Top Cited HEP Articles

Most Cited High Energy Physics Articles
1994 - 1996

Articles with most citations in SPIRES-HEP database


Positions are based on the number of citations in the SPIRES-HEP database at SLAC between January 1, 1994 and December 31, 1996. The situation may change with time. For your convenience, pointers to the number of citations between January 1, 1994 and today are also added.

See also the 'All-Time Favorites' list, a list of the most cited e-prints, and a review of the most-cited HEP articles 1994 - 1996.


In a category of its own:


a) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PROPERTIES
By Particle Data Group ( L. Montanet et al.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D50:1173-1823,1994

1919 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

b) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PROPERTIES
By Particle Data Group ( K. Hikasa et al.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D45:S1,1992 (Erratum-ibid D46:5210,1992)

635 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

c) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS
By Particle Data Group (R.M. Barnett et al.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D54:1-720,1996

254 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

Other most cited papers:


1) SUPERSYMMETRY, SUPERGRAVITY AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
By H.P. Nilles (Geneva U. & CERN).
Published in Phys.Rept.110:1,1984

547 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

2) THE SEARCH FOR SUPERSYMMETRY: PROBING PHYSICS BEYOND THE STANDARD MODEL
By Howard E. Haber (UC, Santa Cruz & SLAC), G.L. Kane (Michigan U.).
Published in Phys.Rept.117:75,1985

525 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

3) ELECTRIC - MAGNETIC DUALITY, MONOPOLE CONDENSATION, AND CONFINEMENT IN N=2 SUPERSYMMETRIC YANG-MILLS THEORY
By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), E. Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B426:19-52,1994 (Erratum-ibid B430:485-486,1994)
e-Print Archive: hep-th/9407087

465 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

4) OBSERVATION OF THE TOP QUARK
By D0 Collaboration (S. Abachi et al.).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.74:2632-2637,1995
e-Print Archive: hep-ex/9503003

462 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

5) ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM IN PARTON LANGUAGE
By G. Altarelli (Ecole Normale Superieure), G. Parisi (IHES, Bures).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B126:298,1977

460 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

6) OBSERVATION OF TOP QUARK PRODUCTION IN ANTI-P P COLLISIONS
By CDF Collaboration (F. Abe et al.).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.74:2626-2631,1995
e-Print Archive: hep-ex/9503002

458 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

7) THE LUND MONTE CARLO FOR JET FRAGMENTATION AND E+ E- PHYSICS: JETSET VERSION 6.3: AN UPDATE
By Torbjorn Sjostrand, Mats Bengtsson (Lund U.).
Published in Comput.Phys.Commun.43:367,1987

407 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

8) QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
By M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B147:385,1979

396 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

9) STRING THEORY DYNAMICS IN VARIOUS DIMENSIONS
By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B443:85-126,1995
e-Print Archive: hep-th/9503124

384 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

10) WEAK DECAYS OF HEAVY MESONS IN THE STATIC QUARK APPROXIMATION
By Nathan Isgur (Toronto U.), Mark B. Wise (Cal Tech).
Published in Phys.Lett.B232:113,1989

367 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

11) MONOPOLES, DUALITY AND CHIRAL SYMMETRY BREAKING IN N=2 SUPERSYMMETRIC QCD
By N. Seiberg (Rutgers U., Piscataway & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), E. Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B431:484-550,1994
e-Print Archive: hep-th/9408099

364 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

12) PARTICLE CREATION BY BLACK HOLES
By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U., DAMTP).
Published in Commun.Math.Phys.43:199-220,1975

362 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

13) EVIDENCE FOR TOP QUARK PRODUCTION IN ANTI-P P COLLISIONS AT S**(1/2) = 1.8-TEV
By CDF Collaboration (F. Abe et al.).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.73:225-231,1994
e-Print Archive: hep-ex/9405005

358 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

14) THE POMERANCHUK SINGULARITY IN QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
By Ya.Ya. Balitskii, L.N. Lipatov (St. Petersburg, INP).
Published in Sov.J.Nucl.Phys.28:822-829,1978 (Yad.Fiz.28:1597-1611,1978)

355 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

15) CHIRAL PERTURBATION THEORY TO ONE LOOP
By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).
Published in Annals Phys.158:142,1984

347 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

16) STRUCTURE IN THE COBE DMR FIRST YEAR MAPS
By COBE Collaboration ( G.F. Smoot et al.).
Published in Astrophys.J.396:L1-L5,1992

346 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

17) CHIRAL PERTURBATION THEORY: EXPANSIONS IN THE MASS OF THE STRANGE QUARK
By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B250:465,1985

341 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

18) THE POMERANCHUK SINGULARITY IN NONABELIAN GAUGE THEORIES
By E.A. Kuraev, L.N. Lipatov, V.S. Fadin (Novosibirsk, IYF).
Published in Zh.Eksp.Teor.Fiz.72:377-389,1977 (Sov.Phys.JETP 45:199-204,1977)

341 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

19) CP VIOLATION IN THE RENORMALIZABLE THEORY OF WEAK INTERACTION
By M. Kobayashi, T. Maskawa (Kyoto U.).
Published in Prog.Theor.Phys.49:652-657,1973

341 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

20) WEAK TRANSITION FORM-FACTORS BETWEEN HEAVY MESONS
By Nathan Isgur (Toronto U.), Mark B. Wise (Cal Tech).
Published in Phys.Lett.B237:527,1990

340 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

21) A MODEL OF LEPTONS
By S. Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967

339 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

22) EVIDENCE FOR TOP QUARK PRODUCTION IN ANTI-P P COLLISIONS AT S**(1/2) = 1.8-TEV
By CDF Collaboration (F. Abe et al.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D50:2966-3026,1994

334 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

23) DYNAMICAL MODEL OF ELEMENTARY PARTICLES BASED ON AN ANALOGY WITH SUPERCONDUCTIVITY. I
By Y. Nambu, G. Jona-Lasinio (Chicago U., EFI).
Published in Phys.Rev.122:345-358,1961

332 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

24) PARTON DISTRIBUTIONS UPDATED
By A.D. Martin, W.J. Stirling (Durham U.), R.G. Roberts (Rutherford).
Published in Phys.Lett.B306:145-150,1993 (Erratum-ibid B309:492,1993)

324 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

25) COMPARISON OF GRAND UNIFIED THEORIES WITH ELECTROWEAK AND STRONG COUPLING CONSTANTS MEASURED AT LEP
By Ugo Amaldi (CERN), Wim de Boer, Hermann Furstenau (Karlsruhe U., IEKP).
Published in Phys.Lett.B260:447-455,1991

323 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

26) UNITY OF SUPERSTRING DUALITIES
By C.M. Hull (Queen Mary - Westfield Coll.), P.K. Townsend (Cambridge U., DAMTP).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B438:109-137,1995
e-Print Archive: hep-th/9410167

319 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

27) NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS IN MATTER
By L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D17:2369,1978

313 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

28) HERWIG: A MONTE CARLO EVENT GENERATOR FOR SIMULATING HADRON EMISSION REACTIONS WITH INTERFERING GLUONS. VERSION 5.1 - APRIL 1991
By G. Marchesini (Parma U. & INFN, Parma), B.R. Webber (Cambridge U., Cavendish Lab), G. Abbiendi (Padua U. & INFN, Padua), I.G. Knowles (Glasgow U.), M.H. Seymour (Cambridge U., Cavendish Lab), L. Stanco (Padua U. & INFN, Padua).
Published in Comput.Phys.Commun.67:465-508,1992

311 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

29) COMPUTATION OF THE QUANTUM EFFECTS DUE TO A FOUR-DIMENSIONAL PSEUDOPARTICLE
By G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D14:3432,1976 (Erratum-ibid D18:2199,1978)

310 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

30) PHENOMENOLOGICAL LAGRANGIANS
By Steven Weinberg (Harvard U. & Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys.).
Published in Physica 96A:327,1979

302 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

31) IMPLICATIONS OF PRECISION ELECTROWEAK EXPERIMENTS FOR M(T), RHO(0), SIN**2-THETA(W) AND GRAND UNIFICATION
By Paul Langacker, Ming-xing Luo (Penn U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.D44:817-822,1991

298 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

32) THE LUND MONTE CARLO FOR JET FRAGMENTATION AND E+ E- PHYSICS: JETSET VERSION 6.2
By Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund U.).
Published in Comput.Phys.Commun.39:347-407,1986

293 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

33) AN INVESTIGATION OF THE SPIN STRUCTURE OF THE PROTON IN DEEP INELASTIC SCATTERING OF POLARIZED MUONS ON POLARIZED PROTONS
By European Muon Collaboration ( J. Ashman et al.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B328:1,1989

285 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

34) QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. APPLICATIONS
By M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B147:448,1979

285 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

35) INFINITE CONFORMAL SYMMETRY IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
By A.A. Belavin, A.M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.), A.B. Zamolodchikov (CERN & Landau Inst.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.B241:333-380,1984

283 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

36) PARTIAL SYMMETRIES OF WEAK INTERACTIONS
By S.L. Glashow (Copenhagen U.).
Published in Nucl.Phys.22:579-588,1961

274 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

37) THE RENORMALIZATION GROUP AND THE EPSILON EXPANSION
By K.G. Wilson (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Cornell U., LNS), J. Kogut (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
Published in Phys.Rept.12:75-200,1974

268 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

38) DEEP INELASTIC E P SCATTERING IN PERTURBATION THEORY
By V.N. Gribov, L.N. Lipatov (St. Petersburg, INP).
Published in Sov.J.Nucl.Phys.15:438-450,1972 (Yad.Fiz.15:781-807,1972)

266 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

39) DIRICHLET BRANES AND RAMOND-RAMOND CHARGES
By Joseph Polchinski (Santa Barbara, ITP).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.75:4724-4727,1995
e-Print Archive: hep-th/9510017

264 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

40) QUARK MASSES
By J. Gasser, H. Leutwyler (Bern U.).
Published in Phys.Rept.87:77-169,1982

262 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

41) ON GAUGE INVARIANCE AND VACUUM POLARIZATION
By Julian Schwinger (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.82:664-679,1951

257 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

42) ON THE VIABILITY OF LATTICE PERTURBATION THEORY
By G.Peter Lepage (Cornell U., LNS), Paul B. Mackenzie (Fermilab).
Published in Phys.Rev.D48:2250-2264,1993
e-Print Archive: hep-lat/9209022

252 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

43) A MEASUREMENT OF THE SPIN ASYMMETRY AND DETERMINATION OF THE STRUCTURE FUNCTION G(1) IN DEEP INELASTIC MUON - PROTON SCATTERING
By European Muon Collaboration ( J. Ashman et al.).
Published in Phys.Lett.206B:364,1988

251 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

44) QUANTUM FIELD THEORY AND THE JONES POLYNOMIAL
By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
Published in Commun.Math.Phys.121:351,1989

249 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

45) AN EFFECTIVE FIELD THEORY FOR HEAVY QUARKS AT LOW-ENERGIES
By Howard Georgi (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Lett.B240:447-450,1990

248 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

46) SYMMETRY BREAKING THROUGH BELL-JACKIW ANOMALIES
By G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.).
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.37:8-11,1976

248 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

47) 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)

244 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

48) PRIMORDIAL NUCLEOSYNTHESIS REDUX
By Terry P. Walker (Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & Ohio State U.), Gary Steigman (Ohio State U.), David N. Schramm (Chicago U. & Fermilab), Keith A. Olive (Minnesota U. & Annecy, LAPP), Ho-Shik Kang (Ohio State U.).
Published in Astrophys.J.376:51-69,1991

237 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

49) SEMILEPTONIC B AND D DECAYS IN THE QUARK MODEL
By Nathan Isgur, Daryl Scora (Toronto U.), Benjamin Grinstein, Mark B. Wise (Cal Tech).
Published in Phys.Rev.D39:799,1989

234 citations between Jan 1, 94 and Dec 31, 96
(Number of citations between Jan 1, 94 and today is here.
Total number of citations is here)

1996/1997 Edition by H. Galic
Compiled December 31, 1996
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