Thursday, January 08, 2009

2008 Topcites

Top Cited Articles during 2008


The 50 most highly cited papers during 2008


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. Remember the detailed warning about the accuracy of these counts.

Also note that the counts shown, and used in the rankings, are the counts as of Thu 8-Jan-2009. 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. The lists, however, will not update.



  1. 1994
    Review of Particle Physics
    By Particle Data Group
    Citations are counted for all versions of the RPP, most recent version is:
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B667:1,2008
    [391 Total citations in HEP]
    [32872 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]

  2. 924
    Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) three year results: implications for cosmology
    By WMAP Collaboration
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.170:377,2007
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0603449)
    [3245 Total citations in HEP]

  3. 731
    The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
    By Juan Martin Maldacena (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:231-252,1998, Int.J.Theor.Phys.38:1113-1133,1999
    (arXiv:hep-th/9711200)
    [5812 Total citations in HEP]

  4. 658
    Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Cosmological Interpretation
    By WMAP Collaboration
    HEP Record
    (arXiv:0803.0547)
    [683 Total citations in HEP]

  5. 500
    Maps of dust IR emission for use in estimation of reddening and CMBR foregrounds
    By David J. Schlegel (Durham U.), Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis (UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.500:525,1998
    (arXiv:astro-ph/9710327)
    [3910 Total citations in HEP]

  6. 492
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Determination of cosmological parameters
    By WMAP Collaboration
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:175,2003
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0302209)
    [5133 Total citations in HEP]

  7. 491
    Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 high redshift supernovae
    By Supernova Cosmology Project
    Published in:Astrophys.J.517:565-586,1999
    (arXiv:astro-ph/9812133)
    [4168 Total citations in HEP]

  8. 480
    Anti-de Sitter space and holography
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:253-291,1998
    (arXiv:hep-th/9802150)
    [3900 Total citations in HEP]

  9. 462
    Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant
    By Supernova Search Team
    Published in:Astron.J.116:1009-1038,1998
    (arXiv:astro-ph/9805201)
    [3981 Total citations in HEP]

  10. 425
    Gauge theory correlators from noncritical string theory
    By S.S. Gubser, Igor R. Klebanov, Alexander M. Polyakov (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B428:105-114,1998
    (arXiv:hep-th/9802109)
    [3433 Total citations in HEP]

  11. 393
    A Large mass hierarchy from a small extra dimension
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.83:3370-3373,1999
    (arXiv:hep-ph/9905221)
    [4029 Total citations in HEP]

  12. 311
    Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003
    By G. Bruzual (Merida, CIDA), Stephane Charlot (Garching, Max Planck Inst. & Paris, Inst. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.344:1000,2003
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0309134)
    [1225 Total citations in HEP]

  13. 295
    Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Likelihoods and Parameters from the WMAP data
    By WMAP Collaboration
    HEP Record
    (arXiv:0803.0586)
    [306 Total citations in HEP]

  14. 288
    A Universal density profile from hierarchical clustering
    By Julio F. Navarro (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.), Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.), Simon D.M. White (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.490:493-508,1997
    (arXiv:astro-ph/9611107)
    [2107 Total citations in HEP]

  15. 283
    An Alternative to compactification
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.83:4690-4693,1999
    (arXiv:hep-th/9906064)
    [3607 Total citations in HEP]

  16. 280
    The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
    By M.F. Skrutskie, R.M. Cutri, R. Stiening, M.D. Weinberg, S. Schneider, J.M. Carpenter, C. Beichman, R. Capps, T. Chester, J. Elias, J. Huchra, J. Liebert, C.
    Lonsdale, D.G. Monet, S. Price, P. Seitzer, T. Jarrett, J.D. Kirkpatrick, J.E. Gizis, E. Howard, T. Evans, J. Fowler, L. Fullmer, R. Hurt, R. Light, E.L. Kopan,
    K.A. Marsh, H.L. McCallon, R. Tam, S. Van Dyk, S. Wheelock.
    Published in:Astron.J.131:1163-1183,2006
    [633 Total citations in HEP]

  17. 280
    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
    By SDSS Collaboration
    Published in:Astron.J.120:1579-1587,2000
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0006396)
    [1683 Total citations in HEP]

  18. 277
    The Hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter
    By Nima Arkani-Hamed (SLAC), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), G.R. Dvali (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B429:263-272,1998
    (arXiv:hep-ph/9803315)
    [3632 Total citations in HEP]

  19. 269
    Type Ia supernova discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dark energy evolution
    By Supernova Search Team
    Published in:Astrophys.J.607:665-687,2004
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0402512)
    [1548 Total citations in HEP]

  20. 269
    Dynamics of dark energy
    By Edmund J. Copeland (Nottingham U.), M. Sami (Jamia Millia Islamia), Shinji Tsujikawa (Gunma Coll. Tech.).
    Published in:Int.J.Mod.Phys.D15:1753-1936,2006
    (arXiv:hep-th/0603057)
    [706 Total citations in HEP]

  21. 265
    New generation of parton distributions with uncertainties from global QCD analysis
    By J. Pumplin, D.R. Stump, J. Huston, H.L. Lai, Pavel M. Nadolsky, W.K. Tung (Michigan State U.).
    Published in:JHEP 0207:012,2002
    (arXiv:hep-ph/0201195)
    [1286 Total citations in HEP]

  22. 257
    The Supernova legacy survey: Measurement of omega(m), omega(lambda) and W from the first year data set
    By The SNLS Collaboration
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.447:31-48,2006
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0510447)
    [804 Total citations in HEP]

  23. 255
    Particle Creation by Black Holes
    By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Commun.Math.Phys.43:199-220,1975, Erratum-ibid.46:206-206,1976
    [3224 Total citations in HEP]

  24. 239
    The relationship between infrared, optical, and ultraviolet extinction
    By Jason A. Cardelli, Geoffrey C. Clayton, John S. Mathis (Washburn Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.345:245-256,1989
    [1972 Total citations in HEP]

  25. 235
    The Structure of cold dark matter halos
    By Julio F. Navarro (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.), Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.), Simon D.M. White (Garching, Max Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.462:563-575,1996
    (arXiv:astro-ph/9508025)
    [1593 Total citations in HEP]

  26. 223
    The Luminosity function and stellar evolution
    By Edwin E. Salpeter.
    Published in:Astrophys.J.121:161,1955
    [1463 Total citations in HEP]

  27. 218
    Large N field theories, string theory and gravity
    By Ofer Aharony (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Steven S. Gubser (Harvard U.), Juan Martin Maldacena (Harvard U. & Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study), Hirosi Ooguri (UC
    , Berkeley & LBL, Berkeley), Yaron Oz (CERN).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.323:183-386,2000
    (arXiv:hep-th/9905111)
    [2012 Total citations in HEP]

  28. 214
    PYTHIA 6.4 Physics and Manual
    By Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.), Stephen Mrenna, Peter Skands (Fermilab).
    Published in:JHEP 0605:026,2006
    (arXiv:hep-ph/0603175)
    [422 Total citations in HEP]

  29. 209
    CP Violation in the Renormalizable Theory of Weak Interaction
    By Makoto Kobayashi, Toshihide Maskawa (Kyoto U.).
    Published in:Prog.Theor.Phys.49:652-657,1973
    [5594 Total citations in HEP]

  30. 208
    Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies
    By SDSS Collaboration
    Published in:Astrophys.J.633:560-574,2005
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0501171)
    [711 Total citations in HEP]

  31. 206
    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
    [3305 Total citations in HEP]

  32. 204
    Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance
    By N.I. Shakura (Sternberg Astron. Inst.), R.A. Sunyaev (Moscow, IPM).
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.24:337-355,1973
    [1419 Total citations in HEP]

  33. 203
    The Cosmological constant and dark energy
    By P.J.E. Peebles (Princeton U.), Bharat Ratra (Kansas State U.).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.75:559-606,2003
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0207347)
    [1207 Total citations in HEP]

  34. 203
    High-energy physics event generation with PYTHIA 6.1
    By Torbjorn Sjostrand (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.), Patrik Eden (Nordita), Christer Friberg, Leif Lonnblad, Gabriela Miu (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.), Stephen
    Mrenna (UC, Davis), Emanuel Norrbin (Lund U., Dept. Theor. Phys.).
    Published in:Comput.Phys.Commun.135:238-259,2001
    (arXiv:hep-ph/0010017)
    [1405 Total citations in HEP]

  35. 199
    Five-Year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) Observations: Data Processing, Sky Maps, and Basic Results
    By WMAP Collaboration
    HEP Record
    (arXiv:0803.0732)
    [208 Total citations in HEP]

  36. 194
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Preliminary maps and basic results
    By WMAP Collaboration
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:1,2003
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0302207)
    [2480 Total citations in HEP]

  37. 193
    Gauge symmetry and supersymmetry of multiple M2-branes
    By Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins U.), Neil Lambert (King's Coll. London, Dept. Math).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D77:065008,2008
    (arXiv:0711.0955)
    [195 Total citations in HEP]

  38. 190
    Cosmological constant: The Weight of the vacuum
    By T. Padmanabhan (IUCAA, Pune).
    Published in:Phys.Rept.380:235-320,2003
    (arXiv:hep-th/0212290)
    [890 Total citations in HEP]

  39. 188
    Simulating the joint evolution of quasars, galaxies and their large-scale distribution
    By Volker Springel, Simon D.M. White, Adrian Jenkins, Carlos S. Frenk, Naoki Yoshida, Liang Gao, Julio Navarro, Robert Thacker, Darren Croton, John Helly, John
    A. Peacock, Shaun Cole, Peter Thomas, Hugh Couchman, August Evrard, Joerg Colberg, Frazer Pearce (Garching, Max Planck Inst. & Durham U. & Nagoya U. & Victoria
    U. & McMaster U. & Edinburgh U., Inst. Astron. & Sussex U. & Sussex U., Astron. Ctr. & Michigan U. & Pittsburgh U. & Nottingham U.).
    Published in:Nature 435:629-636,2005
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0504097)
    [486 Total citations in HEP]

  40. 186
    De Sitter vacua in string theory
    By Shamit Kachru (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC), Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Sandip P. Trivedi (Tata Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D68:046005,2003
    (arXiv:hep-th/0301240)
    [1168 Total citations in HEP]

  41. 186
    New Hubble Space Telescope Discoveries of Type Ia Supernovae at z>=1: Narrowing Constraints on the Early Behavior of Dark Energy
    By Adam G. Riess, Louis-Gregory Strolger, Stefano Casertano, Henry C. Ferguson, Bahram Mobasher, Ben Gold, Peter J. Challis, Alexei V. Filippenko, Saurabh Jha,
    Weidong Li, John Tonry, Ryan Foley, Robert P. Kirshner, Mark Dickinson, Emily MacDonald, Daniel Eisenstein, Mario Livio, Josh Younger, Chun Xu, Tomas Dahlen, Da
    niel Stern (Johns Hopkins U. & Baltimore, Space Telescope Sci. & Western Kentucky U. & Harvard-Smithsonian Ctr. Astrophys. & UC, Berkeley, Astron. Dept. & Inst.
    Astron., Honolulu & NOAO, Tucson & Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ. & Caltech, JPL).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.659:98-121,2007
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0611572)
    [421 Total citations in HEP]

  42. 180
    Cosmological parameters from SDSS and WMAP
    By SDSS Collaboration
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D69:103501,2004
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0310723)
    [1225 Total citations in HEP]

  43. 179
    New dimensions at a millimeter to a Fermi and superstrings at a TeV
    By Ignatios Antoniadis (Ecole Polytechnique), Nima Arkani-Hamed (SLAC), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), G.R. Dvali (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B436:257-263,1998
    (arXiv:hep-ph/9804398)
    [2707 Total citations in HEP]

  44. 178
    Algebraic structures on parallel M2-branes
    By Andreas Gustavsson (Goteborg, ITP).
    HEP Record
    (arXiv:0709.1260)
    [181 Total citations in HEP]

  45. 176
    The Many lives of AGN: Cooling flows, black holes and the luminosities and colours of galaxies
    By Darren J. Croton, Volker Springel, Simon D.M. White, G. De Lucia (Garching, Max Planck Inst.), C.S. Frenk (Durham U.), L. Gao (Garching, Max Planck Inst.), A
    . Jenkins (Durham U.), G. Kauffmann (Garching, Max Planck Inst.), J.F. Navarro (Victoria U.), N. Yoshida (Nagoya U.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.365:11-28,2006
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0508046)
    [439 Total citations in HEP]

  46. 175
    Experimental and theoretical challenges in the search for the quark gluon plasma: The STAR Collaboration's critical assessment of the evidence from RHIC collisi
    ons
    By STAR Collaboration
    Published in:Nucl.Phys.A757:102-183,2005
    (arXiv:nucl-ex/0501009)
    [624 Total citations in HEP]

  47. 174
    Anti-de Sitter space, thermal phase transition, and confinement in gauge theories
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:505-532,1998
    (arXiv:hep-th/9803131)
    [1205 Total citations in HEP]

  48. 174
    N=6 superconformal Chern-Simons-matter theories, M2-branes and their gravity duals
    By Ofer Aharony (Weizmann Inst.), Oren Bergman (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study & Technion), Daniel Louis Jafferis (Rutgers U., Piscataway), Juan Maldacena (Pri
    nceton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:JHEP 0810:091,2008
    (arXiv:0806.1218)
    [176 Total citations in HEP]

  49. 173
    Modeling Multiple M2's
    By Jonathan Bagger (Johns Hopkins U.), Neil Lambert (King's Coll. London, Dept. Math).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D75:045020,2007
    (arXiv:hep-th/0611108)
    [184 Total citations in HEP]

  50. 170
    Star formation in galaxies along the Hubble sequence
    By Robert C. Kennicutt, Jr. (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.).
    Published in:Ann.Rev.Astron.Astrophys.36:189-231,1998
    (arXiv:astro-ph/9807187)
    [929 Total citations in HEP]

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

iTunes = arXiv


Talk about glaring example of needs not being met by traditional stuff, so users roll their own...

Dr. Dobb's | They're Doing What with iTunes? | July 21, 2008

I had heard about this before, but this really makes me think about what we are doing with INSPIRE. Users want ways to organize papers, just like browser users want ways of organizing bookmarks. Del.icio.us does this for bookmarks in a shared way, using iTunes loses the shared aspect. Thinks like CiteUlike, and Zotero are out there, but don't have high visibility. iTunes is a hack that only a few folks will use. There is room for INSPIRE, with large user community to provide such a service

Friday, February 01, 2008

Here is a third posting

The posting
Link
was really good.

Here's another trackback

This was such a good list.

This is a test of linking

We had this previous post http://spiresblog.blogspot.com/2008/01/1931-review-of-particle-physics-by.html which was the annual topcites for 2007/

Wednesday, January 30, 2008

Title/Abstract Cloud


Here is a tag cloud of the top 50 all time cited articles in hep-th (abstracts and titles...)
created at TagCrowd.com


Topcites Test

Top Cited Articles during 2007


The 50 most highly cited papers during 2007


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. Remember the detailed warning about the accuracy of these counts.

Also note that the counts shown, and used in the rankings, are the counts as of Thu 31-Jan-2008. 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. The lists, however, will not update.



  1. 2063
    Review of Particle Physics
    By Particle Data Group
    Citations are counted for all versions of the RPP, most recent version is:
    Published in:J.Phys.G33:1-1232,2006
    [2120 Total citations in HEP]
    [30167 Total Citations to all copies of RPP in HEP]

  2. 1305
    Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) three year results: implications for cosmology
    By WMAP Collaboration
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.170:377,2007
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0603449)
    [2370 Total citations in HEP]

  3. 597
    The Large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
    By Juan Martin Maldacena (Harvard U.).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:231-252,1998, Int.J
    .Theor.Phys.38:1113-1133,1999

    (arXiv:hep-th/9711200)
    [5087 Total citations in HEP]

  4. 596
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Determination of cosmological parameters
    By WMAP Collaboration
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:175,2003
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0302209)
    [4624 Total citations in HEP]

  5. 506
    Measurements of Omega and Lambda from 42 high redshift supernovae
    By Supernova Cosmology Project
    Published in:Astrophys.J.517:565-586,1999
    (arXiv:astro-ph/9812133)
    [3677 Total citations in HEP]

  6. 497
    Maps of dust IR emission for use in estimation of reddening and CMBR foregrounds
    By David J. Schlegel (Durham U.), Douglas P. Finkbeiner, Marc Davis (UC, Berkeley).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.500:525,1998
    (arXiv:astro-ph/9710327)
    [3438 Total citations in HEP]

  7. 471
    Observational evidence from supernovae for an accelerating universe and a cosmological constant
    By Supernova Search Team
    Published in:Astron.J.116:1009-1038,1998
    (arXiv:astro-ph/9805201)
    [3520 Total citations in HEP]

  8. 416
    A Large mass hierarchy from a small extra dimension
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.83:3370-3373,1999
    (arXiv:hep-ph/9905221)
    [3624 Total citations in HEP]

  9. 387
    Anti-de Sitter space and holography
    By Edward Witten (Princeton, Inst. Advanced Study).
    Published in:Adv.Theor.Math.Phys.2:253-291,1998
    (arXiv:hep-th/9802150)
    [3435 Total citations in HEP]

  10. 331
    Gauge theory correlators from noncritical string theory
    By S.S. Gubser, Igor R. Klebanov, Alexander M. Polyakov (Princeton U.).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B428:105-114,1998
    (arXiv:hep-th/9802109)
    [3013 Total citations in HEP]

  11. 331
    An Alternative to compactification
    By Lisa Randall (Princeton U. & MIT, LNS), Raman Sundrum (Boston U.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.Lett.83:4690-4693,1999
    (arXiv:hep-th/9906064)
    [3317 Total citations in HEP]

  12. 292
    The Sloan Digital Sky Survey: Technical Summary
    By SDSS Collaboration
    Published in:Astron.J.120:1579-1587,2000
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0006396)
    [1421 Total citations in HEP]

  13. 289
    Type Ia supernova discoveries at z > 1 from the Hubble Space Telescope: Evidence for past deceleration and constraints on dar
    k energy evolution
    By Supernova Search Team
    Published in:Astrophys.J.607:665-687,2004
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0402512)
    [1283 Total citations in HEP]

  14. 285
    The Hierarchy problem and new dimensions at a millimeter
    By Nima Arkani-Hamed (SLAC), Savas Dimopoulos (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), G.R. Dvali (ICTP, Trieste).
    Published in:Phys.Lett.B429:263-272,1998
    (arXiv:hep-ph/9803315)
    [3349 Total citations in HEP]

  15. 279
    Stellar population synthesis at the resolution of 2003
    By G. Bruzual (Merida, CIDA), Stephane Charlot (Garching, Max Planck Inst. & Paris, Inst. Astrophys.).
    Published in:Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc.344:1000,2003
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0309134)
    [935 Total citations in HEP]

  16. 275
    The Supernova legacy survey: Measurement of omega(m), omega(lambda) and W from the first year data set
    By The SNLS Collaboration
    Published in:Astron.Astrophys.447:31-48,2006
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0510447)
    [558 Total citations in HEP]

  17. 262
    A Universal density profile from hierarchical clustering
    By Julio F. Navarro (Arizona U., Astron. Dept. - Steward Observ.), Carlos S. Frenk (Durham U.), Simon D.M. White (Garching, M
    ax Planck Inst.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.490:493-508,1997
    (arXiv:astro-ph/9611107)
    [1828 Total citations in HEP]

  18. 258
    First year Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy Probe (WMAP) observations: Preliminary maps and basic results
    By WMAP Collaboration
    Published in:Astrophys.J.Suppl.148:1,2003
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0302207)
    [2281 Total citations in HEP]

  19. 249
    Particle Creation by Black Holes
    By S.W. Hawking (Cambridge U.).
    Published in:Commun.Math.Phys.43:199-220,1975, Erratum-
    ibid.46:206-206,1976

    [2884 Total citations in HEP]

  20. 231
    Detection of the baryon acoustic peak in the large-scale correlation function of SDSS luminous red galaxies
    By SDSS Collaboration
    Published in:Astrophys.J.633:560-574,2005
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0501171)
    [506 Total citations in HEP]

  21. 230
    The Two Micron All Sky Survey (2MASS)
    By M.F. Skrutskie, R.M. Cutri, R. Stiening, M.D. Weinberg, S. Schneider, J.M. Carpenter, C. Beichman, R. Capps, T. Chester, J. Elias, J. Huchra, J. Liebert, C.
    Lonsdale, D.G. Monet, S. Price, P. Seitzer, T. Jarrett, J.D. Kirkpatrick, J.E. Gizis, E. Howard, T. Evans, J. Fowler, L. Fullmer, R. Hurt, R. Light, E.L. Kopan, K.A. Marsh, H.L. McCallon, R. Tam, S. Van Dyk, S. Wheelock.
    Published in:Astron.J.131:1163-1183,2006
    [368 Total citations in HEP]

  22. 226
    De Sitter vacua in string theory
    By Shamit Kachru (Stanford U., Phys. Dept. & SLAC), Renata Kallosh, Andrei Linde (Stanford U., Phys. Dept.), Sandip P. Trived
    i (Tata Inst.).
    Published in:Phys.Rev.D68:046005,2003
    (arXiv:hep-th/0301240)
    [987 Total citations in HEP]

  23. 225
    The Cosmological constant and dark energy
    By P.J.E. Peebles (Princeton U.), Bharat Ratra (Kansas State U.).
    Published in:Rev.Mod.Phys.75:559-606,2003
    (arXiv:astro-ph/0207347)
    [1008 Total citations in HEP]

  24. 223
    Dynamics of dark energy
    By Edmund J. Copeland (Nottingham U.), M. Sami (Jamia Millia Islamia), Shinji Tsujikawa (Gunma Coll. Tech.).
    Published in:Int.J.Mod.Phys.D15:1753-1936,2006
    (arXiv:hep-th/0603057)
    [434 Total citations in HEP]

  25. 217
    The relationship between infrared, optical, and ultraviolet extinction
    By Jason A. Cardelli, Geoffrey C. Clayton, John S. Mathis (Washburn Observ.).
    Published in:Astrophys.J.345:245-256,1989
    [1754 Total citations in HEP]

  26. 211
    Black holes in binary systems. Observational appearance
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Friday, December 16, 2005

cites - refs

Many people have commented to us via email about the cites-refs metric,
and the possibility that it would put pressure on people not to cite
things that they should. This is a valid worry, and I've tried to
rearrange the display so that I can display this number, and other random
metrics, without anyone thinking that they might be useful (and thus
removing these pressures.)

I'd like to be able to post other measures on this experimental page as
tests, to see what they look like on the real data, and to let others do
the same (of course I can play with them behind the scenes, but you
can't!). I hope people don't take this too seriously.

In light of the above, it could be true that cites-refs is a good measure
of something, but that, if taken seriously, it is self-defeating, and
ruins citations in literature. I think even this is not true. Reviews
should have high numbers of references and comparatively low numbers of
cites. There are other good counter-examples. The only useful thing I
can think of for this measure is to use it on a paper by paper basis,
possibly to tell something about the paper itself in conjunction with
other factors. Averaged, it loses any semblance of utility it might have
had.

Intro

I'm Travis Brooks, the SPIRES Database Manager at SLAC. We receive many comments every day about the service we provide to the community and I'd like to inspire people to discuss features and other aspects of the databases in a public forum, rather than by email which only I can see.

In particular I've recently added some "experimental metrics" to the citesummary pages. This provoked a lot of comment, and I realized this could be better handled in a blog type forum. For the moment I've decided to host it at blogger, and it's not an "official" SLAC/SPIRES resource. This means it could go away whenever. It also means that what I post here are my private opinions, not neccessarily those of SLAC, or SPIRES, or any sane person. However, this is a good way to bring things to my attention.

I'll try to check here regularly, but any corrections/problems/questions, should continue to go to our official email address.