), P.K. Townsend (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B438:109-137,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9410167]
    [970 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 168
    Notes on D-branes
    By Joseph Polchinski, Shyamoli Chaudhuri, Clifford V. Johnson (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9602052]
    [467 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 153
    Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
    By Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B379:99-104,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9601029]
    [1100 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 152
    The Pomeranchuk Singularity in Quantum Chromodynamics
    By I.I. Balitsky, L.N. Lipatov (St. Petersburg, INP).
    Published in:Sov.J.Nucl.Phys.28:822-829,1978, Yad.Fiz.28:1597-1611,1978
    [1716 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 151
    Evidence for F theory
    By Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B469:403-418,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9602022]
    [643 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 150
    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]
  18. 146
    The Pomeranchuk Singularity in Nonabelian Gauge Theories
    By E.A. Kuraev, L.N. Lipatov, Victor S. Fadin (Novosibirsk, IYF).
    Published in:Sov.Phys.JETP 45:199-204,1977, Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz.72:377-389,1977
    [1671 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 145
    Dynamical parton distributions of the proton and small x physics
    By M. Gluck, E. Reya (Dortmund U.), A. Vogt (DESY).
    Published in:Z.Phys.C67:433-448,1995
    [1157 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 144
    Global QCD analysis and the CTEQ parton distributions
    By H.L. Lai (Michigan State U.), J. Botts (Michigan State U. & DESY, Zeuthen), J. Huston (Michigan State U.), J.G. Morfin (Fermilab), J.F. Owens (Florida State U.), Jian-wei Qiu (Iowa State U.), W.K. Tung, H. Weerts (Michigan State U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D51:4763-4782,1995 [arXiv: hep-ph/9410404]
    [698 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 141
    Particle Creation by Black Holes
    By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Commun.Math.Phys.43:199-220,1975, Erratum-ibid.46:206-206,1976
    [2614 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 141
    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]
  23. 140
    Deep inelastic e p scattering in perturbation theory
    By V.N. Gribov, L.N. Lipatov (St. Petersburg, INP).
    Published in:Sov.J.Nucl.Phys.15:438-450,1972, Yad.Fiz.15:781-807,1972
    [1709 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 137
    A Model of Leptons
    By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
    [6221 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 136
    Chiral Perturbation Theory: Expansions in the Mass of the Strange Quark
    By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B250:465,1985
    [2152 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 135
    Parton distributions of the proton
    By Alan D. Martin, W.James Stirling (Durham U.), R.G. Roberts (Rutherford).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:6734-6752,1994 [arXiv: hep-ph/9406315]
    [455 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 133
    Heterotic and type I string dynamics from eleven-dimensions
    By Petr Horava (Princeton U.), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B460:506-524,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9510209]
    [1619 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 130
    HERWIG: A Monte Carlo event generator for simulating hadron emission reactions with interfering gluons. Version 5.1 - April 1991
    By G. Marchesini (Parma U. & INFN, Parma), B.R. Webber (Cambridge U.), G. Abbiendi (Padua U. & INFN, Padua), I.G. Knowles (Glasgow U.), M.H. Seymour (Cambridge U.), L. Stanco (Padua U. & INFN, Padua).
    Published in:Comput.Phys.Commun.67:465-508,1992
    [1465 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 130
    The Lund Monte Carlo for Jet Fragmentation and e+ e- Physics. Jetset Version 6.3: An Update
    By Torbjorn Sjostrand, Mats Bengtsson (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.).
    Published in:Comput.Phys.Commun.43:367,1987
    [1589 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 126
    Phenomenological Lagrangians
    By Steven Weinberg (Harvard U. & Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Physica A96:327,1979
    [1684 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 122
    Chiral Perturbation Theory to One Loop
    By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).
    Published in:Annals Phys.158:142,1984
    [2098 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 119
    Neutrino Oscillations in Matter
    By L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D17:2369,1978
    [2807 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 119
    Weak Decays of Heavy Mesons in the Static Quark Approximation
    By Nathan Isgur (Toronto U.), Mark B. Wise (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B232:113,1989
    [1526 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 119
    Heavy quark symmetry
    By Matthias Neubert (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.245:259-396,1994 [arXiv: hep-ph/9306320]
    [809 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 116
    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]
  36. 114
    Bound states of strings and p-branes
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B460:335-350,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9510135]
    [973 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 113
    New Connections Between String Theories
    By Jin Dai, R.G. Leigh, Joseph Polchinski (Texas U.).
    Published in:Mod.Phys.Lett.A4:2073-2083,1989
    [606 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 111
    Infinite Conformal Symmetry in Two-Dimensional Quantum Field Theory
    By A.A. Belavin, Alexander M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.), A.B. Zamolodchikov (CERN & Landau Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B241:333-380,1984
    [2262 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 109
    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
    [2763 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 109
    WEAK TRANSITION FORM-FACTORS BETWEEN HEAVY MESONS
    By Nathan Isgur (Toronto U.), Mark B. Wise (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B237:527,1990
    [1409 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 107
    First measurement of the rate for the inclusive radiative penguin decay b ---> s gamma
    By CLEO Collaboration (M.S. Alam et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.74:2885-2889,1995
    [738 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 106
    Partial Symmetries of Weak Interactions
    By S.L. Glashow (Copenhagen U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.22:579-588,1961
    [3298 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 105
    Calculation of the Structure Functions for Deep Inelastic Scattering and e+ e- Annihilation by Perturbation Theory in Quantum Chromodynamics. (In Russian)
    By Yuri L. Dokshitzer (St. Petersburg, INP).
    Published in:Sov.Phys.JETP 46:641-653,1977, Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz.73:1216-1240,1977
    [1376 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 105
    Pinning down the glue in the proton
    By Alan D. Martin, W.James Stirling (Durham U.), R.G. Roberts (Rutherford).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B354:155-162,1995 [arXiv: hep-ph/9502336]
    [436 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 103
    The Renormalization group and the epsilon expansion
    By K.G. Wilson (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Cornell U., LNS), John B. Kogut (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.12:75-200,1974
    [1600 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 103
    Evidence for top quark production in anti-p p collisions at s**(1/2) = 1.8-TeV
    By CDF Collaboration (F. Abe et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:2966-3026,1994
    [693 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 101
    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
    [1291 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 100
    The Lund Monte Carlo for Jet Fragmentation and e+ e- Physics: Jetset Version 6.2
    By Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.).
    Published in:Comput.Phys.Commun.39:347-407,1986
    [1318 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 98
    D-brane approach to black hole quantum mechanics
    By Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Juan M. Maldacena (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B472:591-610,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9602043]
    [441 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 98
    Measurement of the spin dependent structure function g1(x) of the proton
    By Spin Muon Collaboration (SMC) (D. Adams et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B329:399-406,1994 [arXiv: hep-ph/9404270]
    [486 Total citations in HEP]
  51. 98
    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]