Pascual Jordan and Eugene P. Wigner's 1928 Z.Phys. article "About the Pauli exclusion principle" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 2,000 citations. This may be the new most extreme example of a sleeping beauty.
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R.K. Sachs and A.M. Wolfe's 1967 ApJ article "Perturbations of a cosmological model and angular variations of the microwave background" inspirehep.net/literature/5... reaches 2,000 citations.
A. MacFadyen and S.E. Woosley's 1999 ApJ article "Collapsars: Gamma-ray bursts and explosions in 'failed supernovae'" inspirehep.net/literature/4... reaches 2,000 citations.
Julio F. Navarro, Carlos S. Frenk and Simon D.M. White's 1997 ApJ article "A Universal density profile from hierarchical clustering" inspirehep.net/literature/4... reaches 9,000 citations.
Andrea Zonca et al. 2019 J.Open Source Softw. manual "healpy: equal area pixelization and spherical harmonics transforms for data on the sphere in Python" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 1,000 citations.
Luis Alvarez-Gaume and Edward Witten's 1984 Nucl.Phys.B article "Gravitational Anomalies" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 2,000 citations.
Christian W. Bauer, Sean Fleming, Dan Pirjol and Iain W. Stewart's 2001 PRD article "An Effective field theory for collinear and soft gluons: Heavy to light decays" inspirehep.net/literature/5... reaches 2,000 citations.
Claudia de Rham, Gregory Gabadadze and Andrew J. Tolley's 2011 @physrevlett.aps.org "Resummation of Massive Gravity" inspirehep.net/literature/8... reaches 2,000 citations.
Guido Altarelli and G. Parisi's 1977 Nucl.Phys.B article "Asymptotic Freedom in Parton Language" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 9,000 citations.
David J. Gross and Frank Wilczek's 1973 PRD article "Asymptotically Free Gauge Theories - I" inspirehep.net/literature/8... reaches 3,000 citations.
Viatcheslav F. Mukhanov, H.A. Feldman and Robert H. Brandenberger's 1992 Phys.Rept. review "Theory of cosmological perturbations. Part 1. Classical perturbations. Part 2. Quantum theory of perturbations. Part 3. Extensions" inspirehep.net/literature/3... reaches 4,000 citations.
Jesus Torrado and Antony Lewis' 2021 JCAP manual "Cobaya: Code for Bayesian Analysis of hierarchical physical models" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 1,000 citations.
N.D. Birrell and P.C.W. Davies' 1982 book "Quantum Fields in Curved Space" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 3,000 citations. The unsual shape of the graph may be an artefact of trying to record citations to a book.
Viatcheslav F. Mukhanov, H.A. Feldman and Robert H. Brandenberger's 1992 Phys.Rept. review "Theory of cosmological perturbations. Part 1. Classical perturbations. Part 2. Quantum theory of perturbations. Part 3. Extensions" inspirehep.net/literature/3... reaches 4,000 citations.
Peter Minkowski's 1977 PLB "μ→eγ at a Rate of One Out of $10^{9}$ Muon Decays? inspirehep.net/literature/4... reaches 6,000 citations. This paper is a (perhaps the) classic "sleeping beauty"
David Schlegel, Douglas Finkbeiner and Marc Davis' 1998 ApJ article "Maps of dust IR emission for use in estimation of reddening and CMBR foregrounds" inspirehep.net/literature/4... reaches 9,000 citations.
Steven Weinberg's 1977 @physrevlett.aps.org "A New Light Boson?" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 7,000 citations. This paper is a sleeping beauty (sort of).
Scientific Background to the @nobelprize.org in Physics 2026: For Decisive Contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the Discovery of High-Energy Neutrinos of Astrophysical Origin inspirehep.net/literature/3...
Congratulations to Francis Halzen inspirehep.net/authors/1006...
BREAKING NEWS The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2026 #NobelPrize in Physics to Francis Halzen “for decisive contributions to the IceCube Neutrino Observatory and the discovery of high-energy neutrinos of astrophysical origin.”
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DES Collaboration's January 21st eprint "Dark Energy Survey Year 6 Results: Cosmological Constraints from Galaxy Clustering and Weak Lensing" inspirehep.net/literature/3... reaches 100 citations.
Cain et al. March 30th eprint "Shor's algorithm is possible with as few as 10,000 reconfigurable atomic qubits" inspirehep.net/literature/3... reaches 100 citations.
Louise Dolan and Roman Jackiw's 1974 PRD article "Symmetry Behavior at Finite Temperature" inspirehep.net/literature/868 reaches 3,000 citations.
R.D. Peccei and Helen R. Quinn's 1977 PRD article "Constraints Imposed by CP Conservation in the Presence of Instantons" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 5,000 citations.
Sep 2nd @lzdarkmatter.bsky.social eprint "Search for dark matter particle interactions in an extended nuclear recoil energy window with the LUX-ZEPLIN (LZ) experiment" inspirehep.net/literature/3... reaches 100 citations.
Mark Srednicki's 1994 PRE article "Chaos and Quantum Thermalization" inspirehep.net/literature/2... reaches 3,000 citations.
John Bardeen, L.N. Cooper and J.R. Schrieffer's 1957 Phys.Rev. article "Theory of superconductivity" inspirehep.net/literature/3... reaches 3,000 citations.
Michael Dine and Willy Fischler's 1983 Phys.Lett.B "The Not So Harmless Axion" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 4,000 citations.
Nathan Seiberg and Edward Witten's 1994 Nucl.Phys.B article "Electric - magnetic duality, monopole condensation, and confinement in N=2 supersymmetric Yang-Mills theory" inspirehep.net/literature/3... reaches 4,000 citations.
Geant4 Collaboration's 2006 IEEE Trans.Nucl.Sci. manual "Geant4 developments and applications" inspirehep.net/literature/7... reaches 5,000 citations.
Stephen Hawking's 1975 Commun.Math.Phys. article "Particle Creation by Black Holes" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 14,000 citations. @springernature.com
Zhong et al. 2020 @science.org article "Quantum computational advantage using photons" inspirehep.net/literature/2... reaches 2,000 citations.
Jerome Martin's 2012 Comptes Rendus Physique article "Everything You Always Wanted To Know About The Cosmological Constant Problem (But Were Afraid To Ask)" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 1,000 citations.
R.P. Feynman's 1950 Phys.Rev. article "Mathematical formulation of the quantum theory of electromagnetic interaction" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 1,000 citations.
Hou et al. 2021 PRD article "New CTEQ global analysis of quantum chromodynamics with high-precision data from the LHC" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 1,000 citations.
"Observable Gravitational Wave Strain at Second Order" inspirehep.net/literature/3... phys.org/news/2026-06...
Interview with Sarah Demers inspirehep.net/authors/1021... In an Age of AI, a Physicist Seeks What Endures www.quantamagazine.org/in-an-age-of... via @QuantaMagazine
Michel Chevallier and David Polarski's 2001 IJMPD article "Accelerating universes with scaling dark matter" inspirehep.net/literature/5... reaches 3,000 citations.
LIGO Virgo 2017 @physrevlett.aps.org "GW170817: Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Neutron Star Inspiral" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 11,000 citations.
Congratulations to Shoji Asai inspirehep.net/authors/1018... interactions.org/press-releas...
Almheiri et al. 2020 JHEP article "Replica Wormholes and the Entropy of Hawking Radiation" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 1,000 citations.
Vagnozzi et al. 2023 CQG article "Horizon-scale tests of gravity theories and fundamental physics from the Event Horizon Telescope image of Sagittarius A" inspirehep.net/literature/2... reaches 2,000 citations.
Curtis G. Callan, Jr. and Sidney R. Coleman's 1977 PRD article "The Fate of the False Vacuum. 2. First Quantum Corrections" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 2,000 citations. This paper is a sleeping beauty.
T. Tajima and J. M. Dawson's 1979 PRL "Laser electron accelerator" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 2,000 citations. This paper is a sleeping beauty.
Carl M. Bender's 2007 Rept.Prog.Phys. review "Making sense of non-Hermitian Hamiltonians" inspirehep.net/literature/7... reaches 2,000 citations.
Thomas Sotiriou and Valerio Faraoni's 2010 Rev.Mod.Phys. review "f(R) Theories Of Gravity" inspirehep.net/literature/7... reaches 5,000 citations.
A.Yu. Kitaev's 2003 Annals Phys. article "Fault tolerant quantum computation by anyons" inspirehep.net/literature/4... reaches 6,000 citations.
.@cmse 2012 PLB "Observation of a New Boson at a Mass of 125 GeV with the CMS Experiment at the LHC" inspirehep.net/literature/1... reaches 17,000 citations.