| Matching Regge theory to the OPE SS Afonin, AA Andrianov, VA Andrianov, D Espriu Journal of High Energy Physics 2004 (04), 039, 2004 | 101 | 2004 |
| Light meson spectrum and classical symmetries of QCD SS Afonin The European Physical Journal A-Hadrons and Nuclei 29, 327-335, 2006 | 79 | 2006 |
| Towards understanding broad degeneracy in non-strange mesons SS Afonin Modern Physics Letters A 22 (19), 1359-1371, 2007 | 76 | 2007 |
| Properties of possible new unflavored mesons below 2.4 GeV SS Afonin Physical Review C 76 (1), 015202, 2007 | 74 | 2007 |
| Parity doubling in particle physics SS Afonin International Journal of Modern Physics A 22 (25), 4537-4586, 2007 | 70 | 2007 |
| Universal description of radially excited heavy and light vector mesons SS Afonin, IV Pusenkov Physical Review D 90 (9), 094020, 2014 | 69 | 2014 |
| Experimental indication on chiral symmetry restoration in meson spectrum SS Afonin Physics Letters B 639 (3-4), 258-262, 2006 | 65 | 2006 |
| Quark condensate and deviations from string-like behaviour of meson spectra SS Afonin Physics Letters B 576 (1-2), 122-126, 2003 | 52 | 2003 |
| Generalized soft wall model SS Afonin Physics Letters B 719 (4-5), 399-403, 2013 | 51 | 2013 |
| HOLOGRAPHIC-LIKE MODELS AS A FIVE-DIMENSIONAL REWRITING OF LARGE-Nc QCD SS Afonin International Journal of Modern Physics A 25 (31), 5683-5710, 2010 | 42 | 2010 |
| Hydrogen-like classification for light nonstrange mesons SS Afonin International Journal of Modern Physics A 23 (25), 4205-4217, 2008 | 39 | 2008 |
| Qualitative solution of QCD sum rules S Afonin, D Espriu Journal of High Energy Physics 2006 (09), 047, 2006 | 37 | 2006 |
| No-wall holographic model for QCD SS Afonin International Journal of Modern Physics A 26 (21), 3615-3623, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Low-energy holographic models for QCD SS Afonin Physical Review C 83 (4), 048202, 2011 | 35 | 2011 |
| Glueballs and deconfinement temperature in AdS/QCD SS Afonin, AD Katanaeva Physical Review D 98 (11), 114027, 2018 | 30 | 2018 |
| Cluster duality SS Afonin Nuclear Physics B 779 (1-2), 13-31, 2007 | 30 | 2007 |
| Note on universal description of heavy and light mesons SS Afonin, IV Pusenkov Modern Physics Letters A 29 (35), 1450193, 2014 | 26 | 2014 |
| The quark masses and meson spectrum: A holographic approach SS Afonin, IV Pusenkov Physics Letters B 726 (1-3), 283-289, 2013 | 24 | 2013 |
| AdS/QCD models describing a finite number of excited mesons with Regge spectrum SS Afonin Physics Letters B 675 (1), 54-58, 2009 | 23 | 2009 |
| Regge spectrum from holographic models inspired by OPE SS Afonin Physics Letters B 678 (5), 477-480, 2009 | 21 | 2009 |
