Top Cited Articles of All Time (1996 edition) in hep-th

Top Cited Articles of All Time (1996 edition) in hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (1996 edition) in the hep-th 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 Wed 7-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. 488
    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]
    [1840 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 423
    Evanescent black holes
    By Curtis G. Callan, Jr. (Princeton U.), Steven B. Giddings (UC, Santa Barbara), Jeffrey A. Harvey (Chicago U., EFI), Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D45:1005-1009,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9111056]
    [718 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 399
    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]
    [1460 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 380
    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]
    [1337 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 332
    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]
    [969 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 306
    One Loop Threshold Effects in String Unification
    By Vadim S. Kaplunovsky (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B307:145,1988, Erratum-ibid.B382:436,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9205068]
    [503 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 273
    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]
    [1549 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 206
    Duality anomaly cancellation, minimal string unification and the effective low-energy Lagrangian of 4-D strings
    By Luis E. Ibanez, Dieter Lust (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B382:305-364,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9202046]
    [350 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 198
    Target space duality in string theory
    By Amit Giveon (Hebrew U.), Massimo Porrati (New York U.), Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.244:77-202,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9401139]
    [571 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 190
    Strong - weak coupling duality in four-dimensional string theory
    By Ashoke Sen (Tata Inst.).
    Published in:Int.J.Mod.Phys.A9:3707-3750,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9402002]
    [344 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 190
    Massless black holes and conifolds in string theory
    By Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B451:96-108,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9504090]
    [432 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 170
    Exact results for N=2 compactifications of heterotic strings
    By Shamit Kachru, Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B450:69-89,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9505105]
    [368 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 168
    Model independent analysis of soft terms in effective supergravity and in string theory
    By Vadim S. Kaplunovsky (Texas U.), Jan Louis (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B306:269-275,1993 [arXiv: hep-th/9303040]
    [429 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 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]
  15. 165
    The Black hole in three-dimensional space-time
    By Maximo Banados (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago), Claudio Teitelboim (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jorge Zanelli (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.69:1849-1851,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9204099]
    [904 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 163
    Ground ring of two-dimensional string theory
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B373:187-213,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9108004]
    [248 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 160
    Electric - magnetic duality in supersymmetric nonAbelian gauge theories
    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B435:129-146,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9411149]
    [673 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 154
    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]
  19. 154
    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]
    [1094 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 151
    String solitons
    By M.J. Duff (Newton Inst. Math. Sci., Cambridge & Texas A-M), Ramzi R. Khuri (McGill U. & CERN), J.X. Lu (Texas A-M).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.259:213-326,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9412184]
    [535 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 151
    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]
    [1614 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 145
    Duality, quotients, and currents
    By Martin Rocek, Erik P. Verlinde (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B373:630-646,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9110053]
    [273 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 143
    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]
    [969 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 136
    Supersymmetry as a cosmic censor
    By Renata Kallosh, Andrei D. Linde, Tomas Ortin, Amanda W. Peet, Antoine Van Proeyen (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D46:5278-5302,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9205027]
    [240 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 133
    Simple singularities and N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory
    By A. Klemm, W. Lerche, S. Yankielowicz (CERN), S. Theisen (Munich U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B344:169-175,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9411048]
    [372 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 130
    The Endpoint of Hawking radiation
    By Jorge G. Russo, Leonard Susskind, Larus Thorlacius (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D46:3444-3449,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9206070]
    [207 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 127
    Black hole entropy in canonical quantum gravity and superstring theory
    By Leonard Susskind, John Uglum (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:2700-2711,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9401070]
    [323 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 127
    Duality symmetries of 4-D heterotic strings
    By John H. Schwarz (Santa Barbara, KITP & Caltech), Ashoke Sen (Santa Barbara, KITP & Tata Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B312:105-114,1993 [arXiv: hep-th/9305185]
    [193 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 126
    A Strong coupling test of S duality
    By Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B431:3-77,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9408074]
    [406 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 125
    W symmetry in conformal field theory
    By Peter Bouwknegt (CERN), Kareljan Schoutens (SUNY, Stony Brook).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.223:183-276,1993 [arXiv: hep-th/9210010]
    [196 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 123
    Interaction of discrete states in two-dimensional string theory
    By Igor R. Klebanov, Alexander M. Polyakov (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Mod.Phys.Lett.A6:3273-3281,1991 [arXiv: hep-th/9109032]
    [161 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 121
    Exact results on the space of vacua of four-dimensional SUSY gauge theories
    By Nathan Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:6857-6863,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9402044]
    [435 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 121
    Dyon - monopole bound states, selfdual harmonic forms on the multi - monopole moduli space, and SL(2,Z) invariance in string theory
    By Ashoke Sen (Tata Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B329:217-221,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9402032]
    [287 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 120
    Elements of string cosmology
    By A.A. Tseytlin (Johns Hopkins U.), C. Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B372:443-466,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9109048]
    [293 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 119
    Duality symmetric actions
    By John H. Schwarz (Santa Barbara, KITP & Caltech), Ashoke Sen (Santa Barbara, KITP & Tata Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B411:35-63,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9304154]
    [272 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 119
    Phases of N=2 theories in two-dimensions
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B403:159-222,1993 [arXiv: hep-th/9301042]
    [553 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 118
    Are horned particles the climax of Hawking evaporation?
    By Tom Banks, A. Dabholkar, Michael R. Douglas, M. O'Loughlin (Rutgers U., Piscataway).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D45:3607-3616,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9201061]
    [170 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 117
    Second quantized mirror symmetry
    By Sergio Ferrara (CERN & UCLA), Jeffrey A. Harvey (Chicago U., EFI), Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B361:59-65,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9505162]
    [234 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 116
    Some comments on string dynamics
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9507121]
    [359 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 113
    Gauge coupling running in minimal SU(3) x SU(2) x U(1) superstring unification
    By Luis E. Ibanez, Dieter Lust (CERN), Graham G. Ross (Oxford U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B272:251-260,1991 [arXiv: hep-th/9109053]
    [150 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 113
    Noncompact symmetries in string theory
    By Jnanadeva Maharana, John H. Schwarz (Caltech).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B390:3-32,1993 [arXiv: hep-th/9207016]
    [304 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 112
    The eleven-dimensional supermembrane revisited
    By P.K. Townsend (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B350:184-187,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9501068]
    [475 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 112
    The vacuum structure and spectrum of N=2 supersymmetric SU(n) gauge theory
    By Philip C. Argyres, Alon E. Faraggi (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.74:3931-3934,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9411057]
    [321 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 112
    Evidence for heterotic - type I string duality
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B460:525-540,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9510169]
    [496 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 111
    Black hole condensation and the unification of string vacua
    By Brian R. Greene (Cornell U., LNS), David R. Morrison (Cornell U., Math. Dept.), Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B451:109-120,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9504145]
    [260 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 110
    The heterotic string is a soliton
    By Jeffrey A. Harvey (Chicago U., EFI), Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B449:535-552,1995, Erratum-ibid.B458:456-473,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9504047]
    [187 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 108
    Two-dimensional QCD is a string theory
    By David J. Gross (Princeton U. & LBL, Berkeley), Washington Taylor, IV (UC, Berkeley & LBL, Berkeley).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B400:181-210,1993 [arXiv: hep-th/9301068]
    [223 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 103
    K3 Fibrations and heterotic type II string duality
    By A. Klemm, W. Lerche, P. Mayr (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B357:313-322,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9506112]
    [208 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 102
    Algebraic structures and differential geometry in 2-D string theory
    By Edward Witten, Barton Zwiebach (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B377:55-112,1992 [arXiv: hep-th/9201056]
    [159 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 102
    An SL(2,Z) multiplet of type IIB superstrings
    By John H. Schwarz (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B360:13-18,1995, Erratum-ibid.B364:252,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9508143]
    [435 Total citations in HEP]