**** We made the list of the 1120 most cited physicists 1981-1997 original link, local link
Total published papers--lifetime since 1974: 306
Total citations according to ISI: 6182
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***** Most cited papers (end of 2006)****
1. C. D. Lin "Doubly excited states, including new classification schemes," Advances in Atomic Mol. Phys., Vol. 22, 77-142 (1986) has 307 citations
2. C. D. Lin, W R Johnson and A. Dalgarno, "Radiative decay of n=2 states of helium-like ions", Phys. Rev. A15, (1977) has 257 citations
3. C. D. Lin "Classification and Supermultiplet Structure of Doubly Excited States," Phys. Rev. A29, 1019 (1984). has 241 citations
4. W. Fritsch and C. D. Lin " Theory of ion-atom collisions- Coupled Channel Methods," Phys. Rept. 202, 1 (1991). has 226 citations
5. C. D. Lin, "correlation of excited electrons-study of channels in hypserpherical coordinates", Phys. Rev. A10, 1986 (1974) has 163 citations
6. W. R. Johnson and C. D. Lin "Multi-Channel Relativistic Random Phase Approximation for the Photoionization of Atoms," Phys. Rev. A20, 964 (1979). has 133 citations
More recently, this paper has been cited frequently:
X. M. Tong, Z. X. Zhao and C. D. Lin, "Theory of molecular tunneling ionization", Phys. Rev. A66, 033402 (2002). has already 83 citations till the end of December 2006