Top Cited Articles during 2002

Top Cited Articles during 2002

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2002

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 Wed 21-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. 1692
    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
    [676 Total citations in HEP]
    [27783 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]
  2. 464
    The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
    By Juan M. Maldacena (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:231-252,1998, Int.J.Theor.Phys.38:1113-1133,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9711200]
    [4540 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 426
    Measurement of the rate of nu/e + d --> p + p + e- interactions produced by B-8 solar neutrinos at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
    By SNO Collaboration (Q.R. Ahmad et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.87:071301,2001 [arXiv: nucl-ex/0106015]
    [1347 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 426
    A Large mass hierarchy from a small extra dimension
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.83:3370-3373,1999 [arXiv: hep-ph/9905221]
    [3247 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 424
    Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 high redshift supernovae
    By Supernova Cosmology Project (S. Perlmutter et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.517:565-586,1999 [arXiv: astro-ph/9812133]
    [3195 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 404
    The Hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter
    By Nima Arkani-Hamed (SLAC), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), G.R. Dvali (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B429:263-272,1998 [arXiv: hep-ph/9803315]
    [3079 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 390
    An Alternative to compactification
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.83:4690-4693,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9906064]
    [3013 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 387
    Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant
    By Supernova Search Team (Adam G. Riess et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.116:1009-1038,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9805201]
    [3078 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 377
    Evidence for oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos
    By Super-Kamiokande Collaboration (Y. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.81:1562-1567,1998 [arXiv: hep-ex/9807003]
    [2815 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 329
    Anti-de Sitter space and holography
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:253-291,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9802150]
    [3074 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 312
    Direct evidence for neutrino flavor transformation from neutral current interactions in the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory
    By SNO Collaboration (Q.R. Ahmad et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.89:011301,2002 [arXiv: nucl-ex/0204008]
    [1370 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 307
    Maps of dust IR emission for use in estimation of reddening and CMBR foregrounds
    By David J. Schlegel (Durham U.), Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis (UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.500:525,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9710327]
    [2994 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 299
    New dimensions at a millimeter to a Fermi and superstrings at a TeV
    By Ignatios Antoniadis (Ecole Polytechnique), Nima Arkani-Hamed (SLAC), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), G.R. Dvali (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B436:257-263,1998 [arXiv: hep-ph/9804398]
    [2333 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 293
    Gauge theory correlators from noncritical string theory
    By S.S. Gubser, Igor R. Klebanov, Alexander M. Polyakov (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B428:105-114,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9802109]
    [2712 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 286
    Limits on neutrino oscillations from the CHOOZ experiment
    By CHOOZ Collaboration (M. Apollonio et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B466:415-430,1999 [arXiv: hep-ex/9907037]
    [1215 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 285
    String theory and noncommutative geometry
    By Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 9909:032,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9908142]
    [2147 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 264
    Strings in flat space and pp waves from N=4 superYang-Mills
    By David Berenstein, Juan M. Maldacena, Horatiu Nastase (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 0204:013,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202021]
    [946 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 256
    Solar B-8 and hep neutrino measurements from 1258 days of Super-Kamiokande data
    By Super-Kamiokande Collaboration (S. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.86:5651-5655,2001 [arXiv: hep-ex/0103032]
    [845 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 243
    Large N field theories, string theory and gravity
    By Ofer Aharony (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Steven S. Gubser (Harvard U.), Juan M. Maldacena (Harvard U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Hirosi Ooguri (UC, Berkeley & LBL, Berkeley), Yaron Oz (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.323:183-386,2000 [arXiv: hep-th/9905111]
    [1628 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 238
    Measurement of day and night neutrino energy spectra at SNO and constraints on neutrino mixing parameters
    By SNO Collaboration (Q.R. Ahmad et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.89:011302,2002 [arXiv: nucl-ex/0204009]
    [838 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 229
    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]
  22. 218
    A measurement by Boomerang of multiple peaks in the angular power spectrum of the cosmic microwave background
    By Boomerang Collaboration (C.B. Netterfield et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.571:604-614,2002 [arXiv: astro-ph/0104460]
    [748 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 211
    Measurement of the solar electron neutrino flux with the Homestake chlorine detector
    By B.T. Cleveland, Timothy Daily, Raymond Davis, Jr., James R. Distel, Kenneth Lande, C.K. Lee, Paul S. Wildenhain (Pennsylvania U.), Jack Ullman (City Coll., N.Y.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.496:505-526,1998
    [1253 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 211
    High-energy physics event generation with PYTHIA 5.7 and JETSET 7.4
    By Torbjorn Sjostrand (CERN).
    Published in:Comput.Phys.Commun.82:74-90,1994
    [2427 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 199
    Type IIB Green-Schwarz superstring in plane wave Ramond-Ramond background
    By R.R. Metsaev (Lebedev Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B625:70-96,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0112044]
    [478 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 198
    Tau neutrinos favored over sterile neutrinos in atmospheric muon-neutrino oscillations
    By Super-Kamiokande Collaboration (S. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.85:3999-4003,2000 [arXiv: hep-ex/0009001]
    [672 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 193
    Constraints on neutrino oscillations using 1258 days of Super-Kamiokande solar neutrino data
    By Super-Kamiokande Collaboration (S. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.86:5656-5660,2001 [arXiv: hep-ex/0103033]
    [577 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 184
    A Flat universe from high resolution maps of the cosmic microwave background radiation
    By Boomerang Collaboration (P. de Bernardis et al.).
    Published in:Nature 404:955-959,2000 [arXiv: astro-ph/0004404]
    [1008 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 183
    Penrose limits and maximal supersymmetry
    By Matthias Blau (ICTP, Trieste), Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh U.), Christopher Hull (Queen Mary, U. of London), George Papadopoulos (King's Coll. London).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.19:L87-L95,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0201081]
    [372 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 182
    A Universal density profile from hierarchical clustering
    By Julio F. Navarro (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.), Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.), Simon D.M. White (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.490:493-508,1997 [arXiv: astro-ph/9611107]
    [1601 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 180
    GALLEX solar neutrino observations: Results for GALLEX IV
    By GALLEX Collaboration (W. Hampel et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B447:127-133,1999
    [926 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 167
    Cosmological parameter extraction from the first season of observations with DASI
    By C. Pryke, N.W. Halverson, E.M. Leitch, J. Kovac, J.E. Carlstrom (Chicago U.), W.L. Holzapfel (UC, Berkeley), M. Dragovan (Caltech, JPL).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.568:46-51,2002 [arXiv: astro-ph/0104490]
    [406 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 167
    A New maximally supersymmetric background of IIB superstring theory
    By Matthias Blau (ICTP, Trieste), Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill (Edinburgh U.), Christopher Hull (Queen Mary, U. of London), George Papadopoulos (King's Coll. London).
    Published in:JHEP 0201:047,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0110242]
    [409 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 162
    Final results from the Hubble Space Telescope key project to measure the Hubble constant
    By W.L. Freedman, B.F. Madore, B.K. Gibson, L. Ferrarese, D.D. Kelson, S. Sakai, J.R. Mould, R.C. Kennicutt, H.C. Ford, J.A. Graham, J.P. Huchra, S.M.G. Hughes, Garth D. Illingworth, L.M. Macri, P.B. Stetson, P.B. Stetson (Carnegie Inst. Observ. & Caltech, IPAC & Swinburne U., Ctr. Astrophys. Supercomput. & Rutgers U., Piscataway & Carnegie Inst., Wash., D.C. & NOAO, Tucson & Res. Sch. Astron. Astrophys., Weston Creek & Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ. & Johns Hopkins U. & Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Cambridge U., Inst. of Astron. & Lick Observ. & NRC-HIA, Victoria).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.553:47-72,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0012376]
    [994 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 161
    Phenomenology, astrophysics and cosmology of theories with submillimeter dimensions and TeV scale quantum gravity
    By Nima Arkani-Hamed (SLAC), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), G.R. Dvali (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D59:086004,1999 [arXiv: hep-ph/9807344]
    [1457 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 161
    Global QCD analysis of parton structure of the nucleon: CTEQ5 parton distributions
    By CTEQ Collaboration (H.L. Lai et al.).
    Published in:Eur.Phys.J.C12:375-392,2000 [arXiv: hep-ph/9903282]
    [959 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 159
    Exactly solvable model of superstring in Ramond-Ramond plane wave background
    By R.R. Metsaev (Lebedev Inst.), A.A. Tseytlin (Imperial Coll., London & Ohio State U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D65:126004,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202109]
    [389 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 156
    Particle Creation by Black Holes
    By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Commun.Math.Phys.43:199-220,1975, Erratum-ibid.46:206-206,1976
    [2614 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 155
    Supersymmetry, Supergravity and Particle Physics
    By Hans Peter Nilles (Geneva U. & CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.110:1,1984
    [3088 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 154
    DASI first results: A Measurement of the cosmic microwave background angular power spectrum
    By N.W. Halverson, E.M. Leitch, C. Pryke, J. Kovac, J.E. Carlstrom (Chicago U.), W.L. Holzapfel (UC, Berkeley), M. Dragovan (Caltech, JPL), J.K. Cartwright, B.S. Mason, S. Padin, T.J. Pearson, M.C. Shepherd, A.C.S. Readhead (Caltech).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.568:38-45,2002 [arXiv: astro-ph/0104489]
    [562 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 154
    Neutrino Oscillations in Matter
    By L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D17:2369,1978
    [2807 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 154
    The Search for Supersymmetry: Probing Physics Beyond the Standard Model
    By Howard E. Haber (UC, Santa Cruz & SLAC), Gordon L. Kane (Michigan U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.117:75,1985
    [3025 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 152
    Unitary Symmetry and Leptonic Decays
    By N. Cabibbo (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.10:531-532,1963
    [2315 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 150
    Heterotic and type I string dynamics from eleven-dimensions
    By Petr Horava (Princeton U.), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B460:506-524,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9510209]
    [1619 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 148
    Remarks on the unified model of elementary particles
    By Z. Maki, M. Nakagawa, S. Sakata.
    Published in:Prog.Theor.Phys.28:870,1962
    [1193 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 148
    Asymptotic Freedom in Parton Language
    By Guido Altarelli (Ecole Normale Superieure), G. Parisi (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B126:298,1977
    [3488 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 147
    Neutrino Mass and Spontaneous Parity Violation
    By Rabindra N. Mohapatra (City Coll., N.Y.), Goran Senjanovic (Maryland U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.44:912,1980
    [1804 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 146
    The relationship between infrared, optical, and ultraviolet extinction
    By Jason A. Cardelli, Geoffrey C. Clayton, John S. Mathis (Washburn Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.345:245-256,1989
    [1553 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 141
    Solar models: Current epoch and time dependences, neutrinos, and helioseismological properties
    By John N. Bahcall (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), M.H. Pinsonneault (Ohio State U.), Sarbani Basu (Yale U.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.555:990-1012,2001 [arXiv: astro-ph/0010346]
    [566 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 140
    Cosmological imprint of an energy component with general equation of state
    By R.R. Caldwell, Rahul Dave, Paul J. Steinhardt (Pennsylvania U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.80:1582-1585,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9708069]
    [1093 Total citations in HEP]