This is a list of High Energy Physics articles with the most citations in the SPIRES-HEP (PREPRINT) database since January 1, 1993. Positions are based on the number of citations in the database between January 1, 1993 and December 31, 1995. Journal articles with more than 230 citations are included. The status of this information has changed over time. For your convenience, pointers to the number of citations between January 1, 1993 and today are included.
See also the 'All-Time Favorites' list, the list of most cited e-prints, and a review of the most-cited HEP articles 1995/1996 edition.
a) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PROPERTIES
Particle Data Group
(K. Hikasa et al.)
Phys. Rev. D45 (1992) S1
1154 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
b) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PROPERTIES
Particle Data Group
(L. Montanet et al.)
Phys. Rev. D50 (1994) 1173-1823
1030 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
1) SUPERSYMMETRY, SUPERGRAVITY AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
H.P. Nilles (Geneva U. & CERN)
Phys. Rept. 110 (1984) 1-162.
486 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
2) THE SEARCH FOR SUPERSYMMETRY: PROBING PHYSICS
BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL
H.E. Haber (UC, Santa Cruz & SLAC), G.L. Kane (Michigan U.)
Phys. Rept. 117 (1985) 75-263.
450 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
3) STRUCTURE IN THE COBE DMR FIRST YEAR MAPS
COBE Collaboration
(G.F. Smoot et al.)
Astrophys. J. 396 (1992) L1-L5.
426 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
4) WEAK DECAYS OF HEAVY MESONS IN THE STATIC QUARK
APPROXIMATION
N. Isgur (Toronto U.), M.B. Wise (Cal Tech)
Phys. Lett. B232 (1989) 113-117.
407 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
5) THE LUND MONTE CARLO FOR JET FRAGMENTATION
AND E+ E- PHYSICS:
JETSET VERSION 6.3, AN UPDATE
T. Sjostrand, M. Bengtsson (Lund U.)
Comput. Phys. Commun. 43 (1987) 367-379.
404 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
6) COMPARISON OF GRAND UNIFIED THEORIES WITH
ELECTROWEAK AND STRONG
COUPLING CONSTANTS MEASURED AT LEP
U. Amaldi (CERN), W. de Boer, H. Furstenau (Karlsruhe U., IEKP)
Phys. Lett. B260 (1991) 447-455.
400 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
7) WEAK TRANSITION FORM FACTORS BETWEEN HEAVY MESONS
N. Isgur (Toronto U.), M.B. Wise (Cal Tech)
Phys. Lett. B237 (1990) 527-530.
387 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
8) IMPLICATIONS OF PRECISION ELECTROWEAK EXPERIMENTS
FOR M(T), RHO(0),
SIN**2-THETA(W) AND GRAND UNIFICATION
P. Langacker, M-X. Luo (Penn U.)
Phys. Rev. D44 (1991) 817-822.
383 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
9) ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM IN PARTON LANGUAGE
G. Altarelli (Ecole Normale Superieure, LPT), G. Parisi (IHES, Bures)
Nucl. Phys. B126 (1977) 298-318.
371 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
10) A MODEL OF LEPTONS
S. Weinberg (MIT, LNS)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 19 (1967) 1264-1266.
363 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
11) QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP)
Nucl. Phys. B147 (1979) 385-447.
360 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
12) DYNAMICAL MODEL OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES BASED ON
AN ANALOGY WITH SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. I.
Y. Nambu, G. Jona-Lasinio (Chicago U., EFI)
Phys. Rev. 122 (1961) 345-358.
337 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
13) CP VIOLATION IN THE RENORMALIZABLE THEORY OF
WEAK INTERACTION
M. Kobayashi, T. Maskawa (Kyoto U.)
Progr. Theor. Phys. 49 (1973) 652-657.
333 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
14) PARTICLE CREATION BY BLACK HOLES
S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U., DAMTP)
Commun. Math. Phys. 43 (1975) 199-220.
331 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
15) CHIRAL PERTURBATION THEORY TO ONE LOOP
J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN)
Ann. Phys. (N.Y.) 158 (1984) 142-210.
329 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
16) COMPUTATION OF THE QUANTUM EFFECTS DUE TO A
FOUR-DIMENSIONAL PSEUDOPARTICLE
G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. D14 (1976) 3432-3450
(and erratum - ibid. D18 (1978) 2199).
305 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
17) CHIRAL PERTURBATION THEORY: EXPANSIONS IN THE MASS
OF THE STRANGE QUARK
J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN)
Nucl. Phys. B250 (1985) 465-516.
302 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
18) AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SPIN STRUCTURE OF THE PROTON
IN DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING OF POLARIZED MUONS ON
POLARIZED PROTONS
European Muon Collaboration
(J. Ashman et al.)
Nucl. Phys. B328 (1989) 1-35.
298 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
19) ON STRING THEORY AND BLACK HOLES
E. Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study)
Phys. Rev. D44 (1991) 314-324.
295 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
20) NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS IN MATTER
L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon U.)
Phys. Rev. D17 (1978) 2369-2374.
295 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
21) THE LUND MONTE CARLO FOR JET FRAGMENTATION
AND E+ E- PHYSICS: JETSET VERSION 6.2
T. Sjostrand (Lund U.)
Comput. Phys. Commun. 39 (1986) 347-407.
291 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
22) INFINITE CONFORMAL SYMMETRY IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL
QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
A.A. Belavin, A.M. Polyakov, A.B. Zamolodchikov
(Landau Inst.)
Nucl. Phys. B241 (1984) 333-380.
291 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
23) QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND THE JONES POLYNOMIAL
E. Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study)
Commun. Math. Phys. 121 (1989) 351-399.
289 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
24) PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS UPDATED
A.D. Martin, W.J. Stirling (Durham U.), R.G. Roberts (Rutherford)
Phys. Lett. B306 (1993) 145-150
(and erratum - ibid. B309 (1993) 492).
287 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
25) EVIDENCE FOR TOP QUARK PRODUCTION IN ANTI-P P
COLLISIONS AT S**(1/2) = 1.8-TEV
CDF Collaboration
(F. Abe et al.)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 73 (1994) 225-231
e-Print Archive: hep-ex/9405005
284 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
26) A MEASUREMENT OF THE SPIN ASYMMETRY AND
DETERMINATION OF THE STRUCTURE FUNCTION G(1) IN DEEP
INELASTIC MUON - PROTON SCATTERING
European Muon Collaboration
(J. Ashman et al.)
Phys. Lett. B206 (1988) 364-370.
278 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
27) QUARK MASSES
J. Gasser, H. Leutwyler (Bern U.)
Phys. Rept. 87 (1982) 77-169.
275 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
28) THE POMERANCHUK SINGULARITY IN NONABELIAN GAUGE THEORIES
E.A. Kuraev, L.N. Lipatov, V.S. Fadin (Novosibirsk, IYF)
Zh. Eksp. Teor. Fiz.72 (1977) 377-389,
Sov. Phys. JETP 45 (1977) 199-204.
275 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
29) AN EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY FOR HEAVY QUARKS AT
LOW ENERGIES
H. Georgi (Harvard U.)
Phys. Lett. B240 (1990) 447-450.
270 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
30) QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. APPLICATIONS
M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP)
Nucl. Phys. B147 (1979) 448-518.
269 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
31) THE POMERANCHUK SINGULARITY IN QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
Ya.Ya. Balitskii, L.N. Lipatov (St. Petersburg, INP)
Yad. Fiz. 28 (1978) 1597-1611,
Sov. J. Nucl. Phys. 28 (1978) 822-829.
269 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
32) PHENOMENOLOGICAL LAGRANGIANS
S. Weinberg (Harvard U. and Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.)
Physica 96A (1979) 327
268 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
33) NEW CONSTRAINT ON A STRONGLY INTERACTING HIGGS
SECTOR
M.E. Peskin, T. Takeuchi (SLAC)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 65 (1990) 964-967.
260 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
34) EVANESCENT BLACK HOLES
C.G. Callan, Jr (Princeton U.), S.B. Giddings
(UC, Santa Barbara), J.A. Harvey (Chicago U., EFI),
A. Strominger (UC, Santa Barbara)
Phys. Rev. D45 (1992) 1005-1009
e-Print Archive: hep-th/9111056
257 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
35) SEMILEPTONIC B AND D DECAYS IN THE QUARK MODEL
N. Isgur, D. Scora (Toronto U.), B. Grinstein, M.B. Wise
(Cal Tech)
Phys. Rev. D39 (1989) 799
252 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
36) INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO
THE HORIZON AND FLATNESS PROBLEMS
A. H. Guth (SLAC)
Phys. Rev. D23 (1981) 347-356.
252 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
37) SYMMETRY BREAKING THROUGH BELL-JACKIW ANOMALIES
G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 37 (1976) 8-11.
250 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
38) ON ANOMALOUS ELECTROWEAK BARYON NUMBER
NONCONSERVATION IN THE EARLY UNIVERSE
V.A. Kuzmin, V.A. Rubakov (Moscow, INR), M.E. Shaposhnikov (ICTP,
Trieste)
Phys. Lett. B155 (1985) 36-42.
248 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
39) EXCLUSIVE NONLEPTONIC DECAYS OF D, D(S), AND B MESONS
M. Bauer, B. Stech (Heidelberg U., ITP), M. Wirbel (Dortmund U.)
Z. Phys. C34 (1987) 103
246 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
40) PARTIAL SYMMETRIES OF WEAK INTERACTIONS
S.L. Glashow (Copenhagen U.)
Nucl. Phys. 22 (1961) 579-588.
244 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
41) Q-DIFFERENCE ANALOGUE OF U(G) AND THE
YANG-BAXTER EQUATION
M. Jimbo (Kyoto U., RIMS)
Lett. Math. Phys. 10 (1985) 63-69.
243 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
42) PROBING THE DESERT USING GAUGE COUPLING UNIFICATION
J. Ellis (CERN), S. Kelley, D.V. Nanopoulos
(Texas A-M & HARC, Woodlands)
Phys. Lett. B260 (1991) 131-137.
239 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
43) ON GAUGE INVARIANCE AND VACUUM POLARIZATION
J. Schwinger (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. 82 (1951) 664
238 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
44) NONABELIAN BOSONIZATION IN TWO-DIMENSIONS
E. Witten (Princeton U.)
Commun. Math. Phys. 92 (1984) 455-472.
237 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
45) RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS AS THE ORIGIN OF
SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING
S. Coleman, E. Weinberg (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. D7 (1973) 1888-1910.
235 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
46) CONFORMAL FIELD THEORY AND 2-D QUANTUM GRAVITY
J. Distler, H. Kawai (Cornell U., LNS)
Nucl. Phys. B321 (1989) 509-527.
233 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
47) THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP AND THE EPSILON EXPANSION
K.G. Wilson (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Cornell U., LNS)
Phys. Rept. 12 (1974) 75-200.
233 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
48) PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS REDUX
T.P. Walker (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. &
Ohio State U.), G. Steigman (Ohio State U.), D.N. Schramm
(Chicago U. & Fermilab), K.A. Olive (Minnesota U. & Annecy, LAPP),
H.S. Kang (Ohio State U.)
Astrophys. J. 376 (1991) 51-69.
232 citations between Jan 1, 93 and Dec 31, 95.
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 93 and today is here. Total number of citations for this article is here.)
