Top Cited Articles of All Time (2004 edition)
The 40 most highly cited papers of All Time (2004 edition)
Keep in mind that citation counts can never be exact,
there is something like a 5% error in most of these numbers. Please do not
fret about number 32 versus 33, as this is often not a statistically
significant difference. More information about citations in INSPIRE can be
found here.
Also note that the counts shown, and used in the rankings,
are the counts as of 2018-01-08. Further, the counts shown by the ranking are only
the cites satisfying the criteria for that list. Actual citation numbers in
the database may change as corrections are made and papers are added, the
links will take you to the updated numbers.
Annual and All-time 2004 editions
24824 core citations up to the end of 2004
PDG RPP has been unified. The most recent is shown.
- 6409 core citations up to the end of 2004
A Model of Leptons
Steven Weinberg (MIT, LNS).
Nov 1967. 3 pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 19 (1967) 1264-1266
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.19.1264
- 4788 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 3546 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 3475 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 3458 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 3343 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 3066 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2970 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2926 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2917 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2802 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2774 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2654 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2632 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2564 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2492 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2482 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2465 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2465 core citations up to the end of 2004
Evidence for oscillation of atmospheric neutrinos
Super-Kamiokande Collaboration (Y. Fukuda (Tokyo U., ICRR) et al.).
Jul 1998. 9 pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 81 (1998) 1562-1567
BU-98-17, ICRR-REPORT-422-98-18, UCI-98-8, KEK-PREPRINT-98-95, LSU-HEPA-5-98, UMD-98-003, SBHEP-98-5, TKU-PAP-98-06, TIT-HPE-98-09
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.81.1562
e-Print: hep-ex/9807003 | PDF
- 2424 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2405 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2318 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2312 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2293 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2291 core citations up to the end of 2004
An Alternative to compactification
Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
Jun 1999. 10 pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 83 (1999) 4690-4693
MIT-CTP-2874, PUPT-1867, BUHEP-99-13
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.83.4690
e-Print: hep-th/9906064 | PDF
- 2285 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2235 core citations up to the end of 2004
Unitary Symmetry and Leptonic Decays
Nicola Cabibbo (CERN).
Jun 1963. 3 pp.
Published in Phys.Rev.Lett. 10 (1963) 531-533
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.10.531
Conference: C84-05-26, p.648-649
- 2231 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2195 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2180 core citations up to the end of 2004
Particle Creation by Black Holes
S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.).
Aug 1975. 22 pp.
Published in Commun.Math.Phys. 43 (1975) 199-220, Erratum: Commun.Math.Phys. 46 (1976) 206
DOI: 10.1007/BF02345020
- 2165 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2110 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2080 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 2053 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 1981 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 1959 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 1951 core citations up to the end of 2004
Quantum Geometry of Bosonic Strings
Alexander M. Polyakov (Landau Inst.).
Jun 1981. 4 pp.
Published in Phys.Lett. 103B (1981) 207-210
Print-81-0351 (LANDAU INST)
DOI: 10.1016/0370-2693(81)90743-7
- 1947 core citations up to the end of 2004
- 1929 core citations up to the end of 2004