Top Cited Articles of All Time (1974 edition)

Top Cited Articles of All Time (1974 edition)

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (1974 edition)

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 Tue 20-Mar-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. 341
    A Model of Leptons
    By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
    [6220 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 307
    Very high-energy collisions of hadrons
    By Richard P. Feynman (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.23:1415-1417,1969
    [1109 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 299
    Asymptotic Sum Rules at Infinite Momentum
    By J.D. Bjorken (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.179:1547-1553,1969
    [970 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 259
    Inelastic Electron Proton and gamma Proton Scattering, and the Structure of the Nucleon
    By J.D. Bjorken, Emmanuel A. Paschos (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.185:1975-1982,1969
    [874 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 242
    Nonlagrangian models of current algebra
    By Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.179:1499-1512,1969
    [1338 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 232
    Behavior of current divergences under SU(3) x SU(3)
    By Murray Gell-Mann (Caltech), R.J. Oakes (Northwestern U.), B. Renner (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.175:2195-2199,1968
    [1105 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 214
    O(2,1) ANALYSIS OF SINGLE PARTICLE SPECTRA AT HIGH-ENERGY
    By Alfred H. Mueller (Brookhaven).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D2:2963-2968,1970
    [465 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 210
    Symmetries of baryons and mesons
    By Murray Gell-Mann (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.125:1067-1084,1962
    [631 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 204
    Theory of high-energy scattering and multiple production
    By D. Amati, A. Stanghellini, S. Fubini.
    Published in:Nuovo Cim.26:896-954,1962
    [370 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 200
    Construction of a crossing - symmetric, Regge behaved amplitude for linearly rising trajectories
    By G. Veneziano (CERN).
    Published in:Nuovo Cim.A57:190-197,1968
    [652 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 189
    Ultraviolet Behavior of Nonabelian Gauge Theories
    By D.J. Gross, Frank Wilczek (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.30:1343-1346,1973
    [2265 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 188
    Applications of the Chiral U(6) x (6) Algebra of Current Densities
    By J.D. Bjorken (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.148:1467-1478,1966
    [1039 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 182
    Weak Interactions with Lepton-Hadron Symmetry
    By S.L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, L. Maiani (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D2:1285-1292,1970
    [3525 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 181
    Reliable Perturbative Results for Strong Interactions?
    By H.David Politzer (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.30:1346-1349,1973
    [2279 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 167
    PHYSICAL PROCESSES IN A CONVERGENT THEORY OF THE WEAK AND ELECTROMAGNETIC INTERACTIONS
    By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.27:1688-1691,1971
    [490 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 160
    HYPOTHESIS OF LIMITING FRAGMENTATION IN HIGH-ENERGY COLLISIONS
    By J. Benecke, T.T. Chou, Chen-Ning Yang, E. Yen (SUNY, Stony Brook).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.188:2159-2169,1969
    [379 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 153
    Pion scattering lengths
    By Steven Weinberg (UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.17:616-621,1966
    [934 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 151
    On the general theory of collisions for particles with spin
    By M. Jacob, G.C. Wick (Brookhaven).
    Published in:Annals Phys.7:404-428,1959, Annals Phys.281:774-799,2000
    [692 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 151
    The axial vector current in beta decay
    By Murray Gell-Mann, M Levy.
    Published in:Nuovo Cim.16:705,1960
    [1012 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 143
    Broken scale invariance in scalar field theory
    By Curtis G. Callan, Jr. (Caltech & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D2:1541-1547,1970
    [659 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 142
    Small distance behavior in field theory and power counting
    By K. Symanzik (Hamburg U.).
    Published in:Commun.Math.Phys.18:227-246,1970
    [666 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 142
    Axial vector vertex in spinor electrodynamics
    By Stephen L. Adler (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.177:2426-2438,1969
    [2268 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 138
    Breaking chiral symmetry
    By S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.), Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.20:224-227,1968
    [345 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 138
    Finite energy sum rules and their application to pi N charge exchange
    By R. Dolen, D. Horn, C. Schmid (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.166:1768-1781,1968
    [271 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 135
    Quantum electrodynamics at small distances
    By Murray Gell-Mann, F.E. Low (Illinois U., Urbana).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.95:1300-1312,1954
    [780 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 134
    Regularization and Renormalization of Gauge Fields
    By Gerard 't Hooft, M.J.G. Veltman (Utrecht U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B44:189-213,1972
    [2307 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 133
    Observation of Neutrino Like Interactions Without Muon Or Electron in the Gargamelle Neutrino Experiment
    By Gargamelle Neutrino Collaboration (F.J. Hasert et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B46:138-140,1973
    [758 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 132
    Three Triplet Model with Double SU(3) Symmetry
    By M.Y. Han (Syracuse U.), Yoichiro Nambu (Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.139:B1006-B1010,1965
    [622 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 130
    SCALING, DUALITY, AND THE BEHAVIOR OF RESONANCES IN INELASTIC ELECTRON - PROTON SCATTERING
    By Elliott D. Bloom, Frederick J. Gilman (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.25:1140,1970
    [382 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 127
    Renormalizable Lagrangians for Massive Yang-Mills Fields
    By Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B35:167-188,1971
    [977 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 124
    High-energy electroproduction and the constitution of the electric current
    By Curtis G. Callan, Jr., David J. Gross (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.22:156-159,1969
    [568 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 123
    Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown Without Massless Bosons
    By Peter W. Higgs (North Carolina U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.145:1156-1163,1966
    [1027 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 123
    Pomeranchuk trajectory and its relation to low-energy scattering amplitudes
    By Haim Harari (Weizmann Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.20:1395-1398,1968
    [244 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 121
    The Energy dependence of the proton proton total cross-section for center-of-mass energies between 23 and 53 GeV
    By U. Amaldi, R. Biancastelli, C. Bosio, G. Matthiae (Rome, ISS & INFN, Rome), J.V. Allaby, W. Bartel, G. Cocconi, A.N. Diddens, R.W. Dobinson, A.M. Wetherell (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B44:112-118,1973
    [339 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 120
    A REGGEON DIAGRAM TECHNIQUE
    By V.N. Gribov (Ioffe Phys. Tech. Inst.).
    Published in:Sov.Phys.JETP 26:414-422,1968, Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz.53:654-672,1967
    [470 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 120
    Hadron Production by electron positron annihilation at 4-GeV center-of-mass energy
    By A. Litke, G. Hanson, A. Hofmann, J. Koch, L. Law, M.E. Law, J. Leong, R. Little, R. Madaras, H. Newmann, J.M. Paterson, R. Pordes, K. Strauch, G. Tarnopolsky, Richard Wilson (Harvard U. & MIT & Harvard U. & Technion).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.30:1189-1192,1973
    [180 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 119
    Review of particle properties. particle data group
    By T.A. Lasinski, A. Barbaro-Galtieri, R.L. Kelly, A. Rittenberg, A.H. Rosenfeld, T.G. Trippe (LBL, Berkeley), N. Barash-Schmidt (Brandeis U.), C. Bricman, V. Chaloupka (CERN), P. Soeding (DESY), M. Roos (Helsinki U.).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.45:S1-S175,1973
    [139 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 119
    HIGH-ENERGY INELASTIC e p SCATTERING AT 6-degrees AND 10-degrees
    By Elliott D. Bloom, D.H. Coward, H.C. DeStaebler, J. Drees, Guthrie Miller, Luke W. Mo, Richard E. Taylor (SLAC), Martin Breidenbach, Jerome I. Friedman, George C. Hartmann, Henry W. Kendall (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.23:930-934,1969
    [374 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 118
    Inclusive Processes at High Transverse Momentum
    By S.M. Berman, J.D. Bjorken, John B. Kogut (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D4:3388,1971
    [584 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 116
    Broken symmetries, massless particles and gauge fields
    By Peter W. Higgs (Edinburgh U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.12:132-133,1964
    [1275 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 116
    MULTIPERIPHERAL BOOTSTRAP MODEL
    By G.F. Chew, A. Pignotti (LBL, Berkeley).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.176:2112-2119,1968
    [184 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 114
    Conservation of Isotopic Spin and Isotopic Gauge Invariance
    By Chen-Ning Yang, Robert L. Mills (Brookhaven).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.96:191-195,1954
    [1199 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 113
    A THEORY OF DEEP INELASTIC LEPTON - NUCLEON SCATTERING AND LEPTON PAIR ANNIHILATION PROCESSES. I.
    By S.D. Drell, Donald J. Levy, Tung-Mow Yan (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.187:2159-2171,1969
    [302 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 112
    finite energy sum rules and bootstraps
    By Peter G.O. Freund (Chicago U., EFI).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.20:235-237,1968
    [219 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 111
    Asymptotically Free Gauge Theories. 1
    By D.J. Gross (Fermilab & Princeton U.), Frank Wilczek (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D8:3633-3652,1973
    [1433 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 111
    Measurement of the total proton proton cross-section at the ISR
    By S.R. Amendolia, G. Bellettini, P.L. Braccini, C. Bradaschia, R. Castaldi, V. Cavasinni, C. Cerri, T. del Prete, L. Foa, P. Giromini, P. Laurelli, A. Menzione, L. Ristori, G. Sanguinetti, M. Valdata (INFN, Pisa & Pisa U. & Pisa, Scuola Normale Superiore), G. Finocchiaro, P. Grannis, D. Green, R. Mustard, R. Thun (SUNY, Stony Brook).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B44:119-124,1973
    [305 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 110
    Unified weak and electromagnetic interactions without neutral currents
    By Howard Georgi, Sheldon L. Glashow (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.28:1494,1972
    [358 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 110
    Effects of a neutral intermediate boson in semileptonic processes
    By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D5:1412-1417,1972
    [576 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 109
    Theory of Fermi interaction
    By R.P. Feynman, Murray Gell-Mann.
    Published in:Phys.Rev.109:193-198,1958
    [634 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 106
    Precise relations between the spectra of vector and axial vector mesons
    By Steven Weinberg (UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.18:507-509,1967
    [693 Total citations in HEP]