Top Cited Articles during 2004

Top Cited Articles during 2004

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2004

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. 2037
    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. 1121
    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. 563
    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. 475
    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. 451
    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]
  6. 417
    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]
  7. 415
    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]
  8. 404
    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. 396
    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]
  10. 381
    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]
  11. 367
    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]
  12. 338
    Evidence for a narrow S = +1 baryon resonance in photoproduction from the neutron
    By LEPS Collaboration (T. Nakano et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.91:012002,2003 [arXiv: hep-ex/0301020]
    [715 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 282
    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. 282
    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]
  15. 275
    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]
  16. 267
    Exotic anti-decuplet of baryons: Prediction from chiral solitons
    By Dmitri Diakonov (St. Petersburg, INP & Nordita), Victor Petrov (St. Petersburg, INP), Maxim V. Polyakov (St. Petersburg, INP & Ruhr U., Bochum).
    Published in:Z.Phys.A359:305-314,1997 [arXiv: hep-ph/9703373]
    [604 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 262
    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]
  18. 262
    Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP
    By SDSS Collaboration (Max Tegmark et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D69:103501,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0310723]
    [879 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 260
    Observation of a baryon resonance with positive strangeness in K+ collisions with Xe nuclei
    By DIANA Collaboration (V.V. Barmin et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Atom.Nucl.66:1715-1718,2003, Yad.Fiz.66:1763-1766,2003 [arXiv: hep-ex/0304040]
    [553 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 245
    Observation of an exotic S = +1 baryon in exclusive photoproduction from the deuteron
    By CLAS Collaboration (S. Stepanyan et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.91:252001,2003 [arXiv: hep-ex/0307018]
    [509 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 237
    Diquarks and exotic spectroscopy
    By Robert L. Jaffe, Frank Wilczek (MIT, LNS).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.91:232003,2003 [arXiv: hep-ph/0307341]
    [504 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 236
    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]
  23. 236
    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]
  24. 227
    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]
  25. 226
    High-energy physics event generation with PYTHIA 6.1
    By Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.), Patrik Eden (Nordita), Christer Friberg, Leif Lonnblad, Gabriela Miu (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.), Stephen Mrenna (UC, Davis), Emanuel Norrbin (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.).
    Published in:Comput.Phys.Commun.135:238-259,2001 [arXiv: hep-ph/0010017]
    [979 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 219
    Evidence for the positive strangeness pentaquark Theta+ in photoproduction with the SAPHIR detector at ELSA
    By SAPHIR Collaboration (J. Barth et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B572:127-132,2003 [arXiv: hep-ex/0307083]
    [462 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 216
    Type Ia supernova discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution
    By Supernova Search Team (Adam G. Riess et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.607:665-687,2004 [arXiv: astro-ph/0402512]
    [1030 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 207
    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]
  29. 207
    Measurement of the total active B-8 solar neutrino flux at the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory with enhanced neutral current sensitivity
    By SNO Collaboration (S.N. Ahmed et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.92:181301,2004 [arXiv: nucl-ex/0309004]
    [579 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 207
    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]
  31. 192
    De Sitter vacua in string theory
    By Shamit Kachru (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC), Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Sandip P. Trivedi (Tata Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D68:046005,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0301240]
    [785 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 192
    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]
  33. 192
    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]
  34. 192
    Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance
    By N.I. Shakura (Sternberg Astron. Inst.), R.A. Sunyaev (Moscow, IPM).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.24:337-355,1973
    [1041 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 191
    Observation of an exotic S = -2, Q = -2 baryon resonance in proton proton collisions at the CERN SPS
    By NA49 Collaboration (C. Alt et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.92:042003,2004 [arXiv: hep-ex/0310014]
    [346 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 189
    The BaBar detector
    By BABAR Collaboration (B. Aubert et al.).
    Published in:Nucl.Instrum.Meth.A479:1-116,2002 [arXiv: hep-ex/0105044]
    [755 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 188
    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]
  38. 187
    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. 187
    Evidence for a narrow |S| = 1 baryon state at a mass of 1528-MeV in quasireal photoproduction
    By HERMES Collaboration (A. Airapetian et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B585:213,2004 [arXiv: hep-ex/0312044]
    [330 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 186
    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]
  41. 185
    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]
  42. 185
    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]
  43. 184
    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]
  44. 183
    Observation of an exotic baryon with S = +1 in photoproduction from the proton
    By CLAS Collaboration (V. Kubarovsky et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.92:032001,2004, Erratum-ibid.92:049902,2004 [arXiv: hep-ex/0311046]
    [330 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 183
    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]
  46. 180
    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]
  47. 176
    New generation of parton distributions with uncertainties from global QCD analysis
    By J. Pumplin, D.R. Stump, J. Huston, H.L. Lai, P. Nadolsky, W.K. Tung (Michigan State U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0207:012,2002 [arXiv: hep-ph/0201195]
    [816 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 175
    Cosmological results from high-z supernovae
    By Supernova Search Team (John L. Tonry et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.594:1-24,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0305008]
    [611 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 172
    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]
  50. 171
    Evidence for formation of a narrow K0(S) p resonance with mass near 1533-MeV in neutrino interactions
    By A.E. Asratyan, A.G. Dolgolenko, M.A. Kubantsev (Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in:Phys.Atom.Nucl.67:682-687,2004, Yad.Fiz.67:704-709,2004 [arXiv: hep-ex/0309042]
    [324 Total citations in HEP]