Top Cited Articles during 2000 by hep-th

Top Cited Articles during 2000 by hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2000 cited by papers 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 Mon 19-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. 484
    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]
  2. 388
    String theory and noncommutative geometry
    By Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 9909:032,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9908142]
    [2146 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 350
    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]
    [3009 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 339
    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]
  5. 317
    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]
  6. 281
    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]
    [3241 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 262
    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]
  8. 187
    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]
    [1627 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 181
    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]
    [3076 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 161
    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]
  11. 150
    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]
  12. 147
    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]
    [2331 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 144
    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]
  14. 136
    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]
  15. 127
    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]
    [1618 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 114
    D-branes and K theory
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 9812:019,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9810188]
    [516 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 112
    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]
    [1843 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 104
    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]
  19. 91
    Do We Live Inside a Domain Wall?
    By V.A. Rubakov, M.E. Shaposhnikov (Moscow, INR).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B125:136-138,1983
    [646 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 88
    Dielectric branes
    By Robert C. Myers (Santa Barbara, KITP & McGill U.).
    Published in:JHEP 9912:022,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9910053]
    [594 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 85
    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]
    [971 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 85
    Tasi lectures on D-branes
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9611050]
    [948 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 84
    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]
  24. 77
    Noncommutative Geometry and String Field Theory
    By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B268:253,1986
    [1199 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 76
    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]
  26. 75
    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]
    [1456 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 73
    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]
    [1339 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 72
    D-branes, quivers, and ALE instantons
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Gregory W. Moore (Yale U.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9603167]
    [706 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 71
    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]
  30. 71
    Nonconventional cosmology from a brane universe
    By Pierre Binetruy, Cedric Deffayet (Orsay), David Langlois (Meudon Observ.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B565:269-287,2000 [arXiv: hep-th/9905012]
    [648 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 65
    A Large N reduced model as superstring
    By N. Ishibashi, H. Kawai (KEK, Tsukuba), Y. Kitazawa (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), A. Tsuchiya (KEK, Tsukuba).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B498:467-491,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9612115]
    [517 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 62
    The Einstein equation on the 3-brane world
    By Tetsuya Shiromizu (Cambridge U., DAMTP & Tokyo U. & Tokyo U., RESCEU), Kei-ichi Maeda (Newton Inst. Math. Sci., Cambridge & Waseda U.), Misao Sasaki (Newton Inst. Math. Sci., Cambridge & Tokyo U. & Osaka U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D62:024012,2000 [arXiv: gr-qc/9910076]
    [693 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 61
    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]
  34. 60
    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]
  35. 59
    Brane cosmological evolution in a bulk with cosmological constant
    By Pierre Binetruy, Cedric Deffayet, Ulrich Ellwanger (Orsay, LPT), David Langlois (Meudon Observ.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B477:285-291,2000 [arXiv: hep-th/9910219]
    [621 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 58
    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]
    [564 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 55
    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]
  38. 53
    Supergravity Theory in Eleven-Dimensions
    By E. Cremmer, B. Julia, Joel Scherk (Ecole Normale Superieure).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B76:409-412,1978
    [981 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 53
    Boundary Conditions, Fusion Rules and the Verlinde Formula
    By John L. Cardy (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B324:581,1989
    [506 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 50
    Topologically Massive Gauge Theories
    By S. Deser (Brandeis U.), R. Jackiw, S. Templeton (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Annals Phys.140:372-411,1982, Erratum-ibid.185:406,1988, Annals Phys.281:409-449,2000
    [1493 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 49
    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]
    [518 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 48
    Action Integrals and Partition Functions in Quantum Gravity
    By G.W. Gibbons, S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D15:2752-2756,1977
    [1020 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 47
    Quantum Field Theory and the Jones Polynomial
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Commun.Math.Phys.121:351,1989
    [1419 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 46
    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]
  45. 46
    The Cosmological Constant Problem
    By Steven Weinberg (Texas U.).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.61:1-23,1989
    [1242 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 46
    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]
    [517 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 46
    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]
  48. 44
    Dimensional reduction in quantum gravity
    By Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht U.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: gr-qc/9310026]
    [670 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 44
    Black strings and P-branes
    By Gary T. Horowitz, Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B360:197-209,1991
    [635 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 43
    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]
    [554 Total citations in HEP]
  51. 43
    On gauge invariance and vacuum polarization
    By Julian S. Schwinger (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.82:664-679,1951
    [2345 Total citations in HEP]