Top Cited Articles of All Time (1979 edition)

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (1979 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.

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1738

A Model of Leptons
By Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
[6220 Total citations in HEP]
1407

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]
854

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]
793

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]
778

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]
768

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]
736

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]
619

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]
574

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]
553

Pseudoparticle Solutions of the Yang-Mills Equations
By A.A. Belavin, Alexander M. Polyakov, A.S. Shvarts, Yu.S. Tyupkin (Landau Inst.).
Published in:Phys.Lett.B59:85-87,1975
[1940 Total citations in HEP]
550

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]
518

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]
515

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]
509

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]
507

Asymptotic Sum Rules at Infinite Momentum
By J.D. Bjorken (SLAC).
Published in:Phys.Rev.179:1547-1553,1969
[970 Total citations in HEP]
489

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
[1795 Total citations in HEP]
464

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]
455

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]
454

Evidence for Anomalous Lepton Production in e+ - e- Annihilation
By Martin L. Perl, G.S. Abrams, A. Boyarski, Martin Breidenbach, D. Briggs, F. Bulos, William Chinowsky, J.T. Dakin, G.J. Feldman, C.E. Friedberg, D. Fryberger, G. Goldhaber, G. Hanson, F.B. Heile, B. Jean-Marie, J.A. Kadyk, Rudolf R. Larsen, A. Litke, D. Luke, B. Lulu, V. Luth, D. Lyon, Charles C. Morehouse, J.M. Paterson, F. Pierre, T. Pun, Petros A. Rapidis, Burton Richter, B. Sadoulet, R. Schwitters, William M. Tanenbaum, G. Trilling, F. Vannucci, J.S. Whitaker, F.C. Winkelmann, J. Wiss (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley & SLAC).
Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.35:1489-1492,1975
[896 Total citations in HEP]
453

Observation of a Dimuon Resonance at 9.5-GeV in 400-GeV Proton-Nucleus Collisions
By S.W. Herb, D.C. Hom, L.M. Lederman, J.C. Sens, H.D. Snyder, J.K. Yoh (Columbia U.), J.A. Appel, B.C. Brown, C.N. Brown, Walter R. Innes, K. Ueno, T. Yamanouchi (Fermilab), A.S. Ito, H. Jostlein, D.M. Kaplan, Robert D. Kephart (SUNY, Stony Brook).
Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.39:252-255,1977
[1106 Total citations in HEP]
445

Confinement of Quarks
By Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).
Published in:Phys.Rev.D10:2445-2459,1974
[2930 Total citations in HEP]
444

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]
436

Unity of All Elementary Particle Forces
By H. Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.).
Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.32:438-441,1974
[2870 Total citations in HEP]
436

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]
429

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]
428

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]
425

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]
409

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]
408

Asymptotic Freedom: An Approach to Strong Interactions
By H.David Politzer (Harvard U.).
Published in:Phys.Rept.14:129-180,1974
[891 Total citations in HEP]
401

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]
400

ASYMPTOTICALLY FREE GAUGE THEORIES. 2.
By D.J. Gross, Frank Wilczek (Princeton U.).
Published in:Phys.Rev.D9:980-993,1974
[857 Total citations in HEP]
391

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]
387

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]
385

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]
384

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]
384

Quark Elastic Scattering as a Source of High Transverse Momentum Mesons
By R.D. Field, R.P. Feynman (Caltech).
Published in:Phys.Rev.D15:2590-2616,1977
[937 Total citations in HEP]
384

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
[4988 Total citations in HEP]
379

Phi meson and unitary symmetry model
By S. Okubo (Rochester U.).
Published in:Phys.Lett.5:165-168,1963
[759 Total citations in HEP]
375

Massive Lepton Pair Production in Hadron-Hadron Collisions at High-Energies
By S.D. Drell, Tung-Mow Yan (SLAC).
Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.25:316-320,1970, Erratum-ibid.25:902,1970
[852 Total citations in HEP]
374

Magnetic Monopoles in Unified Gauge Theories
By Gerard 't Hooft (CERN).
Published in:Nucl.Phys.B79:276-284,1974
[1845 Total citations in HEP]
371

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]
364

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, Erratum-ibid.D11:703-703,1975
[2651 Total citations in HEP]
361

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]
356

Symmetry Breaking Through Bell-Jackiw Anomalies
By Gerard 't Hooft (Harvard U.).
Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.37:8-11,1976
[2314 Total citations in HEP]
352

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]
352

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]
349

Observation in e+ e- Annihilation of a Narrow State at 1865-MeV/c**2 Decaying to K pi and K pi pi pi
By G. Goldhaber, F. Pierre, G.S. Abrams, M.S. Alam, A. Boyarski, Martin Breidenbach, W.C. Carithers, William Chinowsky, S. Cooper, R. DeVoe, J. Dorfan, G.J. Feldman, C.E. Friedberg, D. Fryberger, G. Hanson, J. Jaros, Alfred D. Johnson, J.A. Kadyk, Rudolf R. Larsen, D. Luke, V. Luth, H.L. Lynch, R. Madaras, Charles C. Morehouse, H.K. Nguyen, J.M. Paterson, Martin L. Perl, I. Peruzzi, M. Piccolo, T. Pun, Petros A. Rapidis, Burton Richter, B. Sadoulet, R.H. Schindler, R. Schwitters, J. Siegrist, William M. Tanenbaum, G. Trilling, F. Vannucci, J.S. Whitaker, J. Wiss (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley & SLAC).
Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.37:255-259,1976
[558 Total citations in HEP]
348

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]
344

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]
331

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]