Top Cited Articles during 2008 in hep-th

Top Cited Articles during 2008 in hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2008 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 9-Jan-2009. 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. 731
    The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
    By Juan Martin 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)
    [5815 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 480
    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)
    [3902 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 425
    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)
    [3435 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 282
    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)
    [3607 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 269
    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)
    [706 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 218
    Large N field theories, string theory and gravity
    By Ofer Aharony (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Steven S. Gubser (Harvard U.), Juan Martin 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)
    [2012 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 194
    Gauge symmetry and supersymmetry of multiple M2-branes
    By Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins U.), Neil Lambert (King's Coll. London, Dept. Math).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D77:065008,2008 (arXiv:0711.0955 [hep-th])
    [196 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 190
    Cosmological constant: The Weight of the vacuum
    By T. Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.380:235-320,2003 (arXiv: hep-th/0212290)
    [890 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 186
    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)
    [1169 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 177
    Algebraic structures on parallel M2-branes
    By Andreas Gustavsson (Goteborg, ITP).
    HEP Record (arXiv:0709.1260 [hep-th])
    [180 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 174
    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)
    [1207 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 174
    N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals
    By Ofer Aharony (Weizmann Inst.), Oren Bergman (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Technion), Daniel Louis Jafferis (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Juan Maldacena (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 0810:091,2008 (arXiv:0806.1218 [hep-th])
    [178 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 172
    Modeling Multiple M2's
    By Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins U.), Neil Lambert (King's Coll. London, Dept. Math).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D75:045020,2007 (arXiv: hep-th/0611108)
    [183 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 169
    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)
    [400 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 167
    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)
    [910 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 166
    Comments on multiple M2-branes
    By Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins U.), Neil Lambert (King's Coll. London, Dept. Math).
    Published in:JHEP 0802:105,2008 (arXiv:0712.3738 [hep-th])
    [168 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 145
    String theory and noncommutative geometry
    By Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 9909:032,1999 (arXiv: hep-th/9908142)
    [2452 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 128
    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)
    [370 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 123
    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)
    [913 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 113
    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)
    [573 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 112
    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)
    [836 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 110
    Transcendentality and Crossing
    By Niklas Beisert (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.), Burkhard Eden (Utrecht U.), Matthias Staudacher (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:J.Stat.Mech.0701:P021,2007 (arXiv: hep-th/0610251)
    [212 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 108
    Low energy hadron physics in holographic QCD
    By Tadakatsu Sakai (Ibaraki U., Mito, Dept. Math. Sci.), Shigeki Sugimoto (Kyoto U., Yukawa Inst., Kyoto).
    Published in:Prog.Theor.Phys.113:843-882,2005 (arXiv: hep-th/0412141)
    [307 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 107
    Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories and AdS(4)/CFT(3) Correspondence
    By Marcus Benna (Princeton U.), Igor Klebanov, Thomas Klose (Princeton U. & Princeton U., CTP), Mikael Smedback (Princeton U. & Uppsala U., Inst. Theor. Phys.).
    Published in:JHEP 0809:072,2008 (arXiv:0806.1519 [hep-th])
    [109 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 103
    M2-branes on M-folds
    By Jacques Distler (Texas U.), Sunil Mukhi, Constantinos Papageorgakis (Tata Inst.), Mark Van Raamsdonk (British Columbia U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0805:038,2008 (arXiv:0804.1256 [hep-th])
    [103 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 102
    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).
    Published in:eConf C0602061:06,2006, Int.J.Geom.Meth.Mod.Phys.4:115-146,2007 (arXiv: hep-th/0601213)
    [291 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 99
    Comments on the Bagger-Lambert theory and multiple M2-branes
    By Mark Van Raamsdonk (British Columbia U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0805:105,2008 (arXiv:0803.3803 [hep-th])
    [99 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 97
    Superconformal Chern-Simons theories
    By John H. Schwarz (Caltech).
    Published in:JHEP 0411:078,2004 (arXiv: hep-th/0411077)
    [116 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 97
    Membranes on an Orbifold
    By Neil Lambert (King's Coll. London, Dept. Math), David Tong (Cambridge U., DAMTP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.101:041602,2008 (arXiv:0804.1114 [hep-th])
    [97 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 97
    Towards inflation in string theory
    By Shamit Kachru (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC), Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Juan Martin Maldacena (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Liam P. McAllister (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Sandip P. Trivedi (Tata Inst.).
    Published in:JCAP 0310:013,2003 (arXiv: hep-th/0308055)
    [536 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 96
    Selfdual strings and loop space Nahm equations
    By Andreas Gustavsson (Goteborg, ITP).
    Published in:JHEP 0804:083,2008 (arXiv:0802.3456 [hep-th])
    [96 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 95
    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)
    [1059 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 95
    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)
    [835 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 93
    Wilson loops in large N field theories
    By Juan Martin Maldacena (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.80:4859-4862,1998 (arXiv: hep-th/9803002)
    [689 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 93
    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)
    [393 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 92
    M2 to D2 revisited
    By Pei-Ming Ho (Taiwan, Natl. Taiwan U. & NCTS, Taipei), Yosuke Imamura, Yutaka Matsuo (Tokyo U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0807:003,2008 (arXiv:0805.1202 [hep-th])
    [92 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 92
    Adding flavor to AdS / CFT
    By Andreas Karch, Emanuel Katz (Washington U., Seattle).
    Published in:JHEP 0206:043,2002 (arXiv: hep-th/0205236)
    [331 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 91
    k - inflation
    By C. Armendariz-Picon (Munich U.), T. Damour (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette & Stanford U., HEPL), Viatcheslav F. Mukhanov (Munich U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B458:209-218,1999 (arXiv: hep-th/9904075)
    [381 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 90
    Flux compactification
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway & IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette), Shamit Kachru (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC & Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.79:733-796,2007 (arXiv: hep-th/0610102)
    [218 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 86
    N = 8 Superconformal Chern-Simons Theories
    By Miguel A. Bandres, Arthur E. Lipstein, John H. Schwarz (Caltech).
    Published in:JHEP 0805:025,2008 (arXiv:0803.3242 [hep-th])
    [86 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 86
    Bagger-Lambert Theory for General Lie Algebras
    By Jaume Gomis (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.), Giuseppe Milanesi (Barcelona U., ECM & ICC, Barcelona U.), Jorge G. Russo (Barcelona U., ECM & ICC, Barcelona U. & ICREA, Barcelona).
    Published in:JHEP 0806:075,2008 (arXiv:0805.1012 [hep-th])
    [86 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 85
    M2 to D2
    By Sunil Mukhi, Constantinos Papageorgakis (Tata Inst.).
    Published in:JHEP 0805:085,2008 (arXiv:0803.3218 [hep-th])
    [86 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 85
    N=8 superconformal gauge theories and M2 branes
    By Sergio Benvenuti (Princeton U.), Diego Rodriguez-Gomez (Princeton U. & Queen Mary, U. of London), Erik Tonni (Pisa U. & INFN, Pisa), Herman Verlinde (Princeton U.).
    HEP Record (arXiv:0805.1087 [hep-th])
    [85 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 85
    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)
    [925 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 83
    M2-branes, 3-Lie Algebras and Plucker relations
    By G. Papadopoulos (King's Coll. London, Dept. Math).
    Published in:JHEP 0805:054,2008 (arXiv:0804.2662 [hep-th])
    [83 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 82
    Strings in flat space and pp waves from N=4 superYang-Mills
    By David Eliecer Berenstein, Juan Martin Maldacena, Horatiu Stefan Nastase (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 0204:013,2002 (arXiv: hep-th/0202021)
    [1106 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 81
    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)
    [1268 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 81
    DBI in the sky
    By Mohsen Alishahiha (IPM, Tehran), Eva Silverstein (SLAC & Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), David Tong (MIT, LNS & SLAC & Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D70:123505,2004 (arXiv: hep-th/0404084)
    [242 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 80
    Viscosity, Black Holes, and Quantum Field Theory
    By Dam T. Son (Washington U., Seattle), Andrei O. Starinets (Perimeter Inst. Theor. Phys.).
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Nucl.Part.Sci.57:95-118,2007 (arXiv:0704.0240 [hep-th])
    [97 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 80
    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)
    [644 Total citations in HEP]