Top Cited Articles of All Time (1999 edition) in hep-th

Top Cited Articles of All Time (1999 edition) in hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (1999 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 Thu 15-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. 1145
    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]
    [1842 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 1140
    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]
    [4536 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 971
    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]
  4. 890
    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]
    [1338 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 850
    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]
    [3071 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 846
    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]
    [1552 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 821
    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]
  8. 774
    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]
    [2708 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 674
    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]
  10. 618
    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]
  11. 608
    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]
    [1617 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 582
    Tasi lectures on D-branes
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9611050]
    [948 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 566
    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]
    [720 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 548
    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]
    [1099 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 446
    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. 441
    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. 422
    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]
    [674 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 404
    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]
  19. 402
    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]
    [898 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 375
    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]
  21. 371
    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]
  22. 363
    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]
    [536 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 359
    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]
    [1173 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 331
    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]
    [497 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 320
    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]
  26. 320
    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]
  27. 314
    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]
    [515 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 312
    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]
  29. 312
    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]
  30. 309
    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. 306
    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]
    [561 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 306
    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]
  33. 306
    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]
  34. 290
    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]
  35. 281
    Pre - big bang in string cosmology
    By M. Gasperini (Turin U. & INFN, Turin), G. Veneziano (CERN).
    Published in:Astropart.Phys.1:317-339,1993 [arXiv: hep-th/9211021]
    [525 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 280
    Branes within branes
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9512077]
    [481 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 276
    D-branes from M-branes
    By P.K. Townsend (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B373:68-75,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9512062]
    [382 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 276
    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]
  39. 275
    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]
    [885 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 274
    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]
  41. 274
    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]
  42. 272
    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]
    [873 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 260
    Some comments on string dynamics
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9507121]
    [359 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 256
    Small instantons in string theory
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B460:541-559,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9511030]
    [408 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 253
    Lectures on supersymmetric gauge theories and electric - magnetic duality
    By Kenneth A. Intriligator, N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.Proc.Suppl.45BC:1-28,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9509066]
    [424 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 250
    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]
  47. 249
    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]
    [417 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 248
    Open p-branes
    By Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B383:44-47,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9512059]
    [388 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 248
    D-branes, quivers, and ALE instantons
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Gregory W. Moore (Yale U.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9603167]
    [705 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 247
    Reheating after inflation
    By Lev Kofman (Hawaii U.), Andrei D. Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Alexei A. Starobinsky (Kyoto U., Yukawa Inst., Uji & Landau Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.73:3195-3198,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9405187]
    [536 Total citations in HEP]