Top Cited HEP A rticles

All Time Favorites for High Energy Physics Articles
1998 Edition

Articles with most citations in SPIRES-HEP database

Positions are based on the number of citations in the SPIRES-HEP database [SLAC-SPIRES] between 1974 and 1998 (including both boundary years). Journal articles with more than 1,000 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 1998 and a review of the most cited HEP articles in 1998.

In a category of its own:

  1. REVIEW OF PARTICLE PHYSICS.
    By Particle Data Group ( R.M.Barnett, et al.).
    Earlier editions were titled 'Review of Particle Properties.'
    Published in Phys.Rev.D54:1-720,1996
    2300 citations to this edition on December 31, 1998.
    11114 citations to the thirteen editions, 1974-1998, on December 31, 1998.
    (Number of citations to this edition today)
    (Number of citations to all editions today)

    Other most cited papers:

  2. A MODEL OF LEPTONS
    By S. Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.19:1264-1266,1967
    4863 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  3. 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
    2960 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  4. WEAK INTERACTIONS WITH LEPTON - HADRON SYMMETRY
    By S.L. Glashow, J. Iliopoulos, L. Maiani (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D2:1285-1292,1970
    2742 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  5. PARTIAL SYMMETRIES OF WEAK INTERACTIONS
    By S.L. Glashow (Copenhagen U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.22:579-588,1961
    2424 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  6. ASYMPTOTIC FREEDOM IN PARTON LANGUAGE
    By G. Altarelli (Ecole Normale Superieure), G. Parisi (IHES, Bures).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B126:298,1977
    2267 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  7. UNITY OF ALL ELEMENTARY PARTICLE FORCES
    By H. Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.32:438-441,1974
    2242 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  8. CONFINEMENT OF QUARKS
    By Kenneth G. Wilson (Cornell U., LNS).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D10:2445-2459,1974
    2193 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  9. QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. NONPERTURBATIVE EFFECTS IN OPERATOR EXPANSION
    By M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B147:385,1979
    2008 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  10. LEPTON NUMBER AS THE FOURTH COLOR
    By Jogesh C. Pati (Maryland U.), Abdus Salam (ICTP, Trieste & Imperial Coll., London).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D10:275-289,1974
    1933 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  11. COMPUTATION OF THE QUANTUM EFFECTS DUE TO A FOUR-DIMENSIONAL PSEUDOPARTICLE
    By G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D14:3432-3450,1976 (Erratum-ibid D18:2199,1978)
    1908 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  12. SUPERSYMMETRY, SUPERGRAVITY AND PARTICLE PHYSICS
    By H.P. Nilles (Geneva U. & CERN).
    Published in Phys.Rept.110:1,1984
    1883 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  13. 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
    1810 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  14. 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
    1799 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  15. 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
    1796 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  16. RADIATIVE CORRECTIONS AS THE ORIGIN OF SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING
    By S. Coleman, E. Weinberg (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D7:1888-1910,1973
    1753 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  17. RELIABLE PERTURBATIVE RESULTS FOR STRONG INTERACTIONS?
    By H.D. Politzer (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.30:1346-1349,1973
    1718 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  18. SYMMETRY BREAKING THROUGH BELL-JACKIW ANOMALIES
    By G. 't Hooft (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.37:8-11,1976
    1717 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  19. ULTRAVIOLET BEHAVIOR OF NONABELIAN GAUGE THEORIES
    By D.J. Gross, F. Wilczek (Princeton U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.30:1343-1346,1973
    1710 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  20. AXIAL VECTOR VERTEX IN SPINOR ELECTRODYNAMICS
    By S.L. Adler (Princeton U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.177:2426-2438,1969
    1588 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  21. REGULARIZATION AND RENORMALIZATION OF GAUGE FIELDS
    By G. 't Hooft, M. Veltman (Utrecht U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B44:189-213,1972
    1578 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  22. THE INFLATIONARY UNIVERSE: A POSSIBLE SOLUTION TO THE HORIZON AND FLATNESS PROBLEMS
    By Alan H. Guth (SLAC).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D23:347-356,1981
    1570 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  23. QUANTUM GEOMETRY OF BOSONIC STRINGS
    By A.M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.).
    Published in Phys.Lett.103B:207-210,1981
    1559 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  24. VACUUM CONFIGURATIONS FOR SUPERSTRINGS
    By P. Candelas (Texas U. & Santa Barbara, ITP), Gary T. Horowitz (UC, Santa Barbara), Andrew Strominger (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B258:46-74,1985
    1531 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  25. SUPER COLLIDER PHYSICS
    By E. Eichten (Fermilab), I. Hinchliffe (LBL, Berkeley), K. Lane (Ohio State U.), C. Quigg (Fermilab).
    Published in Rev.Mod.Phys.56:579-707,1984 (Addendum-ibid 58:1065-1073,1986)
    1490 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  26. QCD AND RESONANCE PHYSICS. VECTOR NONET
    By M.A. Shifman, A.I. Vainshtein, V.I. Zakharov (Moscow, ITEP).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B147:448,1979
    1453 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  27. PSEUDOPARTICLE SOLUTIONS OF THE YANG-MILLS EQUATIONS
    By A.A Belavin, A.M. Polyakov, A.S. Shvarts, Yu.S. Tyupkin (Landau Inst.).
    Published in Phys.Lett.59B:85-87,1975
    1439 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  28. A PLANAR DIAGRAM THEORY FOR STRONG INTERACTIONS
    By G. 't Hooft (CERN).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B72:461,1974
    1400 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  29. ON GAUGE INVARIANCE AND VACUUM POLARIZATION
    By Julian Schwinger (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.82:664-679,1951
    1388 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  30. HADRON MASSES IN A GAUGE THEORY
    By A. De Rujula, Howard Georgi, S.L. Glashow (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D12:147-162,1975
    1348 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  31. MAGNETIC MONOPOLES IN UNIFIED GAUGE THEORIES
    By G. 't Hooft (CERN).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B79:276-284,1974
    1311 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  32. NEUTRINO OSCILLATIONS IN MATTER
    By L. Wolfenstein (Carnegie Mellon U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D17:2369,1978
    1306 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  33. SYMMETRY BEHAVIOR AT FINITE TEMPERATURE
    By L. Dolan, R. Jackiw (MIT, LNS).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D9:3320-3341,1974
    1296 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  34. ANOMALY CANCELLATIONS IN SUPERSYMMETRIC D = 10 GAUGE THEORY REQUIRE SO(32)
    By Michael B. Green (Queen Mary - Westfield Coll. & Cal Tech), John H. Schwarz (Cal Tech).
    Published in Phys.Lett.149B:117-122,1984
    1275 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  35. CONSEQUENCES OF ANOMALOUS WARD IDENTITIES
    By J. Wess (CERN & Karlsruhe U.), B. Zumino (CERN).
    Published in Phys.Lett.37B:95,1971
    1265 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  36. HETEROTIC STRING THEORY. 1. THE FREE HETEROTIC STRING
    By David J. Gross, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Emil Martinec, Ryan Rohm (Princeton U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B256:253,1985
    1260 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  37. QUARK MASSES
    By J. Gasser, H. Leutwyler (Bern U.).
    Published in Phys.Rept.87:77-169,1982
    1251 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  38. 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
    1245 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  39. A NEW EXTENDED MODEL OF HADRONS
    By A. Chodos, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, C.B. Thorn, V.F. Weisskopf (MIT, LNS).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D9:3471-3495,1974
    1238 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  40. A PCAC PUZZLE: PI0 --> GAMMA GAMMA IN THE SIGMA MODEL
    By J.S. Bell, R. Jackiw (CERN).
    Published in Nuovo Cim.60A:47-61,1969
    1218 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  41. CP CONSERVATION IN THE PRESENCE OF INSTANTONS
    By R.D. Peccei, Helen R. Quinn (Stanford U., ITP).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.38:1440-1443,1977
    1208 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  42. PARTICLE CREATION BY BLACK HOLES
    By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.).
    Published in Commun.Math.Phys.43:199-220,1975
    1181 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  43. NONABELIAN BOSONIZATION IN TWO-DIMENSIONS
    By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
    Published in Commun.Math.Phys.92:455-472,1984
    1178 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  44. 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, Samuel C.C. Ting, Sau Lan Wu (MIT, LNS), Y.Y. Lee (Brookhaven).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1404-1406,1974
    1171 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  45. PARTON FRAGMENTATION AND STRING DYNAMICS
    By B. Andersson, G. Gustafson, G. Ingelman, T. Sjostrand (Lund U.).
    Published in Phys.Rept.97:31,1983
    1165 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  46. HIERARCHY OF INTERACTIONS IN UNIFIED GAUGE THEORIES
    By H. Georgi, H.R. Quinn, S. Weinberg (Harvard U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.33:451-454,1974
    1158 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  47. ASYMPTOTICALLY FREE GAUGE THEORIES. I
    By D.J. Gross, F. Wilczek (Fermilab & Princeton U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D8:3633-3652,1973
    1151 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  48. A PARAMETRIZATION OF THE PROPERTIES OF QUARK JETS
    By R.D. Field, R.P. Feynman (Cal Tech).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B136:1,1978
    1138 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  49. GLOBAL ASPECTS OF CURRENT ALGEBRA
    By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B223:422,1983
    1131 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  50. 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
    1125 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  51. DYNAMICAL BREAKING OF SUPERSYMMETRY
    By Edward Witten (Princeton U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B188:513,1981
    1100 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  52. DISCOVERY OF A NARROW RESONANCE IN E+ E- ANNIHILATION
    By J.E. Augustin, A. Boyarski, Martin Breidenbach, F. Bulos, J.T. Dakin, G.J. Feldman, G.E. Fischer, D. Fryberger, G. Hanson, B. Jean-Marie, Rudolf R. Larsen, V. Luth, H.L. Lynch, D. Lyon, Charles C. Morehouse, J.M. Paterson, Martin L. Perl, Burton Richter, Petros A. Rapidis, R. Schwitters, W.M. Tanenbaum, F. Vannucci (SLAC), G.S. Abrams, D. Briggs, William 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).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.33:1406-1408,1974
    1095 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  53. THE HETEROTIC STRING
    By David J. Gross, Jeffrey A. Harvey, Emil Martinec, Ryan Rohm (Princeton U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.Lett.54:502-505,1985
    1093 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  54. VORTEX LINE MODELS FOR DUAL STRINGS
    By H.B. Nielsen, P. Olesen (Bohr Inst.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B61:45-61,1973
    1093 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  55. EXCLUSIVE PROCESSES IN PERTURBATIVE QUANTUM CHROMODYNAMICS
    By G.Peter Lepage (Cornell U., LNS), Stanley J. Brodsky (SLAC).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D22:2157,1980
    1064 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  56. SUPERGAUGE TRANSFORMATIONS IN FOUR-DIMENSIONS
    By J. Wess (Karlsruhe U.), B. Zumino (CERN).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B70:39-50,1974
    1047 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  57. MASSES AND OTHER PARAMETERS OF THE LIGHT HADRONS
    By T. DeGrand, R.L. Jaffe, K. Johnson, J. Kiskis (MIT, LNS).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D12:2060,1975
    1044 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  58. CONFORMAL INVARIANCE, SUPERSYMMETRY AND STRING THEORY
    By Daniel Friedan, Emil Martinec, Stephen Shenker (Chicago U., EFI & Chicago U. & Princeton U.).
    Published in Nucl.Phys.B271:93,1986
    1033 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  59. CHIRAL PERTURBATION THEORY TO ONE LOOP
    By J. Gasser (Bern U.), H. Leutwyler (CERN).
    Published in Annals Phys.158:142,1984
    1030 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  60. 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
    1020 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  61. 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
    1012 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

  62. Q**2 DEPENDENT PARAMETRIZATIONS OF PARTON DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS
    By D.W. Duke, J.F. Owens (Florida State U.).
    Published in Phys.Rev.D30:49-54,1984
    1011 citations on 31 Dec 1998.
    (Number of citations today)

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