Top Cited Articles during 2000

Top Cited Articles during 2000

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2000

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. 1524
    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. 526
    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]
    [4540 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 477
    An Alternative to compactification
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.83:4690-4693,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9906064]
    [3013 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 439
    The Hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter
    By Nima Arkani-Hamed (SLAC), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), G.R. Dvali (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B429:263-272,1998 [arXiv: hep-ph/9803315]
    [3079 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 439
    A Large mass hierarchy from a small extra dimension
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.83:3370-3373,1999 [arXiv: hep-ph/9905221]
    [3247 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 421
    Evidence for oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos
    By Super-Kamiokande Collaboration (Y. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.81:1562-1567,1998 [arXiv: hep-ex/9807003]
    [2815 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 411
    String theory and noncommutative geometry
    By Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 9909:032,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9908142]
    [2147 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 367
    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]
    [3074 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 333
    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]
    [2712 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 324
    New dimensions at a millimeter to a Fermi and superstrings at a TeV
    By Ignatios Antoniadis (Ecole Polytechnique), Nima Arkani-Hamed (SLAC), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), G.R. Dvali (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B436:257-263,1998 [arXiv: hep-ph/9804398]
    [2333 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 287
    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. 273
    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]
    [1135 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 272
    Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 high redshift supernovae
    By Supernova Cosmology Project (S. Perlmutter et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.517:565-586,1999 [arXiv: astro-ph/9812133]
    [3195 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 268
    Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant
    By Supernova Search Team (Adam G. Riess et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.116:1009-1038,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9805201]
    [3078 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 221
    Phenomenology, astrophysics and cosmology of theories with submillimeter dimensions and TeV scale quantum gravity
    By Nima Arkani-Hamed (SLAC), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), G.R. Dvali (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D59:086004,1999 [arXiv: hep-ph/9807344]
    [1457 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 216
    Maps of dust IR emission for use in estimation of reddening and CMBR foregrounds
    By David J. Schlegel (Durham U.), Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis (UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.500:525,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9710327]
    [2994 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 213
    Neutrino Oscillations in Matter
    By L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D17:2369,1978
    [2807 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 204
    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]
  19. 204
    Large N field theories, string theory and gravity
    By Ofer Aharony (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Steven S. Gubser (Harvard U.), Juan M. Maldacena (Harvard U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Hirosi Ooguri (UC, Berkeley & LBL, Berkeley), Yaron Oz (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.323:183-386,2000 [arXiv: hep-th/9905111]
    [1628 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 193
    A Flat universe from high resolution maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation
    By Boomerang Collaboration (P. de Bernardis et al.).
    Published in:Nature 404:955-959,2000 [arXiv: astro-ph/0004404]
    [1008 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 179
    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]
  22. 173
    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
    [2095 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 173
    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]
  24. 168
    D-branes and the noncommutative torus
    By Michael R. Douglas (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette & Rutgers U., Piscataway), Christopher M. Hull (Queen Mary, U. of London & Ecole Normale Superieure).
    Published in:JHEP 9802:008,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9711165]
    [632 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 168
    Supersymmetry, Supergravity and Particle Physics
    By Hans Peter Nilles (Geneva U. & CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.110:1,1984
    [3088 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 165
    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]
  27. 164
    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]
  28. 161
    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]
    [1623 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 157
    Measurement of a small atmospheric muon-neutrino / electron-neutrino ratio
    By Super-Kamiokande Collaboration (Y. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B433:9-18,1998 [arXiv: hep-ex/9803006]
    [768 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 146
    Initial results from the CHOOZ long baseline reactor neutrino oscillation experiment
    By CHOOZ Collaboration (M. Apollonio et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B420:397-404,1998 [arXiv: hep-ex/9711002]
    [909 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 145
    Limits on neutrino oscillations from the CHOOZ experiment
    By CHOOZ Collaboration (M. Apollonio et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B466:415-430,1999 [arXiv: hep-ex/9907037]
    [1215 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 145
    Noncommutative perturbative dynamics
    By Shiraz Minwalla, Mark Van Raamsdonk (Princeton U.), Nathan Seiberg (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 0002:020,2000 [arXiv: hep-th/9912072]
    [644 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 144
    Measurement of the solar electron neutrino flux with the Homestake chlorine detector
    By B.T. Cleveland, Timothy Daily, Raymond Davis, Jr., James R. Distel, Kenneth Lande, C.K. Lee, Paul S. Wildenhain (Pennsylvania U.), Jack Ullman (City Coll., N.Y.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.496:505-526,1998
    [1253 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 142
    Solar neutrino data covering solar cycle 22
    By Kamiokande Collaboration (Y. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.77:1683-1686,1996
    [792 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 139
    Evidence for nu(mu) ---> nu(e) neutrino oscillations from LSND
    By LSND Collaboration (C. Athanassopoulos et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.81:1774-1777,1998 [arXiv: nucl-ex/9709006]
    [709 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 139
    Study of the atmospheric neutrino flux in the multi-GeV energy range
    By Super-Kamiokande Collaboration (Y. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B436:33-41,1998 [arXiv: hep-ex/9805006]
    [702 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 138
    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]
  38. 137
    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]
  39. 137
    MAXIMA-1: A Measurement of the cosmic microwave background anisotropy on angular scales of 10 arcminutes to 5 degrees
    By S. Hanany (Minnesota U. & UC, Berkeley, CfPA), P. Ade, A. Balbi, J. Bock, J. Borrill, A. Boscaleri, P. de Bernardis, P.G. Ferreira, V.V. Hristov, Andrew H. Jaffe, A.E. Lange, A.T. Lee, P.D. Mauskopf, C.B. Netterfield, S. Oh, E. Pascale, B. Rabii, P.L. Richards, George F. Smoot, R. Stompor, C.D. Winant, J.H.P. Wu (UC, Berkeley, CfPA & Queen Mary, U. of London & Rome U.,Tor Vergata & Caltech, JPL & Caltech & LBL, Berkeley & Florence, IROE & Rome U. & Oxford U. & Lisbon, IST & Cardiff U. & Toronto U. & UC, Berkeley & Warsaw, Copernicus Astron. Ctr. & UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.545:L5,2000 [arXiv: astro-ph/0005123]
    [681 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 134
    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]
  41. 133
    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]
  42. 133
    Observation of direct CP violation in K(S,L) ---> pi pi decays
    By KTeV Collaboration (A. Alavi-Harati et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.83:22,1999 [arXiv: hep-ex/9905060]
    [512 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 132
    Where do we stand with solar neutrino oscillations?
    By John N. Bahcall (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), P.I. Krastev (Wisconsin U., Madison), A.Yu. Smirnov (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D58:096016,1998 [arXiv: hep-ph/9807216]
    [544 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 130
    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]
  45. 128
    Measurement of the flux and zenith angle distribution of upward through going muons by Super-Kamiokande
    By Super-Kamiokande Collaboration (Y. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.82:2644-2648,1999 [arXiv: hep-ex/9812014]
    [624 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 128
    Do We Live Inside a Domain Wall?
    By V.A. Rubakov, M.E. Shaposhnikov (Moscow, INR).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B125:136-138,1983
    [647 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 128
    Cosmological parameters from the first results of BOOMERANG
    By Boomerang Collaboration (A.E. Lange et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D63:042001,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0005004]
    [344 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 127
    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
    [1273 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 126
    Modulus stabilization with bulk fields
    By Walter D. Goldberger, Mark B. Wise (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.83:4922-4925,1999 [arXiv: hep-ph/9907447]
    [559 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 126
    How uncertain are solar neutrino predictions?
    By John N. Bahcall, Sarbani Basu (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), M.H. Pinsonneault (Ohio State U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B433:1-8,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9805135]
    [429 Total citations in HEP]
  51. 126
    The Cosmic triangle: Assessing the state of the universe
    By Neta A. Bahcall, Jeremiah P. Ostriker (Princeton U. Observ.), Saul Perlmutter (LBL, Berkeley), Paul J. Steinhardt (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Science 284:1481-1488,1999 [arXiv: astro-ph/9906463]
    [631 Total citations in HEP]