Top Cited Articles during 1998 in hep-th

Top Cited Articles during 1998 in hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers during 1998 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 Tue 6-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. 489
    The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
    By Juan M. Maldacena (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:231-252,1998, Int.J.Theor.Phys.38:1113-1133,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9711200]
    [4513 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 375
    Anti-de Sitter space and holography
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:253-291,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9802150]
    [3058 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 339
    Gauge theory correlators from noncritical string theory
    By S.S. Gubser, Igor R. Klebanov, Alexander M. Polyakov (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B428:105-114,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9802109]
    [2695 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 238
    M theory as a matrix model: A Conjecture
    By Tom Banks (Rutgers U., Piscataway), W. Fischler (Texas U.), S.H. Shenker (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Leonard Susskind (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D55:5112-5128,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9610043]
    [1622 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 200
    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]
  6. 167
    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]
  7. 165
    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]
  8. 163
    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]
  9. 160
    Tasi lectures on D-branes
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9611050]
    [948 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 157
    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]
  11. 137
    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]
    [1613 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 136
    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]
  13. 133
    Anti-de Sitter space, thermal phase transition, and confinement in gauge theories
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:505-532,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9803131]
    [880 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 130
    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]
    [1093 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 122
    Solutions of four-dimensional field theories via M theory
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B500:3-42,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9703166]
    [513 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 119
    Strong coupling expansion of Calabi-Yau compactification
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B471:135-158,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9602070]
    [896 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 111
    4-D conformal theories and strings on orbifolds
    By Shamit Kachru (UC, Berkeley & LBL, Berkeley & Santa Barbara, KITP), Eva Silverstein (SLAC & Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.80:4855-4858,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9802183]
    [415 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 107
    Eleven-dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary
    By Petr Horava (Princeton U.), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B475:94-114,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9603142]
    [1172 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 102
    Type IIB superstrings, BPS monopoles, and three-dimensional gauge dynamics
    By Amihay Hanany, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B492:152-190,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9611230]
    [559 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 101
    Wilson loops in large N field theories
    By Juan M. Maldacena (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.80:4859-4862,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9803002]
    [513 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 100
    Microscopic derivation of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy formula for nonextremal black holes
    By Konstadinos Sfetsos (CERN), Kostas Skenderis (Leuven U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B517:179-204,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9711138]
    [155 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 98
    Why is the matrix model correct?
    By Nathan Seiberg (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.79:3577-3580,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9710009]
    [309 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 98
    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]
  24. 97
    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]
  25. 91
    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]
  26. 91
    Black hole entropy from near horizon microstates
    By Andrew Strominger (Harvard U.).
    Published in:JHEP 9802:009,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9712251]
    [331 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 90
    Another conjecture about M(atrix) theory
    By Leonard Susskind (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9704080]
    [335 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 89
    Supergravity and the large N limit of theories with sixteen supercharges
    By Nissan Itzhaki (Tel Aviv U.), Juan M. Maldacena (Harvard U.), Jacob Sonnenschein, Shimon Yankielowicz (Tel Aviv U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D58:046004,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9802042]
    [440 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 88
    Macroscopic strings as heavy quarks in large N gauge theory and anti-de Sitter supergravity
    By Soo-Jong Rey, Jung-Tay Yee (Seoul Natl. U.).
    Published in:Eur.Phys.J.C22:379-394,2001 [arXiv: hep-th/9803001]
    [460 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 86
    Lectures on superstring and M theory dualities: Given at ICTP Spring School and at TASI Summer School
    By John H. Schwarz (Caltech).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.55B:1-32,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9607201]
    [443 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 85
    On conformal field theories in four-dimensions
    By Albion E. Lawrence (Harvard U.), Nikita Nekrasov (Moscow, ITEP & Harvard U.), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B533:199-209,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9803015]
    [295 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 83
    Absorption by branes and Schwinger terms in the world volume theory
    By Steven S. Gubser, Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B413:41-48,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9708005]
    [187 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 80
    World volume approach to absorption by nondilatonic branes
    By Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B496:231-242,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9702076]
    [201 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 80
    D0-branes on T**n and matrix theory
    By Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst.).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:51-59,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9709220]
    [252 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 79
    D-branes and short distances in string theory
    By Michael R. Douglas, Daniel Kabat, Philippe Pouliot, Stephen H. Shenker (Rutgers U., Piscataway).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B485:85-127,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9608024]
    [450 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 74
    The World as a hologram
    By Leonard Susskind (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:J.Math.Phys.36:6377-6396,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9409089]
    [871 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 74
    On N=8 supergravity on AdS(5) and N=4 superconformal Yang-Mills theory
    By Sergio Ferrara (CERN), Christian Fronsdal (UCLA), Alberto Zaffaroni (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B532:153-162,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9802203]
    [138 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 73
    AdS(3) black holes and a stringy exclusion principle
    By Juan M. Maldacena, Andrew Strominger (Harvard U.).
    Published in:JHEP 9812:005,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9804085]
    [318 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 72
    Matrix string theory
    By Robbert Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam U.), Erik P. Verlinde (CERN & Utrecht U.), Herman L. Verlinde (Amsterdam U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B500:43-61,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9703030]
    [416 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 70
    Conformal theory of M2, D3, M5 and D1-branes + D5-branes
    By Piet Claus (Leuven U.), Renata Kallosh, Jason Kumar (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Paul K. Townsend (Cambridge U.), Antoine Van Proeyen (Leuven U.).
    Published in:JHEP 9806:004,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9801206]
    [111 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 70
    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]
  42. 69
    D-branes, quivers, and ALE instantons
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Gregory W. Moore (Yale U.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9603167]
    [703 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 68
    String theory and classical absorption by three-branes
    By Steven S. Gubser, Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton U.), Arkady A. Tseytlin (Imperial Coll., London & Lebedev Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B499:217-240,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9703040]
    [176 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 68
    Noncommutative geometry and matrix theory: Compactification on tori
    By Alain Connes (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette), Michael R. Douglas (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette & Rutgers U., Piscataway), Albert S. Schwarz (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette & Rutgers U., Piscataway & UC, Davis).
    Published in:JHEP 9802:003,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9711162]
    [1133 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 68
    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]
  46. 67
    Review of matrix theory
    By D. Bigatti, Leonard Susskind (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9712072]
    [152 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 67
    Spectrum of large N gauge theory from supergravity
    By Gary T. Horowitz (UC, Santa Barbara), Hirosi Ooguri (UC, Berkeley & LBL, Berkeley & Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.80:4116-4118,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9802116]
    [90 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 65
    Matrix theory
    By Tom Banks (Rutgers U., Piscataway).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.67:180-224,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9710231]
    [144 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 64
    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]
  50. 63
    Correlation functions in the CFT(d) / AdS(d+1) correspondence
    By Daniel Z. Freedman (MIT, LNS & MIT), Samir D. Mathur, Alec Matusis, Leonardo Rastelli (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B546:96-118,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9804058]
    [311 Total citations in HEP]