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Top Cited Articles from the Eprint Archives
2003 EditionBased on data from the SPIRES-HEP Literature Database, SLAC Library
For various reasons, the annual lists of the top-cited high energy physics papers tend to be heavily dominated by one or two subfields. However, the arXiv.org e-print archives are organized by subject, and we can use this feature to focus on the citation data for individual subfields. On this page, we present lists of the top-cited papers for each of the arXiv.org archives relevant to high-energy physics. The citation lists are based on papers posted and citations counted since the creation of the arXiv.org archives in the year 2003. Also included are the all-time lists for each arXiv, as of the end of 2003.
The results of this compilation should be interpreted with care. No individual archive is completely self-contained (though hep-th comes close). This problem must be added to the usual caveats about the use of the citation counts in the SPIRES database (see discussion). For each archive, we give two lists, first, the papers most cited by eprints in the archive, second, the eprints in the archive which are most cited. By comparing these two lists, you can make a judgement on how well the papers lists cover the subfield. Inevitably, however, our methods will leave some gaps. A paper on nuclear forces which is posted to hep-ph and is cited mainly by hep-ph papers is unlikely to appear in the topcites list for nucl-th no matter how large its citation count might be.
Astrophysics ASTRO-PH
General Relativity / Quantum Cosmology GR-QC
High-Energy Experimental Physics HEP-EX
Lattice Field Theory HEP-LAT
Particle Phenomenology HEP-PH
String / Conformal / Field Theory HEP-TH
Nuclear Experiment NUCL-EX
Nuclear Theory NUCL-TH
All-time lists (as of 2003)
Astrophysics ASTRO-PH
- Topcited astro-ph eprints all-time (as of 2003)
- Articles most cited by astro-ph eprints all-time (as of 2003). Also see Scott Dodelson's review of this list.
General Relativity / Quantum Cosmology GR-QC
- Topcited gr-qc eprints all-time (as of 2003)
- Articles most cited by gr-qc eprints all-time (as of 2003)
High-Energy Experimental Physics HEP-EX
- Topcited hep-ex eprints all-time (as of 2003)
- Articles most cited by hep-ex eprints all-time (as of 2003)
Lattice Field Theory HEP-LAT
- Topcited hep-lat eprints all-time (as of 2003)
- Articles most cited by hep-lat eprints all-time (as of 2003)
Particle Phenomenology HEP-PH
- Topcited hep-ph eprints all-time (as of 2003)
- Articles most cited by hep-ph eprints all-time (as of 2003)
String / Conformal / Field Theory HEP-TH
- Topcited hep-th eprints all-time (as of 2003)
- Articles most cited by hep-th eprints all-time (as of 2003)
Nuclear Experiment NUCL-EX
- Topcited nucl-ex eprints all-time (as of 2003)
- Articles most cited by nucl-ex eprints all-time (as of 2003)
Nuclear Theory NUCL-TH
- Topcited nucl-th eprints all-time (as of 2003)
- Articles most cited by nucl-th eprints all-time (as of 2003)
Copyright
SLAC-authored documents are sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy under Contract DE-AC03-76-SF00515. Accordingly, the U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce these documents, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes. All documents available from this server may be protected under the U.S. and Foreign Copyright Laws. Permission to reproduce may be required.Top Cited HEP Articles, 2003 edition by Travis Brooks, SLAC. Original edition by H. Galic. Work performed at Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
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