Top Cited Articles during 2009

Top Cited Articles during 2009

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2009

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 Mon 11-Jan-2010. 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. 2151
    Review of Particle Physics
    By Particle Data Group (C. Amsler et al.).
    Citations are counted for all versions of the RPP, most recent version is:
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B667:1,2008
    [2154 Total citations in HEP]
    [35715 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]
  2. 1039
    Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
    By WMAP Collaboration (E. Komatsu et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.180:330-376,2009 (arXiv:0803.0547 [astro-ph])
    [1771 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 696
    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)
    [6581 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 583
    Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) three year results: implications for cosmology
    By WMAP Collaboration (D.N. Spergel et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.170:377,2007 (arXiv: astro-ph/0603449)
    [3891 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 573
    Maps of dust IR emission for use in estimation of reddening and CMBR foregrounds
    By David J. Schlegel (Durham U.), Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis (UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.500:525,1998 (arXiv: astro-ph/9710327)
    [4507 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 524
    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)
    [4731 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 501
    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)
    [4600 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 456
    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)
    [4358 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 414
    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)
    [3853 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 411
    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.148:175-194,2003 (arXiv: astro-ph/0302209)
    [5582 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 398
    Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Likelihoods and Parameters from the WMAP data
    By WMAP Collaboration (J. Dunkley et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.180:306-329,2009 (arXiv:0803.0586 [astro-ph])
    [732 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 365
    Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003
    By G. Bruzual (Merida, CIDA), Stephane Charlot (Garching, Max Planck Inst. & Paris, Inst. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.344:1000,2003 (arXiv: astro-ph/0309134)
    [1594 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 365
    An anomalous positron abundance in cosmic rays with energies 1.5.100 GeV
    By PAMELA Collaboration (Oscar Adriani et al.).
    Published in:Nature 458:607-609,2009 (arXiv:0810.4995 [astro-ph])
    [438 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 362
    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)
    [4415 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 353
    A Universal density profile from hierarchical clustering
    By Julio F. Navarro (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.), Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.), Simon D.M. White (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.490:493-508,1997 (arXiv: astro-ph/9611107)
    [2476 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 328
    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
    By SDSS Collaboration (Donald G. York et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.120:1579-1587,2000 (arXiv: astro-ph/0006396)
    [2047 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 328
    The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
    By M.F. Skrutskie, R.M. Cutri, R. Stiening, M.D. Weinberg, S. Schneider, J.M. Carpenter, C. Beichman, R. Capps, T. Chester, J. Elias, J. Huchra, J. Liebert, C. Lonsdale, D.G. Monet, S. Price, P. Seitzer, T. Jarrett, J.D. Kirkpatrick, J.E. Gizis, E. Howard, T. Evans, J. Fowler, L. Fullmer, R. Hurt, R. Light, E.L. Kopan, K.A. Marsh, H.L. McCallon, R. Tam, S. Van Dyk, S. Wheelock.
    Published in:Astron.J.131:1163-1183,2006
    [975 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 317
    PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual
    By Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.), Stephen Mrenna, Peter Z. Skands (Fermilab).
    Published in:JHEP 0605:026,2006 (arXiv: hep-ph/0603175)
    [784 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 286
    The relationship between infrared, optical, and ultraviolet extinction
    By Jason A. Cardelli, Geoffrey C. Clayton, John S. Mathis (Washburn Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.345:245-256,1989
    [2278 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 270
    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)
    [3892 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 268
    The Luminosity function and stellar evolution
    By Edwin E. Salpeter (Australian Natl. U., Canberra & Cornell U., Astron. Dept.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.121:161-167,1955
    [1737 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 257
    Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Data Processing, Sky Maps, and Basic Results
    By WMAP Collaboration (G. Hinshaw et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.180:225-245,2009 (arXiv:0803.0732 [astro-ph])
    [482 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 255
    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)
    [979 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 254
    New generation of parton distributions with uncertainties from global QCD analysis
    By J. Pumplin, D.R. Stump, J. Huston, H.L. Lai, Pavel M. Nadolsky, W.K. Tung (Michigan State U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0207:012,2002 (arXiv: hep-ph/0201195)
    [1578 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 249
    An excess of cosmic ray electrons at energies of 300.800 GeV
    By J. Chang, J.H. Adams, H.S. Ahn, G.L. Bashindzhagyan, M. Christl, O. Ganel, T.G. Guzik, J. Isbert, K.C. Kim, E.N. Kuznetsov, M.I. Panasyuk, A.D. Panov, W.K.H. Schmidt, E.S. Seo, N.V. Sokolskaya, J.W. Watts, J.P. Wefel, J. Wu, V.I. Zatsepin (Purple Mountain Observ. & Lindau, Max Planck Inst. & NASA, Marshall & Maryland U. & Moscow State U. & Louisiana State U.).
    Published in:Nature 456:362-365,2008
    [285 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 247
    Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance
    By N.I. Shakura (Sternberg Astron. Inst.), R.A. Sunyaev (Moscow, IPM).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.24:337-355,1973
    [1682 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 240
    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)
    [3899 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 235
    The Structure of cold dark matter halos
    By Julio F. Navarro (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.), Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.), Simon D.M. White (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.462:563-575,1996 (arXiv: astro-ph/9508025)
    [1839 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 234
    Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies
    By SDSS Collaboration (Daniel J. Eisenstein et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.633:560-574,2005 (arXiv: astro-ph/0501171)
    [957 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 225
    A Theory of Dark Matter
    By Nima Arkani-Hamed (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Douglas P. Finkbeiner (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), Tracy R. Slatyer (Harvard U., Phys. Dept.), Neal Weiner (CCPP, New York U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D79:015014,2009 (arXiv:0810.0713 [hep-ph])
    [276 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 224
    Supersymmetric dark matter
    By Gerard Jungman (Syracuse U.), Marc Kamionkowski (Columbia U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Kim Griest (UC, San Diego).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.267:195-373,1996 (arXiv: hep-ph/9506380)
    [1359 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 223
    Type Ia supernova discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution
    By Supernova Search Team (Adam G. Riess et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.607:665-687,2004 (arXiv: astro-ph/0402512)
    [1791 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 222
    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])
    [401 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 218
    Improved Cosmological Constraints from New, Old and Combined Supernova Datasets
    By Supernova Cosmology Project (M. Kowalski et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.686:749-778,2008 (arXiv:0804.4142 [astro-ph])
    [308 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 215
    Measurement of the Cosmic Ray e+ plus e- spectrum from 20 GeV to 1 TeV with the Fermi Large Area Telescope
    By The Fermi LAT Collaboration (Aous A. Abdo et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.102:181101,2009 (arXiv:0905.0025 [astro-ph.HE])
    [221 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 211
    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
    [3465 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 207
    The Supernova legacy survey: Measurement of omega(m), omega(lambda) and W from the first year data set
    By The SNLS Collaboration (Pierre Astier et al.).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.447:31-48,2006 (arXiv: astro-ph/0510447)
    [1037 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 207
    Quantum Gravity at a Lifshitz Point
    By Petr Horava (UC, Berkeley & LBL, Berkeley).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D79:084008,2009 (arXiv:0901.3775 [hep-th])
    [214 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 204
    The Cosmological constant and dark energy
    By P.J.E. Peebles (Princeton U.), Bharat Ratra (Kansas State U.).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.75:559-606,2003 (arXiv: astro-ph/0207347)
    [1431 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 203
    Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their large-scale distribution
    By Volker Springel, Simon D.M. White, Adrian Jenkins, Carlos S. Frenk, Naoki Yoshida, Liang Gao, Julio Navarro, Robert Thacker, Darren Croton, John Helly, John A. Peacock, Shaun Cole, Peter Thomas, Hugh Couchman, August Evrard, Joerg Colberg, Frazer Pearce (Garching, Max Planck Inst. & Durham U. & Nagoya U. & Victoria U. & McMaster U. & Edinburgh U., Inst. Astron. & Sussex U. & Sussex U., Astron. Ctr. & Michigan U. & Pittsburgh U. & Nottingham U.).
    Published in:Nature 435:629-636,2005 (arXiv: astro-ph/0504097)
    [694 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 202
    Star formation in galaxies along the Hubble sequence
    By Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr. (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.).
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.36:189-231,1998 (arXiv: astro-ph/9807187)
    [1140 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 202
    CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction
    By Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa (Kyoto U.).
    Published in:Prog.Theor.Phys.49:652-657,1973
    [5919 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 201
    Experimental and theoretical challenges in the search for the quark gluon plasma: The STAR Collaboration's critical assessment of the evidence from RHIC collisions
    By STAR Collaboration (John Adams et al.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.A757:102-183,2005 (arXiv: nucl-ex/0501009)
    [834 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 195
    The Sixth Data Release of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey
    By SDSS Collaboration (Jennifer K. Adelman-McCarthy et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.175:297-313,2008 (arXiv:0707.3413 [astro-ph])
    [373 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 193
    The Many lives of AGN: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies
    By Darren J. Croton, Volker Springel, Simon D.M. White, G. De Lucia (Garching, Max Planck Inst.), C.S. Frenk (Durham U.), L. Gao (Garching, Max Planck Inst.), A. Jenkins (Durham U.), G. Kauffmann (Garching, Max Planck Inst.), J.F. Navarro (Victoria U.), N. Yoshida (Nagoya U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:11-28,2006 (arXiv: astro-ph/0508046)
    [642 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 192
    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)
    [2217 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 191
    Formation of dense partonic matter in relativistic nucleus-nucleus collisions at RHIC: Experimental evaluation by the PHENIX collaboration
    By PHENIX Collaboration (K. Adcox et al.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.A757:184-283,2005 (arXiv: nucl-ex/0410003)
    [828 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 188
    mu --> e gamma at a Rate of One Out of 1-Billion Muon Decays?
    By Peter Minkowski (Bern U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B67:421,1977
    [879 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 188
    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)
    [1105 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 186
    The Cosmological simulation code GADGET-2
    By Volker Springel (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.364:1105-1134,2005< /a> (arXiv: astro-ph/0505010)
    [600 Total citations in HEP]