Top Cited HEP Articles

All Time Favorites for High Energy Physics Articles
1997/1998 Edition

Articles with most citations in SPIRES-HEP database


High-energy physics articles with the most citations in the SPIRES-HEP database

Positions are based on the number of citations in the SPIRES-HEP database [SLAC-SPIRES] between 1974 and 1997 (including both boundary years). Journal articles with more than 1,000 citations are included. The situation may change with time. For your convenience, pointers to today's number of citations are also added.

See also the list of journal articles with the most citations in 1997 and a review of the most cited HEP articles in 1997.


In a category of its own:


  1. REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS.
    By Particle Data Group ( R.M.Barnett, et al.).
    Earlier editions were titled 'Review of Particle Properties.'
    Published in Phys.Rev.D54:1-720,1996
    1303 citations to this edition on December 31, 1997.
    9693 citations to the twelve editions, 1974-1996, on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations to this edition today)
    (Number of citations to all editions today)


    Other most cited papers:


  2. A MODEL OF LEPTONS
    By S. Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
    4734 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  3. CP VIOLATION IN THE RENORMALIZABLE THEORY OF WEAK INTERACTION
    By M. Kobayashi, T. Maskawa (Kyoto U.).
    Published in Prog.Theor.Phys.49:652-657,1973
    2787 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  4. WEAK INTERACTIONS WITH LEPTON - HADRON SYMMETRY
    By S.L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, L. Maiani (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D2:1285-1292,1970
    2686 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  5. PARTIAL SYMMETRIES OF WEAK INTERACTIONS
    By S.L. Glashow (Copenhagen U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.22:579-588,1961
    2347 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  6. UNITY OF ALL ELEMENTARY PARTICLE FORCES
    By H. Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.32:438-441,1974
    2191 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  7. CONFINEMENT OF QUARKS
    By Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D10:2445-2459,1974
    2117 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  8. ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM IN PARTON LANGUAGE
    By G. Altarelli (Ecole Normale Superieure), G. Parisi (IHES, Bures).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B126:298,1977
    2098 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  9. QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
    By M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B147:385,1979
    1872 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  10. LEPTON NUMBER AS THE FOURTH COLOR
    By Jogesh C. Pati (Maryland U.), Abdus Salam (ICTP, Trieste & Imperial Coll., London).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D10:275-289,1974
    1856 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  11. COMPUTATION OF THE QUANTUM EFFECTS DUE TO A FOUR-DIMENSIONAL PSEUDOPARTICLE
    By G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D14:3432-3450,1976
    1812 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  12. INFINITE CONFORMAL SYMMETRY IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
    By A.A. Belavin, A.M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.), A.B. Zamolodchikov (CERN & Landau Inst.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B241:333-380,1984
    1744 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  13. RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS AS THE ORIGIN OF SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING
    By S. Coleman, E. Weinberg (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D7:1888-1910,1973
    1714 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  14. DYNAMICAL MODEL OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES BASED ON AN ANALOGY WITH SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. I
    By Y. Nambu, G. Jona-Lasinio (Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in Phys.Rev.122:345-358,1961
    1697 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  15. SUPERSYMMETRY, SUPERGRAVITY AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
    By H.P. Nilles (Geneva U. & CERN).
    Published in Phys.Rept.110:1,1984
    1685 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  16. RELIABLE PERTURBATIVE RESULTS FOR STRONG INTERACTIONS?
    By H.D. Politzer (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.30:1346-1349,1973
    1673 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  17. ULTRAVIOLET BEHAVIOR OF NONABELIAN GAUGE THEORIES
    By D.J. Gross, F. Wilczek (Princeton U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.30:1343-1346,1973
    1664 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  18. SYMMETRY BREAKING THROUGH BELL-JACKIW ANOMALIES
    By G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.37:8-11,1976
    1640 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  19. THE SEARCH FOR SUPERSYMMETRY: PROBING PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL
    By Howard E. Haber (UC, Santa Cruz & SLAC), G.L. Kane (Michigan U.).
    Published in Phys.Rept.117:75,1985
    1609 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  20. AXIAL VECTOR VERTEX IN SPINOR ELECTRODYNAMICS
    By S.L. Adler (Princeton U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.177:2426-2438,1969
    1518 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  21. QUANTUM GEOMETRY OF BOSONIC STRINGS
    By A.M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.).
    Published in Phys.Lett.103B:207-210,1981
    1513 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  22. REGULARIZATION AND RENORMALIZATION OF GAUGE FIELDS
    By G. 't Hooft, M. Veltman (Utrecht U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B44:189-213,1972
    1495 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  23. VACUUM CONFIGURATIONS FOR SUPERSTRINGS
    By P. Candelas (Texas U. & Santa Barbara, ITP), Gary T. Horowitz (UC, Santa Barbara), Andrew Strominger (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B258:46-74,1985
    1494 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  24. THE INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE HORIZON AND FLATNESS PROBLEMS
    By Alan H. Guth (SLAC).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D23:347-356,1981
    1491 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  25. SUPER COLLIDER PHYSICS
    By E. Eichten (Fermilab), I. Hinchliffe (LBL, Berkeley), K. Lane (Ohio State U.), C. Quigg (Fermilab).
    Published in Rev.Mod.Phys.56:579-707,1984
    1463 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  26. PSEUDOPARTICLE SOLUTIONS OF THE YANG-MILLS EQUATIONS
    By A.A Belavin, A.M. Polyakov, A.S. Shvarts, Yu.S. Tyupkin (Landau Inst.).
    Published in Phys.Lett.59B:85-87,1975
    1394 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  27. QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. APPLICATIONS
    By M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B147:448,1979
    1359 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  28. HADRON MASSES IN A GAUGE THEORY
    By A. De Rujula, Howard Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D12:147-162,1975
    1314 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  29. ON GAUGE INVARIANCE AND VACUUM POLARIZATION
    By Julian Schwinger (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.82:664-679,1951
    1271 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  30. A PLANAR DIAGRAM THEORY FOR STRONG INTERACTIONS
    By G. 't Hooft (CERN).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B72:461,1974
    1271 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  31. HETEROTIC STRING THEORY. 1. THE FREE HETEROTIC STRING
    By David J. Gross, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Emil Martinec, Ryan Rohm (Princeton U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B256:253,1985
    1245 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  32. MAGNETIC MONOPOLES IN UNIFIED GAUGE THEORIES
    By G. 't Hooft (CERN).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B79:276-284,1974
    1243 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  33. SYMMETRY BEHAVIOR AT FINITE TEMPERATURE
    By L. Dolan, R. Jackiw (MIT, LNS).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D9:3320-3341,1974
    1228 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  34. CONSEQUENCES OF ANOMALOUS WARD IDENTITIES
    By J. Wess (CERN & Karlsruhe U.), B. Zumino (CERN).
    Published in Phys.Lett.37B:95,1971
    1220 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  35. QUARK MASSES
    By J. Gasser, H. Leutwyler (Bern U.).
    Published in Phys.Rept.87:77-169,1982
    1207 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  36. ANOMALY CANCELLATIONS IN SUPERSYMMETRIC D = 10 GAUGE THEORY REQUIRE SO(32)
    By Michael B. Green (Queen Mary - Westfield Coll. & Cal Tech), John H. Schwarz (Cal Tech).
    Published in Phys.Lett.149B:117-122,1984
    1196 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  37. A NEW EXTENDED MODEL OF HADRONS
    By A. Chodos, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, C.B. Thorn, V.F. Weisskopf (MIT, LNS).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D9:3471-3495,1974
    1195 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  38. EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF A HEAVY PARTICLE J
    By J.J. Aubert, U. Becker, P.J. Biggs, J. Burger, M. Chen, G. Everhart, P. Goldhagen, J. Leong, T. McCorriston, T.G. Rhoades, M. Rohde, Samuel C.C. Ting, Sau Lan Wu (MIT, LNS), Y.Y. Lee (Brookhaven).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1404-1406,1974
    1159 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  39. THE LUND MONTE CARLO FOR JET FRAGMENTATION AND E+ E- PHYSICS: JETSET VERSION 6.3: AN UPDATE
    By Torbjorn Sjostrand, Mats Bengtsson (Lund U.).
    Published in Comput.Phys.Commun.43:367,1987
    1159 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  40. A PCAC PUZZLE: PI0 --> GAMMA GAMMA IN THE SIGMA MODEL
    By J.S. Bell, R. Jackiw (CERN).
    Published in Nuovo Cim.60A:47-61,1969
    1157 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  41. CP CONSERVATION IN THE PRESENCE OF INSTANTONS
    By R.D. Peccei, Helen R. Quinn (Stanford U., ITP).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.38:1440-1443,1977
    1147 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  42. NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS IN MATTER
    By L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D17:2369,1978
    1134 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  43. HIERARCHY OF INTERACTIONS IN UNIFIED GAUGE THEORIES
    By H. Georgi, H.R. Quinn, S. Weinberg (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.33:451-454,1974
    1133 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  44. NONABELIAN BOSONIZATION IN TWO-DIMENSIONS
    By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
    Published in Commun.Math.Phys.92:455-472,1984
    1127 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  45. ASYMPTOTICALLY FREE GAUGE THEORIES. I
    By D.J. Gross, F. Wilczek (Fermilab & Princeton U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D8:3633-3652,1973
    1125 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  46. A PARAMETRIZATION OF THE PROPERTIES OF QUARK JETS
    By R.D. Field, R.P. Feynman (Cal Tech).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B136:1,1978
    1121 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  47. PARTON FRAGMENTATION AND STRING DYNAMICS
    By B. Andersson, G. Gustafson, G. Ingelman, T. Sjostrand (Lund U.).
    Published in Phys.Rept.97:31,1983
    1106 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  48. DISCOVERY OF A NARROW RESONANCE IN E+ E- ANNIHILATION
    By J.E. Augustin, A. Boyarski, Martin Breidenbach, F. Bulos, J.T. Dakin, G.J. Feldman, G.E. Fischer, D. Fryberger, G. Hanson, B. Jean-Marie, Rudolf R. Larsen, V. Luth, H.L. Lynch, D. Lyon, Charles C. Morehouse, J.M. Paterson, Martin L. Perl, Burton Richter, Petros A. Rapidis, R. Schwitters, W.M. Tanenbaum, F. Vannucci (SLAC), G.S. Abrams, D. Briggs, William Chinowsky, C.E. Friedberg, G. Goldhaber, R.J. Hollebeek, J.A. Kadyk, B. Lulu, F. Pierre, G. Trilling, J.S. Whitaker, J. Wiss, J.E. Zipse (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1406-1408,1974
    1080 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  49. GLOBAL ASPECTS OF CURRENT ALGEBRA
    By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B223:422,1983
    1078 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  50. THE HETEROTIC STRING
    By David J. Gross, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Emil Martinec, Ryan Rohm (Princeton U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.54:502-505,1985
    1075 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  51. DYNAMICAL BREAKING OF SUPERSYMMETRY
    By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B188:513,1981
    1059 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  52. PARTICLE CREATION BY BLACK HOLES
    By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.).
    Published in Commun.Math.Phys.43:199-220,1975
    1055 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  53. THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP AND THE EPSILON EXPANSION
    By K.G. Wilson (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Cornell U., LNS), J. Kogut (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in Phys.Rept.12:75-200,1974
    1049 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  54. VORTEX LINE MODELS FOR DUAL STRINGS
    By H.B. Nielsen, P. Olesen (Bohr Inst.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B61:45-61,1973
    1044 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  55. MASSES AND OTHER PARAMETERS OF THE LIGHT HADRONS
    By T. DeGrand, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, J. Kiskis (MIT, LNS).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D12:2060,1975
    1027 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  56. SUPERGAUGE TRANSFORMATIONS IN FOUR-DIMENSIONS
    By J. Wess (Karlsruhe U.), B. Zumino (CERN).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B70:39-50,1974
    1013 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  57. Q**2 DEPENDENT PARAMETRIZATIONS OF PARTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
    By D.W. Duke, J.F. Owens (Florida State U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D30:49-54,1984
    1006 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)

  58. CONFORMAL INVARIANCE, SUPERSYMMETRY AND STRING THEORY
    By Daniel Friedan, Emil Martinec, Stephen Shenker (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U. & Princeton U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B271:93,1986
    1000 citations on December 31, 1997.
    (Number of citations today)


1997/1998 Edition by Louise Addis and Michael Peskin
(with special thanks to Dave Kaplan who spotted an important omission)
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