Top Cited Articles of All Time (1976 edition)

Top Cited Articles of All Time (1976 edition)

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (1976 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. 768
    A Model of Leptons
    By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
    [6220 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 749
    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]
  3. 654
    Experimental Observation of a Heavy Particle J
    By E598 Collaboration (J.J. Aubert et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1404-1406,1974
    [1506 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 620
    Discovery of a Narrow Resonance in e+ e- Annihilation
    By SLAC-SP-017 Collaboration (J.E. Augustin et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1406-1408,1974
    [1417 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 431
    The Discovery of a Second Narrow Resonance in e+ e- Annihilation
    By G.S. Abrams, D. Briggs, William Chinowsky, C.E. Friedberg, G. Goldhaber, R.J. Hollebeek, J.A. Kadyk, A. Litke, B. Lulu, F. Pierre, B. Sadoulet, G. Trilling, J.S. Whitaker, J. Wiss, J.E. Zipse (LBL, Berkeley), J.E. Augustin, A. Boyarski, Martin Breidenbach, F. Bulos, 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, William M. Tanenbaum, F. Vannucci (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1453-1455,1974
    [634 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 426
    Review of Particle Physics
    By Particle Data Group (W.-M. Yao et al.).
    Citations are counted for all versions of the RPP, most recent version is:
    Published in:J.Phys.G33:1-1232,2006
    [673 Total citations in HEP]
    [27778 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]
  7. 416
    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]
  8. 396
    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]
  9. 393
    Asymptotic Sum Rules at Infinite Momentum
    By J.D. Bjorken (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.179:1547-1553,1969
    [970 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 376
    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]
  11. 365
    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]
  12. 361
    Search for Charm
    By Mary K. Gaillard, Benjamin W. Lee (Fermilab), Jonathan L. Rosner (Minnesota U.).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.47:277,1975
    [919 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 348
    Preliminary Result of Frascati (ADONE) on the Nature of a New 3.1-GeV Particle Produced in e+ e- Annihilation
    By C. Bacci, et al..
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1408,1974, Erratum-ibid.33:1649,1974
    [450 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 341
    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]
  15. 317
    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]
  16. 315
    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]
  17. 285
    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]
  18. 272
    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]
  19. 266
    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]
  20. 263
    Orthocharmonium and e+ e- Annihilation
    By Thomas Appelquist, H.David Politzer (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.34:43,1975
    [946 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 261
    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]
  22. 261
    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]
  23. 259
    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]
  24. 251
    Elementary Particles and SU(4)
    By J.D. Bjorken, S.L. Glashow (Bohr Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.11:255-257,1964
    [505 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 247
    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]
  26. 247
    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]
  27. 247
    Symmetries of baryons and mesons
    By Murray Gell-Mann (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.125:1067-1084,1962
    [631 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 245
    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]
  29. 244
    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]
  30. 232
    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]
  31. 221
    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]
  32. 220
    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]
  33. 219
    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]
  34. 219
    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]
  35. 218
    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]
  36. 215
    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]
  37. 213
    The Spectrum of Charmonium
    By E. Eichten, K. Gottfried, T. Kinoshita, John B. Kogut, K.D. Lane, Tung-Mow Yan (Cornell U., LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.34:369-372,1975, Erratum-ibid.36:1276,1976
    [746 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 211
    Gauge Theories
    By E.S. Abers, B.W. Lee (SUNY, Stony Brook).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.9:1-141,1973
    [1070 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 208
    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]
  40. 205
    Is Bound Charm Found?
    By A. De Rujula (Harvard U.), S.L. Glashow (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.34:46,1975
    [382 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 204
    A New Extended Model of Hadrons
    By A. Chodos, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, Charles B. Thorn, V.F. Weisskopf (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D9:3471-3495,1974
    [1642 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 201
    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]
  43. 200
    TOTAL CROSS-SECTION FOR HADRON PRODUCTION BY ELECTRON - POSITRON ANNIHILATION BETWEEN 2.4-GeV AND 5.0-GeV CENTER-OF-MASS ENERGY
    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, R. Schwitters, F. Vannucci (SLAC), G.S. Abrams, D. Briggs, William Chinowsky, C.E. Friedberg, G. Goldhaber, R.J. Hollebeek, J.A. Kadyk, G. Trilling, J.S. Whitaker, J.E. Zipse (LBL, Berkeley).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.34:764,1975
    [288 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 200
    Current matrix elements from a relativistic quark model
    By R.P. Feynman, M. Kislinger, F. Ravndal (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D3:2706-2732,1971
    [702 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 199
    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]
  46. 198
    Phi meson and unitary symmetry model
    By S. Okubo (Rochester U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.5:165-168,1963
    [759 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 194
    Radiative Corrections as the Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
    By Sidney R. Coleman, E. Weinberg (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D7:1888-1910,1973
    [2339 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 194
    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]
  49. 193
    OBSERVATION OF NEW PARTICLE PRODUCTION BY HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS AND ANTI-NEUTRINOS
    By A.C. Benvenuti, D. Cline, W.T. Ford, R. Imlay, T.Y. Ling, A.K. Mann, F. Messing, R. Orr, D.D. Reeder, C. Rubbia, R. Stefanski, L. Sulak, P. Wanderer (Harvard U. & Pennsylvania U. & Wisconsin U., Madison & Fermilab).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.34:419,1975
    [388 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 192
    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]
  51. 192
    Scaling Laws at Large Transverse Momentum
    By Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC), Glennys R. Farrar (Caltech).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.31:1153-1156,1973
    [1195 Total citations in HEP]