Top Cited Articles of All Time (2008 edition) in hep-th

Top Cited Articles of All Time (2008 edition) in hep-th

The 50 most highly cited papers of All Time (2008 edition) 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 Mon 12-Jan-2009. 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. 5715
    The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
    By Juan Martin 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)
    [5815 Total citations in HEP]
  2. 3889
    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)
    [3903 Total citations in HEP]
  3. 3599
    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)
    [3609 Total citations in HEP]
  4. 3425
    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)
    [3436 Total citations in HEP]
  5. 2449
    String theory and noncommutative geometry
    By Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 9909:032,1999 (arXiv: hep-th/9908142)
    [2454 Total citations in HEP]
  6. 2010
    Large N field theories, string theory and gravity
    By Ofer Aharony (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Steven S. Gubser (Harvard U.), Juan Martin 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)
    [2012 Total citations in HEP]
  7. 1956
    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)
    [1957 Total citations in HEP]
  8. 1759
    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)
    [1763 Total citations in HEP]
  9. 1749
    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)
    [1753 Total citations in HEP]
  10. 1682
    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)
    [1685 Total citations in HEP]
  11. 1541
    String theory dynamics in various dimensions
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B443:85-126,1995 (arXiv: hep-th/9503124)
    [1543 Total citations in HEP]
  12. 1418
    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)
    [1419 Total citations in HEP]
  13. 1299
    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)
    [1304 Total citations in HEP]
  14. 1264
    Microscopic origin of the Bekenstein-Hawking entropy
    By Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara), Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B379:99-104,1996 (arXiv: hep-th/9601029)
    [1269 Total citations in HEP]
  15. 1225
    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)
    [1228 Total citations in HEP]
  16. 1201
    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)
    [1207 Total citations in HEP]
  17. 1160
    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)
    [1173 Total citations in HEP]
  18. 1104
    Strings in flat space and pp waves from N=4 superYang-Mills
    By David Eliecer Berenstein, Juan Martin Maldacena, Horatiu Stefan Nastase (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 0204:013,2002 (arXiv: hep-th/0202021)
    [1106 Total citations in HEP]
  19. 1057
    The Black hole in three-dimensional space-time
    By Maximo Banados (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago), Claudio Teitelboim (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Jorge Zanelli (CECS, Valdivia & Chile U., Santiago).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.69:1849-1851,1992 (arXiv: hep-th/9204099)
    [1059 Total citations in HEP]
  20. 1040
    Unity of superstring dualities
    By C.M. Hull (Queen Mary, U. of London), P.K. Townsend (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B438:109-137,1995 (arXiv: hep-th/9410167)
    [1040 Total citations in HEP]
  21. 1032
    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)
    [1034 Total citations in HEP]
  22. 1020
    Bound states of strings and p-branes
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B460:335-350,1996 (arXiv: hep-th/9510135)
    [1023 Total citations in HEP]
  23. 974
    Tasi lectures on D-branes
    By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    HEP Record (arXiv: hep-th/9611050)
    [975 Total citations in HEP]
  24. 965
    Strong coupling expansion of Calabi-Yau compactification
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B471:135-158,1996 (arXiv: hep-th/9602070)
    [967 Total citations in HEP]
  25. 921
    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)
    [926 Total citations in HEP]
  26. 910
    Hierarchies from fluxes in string compactifications
    By Steven B. Giddings (Santa Barbara, KITP & UC, Santa Barbara), Shamit Kachru (Santa Barbara, KITP & Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC), Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, KITP).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D66:106006,2002 (arXiv: hep-th/0105097)
    [913 Total citations in HEP]
  27. 899
    4-D gravity on a brane in 5-D Minkowski space
    By G.R. Dvali, Gregory Gabadadze, Massimo Porrati (New York U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B485:208-214,2000 (arXiv: hep-th/0005016)
    [912 Total citations in HEP]
  28. 887
    Cosmological constant: The Weight of the vacuum
    By T. Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.380:235-320,2003 (arXiv: hep-th/0212290)
    [890 Total citations in HEP]
  29. 833
    Out of this world supersymmetry breaking
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B557:79-118,1999 (arXiv: hep-th/9810155)
    [836 Total citations in HEP]
  30. 832
    Supergravity and a confining gauge theory: Duality cascades and chi SB resolution of naked singularities
    By Igor R. Klebanov (Princeton U.), Matthew J. Strassler (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 0008:052,2000 (arXiv: hep-th/0007191)
    [837 Total citations in HEP]
  31. 794
    Electric - magnetic duality in supersymmetric nonAbelian gauge theories
    By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B435:129-146,1995 (arXiv: hep-th/9411149)
    [795 Total citations in HEP]
  32. 775
    D-branes, quivers, and ALE instantons
    By Michael R. Douglas (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Gregory W. Moore (Yale U.).
    HEP Record (arXiv: hep-th/9603167)
    [775 Total citations in HEP]
  33. 763
    Evanescent black holes
    By Curtis G. Callan, Jr. (Princeton U.), Steven B. Giddings (UC, Santa Barbara), Jeffrey A. Harvey (Chicago U., EFI), Andrew Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D45:1005-1009,1992 (arXiv: hep-th/9111056)
    [763 Total citations in HEP]
  34. 749
    Nonconventional cosmology from a brane universe
    By Pierre Binetruy, Cedric Deffayet (Orsay), David Langlois (Meudon Observ.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B565:269-287,2000 (arXiv: hep-th/9905012)
    [753 Total citations in HEP]
  35. 735
    Brane cosmological evolution in a bulk with cosmological constant
    By Pierre Binetruy, Cedric Deffayet, Ulrich Ellwanger (Orsay, LPT), David Langlois (Meudon Observ.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B477:285-291,2000 (arXiv: hep-th/9910219)
    [737 Total citations in HEP]
  36. 732
    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)
    [737 Total citations in HEP]
  37. 697
    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)
    [706 Total citations in HEP]
  38. 694
    Evidence for F theory
    By Cumrun Vafa (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B469:403-418,1996 (arXiv: hep-th/9602022)
    [694 Total citations in HEP]
  39. 688
    Dielectric branes
    By Robert C. Myers (Santa Barbara, KITP & McGill U.).
    Published in:JHEP 9912:022,1999 (arXiv: hep-th/9910053)
    [690 Total citations in HEP]
  40. 686
    Wilson loops in large N field theories
    By Juan Martin Maldacena (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.80:4859-4862,1998 (arXiv: hep-th/9803002)
    [689 Total citations in HEP]
  41. 663
    D-branes and the noncommutative torus
    By Michael R. Douglas (IHES, Bures-sur-Yvette & Rutgers U., Piscataway), Christopher M. Hull (Queen Mary, U. of London & Ecole Normale Superieure).
    Published in:JHEP 9802:008,1998 (arXiv: hep-th/9711165)
    [664 Total citations in HEP]
  42. 640
    Quantum field theory on noncommutative spaces
    By Richard J. Szabo (Heriot-Watt U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.378:207-299,2003 (arXiv: hep-th/0109162)
    [645 Total citations in HEP]
  43. 633
    Phases of N=2 theories in two-dimensions
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B403:159-222,1993 (arXiv: hep-th/9301042)
    [639 Total citations in HEP]
  44. 615
    Reheating after inflation
    By Lev Kofman (Hawaii U.), Andrei D. Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Alexei A. Starobinsky (Kyoto U., Yukawa Inst., Uji & Landau Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.73:3195-3198,1994 (arXiv: hep-th/9405187)
    [616 Total citations in HEP]
  45. 613
    Type IIB superstrings, BPS monopoles, and three-dimensional gauge dynamics
    By Amihay Hanany, Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B492:152-190,1997 (arXiv: hep-th/9611230)
    [613 Total citations in HEP]
  46. 606
    Macroscopic strings as heavy quarks in large N gauge theory and anti-de Sitter supergravity
    By Soo-Jong Rey, Jung-Tay Yee (Seoul Natl. U.).
    Published in:Eur.Phys.J.C22:379-394,2001 (arXiv: hep-th/9803001)
    [609 Total citations in HEP]
  47. 603
    Target space duality in string theory
    By Amit Giveon (Hebrew U.), Massimo Porrati (New York U.), Eliezer Rabinovici (Hebrew U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.244:77-202,1994 (arXiv: hep-th/9401139)
    [603 Total citations in HEP]
  48. 592
    Weak scale superstrings
    By Joseph D. Lykken (Fermilab).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D54:3693-3697,1996 (arXiv: hep-th/9603133)
    [592 Total citations in HEP]
  49. 580
    A Large N reduced model as superstring
    By N. Ishibashi, H. Kawai (KEK, Tsukuba), Y. Kitazawa (Tokyo Inst. Tech.), A. Tsuchiya (KEK, Tsukuba).
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.B498:467-491,1997 (arXiv: hep-th/9612115)
    [584 Total citations in HEP]
  50. 579
    Rolling tachyon
    By Ashoke Sen (Harish-Chandra Res. Inst. & Penn State U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0204:048,2002 (arXiv: hep-th/0203211)
    [580 Total citations in HEP]