Top Cited Articles during 2002 in hep-th

Top Cited Articles during 2002 in hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2002 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 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. 464
    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]
    [4484 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 389
    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]
    [2991 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 329
    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]
    [3036 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 293
    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]
    [2680 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 286
    String theory and noncommutative geometry
    By Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 9909:032,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9908142]
    [2129 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 264
    Strings in flat space and pp waves from N=4 superYang-Mills
    By David Berenstein, Juan M. Maldacena, Horatiu Nastase (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 0204:013,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202021]
    [937 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 243
    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]
    [1607 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 199
    Type IIB Green-Schwarz superstring in plane wave Ramond-Ramond background
    By R.R. Metsaev (Lebedev Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B625:70-96,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0112044]
    [475 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 183
    Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry
    By Matthias Blau (ICTP, Trieste), Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh U.), Christopher Hull (Queen Mary, U. of London), George Papadopoulos (King's Coll. London).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.19:L87-L95,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0201081]
    [370 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 167
    A New maximally supersymmetric background of IIB superstring theory
    By Matthias Blau (ICTP, Trieste), Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh U.), Christopher Hull (Queen Mary, U. of London), George Papadopoulos (King's Coll. London).
    Published in:JHEP 0201:047,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0110242]
    [406 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 159
    Exactly solvable model of superstring in Ramond-Ramond plane wave background
    By R.R. Metsaev (Lebedev Inst.), A.A. Tseytlin (Imperial Coll., London & Ohio State U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D65:126004,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202109]
    [387 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 149
    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]
    [1606 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 138
    Noncommutative field theory
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway & IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette), Nikita A. Nekrasov (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette & Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.73:977-1029,2001 [arXiv: hep-th/0106048]
    [741 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 135
    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]
    [1617 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 124
    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]
    [1166 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 124
    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]
    [1131 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 117
    The dS / CFT correspondence
    By Andrew Strominger (Harvard U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0110:034,2001 [arXiv: hep-th/0106113]
    [355 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 110
    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]
    [1835 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 107
    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]
    [614 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 106
    Penrose limits, supergravity and brane dynamics
    By Matthias Blau (ICTP, Trieste), Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill, George Papadopoulos (King's Coll. London).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.19:4753,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202111]
    [200 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 101
    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]
    [1548 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 99
    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]
    [644 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 99
    The Ekpyrotic universe: Colliding branes and the origin of the hot big bang
    By Justin Khoury (Princeton U.), Burt A. Ovrut (Pennsylvania U.), Paul J. Steinhardt (Princeton U.), Neil Turok (Cambridge U., DAMTP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D64:123522,2001 [arXiv: hep-th/0103239]
    [431 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 97
    Quantum gravity in de Sitter space
    By Edward Witten (Caltech & CIT-USC).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/0106109]
    [286 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 95
    Dielectric branes
    By Robert C. Myers (Santa Barbara, KITP & McGill U.).
    Published in:JHEP 9912:022,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9910053]
    [589 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 94
    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]
    [864 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 93
    Out of this world supersymmetry breaking
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B557:79-118,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9810155]
    [664 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 93
    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]
    [638 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 86
    On solvable models of type 2B superstring in NS NS and RR plane wave backgrounds
    By J.G. Russo (Buenos Aires U.), A.A. Tseytlin (Imperial Coll., London & Ohio State U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0204:021,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202179]
    [139 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 84
    D-branes, quivers, and ALE instantons
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Gregory W. Moore (Yale U.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9603167]
    [702 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 84
    Penrose limit of N = 1 gauge theories
    By Jaume Gomis, Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B635:106-126,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202157]
    [119 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 82
    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]
    [873 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 81
    On Penrose limits and gauge theories
    By Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas (Michigan U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jacob Sonnenschein (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Tel Aviv U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0205:010,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202186]
    [99 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 81
    Rolling tachyon
    By Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst. & Penn State U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0204:048,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0203211]
    [485 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 80
    From big crunch to big bang
    By Justin Khoury (Princeton U.), Burt A. Ovrut (Pennsylvania U.), Nathan Seiberg (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Paul J. Steinhardt (Princeton U.), Neil Turok (Cambridge U., DAMTP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D65:086007,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0108187]
    [274 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 79
    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]
    [1335 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 78
    PP wave limit and enhanced supersymmetry in gauge theories
    By N. Itzhaki, Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton U.), Sunil Mukhi (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Tata Inst.).
    Published in:JHEP 0203:048,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202153]
    [101 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 77
    A New double scaling limit of N=4 superYang-Mills theory and PP wave strings
    By C. Kristjansen, J. Plefka, G.W. Semenoff, M. Staudacher (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B643:3-30,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0205033]
    [183 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 76
    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]
  40. 75
    Plane wave limits and T duality
    By R. Gueven (ICTP, Trieste & Bogazici U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B482:255-263,2000 [arXiv: hep-th/0005061]
    [160 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 74
    PP wave string interactions from perturbative Yang-Mills theory
    By Neil R. Constable (MIT, LNS), Daniel Z. Freedman (MIT, LNS & MIT), Matthew Headrick, Shiraz Minwalla, Lubos Motl (Harvard U., Phys. Dept.), Alexander Postnikov (MIT), Witold Skiba (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:JHEP 0207:017,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0205089]
    [184 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 72
    Mass, entropy and holography in asymptotically de Sitter spaces
    By Vijay Balasubramanian (Pennsylvania U.), Jan de Boer (Amsterdam U.), Djordje Minic (Virginia Tech.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D65:123508,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0110108]
    [188 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 71
    Chiral four-dimensional N=1 supersymmetric type 2A orientifolds from intersecting D6 branes
    By Mirjam Cvetic (Pennsylvania U. & CERN & Maribor U.), Gary Shiu (Pennsylvania U. & CERN), Angel M. Uranga (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B615:3-32,2001 [arXiv: hep-th/0107166]
    [292 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 71
    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]
    [1086 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 70
    (De)constructing dimensions
    By Nima Arkani-Hamed, Andrew G. Cohen, Howard Georgi (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.86:4757-4761,2001 [arXiv: hep-th/0104005]
    [343 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 70
    Tachyon matter
    By Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst. & Penn State U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0207:065,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0203265]
    [382 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 69
    On light cone string field theory from superYang-Mills and holography
    By David Berenstein, Horatiu Nastase (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/0205048]
    [135 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 68
    M theory dynamics on a manifold of G(2) holonomy
    By Michael Atiyah (Edinburgh U. & Caltech), Edward Witten (Caltech & CIT-USC & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.6:1-106,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0107177]
    [184 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 66
    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]
    [896 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 66
    Penrose limits, PP waves and deformed M2 branes
    By M. Cvetic (Pennsylvania U.), Hong Lu (Michigan U.), C.N. Pope (Texas A-M).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D69:046003,2004 [arXiv: hep-th/0203082]
    [95 Total citations in HEP]