Top Cited HEP Articles

All-Time Favorites: High-Energy Physics papers

Articles with most citations in SPIRES-HEP database


Positions are based on August 15, 1994 analysis. This has probably changed with time. For your convenience, pointers to today's number of citations are added.

See also the list of journal articles with the most citations in 1992 - 1994 and a review of the most-cited HEP articles 1992 - 1994 edition.


1) A MODEL OF LEPTONS, by S. Weinberg (MIT, LNS), Phys. Rev. Lett. 19 (1967) 1264-1266.

4328 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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2) WEAK INTERACTIONS WITH LEPTON - HADRON SYMMETRY, by S.L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, L. Maiani (Harvard U.), Phys. Rev. D2 (1970) 1285-1292.

2497 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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3) CP VIOLATION IN THE RENORMALIZABLE THEORY OF WEAK INTERACTION, by M. Kobayashi, T. Maskawa (Kyoto U.), Progr. Theor. Phys. 49 (1973) 652-657.

2352 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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4) UNITY OF ALL ELEMENTARY PARTICLE FORCES, by H. Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 32 (1974) 438-441.

1997 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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5) PARTIAL SYMMETRIES OF WEAK INTERACTIONS, by S.L. Glashow (Copenhagen U.) Nucl. Phys. 22 (1961) 579-588.

1883 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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6) CONFINEMENT OF QUARKS, by K. G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS), Phys. Rev. D10 (1974) 2445-2459.

1827 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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7) LEPTON NUMBER AS THE FOURTH COLOR, by J. C. Pati (Maryland U.), A. Salam (ICTP, Trieste & Imperial Coll., London), Phys. Rev. D10 (1974) 275-289.

1550 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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8) ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM IN PARTON LANGUAGE, by G. Altarelli (Ecole Normale Superieure, LPT), G. Parisi (IHES, Bures), Nucl. Phys. B126 (1977) 298-318.

1519 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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9) RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS AS THE ORIGIN OF SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING, by S. Coleman, E. Weinberg (Harvard U.), Phys. Rev. D7 (1973) 1888-1910.

1477 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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10) RELIABLE PERTURBATIVE RESULTS FOR STRONG INTERACTIONS?, by H.D. Politzer (Harvard U.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 30 (1973) 1346-1349.

1472 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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11) INFINITE CONFORMAL SYMMETRY IN TWO-DIMENSIONAL QUANTUM FIELD THEORY, by A.A. Belavin, A.M. Polyakov, A.B. Zamolodchikov (Landau Inst.), Nucl. Phys. B241 (1984) 333-380.

1433 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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12) COMPUTATION OF THE QUANTUM EFFECTS DUE TO A FOUR-DIMENSIONAL PSEUDOPARTICLE, by G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.), Phys. Rev. D14 (1976) 3432-3450. (and erratum - ibid. D18 (1978) 2199).

1433 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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13) QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS, by M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP), Nucl. Phys. B147 (1979) 385-447.

1417 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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14) VACUUM CONFIGURATIONS FOR SUPERSTRINGS, by P. Candelas (Texas U. & Santa Barbara, ITP), G. T. Horowitz (UC, Santa Barbara), A. Strominger (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), E. Witten (Princeton U.), Nucl. Phys. B258 (1985) 46-74.

1365 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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15) ULTRAVIOLET BEHAVIOR OF NON-ABELIAN GAUGE THEORIES, by D.J. Gross, F. Wilczek (Princeton U.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 30 (1973) 1343-1346.

1352 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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16) SYMMETRY BREAKING THROUGH BELL-JACKIW ANOMALIES, by G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 37 (1976) 8-11.

1344 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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17) QUANTUM GEOMETRY OF BOSONIC STRINGS, by A.M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.), Phys. Lett. B103 (1981) 207-210.

1340 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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18) AXIAL-VECTOR VERTEX IN SPINOR ELECTRODYNAMICS, by S.L. Adler (Princeton U.), Phys. Rev. 177 (1969) 2426

1317 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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

1302 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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20) SUPERCOLLIDER PHYSICS, by E. Eichten (Fermilab), I. Hinchliffe (LBL, Berkeley), K. Lane (Ohio State U.), C. Quigg (Fermilab), Rev. Mod. Phys. 56 (1984) 579-707.

1274 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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21) REGULARIZATION AND RENORMALIZATION OF GAUGE FIELDS, by G. 't Hooft, M. Veltman (Utrecht U.), Nucl. Phys. B44 (1972) 189-213.

1226 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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22) INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE HORIZON AND FLATNESS PROBLEMS, by A. H. Guth (SLAC), Phys. Rev. D23 (1981) 347-356.

1225 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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23) HADRON MASSES IN A GAUGE THEORY, by A. De Rujula, H. Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.), Phys. Rev. D12 (1975) 147

1223 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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24) PSEUDOPARTICLE SOLUTIONS OF THE YANG-MILLS EQUATIONS, by A.A Belavin, A.M. Polyakov, A.S. Schwartz, Yu.S. Tyupkin (Landau Inst.), Phys. Lett. B59 (1975) 85-87.

1218 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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25) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PROPERTIES. PARTICLE DATA GROUP, by J.J. Hernandez, L. Montanet, K. Gieselmann, M. Aguilar-Benitez (Valencia U. & CERN & Madrid, CIEMAT), J. Stone (Boston U.), F.C. Porter (Cal Tech), R.J. Morrison (UC, Santa Barbara), G. Conforto, C. Caso, M. Roos, N.A. Tornqvist (Genoa U. & Helsinki U.), K.G. Hayes (Hillsdale Coll.), K.R. Schubert, G. Hohler (Karlsruhe U., IEKP), K. Hagiwara, K. Hikasa, S. Kawabata (KEK, Tsukuba), R.M. Barnett, J.J. Eastman, D.E. Groom, G.R. Lynch, A. Rittenberg, M. Suzuki, T.G. Trippe, C.G. Wohl, G.P. Yost, B. Armstrong, G.S. Wagman (LBL, Berkeley), K.A. Olive (Minnesota U.), R.E. Shrock (SUNY, Stony Brook), R.H. Schindler (SLAC), R.A. Eichler (Zurich, ETH), Phys. Lett. B239 (1990) 1-516.

1207 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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26) HETEROTIC STRING THEORY. 1. THE FREE HETEROTIC STRING, by D.J. Gross, J.A. Harvey, E. Martinec, R. Rohm (Princeton U.), Nucl. Phys. B256 (1985) 253-284.

1167 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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27) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PROPERTIES. PARTICLE DATA GROUP, by K. Hikasa, K. Hagiwara, S. Kawabata (KEK, Tsukuba), R.M. Barnett, D.E. Groom, T.G. Trippe, C.G. Wohl, G.P. Yost, B. Armstrong, G.S. Wagman (LBL, Berkeley), J. Stone (Boston U.), F.C. Porter (Cal Tech), R.J. Morrison (UC, Santa Barbara), R.E. Cutkosky (Carnegie Mellon U.), L. Montanet, K. Gieselmann (CERN), M. Aguilar-Benitez (Madrid, CIEMAT & CERN), C. Caso (Genoa U.), R.L. Crawford (Glasgow U.), M. Roos (Helsinki U. & INFN, Florence), N.A. Tornqvist (Helsinki U. & CERN), K.G. Hayes (Hillsdale Coll.), G. Hohler (Karlsruhe U., IEKP), D.M. Manley (Kent State U.), K.A. Olive (Minnesota U.), R.E. Shrock (SUNY, Stony Brook), S. Eidelman (Novosibirsk, IYF), R.H. Schindler (SLAC), J.J. Hernandez (Valencia U. & CERN), G. Conforto (Urbino U. & INFN, Florence), R.A. Eichler (Zurich, ETH), Phys. Rev. D45 (1992) S1

1123 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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28) EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF A HEAVY PARTICLE J, by J.J. Aubert, U. Becker, P.J. Biggs, J. Burger, M. Chen, G. Everhart, P. Goldhagen, J. Leong, T. McCorriston, T.G. Rhoades, M. Rohde, S.C.C. Ting, S.L. Wu (MIT, LNS), Y.Y. Lee (Brookhaven), Phys. Rev. Lett. 33 (1974) 1404

1109 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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29) A NEW EXTENDED MODEL OF HADRONS, by A. Chodos, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, C.B. Thorn, V.F. Weisskopf (MIT, LNS), Phys. Rev. D9 (1974) 3471

1089 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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30) MAGNETIC MONOPOLES IN UNIFIED GAUGE THEORIES, by G. 't Hooft (CERN), Nucl. Phys. B79 (1974) 276-284.

1080 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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31) ASYMPTOTICALLY FREE GAUGE THEORIES. I., by D.J. Gross, F. Wilczek (Princeton U.), Phys. Rev. D8 (1973) 3633-3652.

1037 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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32) DISCOVERY OF A NARROW RESONANCE IN E+ E- ANNIHILATION, by J.E. Augustin, A. Boyarski, M. Breidenbach, F. Bulos, J.T. Dakin, G.J. Feldman, G.E. Fischer, D. Fryberger, G. Hanson, B. Jean-Marie, R.R. Larsen, V. Luth, H.L. Lynch, D. Lyon, C.C. Morehouse, J.M. Paterson, M.L. Perl, B. Richter, P.A. Rapidis, R. Schwitters, W.M. Tanenbaum, F. Vannucci (SLAC), G.S. Abrams, D. Briggs, W. Chinowsky, C.E. Friedberg, G. Goldhaber, R.J. Hollebeek, J.A. Kadyk, B. Lulu, F. Pierre, G. Trilling, J.S. Whitaker, J. Wiss, J.E. Zipse (LBL, Berkeley & UC, Berkeley), Phys. Rev. Lett. 33 (1974) 1406

1033 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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33) QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. APPLICATIONS, by M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP), Nucl. Phys. B147 (1979) 448-518.

1032 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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34) HIERARCHY OF INTERACTIONS IN UNIFIED GAUGE THEORIES, by H. Georgi, H.R. Quinn, S. Weinberg (Harvard U.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 33 (1974) 451

1030 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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35) A PARAMETRIZATION OF THE PROPERTIES OF QUARK JETS, by R.D. Field, R.P. Feynman (Cal Tech), Nucl. Phys. B136 (1978) 1-76.

1029 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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36) THE HETEROTIC STRING, by D.J. Gross, J.A. Harvey, E. Martinec, R. Rohm (Princeton U.), Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 (1985) 502

1018 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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37) CONSEQUENCES OF ANOMALOUS WARD IDENTITIES, by J. Wess (Karlsruhe U.), B. Zumino (CERN), Phys. Lett. B37 (1971) 95

1014 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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38) ANOMALY CANCELLATIONS IN SUPERSYMMETRIC D = 10 GAUGE THEORY REQUIRE SO(32), by M.B. Green (Queen Mary - Westfield Coll. & Cal Tech), J.H. Schwarz (Cal Tech), Phys. Lett. B149 (1984) 117

1001 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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39) A PLANAR DIAGRAM THEORY FOR STRONG INTERACTIONS, by G. 't Hooft (CERN), Nucl. Phys. B72 (1974) 461-473.

1000 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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40) CP CONSERVATION IN THE PRESENCE OF INSTANTONS, by R.D. Peccei, H.R. Quinn (Stanford U., ITP), Phys. Rev. Lett. 38 (1977) 1440

992 citations (as of August 15, 1994).

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