Positions are based on the number of citations in the HEP database [SLAC-SPIRES] between 1974 and 1995 (including both boundary years). Journal articles with more than 1000 citations are included. The situation may change with time. For your convenience, pointers to today's number of citations are also added.
See also the list of journal articles with the most citations in 1993, 1994, 1995, a list of the most cited e-prints as of December 31, 1995, and a review of the most cited HEP articles 1995/1996 edition.
1) A MODEL OF LEPTONS
S. Weinberg (MIT, LNS)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 19 (1967) 1264-1266.
4480 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
2) WEAK INTERACTIONS WITH LEPTON - HADRON SYMMETRY
S.L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, L. Maiani (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. D2 (1970) 1285-1292.
2560 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
3) CP VIOLATION IN THE RENORMALIZABLE THEORY OF
WEAK INTERACTION
M. Kobayashi, T. Maskawa (Kyoto U.)
Progr. Theor. Phys. 49 (1973) 652-657.
2509 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
4) UNITY OF ALL ELEMENTARY PARTICLE FORCES
H. Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 32 (1974) 438-441.
2086 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
5) PARTIAL SYMMETRIES OF WEAK INTERACTIONS
S.L. Glashow (Copenhagen U.)
Nucl. Phys. 22 (1961) 579-588.
1982 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
6) CONFINEMENT OF QUARKS
K. G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS)
Phys. Rev. D10 (1974) 2445-2459.
1964 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
7) ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM IN PARTON LANGUAGE
G. Altarelli (Ecole Normale Superieure, LPT), G. Parisi (IHES, Bures)
Nucl. Phys. B126 (1977) 298-318.
1739 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
8) LEPTON NUMBER AS THE FOURTH COLOR
J. C. Pati (Maryland U.), A. Salam (ICTP, Trieste & Imperial Coll.,
London)
Phys. Rev. D10 (1974) 275-289.
1678 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
9) QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS
M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP)
Nucl. Phys. B147 (1979) 385-447.
1587 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
10) RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS AS THE ORIGIN OF
SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING
S. Coleman, E. Weinberg (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. D7 (1973) 1888-1910.
1584 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
11) 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).
1579 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
12) 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.
1572 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
13) RELIABLE PERTURBATIVE RESULTS FOR STRONG
INTERACTIONS?
H.D. Politzer (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 30 (1973) 1346-1349.
1542 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
14) 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.
1458 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
15) SYMMETRY BREAKING THROUGH BELL-JACKIW ANOMALIES
G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 37 (1976) 8-11.
1457 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
16) VACUUM CONFIGURATIONS FOR SUPERSTRINGS
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.
1433 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
17) QUANTUM GEOMETRY OF BOSONIC STRINGS
A.M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.)
Phys. Lett. B103 (1981) 207-210.
1423 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
18) ULTRAVIOLET BEHAVIOR OF NON-ABELIAN
GAUGE THEORIES
D.J. Gross, F. Wilczek (Princeton U.)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 30 (1973) 1343-1346.
1416 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
19) AXIAL-VECTOR VERTEX IN SPINOR ELECTRODYNAMICS
S.L. Adler (Princeton U.)
Phys. Rev. 177 (1969) 2426
1400 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
20) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PROPERTIES. PARTICLE DATA GROUP
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
1364 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
21) SUPERCOLLIDER PHYSICS
E. Eichten (Fermilab), I. Hinchliffe (LBL, Berkeley), K.
Lane (Ohio State U.), C. Quigg (Fermilab)
Rev. Mod. Phys. 56 (1984) 579-707.
1342 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
22) INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO
THE HORIZON AND FLATNESS PROBLEMS
A. H. Guth (SLAC)
Phys. Rev. D23 (1981) 347-356.
1334 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
23) REGULARIZATION AND RENORMALIZATION OF GAUGE
FIELDS
G. 't Hooft, M. Veltman (Utrecht U.)
Nucl. Phys. B44 (1972) 189-213.
1321 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
24) PSEUDOPARTICLE SOLUTIONS OF THE YANG-MILLS
EQUATIONS
A.A Belavin, A.M. Polyakov, A.S. Schwartz, Yu.S. Tyupkin
(Landau Inst.)
Phys. Lett. B59 (1975) 85-87.
1287 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
25) SUPERSYMMETRY, SUPERGRAVITY AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
H.P. Nilles (Geneva U. & CERN)
Phys. Rept. 110 (1984) 1-162.
1264 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
26) HADRON MASSES IN A GAUGE THEORY
A. De Rujula, H. Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. D12 (1975) 147-162.
1261 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
27) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PROPERTIES. PARTICLE DATA GROUP
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.
1256 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
28) HETEROTIC STRING THEORY. 1. THE FREE HETEROTIC STRING
D.J. Gross, J.A. Harvey, E. Martinec, R. Rohm (Princeton U.)
Nucl. Phys. B256 (1985) 253-284.
1200 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
29) 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.
1174 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
30) QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. APPLICATIONS
M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP)
Nucl. Phys. B147 (1979) 448-518.
1157 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
31) A NEW EXTENDED MODEL OF HADRONS
A. Chodos, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, C.B. Thorn, V.F. Weisskopf
(MIT, LNS)
Phys. Rev. D9 (1974) 3471-3495.
1144 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
32) MAGNETIC MONOPOLES IN UNIFIED GAUGE THEORIES
G. 't Hooft (CERN)
Nucl. Phys. B79 (1974) 276-284.
1132 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
33) EXPERIMENTAL OBSERVATION OF A HEAVY PARTICLE J
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) 1404-1406.
1131 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
34) A PLANAR DIAGRAM THEORY FOR STRONG INTERACTIONS
G. 't Hooft (CERN)
Nucl. Phys. B72 (1974) 461-473.
1115 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
35) CONSEQUENCES OF ANOMALOUS WARD IDENTITIES
J. Wess (Karlsruhe U.), B. Zumino (CERN)
Phys. Lett. B37 (1971) 95
1108 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
36) ON GAUGE INVARIANCE AND VACUUM POLARIZATION
J. Schwinger (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. 82 (1951) 664-679.
1093 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
37) SYMMETRY BEHAVIOR AT FINITE TEMPERATURE
L. Dolan, R. Jackiw (MIT, LNS)
Phys. Rev. D9 (1974) 3320-3341.
1087 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
38) HIERARCHY OF INTERACTIONS IN UNIFIED GAUGE THEORIES
H. Georgi, H.R. Quinn, S. Weinberg (Harvard U.)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 33 (1974) 451-454.
1086 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
39) A PARAMETRIZATION OF THE PROPERTIES OF QUARK JETS
R.D. Field, R.P. Feynman (Cal Tech)
Nucl. Phys. B136 (1978) 1-76.
1070 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
40) ASYMPTOTICALLY FREE GAUGE THEORIES. I.
D.J. Gross, F. Wilczek (Princeton U.)
Phys. Rev. D8 (1973) 3633-3652.
1070 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
41) ANOMALY CANCELLATIONS IN SUPERSYMMETRIC
D = 10 GAUGE THEORY REQUIRE SO(32)
M.B. Green (Queen Mary - Westfield Coll. & Cal Tech), J.H.
Schwarz (Cal Tech)
Phys. Lett. B149 (1984) 117-122.
1065 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
42) QUARK MASSES
J. Gasser, H. Leutwyler (Bern U.)
Phys. Rept. 87 (1982) 77-169.
1062 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
43) DISCOVERY OF A NARROW RESONANCE IN E+ E-
ANNIHILATION
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) 1406-1408.
1053 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
44) CP CONSERVATION IN THE PRESENCE OF INSTANTONS
R.D. Peccei, H.R. Quinn (Stanford U., ITP)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 38 (1977) 1440-1443.
1044 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
45) THE HETEROTIC STRING
D.J. Gross, J.A. Harvey, E. Martinec, R. Rohm
(Princeton U.)
Phys. Rev. Lett. 54 (1985) 502-505.
1041 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
46) REVIEW OF PARTICLE PROPERTIES. PARTICLE DATA
GROUP
L. Montanet, K. Gieselmann (CERN), R.M. Barnett, D.E. Groom, T.G. Trippe, C.G. Wohl, B. Armstrong, G.S.
Wagman (LBL, Berkeley), H. Murayama (LBL, Berkeley & Tohoku U.), J. Stone (Boston U.), J.J. Hernandez (Valencia
U.), F.C. Porter (Cal Tech), R.J. Morrison (UC, Santa Barbara), A. Manohar (UC, San Diego), M. Aguilar- Benitez
(Madrid, CIEMAT), C. Caso, P. Lantero (Genoa U.), R.L. Crawford (Glasgow U.), M. Roos (Helsinki U. & INFN,
Florence), N.A. Tornqvist (Helsinki U.), K.G. Hayes (Hillsdale Coll.), G. Hohler (Karlsruhe U., IEKP), S. Kawabata
(KEK, Tsukuba), 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), A. Gurtu (Tata Inst.), K. Hikasa (Tohoku U.), G. Conforto (Urbino
U. & INFN, Florence), R.L. Workman (Virginia Tech), C. Grab (Zurich, ETH)
Phys. Rev. D50 (1994) 1173-1823.
1030 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
47) A PCAC PUZZLE: PI0 --> GAMMA GAMMA IN THE SIGMA MODEL
J.S. Bell, R. Jackiw (CERN)
Nuovo Cim. A60 (1969) 47-61.
1018 citations on December 31, 1995.
(Number of citations today)
