Top Cited Articles of All Time (2002 edition) in gr-qc

Top Cited Articles of All Time (2002 edition) in gr-qc

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (2002 edition) in the gr-qc 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 Fri 16-Feb-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. 436
    Geometry of the (2+1) black hole
    By Maximo Banados (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago & CECS, Valdivia & Brussels U. & CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago), Marc Henneaux (CECS, Valdivia & Brussels U.), Claudio Teitelboim (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jorge Zanelli (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D48:1506-1525,1993 [arXiv: gr-qc/9302012]
    [611 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 367
    Dimensional reduction in quantum gravity
    By Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht U.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: gr-qc/9310026]
    [666 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 313
    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]
    [683 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 250
    Discreteness of area and volume in quantum gravity
    By Carlo Rovelli (Pittsburgh U.), Lee Smolin (Penn State U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B442:593-622,1995, Erratum-ibid.B456:753,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9411005]
    [402 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 230
    Metric affine gauge theory of gravity: Field equations, Noether identities, world spinors, and breaking of dilation invariance
    By Friedrich W. Hehl (Cologne U.), J.Dermott McCrea (University Coll., Dublin & Dublin Inst.), Eckehard W. Mielke (Cologne U.), Yuval Neeman (Tel Aviv U. & Texas U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.258:1-171,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9402012]
    [377 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 202
    Entropy, Area, and black hole pairs
    By S.W. Hawking, Gary T. Horowitz (Newton Inst. Math. Sci., Cambridge), Simon F. Ross (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D51:4302-4314,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9409013]
    [244 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 198
    Classical equations for quantum systems
    By Murray Gell-Mann (Caltech), James B. Hartle (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D47:3345-3382,1993 [arXiv: gr-qc/9210010]
    [245 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 184
    Dilaton production in string cosmology
    By M. Gasperini (Turin U. & INFN, Turin), G. Veneziano (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:2519-2540,1994 [arXiv: gr-qc/9403031]
    [199 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 176
    Quantization of diffeomorphism invariant theories of connections with local degrees of freedom
    By Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State U.), Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw U.), Donald Marolf (UC, Santa Barbara), Jose Mourao (Algarve U.), Thomas Thiemann (Penn State U.).
    Published in:J.Math.Phys.36:6456-6493,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9504018]
    [260 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 169
    The Gravitational Hamiltonian, action, entropy and surface terms
    By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.), Gary T. Horowitz (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.13:1487-1498,1996 [arXiv: gr-qc/9501014]
    [259 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 166
    The Statistical mechanics of the (2+1)-dimensional black hole
    By S. Carlip (UC, Davis).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D51:632-637,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9409052]
    [185 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 165
    Black hole entropy in the Noether charge
    By Robert M. Wald (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D48:3427-3431,1993 [arXiv: gr-qc/9307038]
    [299 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 162
    Quantum geometry and black hole entropy
    By A. Ashtekar (Penn State U.), J. Baez (UC, Riverside), A. Corichi (Penn State U. & Mexico U., ICN), Kirill Krasnov (Penn State U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.80:904-907,1998 [arXiv: gr-qc/9710007]
    [311 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 158
    Brane world cosmology
    By Daisuke Ida (Kyoto U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0009:014,2000 [arXiv: gr-qc/9912002]
    [247 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 152
    Some properties of Noether charge and a proposal for dynamical black hole entropy
    By Vivek Iyer, Robert M. Wald (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:846-864,1994 [arXiv: gr-qc/9403028]
    [289 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 150
    Exponential potentials and cosmological scaling solutions
    By Edmund J. Copeland, Andrew R Liddle (Sussex U.), David Wands (Portsmouth U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D57:4686-4690,1998 [arXiv: gr-qc/9711068]
    [310 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 149
    Geometrodynamics of Schwarzschild black holes
    By Karel V. Kuchar (Utah U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:3961-3981,1994 [arXiv: gr-qc/9403003]
    [201 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 147
    Gravitational waves from merging compact binaries: How accurately can one extract the binary's parameters from the inspiral wave form?
    By Curt Cutler, Eanna E. Flanagan (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:2658-2697,1994 [arXiv: gr-qc/9402014]
    [232 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 146
    Spin networks and quantum gravity
    By Carlo Rovelli (Pittsburgh U.), Lee Smolin (Penn State U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D52:5743-5759,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9505006]
    [222 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 145
    Exact Dirac quantization of all 2-D dilaton gravity theories
    By D. Louis-Martinez (Winnipeg U.), J. Gegenberg (New Brunswick U.), G. Kunstatter (Winnipeg U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B321:193-198,1994 [arXiv: gr-qc/9309018]
    [165 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 144
    Quantum theory of geometry. 1: Area operators
    By Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State U.), Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw U. & Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.14:A55-A82,1997 [arXiv: gr-qc/9602046]
    [237 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 144
    A New class of unstable modes of rotating relativistic stars
    By Nils Andersson (Washington U., St. Louis).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.502:708-713,1998 [arXiv: gr-qc/9706075]
    [213 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 140
    Black hole evaporation without information loss
    By Christopher R. Stephens, Gerard 't Hooft, Bernard F. Whiting (Utrecht U.).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.11:621-648,1994 [arXiv: gr-qc/9310006]
    [193 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 140
    From the Big Bang theory to the theory of a stationary universe
    By Andrei D. Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Dmitri A. Linde (Gunn High School, Palo Alto), Arthur Mezhlumian (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:1783-1826,1994 [arXiv: gr-qc/9306035]
    [224 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 137
    A More accurate analytic calculation of the spectrum of cosmological perturbations produced during inflation
    By Ewan D. Stewart (Kyoto U.), David H. Lyth (Lancaster U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B302:171-175,1993 [arXiv: gr-qc/9302019]
    [242 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 124
    General relativity as an effective field theory: The leading quantum corrections
    By John F. Donoghue (Massachusetts U., Amherst).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:3874-3888,1994 [arXiv: gr-qc/9405057]
    [213 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 122
    Temperature, energy and heat capacity of asymptotically anti-de Sitter black holes
    By J.David Brown (North Carolina State U.), J. Creighton, R.B. Mann (Waterloo U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D50:6394-6403,1994 [arXiv: gr-qc/9405007]
    [171 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 119
    Quantum spin dynamics (QSD)
    By T. Thiemann (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.15:839-873,1998 [arXiv: gr-qc/9606089]
    [231 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 118
    Quantum gravity and minimum length
    By Luis J. Garay (Imperial Coll., London).
    Published in:Int.J.Mod.Phys.A10:145-166,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9403008]
    [251 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 116
    Loop quantum gravity
    By Carlo Rovelli (Pittsburgh U.).
    Published in:Living Rev.Rel.1:1,1998 [arXiv: gr-qc/9710008]
    [282 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 115
    Gravitational radiation damping of compact binary systems to second postNewtonian order
    By Luc Blanchet (Meudon Observ.), Thibault Damour (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette & Meudon Observ.), Bala R. Iyer (Raman Research Inst., Bangalore), Clifford M. Will (Washington U., St. Louis), Alan.G. Wiseman (Northwestern U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.74:3515-3518,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9501027]
    [162 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 114
    Axial instability of rotating relativistic stars
    By John L. Friedman, Sharon M. Morsink (Wisconsin U., Milwaukee).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.502:714-720,1998 [arXiv: gr-qc/9706073]
    [161 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 113
    The (2+1)-Dimensional black hole
    By S. Carlip (UC, Davis).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.12:2853-2880,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9506079]
    [151 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 109
    Relativistic spin networks and quantum gravity
    By John W. Barrett (Nottingham U.), Louis Crane (Kansas State U.).
    Published in:J.Math.Phys.39:3296-3302,1998 [arXiv: gr-qc/9709028]
    [177 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 108
    Real Ashtekar variables for Lorentzian signature space times
    By J.Fernando Barbero (Penn State U. & Madrid, IMAFF).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D51:5507-5510,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9410014]
    [194 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 107
    Observing binary inspiral in gravitational radiation: One interferometer
    By Lee Samuel Finn (Northwestern U.), David F. Chernoff (Cornell U., LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D47:2198-2219,1993 [arXiv: gr-qc/9301003]
    [137 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 106
    Kaluza-Klein gravity
    By J.M. Overduin (Victoria U.), P.S. Wesson (Waterloo U. & Stanford U., HEPL).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.283:303-380,1997 [arXiv: gr-qc/9805018]
    [223 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 106
    Measuring gravitational waves from binary black hole coalescences: 1. Signal-to-noise for inspiral, merger, and ringdown
    By Eanna E. Flanagan (Cornell U., LNS), Scott A. Hughes (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D57:4535-4565,1998 [arXiv: gr-qc/9701039]
    [180 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 105
    Spin foam models
    By John C. Baez (UC, Riverside).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.15:1827-1858,1998 [arXiv: gr-qc/9709052]
    [155 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 105
    Projective techniques and functional integration for gauge theories
    By Abhay Ashtekar (Penn State U. & Newton Inst. Math. Sci., Cambridge), Jerzy Lewandowski (Warsaw U. & Schrodinger Inst., Vienna).
    Published in:J.Math.Phys.36:2170-2191,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9411046]
    [149 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 104
    Gravitational radiation instability in hot young neutron stars
    By Lee Lindblom, Benjamin J. Owen (Caltech), Sharon M. Morsink (Wisconsin U., Milwaukee).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.80:4843-4846,1998 [arXiv: gr-qc/9803053]
    [146 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 104
    Observation of critical phenomena and selfsimilarity in the gravitational collapse of radiation fluid
    By Charles R. Evans, Jason S. Coleman (North Carolina U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.72:1782-1785,1994 [arXiv: gr-qc/9402041]
    [135 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 104
    Spectroscopy of the quantum black hole
    By Jacob D. Bekenstein (Hebrew U.), Viatcheslav F. Mukhanov (Zurich, ETH).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B360:7-12,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9505012]
    [193 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 103
    Geometry eigenvalues and scalar product from recoupling theory in loop quantum gravity
    By Roberto De Pietri (Parma U. & INFN, Parma), Carlo Rovelli (Pittsburgh U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D54:2664-2690,1996 [arXiv: gr-qc/9602023]
    [125 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 103
    The Microcanonical functional integral. 1. The Gravitational field
    By J.David Brown, James W. York, Jr. (North Carolina U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D47:1420-1431,1993 [arXiv: gr-qc/9209014]
    [121 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 103
    Gravitational waves from hot young rapidly rotating neutron stars
    By Benjamin J. Owen, Lee Lindblom (Caltech), Curt Cutler, Bernard F. Schutz, Alberto Vecchio (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.), Nils Andersson (Tubingen U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D58:084020,1998 [arXiv: gr-qc/9804044]
    [129 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 103
    'Sum over surfaces' form of loop quantum gravity
    By Michael P Reisenberger (Republica U., Montevideo & Schrodinger Inst., Vienna), Carlo Rovelli (Pittsburgh U. & Penn State U. & Schrodinger Inst., Vienna & Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D56:3490-3508,1997 [arXiv: gr-qc/9612035]
    [133 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 100
    Cosmic topology
    By Marc Lachieze-Rey (DAPNIA, Saclay), Jean-Pierre Luminet (Meudon Observ.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.254:135-214,1995 [arXiv: gr-qc/9605010]
    [166 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 100
    Dynamical origin of the entropy of a black hole
    By Valeri P. Frolov (Alberta U. & Lebedev Inst.), Igor Novikov (Copenhagen Astron. Observ. & Nordita & Lebedev Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D48:4545-4551,1993 [arXiv: gr-qc/9309001]
    [116 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 92
    Noise and fluctuations in semiclassical gravity
    By Esteban Calzetta (Buenos Aires, IAFE & Buenos Aires U.), B.L. Hu (Maryland U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D49:6636-6655,1994 [arXiv: gr-qc/9312036]
    [115 Total citations in HEP]
  51. 92
    Nonstandard optics from quantum space-time
    By Rodolfo Gambini (Republica U., Montevideo), Jorge Pullin (Penn State U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D59:124021,1999 [arXiv: gr-qc/9809038]
    [245 Total citations in HEP]
  52. 92
    The Origin of black hole entropy in string theory
    By Gary T. Horowitz (UC, Santa Barbara).
    HEP Record [arXiv: gr-qc/9604051]
    [102 Total citations in HEP]