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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 Mon 5-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. 55

   On the viability of lattice perturbation theory

   By G.Peter Lepage (Cornell U., LNS), Paul B. Mackenzie (Fermilab).

   Published in:Phys.Rev.D48:2250-2264,1993 [arXiv: hep-lat/9209022]

   [789 Total citations in HEP]

2. 55

   Exactly massless quarks on the lattice

   By Herbert Neuberger (Rutgers U., Piscataway).

   Published in:Phys.Lett.B417:141-144,1998 [arXiv: hep-lat/9707022]

   [692 Total citations in HEP]

3. 53

   A Remnant of Chiral Symmetry on the Lattice

   By Paul H. Ginsparg, Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).

   Published in:Phys.Rev.D25:2649,1982

   [586 Total citations in HEP]

4. 53

   Improved Continuum Limit Lattice Action for QCD with Wilson Fermions

   By B. Sheikholeslami, R. Wohlert (Hamburg U.).

   Published in:Nucl.Phys.B259:572,1985

   [577 Total citations in HEP]

5. 51

   A Construction of lattice chiral gauge theories

   By Rajamani Narayanan, Herbert Neuberger (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).

   Published in:Nucl.Phys.B443:305-385,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9411108]

   [503 Total citations in HEP]

6. 34

   Topology of the Gauge Condition and New Confinement Phases in Nonabelian Gauge Theories

   By Gerard 't Hooft (Caltech).

   Published in:Nucl.Phys.B190:455,1981

   [1005 Total citations in HEP]

7. 33

   Absence of Neutrinos on a Lattice. 1. Proof by Homotopy Theory

   By Holger Bech Nielsen (Bohr Inst. & Nordita), M. Ninomiya (Rutherford).

   Published in:Nucl.Phys.B185:20,1981, Erratum-ibid.B195:541,1982

   [668 Total citations in HEP]

8. 31

   A Method for simulating chiral fermions on the lattice

   By David B. Kaplan (UC, San Diego).

   Published in:Phys.Lett.B288:342-347,1992 [arXiv: hep-lat/9206013]

   [583 Total citations in HEP]

9. 23

   Confinement of Quarks

   By Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).

   Published in:Phys.Rev.D10:2445-2459,1974

   [2927 Total citations in HEP]

10. 22

    Vortices and Quark Confinement in Nonabelian Gauge Theories

    By S. Mandelstam (UC, Berkeley).

    Published in:Phys.Rept.23:245-249,1976

    [749 Total citations in HEP]

11. 22

    Instantons in QCD

    By Thomas Schafer (Washington U., Seattle), Edward V. Shuryak (SUNY, Stony Brook).

    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.70:323-426,1998 [arXiv: hep-ph/9610451]

    [725 Total citations in HEP]

12. 18

    Remarks on the Chiral Phase Transition in Chromodynamics

    By Robert D. Pisarski, Frank Wilczek (Santa Barbara, KITP).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.D29:338-341,1984

    [625 Total citations in HEP]

13. 16

    Magnetic Monopoles in Unified Gauge Theories

    By Gerard 't Hooft (CERN).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B79:276-284,1974

    [1840 Total citations in HEP]

14. 13

    The Renormalization group and the epsilon expansion

    By K.G. Wilson (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Cornell U., LNS), John B. Kogut (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).

    Published in:Phys.Rept.12:75-200,1974

    [1592 Total citations in HEP]

15. 13

    Critical Behavior at Finite Temperature Confinement Transitions

    By Benjamin Svetitsky (Santa Barbara, KITP & Cornell U., LNS), Laurence G. Yaffe (Caltech).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B210:423,1982

    [548 Total citations in HEP]

16. 13

    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

    [613 Total citations in HEP]

    [27679 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]

17. 12

    Computation of the Quantum Effects Due to a Four-Dimensional Pseudoparticle

    By Gerard 't Hooft (Harvard U.).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.D14:3432-3450,1976, Erratum-ibid.D18:2199,1978

    [2683 Total citations in HEP]

18. 10

    Monte Carlo Study of Quantized SU(2) Gauge Theory

    By M. Creutz (Brookhaven).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.D21:2308-2315,1980

    [730 Total citations in HEP]

19. 9

    Quantization of Nonabelian Gauge Theories

    By V.N. Gribov (St. Petersburg, INP).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B139:1,1978

    [813 Total citations in HEP]

20. 8

    Particle Spectrum in the Quantum Field Theory

    By Alexander M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.).

    Published in:JETP Lett.20:194-195,1974, Pisma Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz.20:430-433,1974

    [1445 Total citations in HEP]

21. 8

    Symmetry Breaking Through Bell-Jackiw Anomalies

    By Gerard 't Hooft (Harvard U.).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.37:8-11,1976

    [2309 Total citations in HEP]

22. 8

    Quark Confinement and Topology of Gauge Groups

    By Alexander M. Polyakov (Nordita).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B120:429-458,1977

    [913 Total citations in HEP]

23. 8

    Vortex Line Models for Dual Strings

    By Holger Bech Nielsen, P. Olesen (Bohr Inst.).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B61:45-61,1973

    [1556 Total citations in HEP]

24. 8

    Gauge Invariance and Mass. 2.

    By Julian S. Schwinger (Harvard U.).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.128:2425-2429,1962

    [1055 Total citations in HEP]

25. 7

    Diquark Bose condensates in high density matter and instantons

    By R. Rapp (SUNY, Stony Brook), Thomas Schafer (Washington U., Seattle), Edward V. Shuryak (SUNY, Stony Brook), M. Velkovsky (Brookhaven).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.81:53-56,1998 [arXiv: hep-ph/9711396]

    [686 Total citations in HEP]

26. 7

    Toward a Theory of the Strong Interactions

    By Curtis G. Callan, Jr., Roger F. Dashen (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), David J. Gross (Princeton U.).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.D17:2717,1978

    [873 Total citations in HEP]

27. 7

    On the Phase Transition Towards Permanent Quark Confinement

    By Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht U.).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B138:1,1978

    [933 Total citations in HEP]

28. 7

    Planar Diagrams

    By E. Brezin, C. Itzykson, G. Parisi, J.B. Zuber (Saclay).

    Published in:Commun.Math.Phys.59:35,1978

    [814 Total citations in HEP]

29. 7

    Strings, Monopoles and Gauge Fields

    By Yoichiro Nambu (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U.).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.D10:4262,1974

    [529 Total citations in HEP]

30. 7

    QCD at finite baryon density: Nucleon droplets and color superconductivity

    By Mark G. Alford (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Krishna Rajagopal (MIT, LNS), Frank Wilczek (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).

    Published in:Phys.Lett.B422:247-256,1998 [arXiv: hep-ph/9711395]

    [750 Total citations in HEP]

31. 6

    Current Algebra Theorems for the U(1) Goldstone Boson

    By Edward Witten (Harvard U.).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B156:269,1979

    [889 Total citations in HEP]

32. 6

    Thermal Properties of Gauge Fields and Quark Liberation

    By Alexander M. Polyakov (ICTP, Trieste).

    Published in:Phys.Lett.B72:477-480,1978

    [527 Total citations in HEP]

33. 6

    Lattice Fermions

    By Leonard Susskind (Tel Aviv U. & Yeshiva U.).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.D16:3031-3039,1977

    [512 Total citations in HEP]

34. 6

    Dynamical Symmetry Breaking in Asymptotically Free Field Theories

    By David J. Gross, Andre Neveu (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.D10:3235,1974

    [1022 Total citations in HEP]

35. 6

    Dynamical Model of Elementary Particles Based on an Analogy with Superconductivity. 1.

    By Yoichiro Nambu, G. Jona-Lasinio (Chicago U., EFI).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.122:345-358,1961

    [2743 Total citations in HEP]

36. 5

    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

    [1936 Total citations in HEP]

37. 5

    Fractal Structure of 2D Quantum Gravity

    By V.G. Knizhnik, Alexander M. Polyakov, A.B. Zamolodchikov (Landau Inst.).

    Published in:Mod.Phys.Lett.A3:819,1988

    [989 Total citations in HEP]

38. 5

    Hamiltonian Formulation of Wilson's Lattice Gauge Theories

    By John B. Kogut (Cornell U., LNS), Leonard Susskind (Yeshiva U. & Tel Aviv U. & Cornell U., LNS).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.D11:395,1975

    [1096 Total citations in HEP]

39. 5

    U(1) Without Instantons

    By G. Veneziano (CERN).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B159:213-224,1979

    [749 Total citations in HEP]

40. 5

    Electric - magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory

    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B426:19-52,1994, Erratum-ibid.B430:485-486,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9407087]

    [1839 Total citations in HEP]

41. 5

    Heavy quark symmetry

    By Matthias Neubert (SLAC).

    Published in:Phys.Rept.245:259-396,1994 [arXiv: hep-ph/9306320]

    [806 Total citations in HEP]

42. 5

    On the Elimination of Scale Ambiguities in Perturbative Quantum Chromodynamics

    By Stanley J. Brodsky (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & SLAC), G.Peter Lepage (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Cornell U., LNS), Paul B. Mackenzie (Fermilab).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.D28:228,1983

    [752 Total citations in HEP]

43. 5

    Ordering, metastability and phase transitions in two-dimensional systems

    By J.M. Kosterlitz, D.J. Thouless (Birmingham U.).

    Published in:J.Phys.C6:1181-1203,1973

    [623 Total citations in HEP]

44. 4

    QCD and Instantons at Finite Temperature

    By David J. Gross (Princeton U.), Robert D. Pisarski (Yale U.), Laurence G. Yaffe (Princeton U.).

    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.53:43,1981

    [1265 Total citations in HEP]

45. 4

    A Planar Diagram Theory for Strong Interactions

    By Gerard 't Hooft (CERN).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B72:461,1974

    [2509 Total citations in HEP]

46. 4

    Quark Masses

    By J. Gasser, H. Leutwyler (Bern U.).

    Published in:Phys.Rept.87:77-169,1982

    [1595 Total citations in HEP]

47. 4

    DYNAMICAL MODEL OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES BASED ON AN ANALOGY WITH SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. II

    By Yoichiro Nambu, G. Jona-Lasinio (Chicago U., EFI).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.124:246-254,1961

    [1186 Total citations in HEP]

48. 4

    QCD and Resonance Physics. Sum Rules

    By Mikhail A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, Valentin I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B147:385-447,1979

    [3180 Total citations in HEP]

49. 4

    There are no Goldstone bosons in two-dimensions

    By Sidney R. Coleman (Princeton U.).

    Published in:Commun.Math.Phys.31:259-264,1973

    [596 Total citations in HEP]

50. 4

    Weak Decays of Heavy Mesons in the Static Quark Approximation

    By Nathan Isgur (Toronto U.), Mark B. Wise (Caltech).

    Published in:Phys.Lett.B232:113,1989

    [1521 Total citations in HEP]

51. 4

    On the Anomalous Electroweak Baryon Number Nonconservation in the Early Universe

    By V.A. Kuzmin, V.A. Rubakov (Moscow, INR), M.E. Shaposhnikov (ICTP, Trieste).

    Published in:Phys.Lett.B155:36,1985

    [1356 Total citations in HEP]

52. 4

    A PCAC puzzle: pi0 --> gamma gamma in the sigma model

    By J.S. Bell, R. Jackiw (CERN).

    Published in:Nuovo Cim.A60:47-61,1969

    [1905 Total citations in HEP]

53. 4

    Compact Gauge Fields and the Infrared Catastrophe

    By Alexander M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.).

    Published in:Phys.Lett.B59:82-84,1975

    [606 Total citations in HEP]

54. 4

    Gravitation, Gauge Theories and Differential Geometry

    By Tohru Eguchi (SLAC & Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U.), Peter B. Gilkey (Princeton U., Math. Dept.), Andrew J. Hanson (LBL, Berkeley & NASA, Ames).

    Published in:Phys.Rept.66:213,1980

    [788 Total citations in HEP]

55. 4

    Topology in the Weinberg-Salam Theory

    By N.S. Manton (Santa Barbara, KITP).

    Published in:Phys.Rev.D28:2019,1983

    [550 Total citations in HEP]

56. 4

    Anti-de Sitter space, thermal phase transition, and confinement in gauge theories

    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).

    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:505-532,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9803131]

    [880 Total citations in HEP]

57. 4

    Monopoles, duality and chiral symmetry breaking in N=2 supersymmetric QCD

    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B431:484-550,1994 [arXiv: hep-th/9408099]

    [1337 Total citations in HEP]

58. 4

    A New Algorithm for Adaptive Multidimensional Integration

    By G.Peter Lepage (SLAC).

    Published in:J.Comput.Phys.27:192,1978

    [581 Total citations in HEP]

59. 4

    An SU(2) Anomaly

    By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).

    Published in:Phys.Lett.B117:324-328,1982

    [517 Total citations in HEP]

60. 4

    A Property of Electric and Magnetic Flux in Nonabelian Gauge Theories

    By Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht U.).

    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B153:141,1979

    [718 Total citations in HEP]

61. 4

    Chiral Perturbation Theory to One Loop

    By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).

    Published in:Annals Phys.158:142,1984

    [2091 Total citations in HEP]