Most cited papers in Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies
What are the most cited papers in Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies?
The most cited paper in Experimental and Theoretical Physics Studies is "Orbital angular momentum of light and the transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes" (Leslie Allen, Marco W. Beijersbergen, R. J. C. Spreeuw et al., 1992), with 10,522 citations. Next come "Linear and Nonlinear Waves" (8,303) and "Significance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the Quantum Theory" (7,047).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 551 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Orbital angular momentum of light and the transformation of Laguerre-Gaussian laser modes Leslie Allen, Marco W. Beijersbergen, R. J. C. Spreeuw et al. · Physical Review A | Jun 1992 | 10,522 |
| 2 | Linear and Nonlinear Waves Gerald Beresford Whitham, Richard Fowler · Physics Today | Jun 1975 | 8,303 |
| 3 | Significance of Electromagnetic Potentials in the Quantum Theory Yakir Aharonov, David Böhm · Physical Review | Aug 1959 | 7,047 |
| 4 | On the LambertW function Robert M. Corless, Gastón H. Gonnet, D. E. G. Hare et al. · Advances in Computational Mathematics | Dec 1996 | 6,268 |
| 5 | An introduction to fluid dynamics N. Curle · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | Jul 1968 | 6,206 |
| 6 | Life at low Reynolds number Edward M. Purcell · American Journal of Physics | 1977 | 4,407 |
| 7 | Elementary Theory of Angular Momentum M. E. Rose, Bernard T. Feld · Physics Today | Nov 1957 | 3,611 |
| 8 | Bose-Einstein condensation C. G. Townsend, Wolfgang Ketterle, S. Stringari · Physics World | Mar 1997 | 2,711 |
| 9 | Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry and Engineering Steven H. Strogatz, Ronald F. Fox · Physics Today | Mar 1995 | 2,669 |
| 10 | Bose-Einstein Condensation in Dilute Gases Tin-Lun Ho · Physics Today | Jun 2003 | 2,255 |
| 11 | Quantum phase transitions Subir Sachdev · Physics World | Apr 1999 | 2,119 |
| 12 | The Maunder Minimum John A. Eddy · Science | 18 Jun 1976 | 1,982 |
| 13 | Equations of Mathematical Physics V. S. Vladimirov, Ludwig Streit · Physics Today | Oct 1971 | 1,891 |
| 14 | Fundamentals of momentum, heat and mass transfer D.M. McEligoi · International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer | Oct 1970 | 1,875 |
| 15 | Physical properties of crystals Patrick W. M. Jacobs · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 18 Oct 2005 | 1,874 |
| 16 | Planck 2018 results N. Aghanim et al. · Astronomy and Astrophysics | Aug 2021 | 1,841 |
| 17 | Introduction to Fourier Optics Elisha R. Huggins · The Physics Teacher | 14 Aug 2007 | 1,774 |
| 18 | Demonstration of the Casimir Force in the 0.6 to 6 μ m Range S. K. Lamoreaux · Physical Review Letters | 6 Jan 1997 | 1,749 |
| 19 | An Introduction to Continuum Mechanics Morton E. Gurtin, W. J. Drugan · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Dec 1984 | 1,675 |
| 20 | Equations of Mathematical Physics Alexander N. Tikhonov, A. A. Samarskiĭ, Peter B. Kahn · American Journal of Physics | Jul 1965 | 1,598 |
| 21 | Electromagnetic traps for charged and neutral particles Wolfgang Paul · Reviews of Modern Physics | Jul 1990 | 1,567 |
| 22 | Zeta function regularization of path integrals in curved spacetime Stephen William Hawking · Communications in Mathematical Physics | Jun 1977 | 1,477 |
| 23 | Fundamentals of Acoustics Lawrence E. Kinsler, Austin R. Frey, Carl E. Adams · American Journal of Physics | Oct 1963 | 1,432 |
| 24 | Albert Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist John Lighton Synge · The Journal of Higher Education | Dec 1950 | 1,352 |
| 25 | A SIGNED BINARY MULTIPLICATION TECHNIQUE ANDREW D. BOOTH · The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics | 1951 | 1,327 |
| 26 | Metric of a Rotating, Charged Mass Ezra Ted Newman, E. Couch, K. Chinnapared et al. · Journal of Mathematical Physics | Jun 1965 | 1,314 |
| 27 | Magnetic Flux, Angular Momentum, and Statistics Frank A. Wilczek · Physical Review Letters | 26 Apr 1982 | 1,259 |
| 28 | Classical Mechanics (2nd ed.) Herbert C. Corben, P. Stehle, Nicholas Chako · Physics Today | Nov 1961 | 1,247 |
| 29 | Students’ preconceptions in introductory mechanics John Gerald Clement · American Journal of Physics | 1982 | 1,242 |
| 30 | Note on the swimming of slender fish Michael James Lighthill · Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Oct 1960 | 1,191 |
| 31 | Utilization of Photon Orbital Angular Momentum in the Low-Frequency Radio Domain B. Thidé, Holger Then, J. Sjöholm et al. · Physical Review Letters | 22 Aug 2007 | 1,150 |
| 32 | Mechanical equivalence of spin and orbital angular momentum of light: an optical spanner N. B. Simpson, Kishan Dholakia, Leslie Allen et al. · Optics Letters | 1997 | 1,145 |
| 33 | Detection of a Spinning Object Using Light’s Orbital Angular Momentum Martin P. J. Lavery, Fiona C. Speirits, Stephen Mark Barnett et al. · Science | Aug 2013 | 1,102 |
| 34 | Analysis of the swimming of microscopic organisms Geoffrey Ingram Taylor · Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences | 22 Nov 1951 | 1,076 |
| 35 | The transverse force on a spinning sphere moving in a viscous fluid Sol I. Rubinow, Joseph Bishop Keller · Journal of Fluid Mechanics | Nov 1961 | 1,074 |
| 36 | An Introduction to Fluid Dynamics George Keith Batchelor | Feb 2000 | 1,073 |
| 37 | Cooling of gases by laser radiation T. W. Hänsch, ARTHUR L. SCHAWLOW · Optics Communications | 1975 | 1,056 |
| 38 | Black hole normal modes - A semianalytic approach Bernard F. Schutz, Clifford M. Will · The Astrophysical Journal | Apr 1985 | 1,027 |
| 39 | An Introduction to Fluid Mechanics George Keith Batchelor, A. D. Young · Journal of Applied Mechanics | Sep 1968 | 1,016 |
| 40 | Intrinsic and Extrinsic Nature of the Orbital Angular Momentum of a Light Beam Anna T. O’Neil, I. MacVicar, Leslie Allen et al. · Physical Review Letters | 16 Jan 2002 | 1,012 |
| 41 | Physics of quantum electronics Peter E. Tannenwald, Paul L. Kelley, B. Lax · Physics Today | Sep 1965 | 968 |
| 42 | A study of locking phenomena in oscillators Richard Barnett Adler · Proceedings of the IEEE | 1973 | 956 |
| 43 | New Developments in the Casimir Effect Bordag, M, Mohideen, U, Mostepanenko, V M · CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research) | 2001 | 929 |
| 44 | Swinging up a pendulum by energy control Karl Johan Åström, Kazuo Furuta · Automatica | Feb 2000 | 922 |
| 45 | Acoustic streaming Sir James Lighthill · Journal of Sound and Vibration | Dec 1978 | 921 |
| 46 | Speed of Sound in Pure Water Vincent A. Del Grosso, C. W. Mader · The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America | Nov 1972 | 896 |
| 47 | Classical direct interstring action Michael Kalb, Pierre Ramond · Physical review. D. Particles, fields, gravitation, and cosmology/Physical review. D. Particles and fields | 15 Apr 1974 | 886 |
| 48 | The Jamming Transition and the Marginally Jammed Solid Andrea J. Liu, Sidney R. Nagel · Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics | 29 Jul 2010 | 876 |
| 49 | Subtle Is the Lord: The Science and the Life of Albert Einstein Andrés Romarís Pais, Banesh Hoffmann · Physics Today | 1983 | 870 |
| 50 | Event-horizon-scale structure in the supermassive black hole candidate at the Galactic Centre Sheperd S. Doeleman et al. · Nature | Sep 2008 | 849 |
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