Top Cited Articles during 2003

Top Cited Articles during 2003

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2003

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. 1933
    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. 860
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Determination of cosmological parameters
    By WMAP Collaboration (D.N. Spergel et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:175,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302209]
    [4071 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 535
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Preliminary maps and basic results
    By WMAP Collaboration (C.L. Bennett et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:1,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302207]
    [2030 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 445
    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]
  5. 441
    First results from KamLAND: Evidence for reactor anti-neutrino disappearance
    By KamLAND Collaboration (K. Eguchi et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.90:021802,2003 [arXiv: hep-ex/0212021]
    [1294 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 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]
  7. 413
    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]
  8. 407
    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]
  9. 396
    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]
  10. 387
    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]
  11. 380
    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. 367
    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]
  13. 333
    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]
  14. 297
    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]
  15. 274
    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]
  16. 267
    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. 261
    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]
  18. 251
    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]
  19. 232
    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]
  20. 225
    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]
  21. 217
    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]
  22. 200
    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]
  23. 199
    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]
  24. 199
    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]
  25. 196
    Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) first year observations: TE polarization
    By WMAP Collaboration (A. Kogut et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:161,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302213]
    [629 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 190
    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]
  27. 186
    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
    By SDSS Collaboration (Donald G. York et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.120:1579-1587,2000 [arXiv: astro-ph/0006396]
    [1153 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 186
    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]
  29. 176
    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]
  30. 176
    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]
  31. 176
    The Inflationary Universe: A Possible Solution to the Horizon and Flatness Problems
    By Alan H. Guth (SLAC).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D23:347-356,1981
    [2830 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 176
    Cosmological Consequences of a Rolling Homogeneous Scalar Field
    By Bharat Ratra, P.J.E. Peebles (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D37:3406,1988
    [1242 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 175
    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]
  34. 173
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Implications for inflation
    By WMAP Collaboration (H.V. Peiris et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:213,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0302225]
    [626 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 167
    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. 159
    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]
  37. 158
    Indications of neutrino oscillation in a 250 km long baseline experiment
    By K2K Collaboration (M.H. Ahn et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.90:041801,2003 [arXiv: hep-ex/0212007]
    [622 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 154
    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]
  39. 153
    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]
  40. 153
    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]
  41. 153
    Determination of solar neutrino oscillation parameters using 1496 days of Super-Kamiokande I data
    By Super-Kamiokande Collaboration (S. Fukuda et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B539:179-187,2002 [arXiv: hep-ex/0205075]
    [540 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 151
    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Early Data Release
    By SDSS Collaboration (Chris Stoughton et al.).
    Published in:Astron.J.123:485-548,2002
    [691 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 149
    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]
  44. 146
    The Cosmological constant and dark energy
    By P.J.E. Peebles (Princeton U.), Bharat Ratra (Kansas State U.).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.75:559-606,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0207347]
    [801 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 145
    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]
  46. 145
    Neutrino Oscillations in Matter
    By L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D17:2369,1978
    [2807 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 144
    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]
  48. 143
    Baryogenesis Without Grand Unification
    By M. Fukugita (Kyoto U., Yukawa Inst., Kyoto), T. Yanagida (Tohoku U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B174:45,1986
    [1084 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 142
    Resonance Amplification of Oscillations in Matter and Spectroscopy of Solar Neutrinos
    By S.P. Mikheev, A.Yu. Smirnov (Moscow, INR).
    Published in:Sov.J.Nucl.Phys.42:913-917,1985, Yad.Fiz.42:1441-1448,1985
    [2095 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 140
    A Line of sight integration approach to cosmic microwave background anisotropies
    By Uros Seljak (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.), Matias Zaldarriaga (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.469:437-444,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9603033]
    [1028 Total citations in HEP]