Philosophical Magazine 100 Most Cited Articles
The list refers to citations made between 1945 and 2002

1. Anomalous low-temperature thermal properties of glasses and spin glasses
   P. W. Anderson, B. I. Halperin, C. M. Varma, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 25, (1972), 1-9



2. Conduction in non-crystalline materials II. Localized states in a pseudogap and near extremities of conduction and valence bands
   N. F. Mott, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 19, (1969), 835-852



3. On the determination of the velocity constant of a unimolecular reaction.
   E. A. Guggenheim, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 2, (1926), 538-543



4. Electrical resistance of disordered one-dimensional lattices
   R. Landauer, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 21, (1970), 863-867



5. A simple empirical N-body potential for transition metals
   M. W. Finnis, J. E. Sinclair, Philosophical Magazine A, Vol. 50, (1984), 45-55



6. A theory of the electrical properties of liquid metals I: The monovalent metals
   J. M. Ziman, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 6, (1961), 1013-1034



7. The screened model potential for 25 elements
   A. O. E. Animalu, V. Heine, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 12, (1965), 1249-1270



8. The energy spectrum of ejected atoms during the high energy sputtering of gold
   M. W. Thompson, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 18, (1968), 377-414



9. A theory of the electrical properties of liquid metals III. The resistivity of binary alloys
   T. E. Faber, J. M. Ziman, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 11, (1965), 153-173



10. A contribution to the theory of electrocapillarity
    D. L. Chapman, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 25, (1913), 475-481



11. Conduction in non-crystalline systems conductivity, optical absorption and photoconductivity in amorphous semiconductors
    E. A. Davis, N. F. Mott, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 22, (1970), 903-922



12. The transition to the metallic state
    Mott NF, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 6, (1961), 287-309



13. A new method for the electronic structure of metals
    V. Heine, J. Abarenkov, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 9, (1964), 451-465



14. On the change of form of long waves advancing in a rectangular canal, and on a new type of long stationary waves
    D. J. Korteweg, G. De Vries, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 39, (1895), 422-443



15. A theory of the plastic distortion of a polycrystalline aggregate under combined stresses
    Bishop JFW, R. Hill, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 42, (1951), 414-427



16. The distribution of electrons round impurities in monovalent metals
    J. Friedel, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 43, (1952), 153-189



17. Ductile versus brittle behaviour of crystals
    J. R. Rice, R. Thompson, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 29, (1974), 73-97



18. Dislocations and cracks in anisotropic elasticity
    A. N. Stroh, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 3, (1958), 625-646



19. The deformation of plastically non-homogenous materials
    M. F. Ashby, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 21, (1970), 399-424



20. Electronic properties of substantially doped amorphous Si and Ge
    W. E. Spear, P. G. Le Comber, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 33, (1976), 935-949



21. Hyperfine structure in paramagnetic salts and nuclear alignment
    B. Bleaney, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 42, (1951), 441-458



22. States in the gap and recombination in amorphous semiconductors
    N. F. Mott, E. A. Davis, R. A. Street, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 32, (1975), 961-996



23. The growth of grain-boundary voids under stress
    D. Hull, D. E. Rimmer, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 4, (1959), 673-687



24. Solution of 'solvable model of a spin glass'
    D. J. Thouless, P. W. Anderson, R. G. Palmer, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 35, (1977), 593-601



25. Diffraction contrast from spherically symmetrical coherency strains
    M. F. Ashby, L. M. Brown, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 8, (1963), 1083-1103



26. On the theory of x-ray absorption and of the continuous x-ray spectrum
    H. A. Kramers, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 46, (1923), 836-871



27. The properties of certain strained hydrocarbons
    C. A. Coulson, W. E. Moffitt, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 40, (1949), 1-35



28. Theory of Barium Titanate
    A. F. Devonshire, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 40, (1949), 1040-1063


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29. A. Keller, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 2, (1957), 1171-1175



30. Ultrasonic attenuation in metals
    A. B. Pippard, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 46, (1955), 1104-1114



31. Concentration contours in grain boundary diffusion
    R. T. P. Whipple, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 45, (1954), 1225-1237



32. A theoretical derivation of the plastic properties of a polycrystalline face-centred metal
    J. F. W. Bishop, R. Hill, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 42, (1951), 1298-1307



33. Investigations of dislocation strain fields using weak beams
    D. J. H. Cockayne, I. L. F. Ray, M. J. Whelan, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 20, (1969), 1265-1270



34. Optical and photoelectric properties and colour centres in thin films of tungsten oxide
    S. K. Deb, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 27, (1973), 801-822



35. Theory of dislocations in geranium
    W. T. Read, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 45, (1954), 775-796



36. The equilibrium of linear arrays of dislocations
    J. D. Eshelby, F. C. Frank, F. R. N. Nabarro, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 42, (1951), 351-364



37. On the theory of the low-temperature internal friction peak observed in metals
    A. Seeger, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 1, (1956), 651-662



38. A new technique for decoration of cleavage and slip steps on ionic crystal surfaces
    G. A. Bassett, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 3, (1958), 1042-1045



39. Note on the motion of fluid in a curved pipe
    W. R. Dean, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 4, (1927), 208-223



40. On the correction for shear of the differential equation for transverse vibrations of prismatic bars
    S. P. Timoshenko, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 41, (1921), 744-746



41. The plastic deformation of polycrystalline aggregates
    R. Armstrong, I. Codd, M. Douthwaite, N. J. Petch, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 7, (1962), 45-58



42. Cites: On the influence of obstacles arranged in rectangular order upon the properties of a medium
    J. W. Rayleigh, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 34, (1892), 481-502



43. Poole-Frenkel conduction in amorphous solids
    R. M. Hill, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 23, (1971), 59-86



44. A new method for the evaluation of electric conductivity in metals
    S. F. Edwards, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 3, (1958), 1020-1031



45. On the theory of the decrease of velocity of moving electrified particles on passing through matter
    N. Bohr, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 25, (1913), 10-31



46. On the decrease of velocity of swiftly moving electrified particles in passing through matter
    N. Bohr, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 30, (1915), 581-612



47. On the theory of impurity diffusion in metals
    A. D. Leclaire, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 7, (1962), 141-167



48. Rate equation approaches to thin film nucleation kinetics
    J. A. Venables, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 27, (1973), 697-738



49. On diffraction contrast from inclusions
    M F. Ashby, L. M. Brown, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 8, (1963), 1649-1676



50. The moving Griffith crack
    E. H. Yoffe, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 42, (1951), 739-750



51. Dislocation movement through random arrays of obstacles
    A. J. E. Foreman, M. J. Makin, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 14, (1966), 911-924



52. A theory of work-hardening of metal crystals
    N. F. Mott, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 43, (1952), 1151-1178



53. The stream-line motion of fluid in a curved pipe (second paper)
    W. R. Dean, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 5, (1928), 673-695



54. Hardness measurement at penetration depths as small as 20 nm
    J. B. Pethica, R. Hutchings, W. C. Oliver, Philosophical Magazine A, Vol. 48, (1983), 593-



55. Thermally activated glide in face-centred cubic metals and its application to the theory of strain hardening
    Z. S. Basinski, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 4, (1959), 393-432



56. Dislocation densities in some annealed and cold-worked metals from measurements on the x-ray Debye-Scherrer spectrum
    G. K. Williamson, R. E. Smallman, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 1, (1956), 34-45



57. Conduction in non-crystalline systems IV. Anderson localization in a disordered state
    N. F. Mott, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 22, (1970), 7-29



58. The nuclear surface
    T. H. R. Skyrme, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 1, (1956), 1043-1054



59. Interpretation of the Haas-van Alphen effect
    L. Onsager, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 43, (1952), 1006-1008


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60. Theory of a.c. conduction in chalcogenide glass
    S. R. Elliott, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 36, (1977), 1291-1304



61. The Fermi surface of aluminium
    N. W. Ashcroft, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 8, (1963), 2055-2083



62. The specific thermodynamic properties of aqueous solutions of strong electrolytes
    E. A. Guggenheim, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 19, (1935), 588-643



63. The demagnetizing factors for ellipsoids
    E. C. Stoner, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 36, (1945), 803-821



64. The model potential for positive ions
    I. V. Abarenkov, V. Heine, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 12, (1965), 529-537



65. The dislocation distribution, flow stress, and stored energy in cold-worked polycrystalline silver
    J. E. Bailey, P. B. Hirsch, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 5, (1960), 485-497



66. On musical air-bubbles and the sounds of running water
    M. Minnaert, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 16, (1933), 235-248



67. The theory of x-ray reflexion. Part II
    C. G. Darwin, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 27, (1914), 315-333



68. A quasicrystal structure model for Al-Mn
    P. Guyot, M. Audier, Philosophical Magazine B, Vol. 52, (1985), L15-L19



69. The electrical properties of liquid mercury
    N. F. Mott, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 13, (1966), 989-1014



70. A note on the Portevin-Le Chatelier effect
    A. H. Cottrell, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 44, (1953), 829-832



71. The theory of x-ray reflexion
    C. G. Darwin, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 27, (1914), 675-690



72. Direct measurements of stacking-fault energies from observations of dislocation nodes
    A. Howie, P. R. Swain, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 6, (1961), 1215-1226



73. Thermodynamical and structural properties of f.c.c. transition metals using a simple tight-binding model
    V. Rosato, M. Guillope, B. Legrand, Philosophical Magazine A, Vol. 59, (1989), 321-336



74. Scattering of electrons and holes by charged donors and acceptors in semiconductors
    R. B. Dingle, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 46, (1955), 831-840



75. The motion of flux lines in type II superconductors
    P. Nozieres, W. F. Vinen, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 14, (1966), 667-688



76. Notes on the molecular orbital treatment of the hydrogen molecule
    C. A. Coulson, I. Fischer, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 40, (1949), 386-393



77. Properties of slow electrons in polar materials
    H. Frohlich, H. Pelzer, S. Zeinau, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 41, (1950), 221-242



78. On the frequency dependence of conductivity in amorphous solids
    M. Pollak, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 23, (1971), 519-543



79. The growth and structure of gold and silver deposits formed by evaporation inside an electron microscope
    D. W. Pashley, M. J. Stowell, M. H. Jacobs, T. J. Law, Philosophical Magazine, 10 Vol., (1964), 127-158



80. Dislocation loops in quenched aluminium
    P. B. Hirsch, J Silcox, R. E. Smallman, K. H. Westmacott, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 3, (1958), 897-908



81. On the dislocation theory of evaporation of crystals
    N. Cabrera, M. M. Levine, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 1, (1956), 450-458



82. Electrical and optical properties of amorphous silicon carbide, silicon nitride and germanium carbide prepared by the glow discharge technique
    D. A. Anderson, W. E. Spear, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 35, (1977), 1-16



83. Flux pinning mechanisms in type II superconductors
    D. Dew-Hughes, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 30, (1974), 293-305



84. A theory of the viscosity of liquids - Part I
    E. N. D. Andrade, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 17, (1934), 497-511



85. A statistical theory of flow stress and work-hardening
    U. F.Kocks, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 13, (1966), 541-566



86. The generation of lattice defects by moving dislocations, and its application to the temperature dependence of the flow-stress of F.C.C. crystals
    A. Seeger, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 46, (1955), 1194-1217



87. Relation between the specific heat and susceptibility of an antiferromagnet
    M. E. Fisher, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 7, (1962), 1731-1743



88. Direct observations of defects in quenched gold
    J. Silcox, P. B. Hirsch, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 4, (1959), 72-89



89. On lines and planes of closest fit to systems of points in space
    K. Pearson, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 2, (1901), 559-572



90. On the criterion that a given system of deviations from the probable in the case of a correlated system of variables is such that it can be reasonably supposed to have arisen from random sampling.
    K. Pearson, Philosophical Magazine 5, Vol. 50, (1900), 157-175



91. On the concentration at the electrodes in a solution, with special reference to the liberation of hydrogen by electrolysis of a mixture of copper sulphate and sulphuric acid
    H. J. S. Sand, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 1, (1901), 45-79



92. Work hardening of dispersion-hardened crystals
    M. F. Ashby, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 14, (1966), 1157-1178



93. On the thermal expansion of solids at low temperatures
    T. H. K. Barron, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 46, (1955), 720-734



94. The work-hardening of copper-silica I. A model based on internal stresses, with no plastic relaxation
    L. M. Brown, W. M. Stobbs, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 23, (1971), 1185-1199



95. The a-? transition in cerium is a Mott transition
    B. Johansson, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 30, (1974), 469-482



96. Conduction in non-crystalline systems IX. The minimum metallic conductivity
    N. F. Mott, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 26, (1972), 1015-1026



97. Intensity calculation of some optical absorption lines in hydrated manganous salts
    S. Koide, M. H. L. Pryce, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 3, (1958), 607-624



98. A theory for the low-temperature plastic deformation of glassy polymers
    A. S. Argon, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 28, (1973), 839



99. A theory of work-hardening of metals II: Flow without slip-lines, recovery and creep
    N. F. Mott, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 44, (1953), 742-765



100. A theory of the electrical properties of liquid metals II. Polyvalent metals
     C. C. Bradley, T. E. Faber, E. G. Wilson, J. M. Ziman, Philosophical Magazine, Vol. 7, (1962), 865-887