Top Cited Articles during 2004 by hep-th

Top Cited Articles during 2004 by hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2004 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 Sat 17-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. 386
    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]
    [4486 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 231
    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]
    [3037 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 210
    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]
    [3216 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 206
    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]
  5. 205
    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]
  6. 201
    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]
  7. 179
    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]
  8. 161
    De Sitter vacua in string theory
    By Shamit Kachru (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC), Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Sandip P. Trivedi (Tata Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D68:046005,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0301240]
    [764 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 161
    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]
  10. 135
    Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications
    By Steven B. Giddings (Santa Barbara, KITP & UC, Santa Barbara), Shamit Kachru (Santa Barbara, KITP & Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC), Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D66:106006,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0105097]
    [647 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 131
    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]
    [3052 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 121
    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]
  13. 120
    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]
    [2317 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 110
    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]
    [1607 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 101
    The Bethe ansatz for N=4 superYang-Mills
    By J.A. Minahan, K. Zarembo (Uppsala U., Inst. Theor. Phys.).
    Published in:JHEP 0303:013,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0212208]
    [366 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 100
    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]
  17. 100
    Supergravity and a confining gauge theory: Duality cascades and chi SB resolution of naked singularities
    By Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton U.), Matthew J. Strassler (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 0008:052,2000 [arXiv: hep-th/0007191]
    [596 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 96
    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]
  19. 94
    Perturbative gauge theory as a string theory in twistor space
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Commun.Math.Phys.252:189-258,2004 [arXiv: hep-th/0312171]
    [282 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 93
    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]
  21. 88
    Towards inflation in string theory
    By Shamit Kachru (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC), Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Juan M. Maldacena (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Liam McAllister (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Sandip P. Trivedi (Tata Inst.).
    Published in:JCAP 0310:013,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0308055]
    [353 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 86
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Determination of cosmological parameters
    By WMAP Collaboration (D.N. Spergel et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:175,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302209]
    [4034 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 82
    The Dilatation operator of conformal N=4 superYang-Mills theory
    By N. Beisert, C. Kristjansen, M. Staudacher (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B664:131-184,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0303060]
    [259 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 81
    Quantum field theory on noncommutative spaces
    By Richard J. Szabo (Heriot-Watt U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.378:207-299,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0109162]
    [481 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 80
    The N=4 SYM integrable super spin chain
    By Niklas Beisert, Matthias Staudacher (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B670:439-463,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0307042]
    [239 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 79
    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]
    [1167 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 76
    CFT's from Calabi-Yau four folds
    By Sergei Gukov (Princeton U.), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B584:69-108,2000, Erratum-ibid.B608:477-478,2001 [arXiv: hep-th/9906070]
    [397 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 76
    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]
  29. 76
    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]
  30. 76
    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]
  31. 75
    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
    [2583 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 75
    A Semiclassical limit of the gauge / string correspondence
    By S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov, Alexander M. Polyakov (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B636:99-114,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0204051]
    [344 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 75
    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]
  34. 73
    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]
  35. 71
    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]
    [3052 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 70
    A Perturbative window into nonperturbative physics
    By Robbert Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam U. & Amsterdam U., Inst. Math.), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U., Phys. Dept.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/0208048]
    [348 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 70
    A Planar Diagram Theory for Strong Interactions
    By Gerard 't Hooft (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B72:461,1974
    [2500 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 70
    Strings from tachyons: The c=1 matrix reloaded
    By John McGreevy, Herman L. Verlinde (Princeton U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0312:054,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0304224]
    [187 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 69
    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]
  40. 68
    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]
  41. 68
    Matching higher conserved charges for strings and spins
    By Gleb Arutyunov, Matthias Staudacher (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:JHEP 0403:004,2004 [arXiv: hep-th/0310182]
    [137 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 67
    The complete one loop dilatation operator of N=4 superYang-Mills theory
    By Niklas Beisert (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B676:3-42,2004 [arXiv: hep-th/0307015]
    [165 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 66
    Spinning strings and AdS / CFT duality
    By A.A. Tseytlin (Ohio State U. & Imperial Coll., London & Lebedev Inst.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/0311139]
    [163 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 65
    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]
    [1087 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 65
    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]
  46. 64
    Multispin string solutions in AdS(5) x S**5
    By S. Frolov (Ohio State U. & Steklov Math. Inst., Moscow), A.A. Tseytlin (Ohio State U. & Imperial Coll., London & Lebedev Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B668:77-110,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0304255]
    [202 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 64
    Stringing spins and spinning strings
    By N. Beisert (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.), J.A. Minahan (Uppsala U., Inst. Theor. Phys.), M. Staudacher (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.), K. Zarembo (Uppsala U., Inst. Theor. Phys. & Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in:JHEP 0309:010,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0306139]
    [165 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 64
    Precision spectroscopy of AdS / CFT
    By N. Beisert (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.), S. Frolov (Ohio State U. & Steklov Math. Inst., Moscow), M. Staudacher (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.), A.A. Tseytlin (Ohio State U. & Imperial Coll., London & Lebedev Inst.).
    Published in:JHEP 0310:037,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0308117]
    [160 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 64
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Preliminary maps and basic results
    By WMAP Collaboration (C.L. Bennett et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:1,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302207]
    [2017 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 63
    Closed strings from decaying D-branes
    By Neil Lambert, Hong Liu (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Juan M. Maldacena (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/0303139]
    [210 Total citations in HEP]
  51. 63
    Matrix models, topological strings, and supersymmetric gauge theories
    By Robbert Dijkgraaf (Amsterdam U. & Amsterdam U., Inst. Math.), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B644:3-20,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0206255]
    [325 Total citations in HEP]
  52. 63
    Spinning strings in AdS(5) x S**5 and integrable systems
    By G. Arutyunov (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.), S. Frolov (Ohio State U.), J. Russo (Imperial Coll., London & Barcelona U., ECM), A.A. Tseytlin (Ohio State U. & Imperial Coll., London & Lebedev Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B671:3-50,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0307191]
    [176 Total citations in HEP]
  53. 63
    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]
    [3168 Total citations in HEP]