Peter W. Higgs

9.9k total citations · 5 hit papers
14 papers, 4.9k citations indexed

About

Peter W. Higgs is a scholar working on Nuclear and High Energy Physics, Organic Chemistry and Astronomy and Astrophysics. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter W. Higgs has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 4.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 6 papers in Nuclear and High Energy Physics, 3 papers in Organic Chemistry and 2 papers in Astronomy and Astrophysics. Recurrent topics in Peter W. Higgs's work include Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (5 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (5 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (4 papers). Peter W. Higgs is often cited by papers focused on Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies (5 papers), Quantum Chromodynamics and Particle Interactions (5 papers) and Black Holes and Theoretical Physics (4 papers). Peter W. Higgs collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom and United States. Peter W. Higgs's co-authors include C. A. Coulson and N. H. March and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Physical Review Letters and Reviews of Modern Physics.

In The Last Decade

Peter W. Higgs

14 papers receiving 4.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons

1964 2.0k citations Peter W. Higgs Physical Review Letters profile →
Broken symmetries, massless particles and gauge fields

1964 1.5k citations Peter W. Higgs Physics Letters profile →
Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown without Massless Bosons

1966 905 citations Peter W. Higgs Physical Review profile →
Dynamical symmetries in a spherical geometry. I

1979 263 citations Peter W. Higgs Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General profile →
The vibration spectra of helical molecules: infra-red and Raman selection rules, intensities and approximate frequencies

1953 231 citations Peter W. Higgs Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Peter W. Higgs United Kingdom	9	3.7k	1.3k	906	665	274	14	4.9k
Kazuo Fujikawa Japan	27	3.8k 1.0×	954 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	940 1.4×	332 1.2×	154	4.9k
L. Stodolsky Germany	32	3.1k 0.8×	951 0.7×	1.3k 1.4×	313 0.5×	180 0.7×	124	4.2k
D. Toussaint United States	45	6.2k 1.7×	542 0.4×	719 0.8×	417 0.6×	1.4k 5.0×	186	7.4k
Michel Le Bellac France	23	1.5k 0.4×	479 0.4×	857 0.9×	432 0.6×	305 1.1×	68	2.4k
T.D. Lee United States	26	3.4k 0.9×	1.2k 0.9×	1.3k 1.4×	699 1.1×	689 2.5×	39	5.1k
D. Cline United States	40	4.2k 1.1×	529 0.4×	949 1.0×	147 0.2×	193 0.7×	365	5.2k
Marcus Benghi Pinto Brazil	26	1.4k 0.4×	764 0.6×	844 0.9×	121 0.2×	308 1.1×	70	2.5k
J. J. Sakurai United States	34	4.4k 1.2×	306 0.2×	1.5k 1.7×	370 0.6×	283 1.0×	92	5.7k
Thomas Faulkner United States	26	1.2k 0.3×	1.1k 0.8×	911 1.0×	446 0.7×	160 0.6×	68	2.5k
Gordon Kane United States	48	7.5k 2.0×	2.5k 1.9×	416 0.5×	212 0.3×	87 0.3×	231	7.9k

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All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

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Higgs, Peter W.. (2015). Evading the Goldstone theorem. Uspekhi Fizicheskih Nauk. 185(10). 1059–1060. 2 indexed citations

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Higgs, Peter W.. (2014). Nobel Lecture: Evading the Goldstone theorem. Reviews of Modern Physics. 86(3). 851–853. 32 indexed citations

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Higgs, Peter W.. (2014). Evading the Goldstone theorem. Annalen der Physik. 526(5-6). 211–213. 2 indexed citations

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Higgs, Peter W.. (1979). Dynamical symmetries in a spherical geometry. I. Journal of Physics A Mathematical and General. 12(3). 309–323. 263 indexed citations breakdown →

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Higgs, Peter W.. (1966). Spontaneous Symmetry Breakdown without Massless Bosons. Physical Review. 145(4). 1156–1163. 905 indexed citations breakdown →

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Higgs, Peter W.. (1964). Broken Symmetries and the Masses of Gauge Bosons. Physical Review Letters. 13(16). 508–509. 1962 indexed citations breakdown →

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Higgs, Peter W.. (1964). Broken symmetries, massless particles and gauge fields. Physics Letters. 12(2). 132–133. 1465 indexed citations breakdown →

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Higgs, Peter W.. (1958). Integration of Secondary Constraints in Quantized General Relativity. Physical Review Letters. 1(10). 373–374. 26 indexed citations

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Higgs, Peter W.. (1956). Vacuum expectation values as sums over histories. Il Nuovo Cimento. 4(6). 1262–1273. 4 indexed citations

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Higgs, Peter W.. (1955). A method for calculating thermal vibration amplitudes from spectroscopic data. Acta Crystallographica. 8(10). 619–620. 1 indexed citations

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Higgs, Peter W.. (1955). Vibrational modifications of the electron distribution in molecular crystals. II. Mean square amplitudes of thermal motion. Acta Crystallographica. 8(2). 99–104. 16 indexed citations

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Higgs, Peter W.. (1953). The vibration spectra of helical molecules: infra-red and Raman selection rules, intensities and approximate frequencies. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London A Mathematical and Physical Sciences. 220(1143). 472–485. 231 indexed citations breakdown →

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Higgs, Peter W.. (1953). Vibrational modifications of the electron distribution in molecular crystals. I. The density in a vibrating carbon atom. Acta Crystallographica. 6(3). 232–241. 9 indexed citations

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Coulson, C. A., Peter W. Higgs, & N. H. March. (1951). Theoretical Determination of Electron Density in Organic Molecules. Nature. 168(4285). 1039–1039. 7 indexed citations

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