Top Cited Articles of All Time (2001 edition) in hep-th

Top Cited Articles of All Time (2001 edition) in hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (2001 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. 2058
    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]
    [4518 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 1483
    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]
    [3060 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 1381
    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]
  4. 1350
    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]
    [2696 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 1154
    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]
  6. 1126
    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. 1116
    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. 1092
    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]
    [3001 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 1046
    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]
  10. 981
    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]
  11. 904
    String theory and noncommutative geometry
    By Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 9909:032,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9908142]
    [2138 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 770
    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]
  13. 766
    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]
  14. 761
    Tasi lectures on D-branes
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9611050]
    [948 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 707
    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]
  16. 691
    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]
  17. 656
    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]
  18. 636
    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]
    [897 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 606
    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]
  20. 574
    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]
    [1622 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 558
    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]
  22. 519
    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]
  23. 482
    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]
  24. 435
    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]
  25. 427
    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]
  26. 426
    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]
    [881 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 424
    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]
  28. 424
    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]
  29. 421
    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]
  30. 413
    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]
  31. 405
    D-branes, quivers, and ALE instantons
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Gregory W. Moore (Yale U.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9603167]
    [704 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 402
    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]
    [560 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 400
    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]
    [514 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 394
    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]
  35. 383
    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. 379
    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]
  37. 372
    Weak scale superstrings
    By Joseph D. Lykken (Fermilab).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D54:3693-3697,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9603133]
    [550 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 372
    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]
  39. 366
    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]
  40. 356
    Branes within branes
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9512077]
    [480 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 355
    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]
  42. 351
    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]
  43. 349
    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]
    [440 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 347
    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]
  45. 344
    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]
  46. 329
    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]
  47. 325
    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]
  48. 321
    Consistency conditions for orientifolds and d manifolds
    By Eric G. Gimon (UC, Santa Barbara), Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D54:1667-1676,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9601038]
    [444 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 318
    Small instantons in string theory
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B460:541-559,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9511030]
    [407 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 315
    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]