Most cited papers in Black Holes and Theoretical Physics
What are the most cited papers in Black Holes and Theoretical Physics?
The most cited paper in Black Holes and Theoretical Physics is "The large $N$ limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity" (JUAN M. MALDACENA, 1998), with 14,697 citations. Next come "Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger" (14,545) and "Anti de Sitter space and holography" (13,441).
Showing 50 of 98 papers. Every paper with more than 2,425 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The large $N$ limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity JUAN M. MALDACENA · Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | 1998 | 14,697 |
| 2 | Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger B. P. Abbott et al. · Physical Review Letters | 11 Feb 2016 | 14,545 |
| 3 | Anti de Sitter space and holography Edward H. Witten · Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | 1998 | 13,441 |
| 4 | Particle creation by black holes Stephen William Hawking · Communications in Mathematical Physics | Aug 1975 | 13,167 |
| 5 | Inflationary universe: A possible solution to the horizon and flatness problems Alan H. Guth · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Jan 1981 | 10,058 |
| 6 | Gauge theory correlators from non-critical string theory S.S. Gubser, I.R. Klebanov, A.M. Polyakov · Physics Letters B | May 1998 | 9,403 |
| 7 | Large Mass Hierarchy from a Small Extra Dimension Lisa Randall, Raman Sundrum · Physical Review Letters | 25 Oct 1999 | 9,373 |
| 8 | A new type of isotropic cosmological models without singularity Alexei A. Starobinsky · Physics Letters B | Mar 1980 | 7,827 |
| 9 | A Model of Leptons Steven Weinberg · Physical Review Letters | 20 Nov 1967 | 7,399 |
| 10 | An Alternative to Compactification Lisa Randall, Raman Sundrum · Physical Review Letters | 6 Dec 1999 | 7,311 |
| 11 | Gauge Theory Correlators from Non-Critical String Theory Gubser, S S, Klebanov, Igor R, Polyakov, A M · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 17 Feb 1998 | 6,891 |
| 12 | The Large-N Limit of Superconformal Field Theories and Supergravity Juan Maldacena · International Journal of Theoretical Physics | Apr 1999 | 6,784 |
| 13 | CP-Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction M. Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa · Progress of Theoretical Physics | Feb 1973 | 6,651 |
| 14 | A new inflationary universe scenario: A possible solution of the horizon, flatness, homogeneity, isotropy and primordial monopole problems Andrei D Linde · Physics Letters B | Feb 1982 | 6,495 |
| 15 | DYNAMICS OF DARK ENERGY Edmund J. Copeland, M. Sami, Shinji Tsujikawa · International Journal of Modern Physics D | Nov 2006 | 6,316 |
| 16 | Neutrino Mass and Spontaneous Parity Nonconservation Rabindra Nath Mohapatra, Goran Senjanović · Physical Review Letters | 7 Apr 1980 | 5,939 |
| 17 | Black hole explosions? Stephen William Hawking · Nature | Mar 1974 | 5,736 |
| 18 | Large N field theories, string theory and gravity Ofer Aharony, Steven S. Gubser, JUAN M. MALDACENA et al. · Physics Reports | 2000 | 5,620 |
| 19 | Cosmology for Grand Unified Theories with Radiatively Induced Symmetry Breaking Andreas Albrecht, Paul Joseph Steinhardt · Physical Review Letters | 26 Apr 1982 | 5,056 |
| 20 | Quantum field theory and the Jones polynomial Edward H. Witten · Communications in Mathematical Physics | Sep 1989 | 4,977 |
| 21 | Notes on black-hole evaporation William George Unruh · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Aug 1976 | 4,940 |
| 22 | Infinite conformal symmetry in two-dimensional quantum field theory Alexander A. Belavin, Andrey Polyakov, A. B. Zamolodchikov · Nuclear Physics B | Jul 1984 | 4,909 |
| 23 | Topology of cosmic domains and strings T. W. B. Kibble · Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General | Aug 1976 | 4,620 |
| 24 | Regularization and renormalization of gauge fields Gerard ’t Hooft, Martinus J. G. Veltman · Nuclear Physics B | Jul 1972 | 4,620 |
| 25 | Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons Peter W. Higgs · Physical Review Letters | 19 Oct 1964 | 4,600 |
| 26 | f ( R ) theories of gravity Thomas P. Sotiriou, Valerio Faraoni · Reviews of Modern Physics | Mar 2010 | 4,584 |
| 27 | Unity of All Elementary-Particle Forces Howard M. Georgi, Sheldon L. Glashow · Physical Review Letters | 25 Feb 1974 | 4,555 |
| 28 | A planar diagram theory for strong interactions Gerard ’t Hooft · Nuclear Physics B | Apr 1974 | 4,547 |
| 29 | Confinement of quarks Kenneth G. Wilson · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Oct 1974 | 4,521 |
| 30 | Holographic Derivation of Entanglement Entropy from the anti–de Sitter Space/Conformal Field Theory Correspondence Shinsei Ryu, Tadashi Takayanagi · Physical Review Letters | 9 May 2006 | 4,426 |
| 31 | Ultraviolet Behavior of Non-Abelian Gauge Theories David J. Gross, Frank A. Wilczek · Physical Review Letters | 25 Jun 1973 | 4,340 |
| 32 | Axial-Vector Vertex in Spinor Electrodynamics Stephen L. Adler · Physical Review | 25 Jan 1969 | 4,326 |
| 33 | Radiative Corrections as the Origin of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking Sidney Coleman, Erick J. Weinberg · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Mar 1973 | 4,324 |
| 34 | Modified gravity and cosmology Timothy Clifton, Pedro G. Ferreira, Antonio Padilla et al. · Physics Reports | 9 Jan 2012 | 4,260 |
| 35 | Supersymmetry, supergravity and particle physics Hans Peter Nilles · Physics Reports | Aug 1984 | 4,215 |
| 36 | The world as a hologram Leonard Susskind · Journal of Mathematical Physics | Nov 1995 | 4,087 |
| 37 | Broken Symmetry and the Mass of Gauge Vector Mesons F. Englert, R. Brout · Physical Review Letters | 31 Aug 1964 | 4,055 |
| 38 | The four laws of black hole mechanics J. Bardeen, B. Carter, Stephen William Hawking · Communications in Mathematical Physics | Jun 1973 | 4,023 |
| 39 | Anti-de Sitter space, thermal phase transition, and confinement in gauge theories Edward H. Witten · Advances in Theoretical and Mathematical Physics | 1998 | 4,005 |
| 40 | f(R) Theories Antonio De Felice, Shinji Tsujikawa · Living Reviews in Relativity | 23 Jun 2010 | 3,920 |
| 41 | Lepton number as the fourth "color" Jogesh C. Pati, Abdus Salam · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | Jul 1974 | 3,919 |
| 42 | New dimensions at a millimeter to a fermi and superstrings at a TeV Ignatios Antoniadis, Nima Arkani-Hamed, Savas Dimopoulos et al. · Physics Letters B | Sep 1998 | 3,918 |
| 43 | Black hole in three-dimensional spacetime Máximo Bañados, Claudio Teitelboim, Jorge Zanelli · Physical Review Letters | 28 Sep 1992 | 3,914 |
| 44 | Electric-magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory Nathan Seiberg, Edward H. Witten · Nuclear Physics B | Sep 1994 | 3,845 |
| 45 | Dynamical breaking of supersymmetry Edward H. Witten · Nuclear Physics B | Oct 1981 | 3,812 |
| 46 | String theory and noncommutative geometry Nathan Seiberg, Edward Witten · Journal of High Energy Physics | 30 Sep 1999 | 3,743 |
| 47 | Cosmological Imprint of an Energy Component with General Equation of State Robert R. Caldwell, R. Dave, Paul Joseph Steinhardt · Physical Review Letters | 23 Feb 1998 | 3,740 |
| 48 | Theory of cosmological perturbations Viatcheslav Mukhanov · Physics Reports | Jun 1992 | 3,644 |
| 49 | Action integrals and partition functions in quantum gravity Gary William Gibbons, Stephen William Hawking · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 May 1977 | 3,509 |
| 50 | Magnetic monopoles in unified gauge theories Gerard ’t Hooft · Nuclear Physics B | Sep 1974 | 3,417 |
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