Top Cited Articles during 2002 by hep-th

Top Cited Articles during 2002 by hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2002 cited by papers in the hep-th archive

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 Fri 16-Feb-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. 411
    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]
    [4484 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 303
    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]
    [3036 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 275
    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]
    [2680 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 262
    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]
    [937 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 245
    String theory and noncommutative geometry
    By Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 9909:032,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9908142]
    [2129 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 226
    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]
    [2991 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 225
    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]
    [1607 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 215
    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]
    [3215 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 197
    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]
    [475 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 180
    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]
    [370 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 161
    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]
    [406 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 157
    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]
    [387 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 131
    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]
    [3051 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 127
    M theory as a matrix model: A Conjecture
    By Tom Banks (Rutgers U., Piscataway), W. Fischler (Texas U.), S.H. Shenker (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Leonard Susskind (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D55:5112-5128,1997 [arXiv: hep-th/9610043]
    [1617 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 120
    Noncommutative field theory
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway & IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette), Nikita A. Nekrasov (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette & Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.73:977-1029,2001 [arXiv: hep-th/0106048]
    [741 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 117
    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]
    [2317 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 105
    The dS / CFT correspondence
    By Andrew Strominger (Harvard U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0110:034,2001 [arXiv: hep-th/0106113]
    [355 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 104
    Penrose limits, supergravity and brane dynamics
    By Matthias Blau (ICTP, Trieste), Jose Figueroa-O'Farrill, George Papadopoulos (King's Coll. London).
    Published in:Class.Quant.Grav.19:4753,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202111]
    [200 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 103
    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]
    [1835 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 103
    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]
    [1606 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 101
    Noncommutative geometry and matrix theory: Compactification on tori
    By Alain Connes (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette), Michael R. Douglas (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette & Rutgers U., Piscataway), Albert S. Schwarz (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette & Rutgers U., Piscataway & UC, Davis).
    Published in:JHEP 9802:003,1998 [arXiv: hep-th/9711162]
    [1131 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 98
    Noncommutative Geometry and String Field Theory
    By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B268:253,1986
    [1194 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 92
    Dirichlet Branes and Ramond-Ramond charges
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.75:4724-4727,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9510017]
    [1548 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 91
    Dielectric branes
    By Robert C. Myers (Santa Barbara, KITP & McGill U.).
    Published in:JHEP 9912:022,1999 [arXiv: hep-th/9910053]
    [589 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 85
    Quantum gravity in de Sitter space
    By Edward Witten (Caltech & CIT-USC).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/0106109]
    [286 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 85
    On solvable models of type 2B superstring in NS NS and RR plane wave backgrounds
    By J.G. Russo (Buenos Aires U.), A.A. Tseytlin (Imperial Coll., London & Ohio State U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0204:021,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202179]
    [139 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 84
    Penrose limit of N = 1 gauge theories
    By Jaume Gomis, Hirosi Ooguri (Caltech).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B635:106-126,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202157]
    [119 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 81
    Eleven-dimensional supergravity on a manifold with boundary
    By Petr Horava (Princeton U.), Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B475:94-114,1996 [arXiv: hep-th/9603142]
    [1166 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 81
    On Penrose limits and gauge theories
    By Leopoldo A. Pando Zayas (Michigan U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jacob Sonnenschein (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Tel Aviv U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0205:010,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202186]
    [99 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 80
    Noncommutative perturbative dynamics
    By Shiraz Minwalla, Mark Van Raamsdonk (Princeton U.), Nathan Seiberg (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 0002:020,2000 [arXiv: hep-th/9912072]
    [638 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 78
    PP wave limit and enhanced supersymmetry in gauge theories
    By N. Itzhaki, Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton U.), Sunil Mukhi (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Tata Inst.).
    Published in:JHEP 0203:048,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0202153]
    [101 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 78
    The World as a hologram
    By Leonard Susskind (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.).
    Published in:J.Math.Phys.36:6377-6396,1995 [arXiv: hep-th/9409089]
    [864 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 77
    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]
    [873 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 77
    A New double scaling limit of N=4 superYang-Mills theory and PP wave strings
    By C. Kristjansen, J. Plefka, G.W. Semenoff, M. Staudacher (Potsdam, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B643:3-30,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0205033]
    [183 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 75
    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]
    [1335 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 75
    Rolling tachyon
    By Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst. & Penn State U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0204:048,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0203211]
    [485 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 74
    D-branes, quivers, and ALE instantons
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Gregory W. Moore (Yale U.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/9603167]
    [702 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 74
    PP wave string interactions from perturbative Yang-Mills theory
    By Neil R. Constable (MIT, LNS), Daniel Z. Freedman (MIT, LNS & MIT), Matthew Headrick, Shiraz Minwalla, Lubos Motl (Harvard U., Phys. Dept.), Alexander Postnikov (MIT), Witold Skiba (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:JHEP 0207:017,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0205089]
    [184 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 71
    Dimensional reduction in quantum gravity
    By Gerard 't Hooft (Utrecht U.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: gr-qc/9310026]
    [666 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 71
    Plane wave limits and T duality
    By R. Gueven (ICTP, Trieste & Bogazici U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B482:255-263,2000 [arXiv: hep-th/0005061]
    [160 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 69
    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
    [2583 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 69
    On light cone string field theory from superYang-Mills and holography
    By David Berenstein, Horatiu Nastase (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    HEP Record [arXiv: hep-th/0205048]
    [135 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 66
    Penrose limits, PP waves and deformed M2 branes
    By M. Cvetic (Pennsylvania U.), Hong Lu (Michigan U.), C.N. Pope (Texas A-M).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D69:046003,2004 [arXiv: hep-th/0203082]
    [95 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 66
    Mass, entropy and holography in asymptotically de Sitter spaces
    By Vijay Balasubramanian (Pennsylvania U.), Jan de Boer (Amsterdam U.), Djordje Minic (Virginia Tech.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D65:123508,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0110108]
    [188 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 65
    From big crunch to big bang
    By Justin Khoury (Princeton U.), Burt A. Ovrut (Pennsylvania U.), Nathan Seiberg (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Paul J. Steinhardt (Princeton U.), Neil Turok (Cambridge U., DAMTP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D65:086007,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0108187]
    [274 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 65
    Tachyon matter
    By Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst. & Penn State U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0207:065,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0203265]
    [382 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 65
    RG flows from spin(7), CY 4 fold and HK manifolds to AdS, Penrose limits and pp waves
    By Umut Gursoy (MIT, LNS), Carlos Nunez (Cambridge U., DAMTP), Martin Schvellinger (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:JHEP 0206:015,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0203124]
    [81 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 65
    Superstring interactions in a p p wave background
    By Marcus Spradlin (Princeton U.), Anastasia Volovich (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D66:086004,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0204146]
    [139 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 64
    A Planar Diagram Theory for Strong Interactions
    By Gerard 't Hooft (CERN).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B72:461,1974
    [2499 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 64
    Operators with large R charge in N=4 Yang-Mills theory
    By David J. Gross, Andrei Mikhailov (Santa Barbara, KITP), Radu Roiban (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Annals Phys.301:31-52,2002 [arXiv: hep-th/0205066]
    [143 Total citations in HEP]