Top Cited Articles during 2006

Top Cited Articles during 2006

The 50 most highly cited papers during 2006

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. 1931
    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. 925
    Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) three year results: implications for cosmology
    By WMAP Collaboration (D.N. Spergel et al.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: astro-ph/0603449]
    [1188 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 848
    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]
  4. 551
    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]
  5. 541
    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]
  6. 496
    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]
  7. 452
    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. 386
    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]
  9. 368
    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]
  10. 358
    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. 354
    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]
  12. 340
    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. 303
    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]
  14. 293
    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]
  15. 272
    Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003
    By G. Bruzual (Merida, CIDA), Stephane Charlot (Garching, Max Planck Inst. & Paris, Inst. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.344:1000,2003 [arXiv: astro-ph/0309134]
    [705 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 261
    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]
  17. 258
    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]
  18. 247
    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]
  19. 239
    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]
  20. 239
    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]
  21. 223
    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]
  22. 222
    The Supernova legacy survey: Measurement of omega(m), omega(lambda) and W from the first year data set
    By The SNLS Collaboration (Pierre Astier et al.).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.447:31-48,2006 [arXiv: astro-ph/0510447]
    [300 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 221
    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]
  24. 221
    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]
  25. 217
    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]
  26. 203
    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]
  27. 203
    HI in the galaxy
    By John M. Dickey, Felix J. Lockman.
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.28:215-261,1990
    [912 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 200
    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]
  29. 194
    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]
  30. 192
    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]
  31. 185
    Dynamics of dark energy
    By Edmund J. Copeland (Nottingham U.), M. Sami (Jamia Millia Islamia), Shinji Tsujikawa (Gunma Coll. Tech.).
    Published in:Int.J.Mod.Phys.D15:1753-1936,2006 [arXiv: hep-th/0603057]
    [225 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 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]
  33. 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]
  34. 179
    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. 175
    Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies
    By SDSS Collaboration (Daniel J. Eisenstein et al.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.633:560-574,2005 [arXiv: astro-ph/0501171]
    [301 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 175
    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]
  37. 171
    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]
  38. 169
    The Luminosity function and stellar evolution
    By Edwin E. Salpeter.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.121:161,1955
    [1088 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 165
    Cosmological constant: The Weight of the vacuum
    By T. Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.380:235-320,2003 [arXiv: hep-th/0212290]
    [553 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 163
    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]
  41. 161
    Three year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: polarization analysis
    By WMAP Collaboration (L. Page et al.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: astro-ph/0603450]
    [189 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 160
    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]
  43. 159
    Three-year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: temperature analysis
    By WMAP Collaboration (G. Hinshaw et al.).
    HEP Record [arXiv: astro-ph/0603451]
    [195 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 158
    Measurement of neutrino oscillation with KamLAND: Evidence of spectral distortion
    By KamLAND Collaboration (T. Araki et al.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.94:081801,2005 [arXiv: hep-ex/0406035]
    [443 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 158
    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]
  46. 157
    Star formation in galaxies along the Hubble sequence
    By Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr. (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.).
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.36:189-231,1998 [arXiv: astro-ph/9807187]
    [622 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 156
    Unitary Symmetry and Leptonic Decays
    By N. Cabibbo (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.10:531-532,1963
    [2315 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 156
    The Structure of cold dark matter halos
    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.462:563-575,1996 [arXiv: astro-ph/9508025]
    [1209 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 156
    A Fundamental relation between supermassive black holes and their host galaxies
    By Laura Ferrarese (UCLA), David Merritt (Rutgers U., Piscataway).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.539:L9,2000 [arXiv: astro-ph/0006053]
    [757 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 153
    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]
  51. 153
    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]