Top Cited Articles during 2006 in hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2006 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 Thu 1-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. 548
    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]
    [4470 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 357
    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]
    [3028 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 341
    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]
    [2977 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 303
    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]
    [2674 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 238
    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]
    [753 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 221
    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]
    [1603 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 217
    String theory and noncommutative geometry
    By Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 9909:032,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9908142]
    [2122 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 179
    Dynamics of dark energy
    By Edmund J. Copeland (Nottingham U.), M. Sami (Jamia Millia Islamia), Shinji Tsujikawa (Gunma Coll. Tech.).
    Published in:Int.J.Mod.Phys.D15:1753-1936,2006 [arXiv: hep-th/0603057]
    [195 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 164
    Cosmological constant: The Weight of the vacuum
    By T. Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.380:235-320,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0212290]
    [534 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 150
    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]
    [642 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 135
    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]
    [871 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 133
    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]
    [738 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 131
    4-D gravity on a brane in 5-D Minkowski space
    By G.R. Dvali, Gregory Gabadadze, Massimo Porrati (New York U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B485:208-214,2000 [arXiv: hep-th/0005016]
    [570 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 127
    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]
    [935 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 110
    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]
    [480 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 109
    The Anthropic landscape of string theory
    By Leonard Susskind (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/0302219]
    [323 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 108
    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]
    [591 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 97
    Quantization of four form fluxes and dynamical neutralization of the cosmological constant
    By Raphael Bousso (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:JHEP 0006:006,2000 [arXiv: hep-th/0004134]
    [335 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 97
    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]
    [511 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 93
    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]
    [365 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 92
    Macroscopic strings as heavy quarks in large N gauge theory and anti-de Sitter supergravity
    By Soo-Jong Rey, Jung-Tay Yee (Seoul Natl. U.).
    Published in:Eur.Phys.J.C22:379-394,2001 [arXiv: hep-th/9803001]
    [458 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 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]
    [348 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 85
    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]
    [280 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 82
    Introduction to modified gravity and gravitational alternative for dark energy
    By Shin'ichi Nojiri (Japan, Natl. Defence Academy), Sergei D. Odintsov (ICREA, Barcelona & Barcelona, IEEC).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/0601213]
    [88 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 82
    Flux compactifications in string theory: A Comprehensive review
    By Mariana Grana (Ecole Normale Superieure & Ecole Polytechnique, CPHT).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.423:91-158,2006 [arXiv: hep-th/0509003]
    [106 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 80
    Viscosity in strongly interacting quantum field theories from black hole physics
    By P. Kovtun, D.T. Son, A.O. Starinets (Washington U., Seattle).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.94:111601,2005 [arXiv: hep-th/0405231]
    [121 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 78
    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]
    [1084 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 77
    Modified gravity with negative and positive powers of the curvature: Unification of the inflation and of the cosmic acceleration
    By Shin'ichi Nojiri (Japan, Natl. Defence Academy), Sergei D. Odintsov (Barcelona, IEEC & ICREA, Barcelona).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D68:123512,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0307288]
    [199 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 75
    Supersymmetric unification without low energy supersymmetry and signatures for fine-tuning at the LHC
    By Nima Arkani-Hamed (Harvard U., Phys. Dept.), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:JHEP 0506:073,2005 [arXiv: hep-th/0405159]
    [269 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 74
    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]
    [662 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 74
    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]
    [1602 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 72
    Properties of singularities in (phantom) dark energy universe
    By Shin'ichi Nojiri (Japan, Natl. Defence Academy), Sergei D. Odintsov (ICREA, Barcelona & Barcelona, IEEC), Shinji Tsujikawa (Gunma Coll. Tech.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D71:063004,2005 [arXiv: hep-th/0501025]
    [154 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 72
    The Shear viscosity of strongly coupled N=4 supersymmetric Yang-Mills plasma
    By G. Policastro (New York U. & Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore), D.T. Son (Columbia U. & RIKEN BNL), A.O. Starinets (New York U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.87:081601,2001 [arXiv: hep-th/0104066]
    [140 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 72
    Bubbling AdS space and 1/2 BPS geometries
    By Hai Lin (Princeton U.), Oleg Lunin, Juan M. Maldacena (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 0410:025,2004 [arXiv: hep-th/0409174]
    [162 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 72
    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]
    [861 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 69
    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]
    [1612 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 69
    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]
    [1163 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 69
    Black hole attractors and the topological string
    By Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech), Andrew Strominger, Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D70:106007,2004 [arXiv: hep-th/0405146]
    [162 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 67
    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]
    [1833 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 67
    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]
    [395 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 66
    The Statistics of string / M theory vacua
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway & IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette).
    Published in:JHEP 0305:046,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0303194]
    [230 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 66
    Late-time cosmology in (phantom) scalar-tensor theory: Dark energy and the cosmic speed-up
    By Emilio Elizalde (CSIC, Catalunya & Barcelona, IEEC), Shin'ichi Nojiri (Japan, Natl. Defence Academy), Sergei D. Odintsov (ICREA, Barcelona & Barcelona, IEEC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D70:043539,2004 [arXiv: hep-th/0405034]
    [175 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 66
    Hidden symmetries of the AdS(5) x S**5 superstring
    By Iosif Bena (UCLA), Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP), Radu Roiban (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D69:046002,2004 [arXiv: hep-th/0305116]
    [222 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 65
    Adding flavor to AdS / CFT
    By Andreas Karch, Emanuel Katz (Washington U., Seattle).
    Published in:JHEP 0206:043,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0205236]
    [153 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 65
    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]
    [1546 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 65
    A Stress tensor for Anti-de Sitter gravity
    By Vijay Balasubramanian (Harvard U. & UC, Santa Barbara), Per Kraus (Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in:Commun.Math.Phys.208:413-428,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9902121]
    [341 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 64
    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]
    [894 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 64
    On a Lorentz-invariant interpretation of noncommutative space-time and its implications on noncommutative QFT
    By M. Chaichian (Helsinki U. & Helsinki Inst. of Phys.), P.P. Kulish (Steklov Math. Inst., St. Petersburg), K. Nishijima (Helsinki U. & Helsinki Inst. of Phys. & Nishina Memorial Found., Tokyo), A. Tureanu (Helsinki U. & Helsinki Inst. of Phys.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B604:98-102,2004 [arXiv: hep-th/0408069]
    [111 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 63
    Bethe ansatz for quantum strings
    By Gleb Arutyunov (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst. & Steklov Math. Inst., Moscow), Sergey Frolov (SUNY, Utica/Rome & Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.), Matthias Staudacher (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:JHEP 0410:016,2004 [arXiv: hep-th/0406256]
    [146 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 62
    N=2 extremal black holes
    By Sergio Ferrara (CERN), Renata Kallosh (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D52:5412-5416,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9508072]
    [314 Total citations in HEP]