List of high-citation papers Shunzo Kumano
The total number of citations is 7906 in Inspire and 8105 in Google Scholar for my publications
including reports and proceedings on January 6, 2025. The citations only for the journal publi-
cations are 6818 in Inspire for 88 publications. The numbers of citations per year is shown by
the following figure taken from the GoogleScholar.
Figure 1: The number of citations per year in the GoogleScholar on January 6, 2025.
The following list is for the top 20 citations in the journal publications excluding proceedings
and reports. The citation numbers are at the stage of January 6, 2025.
Publication Inspire Google Scholar
Science Requirements and Detector Concepts for the
Electron-Ion Collider: EIC Yellow Report, R. Abdul
Khalek et al. (S. Kumano 190th author), Nucl. Phys.
A 1026 (2022) 122447, 1-902.
1037
998
The physics of the B factories, A. J. Bevan et al. (S.
Kumano 47th author), Eur. Phys. J. C 74 (2014) 3026,
1-928.
708 766
Determination of nuclear parton distribution functions
and their uncertainties in next-to-leading order, M. Hi-
rai, S. Kumano, T.-H. Nagai, Phys. Rev. C 76 (2007)
065207, 1-16.
430 611
Flavor asymmetry of anti-quark distributions in the nu-
cleon, S. Kumano, Phys. Rept. 303 (1998) 183-257.
322 228
Determination of fragmentation functions and their un-
certainties, M. Hirai, S. Kumano, T.-H. Nagai, K. Sudoh,
Phys. Rev. D 75 (2007) 094009, 1-17.
271 304
Scalar mesons in ϕ radiative decay: Their implications for
spectroscopy and for studies of CP violation at ϕ factories,
F. E. Close, N. Isgur, S. Kumano, Nucl. Phys. B 389
(1993) 513-533.
242 159
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Polarized parton distribution functions in the nucleon, Y.
Goto, N. Hayashi, M. Hirai, H. Horikawa, S. Kumano, M.
Miyama, T. Morii, N. Saito, T.-A. Shibata, E. Taniguchi,
T. Yamanishi (Asymmetry Analysis Collaboration), Phys.
Rev. D 62 (2000) 034017, 1-18.
241 107
Determination of nuclear parton distributions, M. Hirai,
S. Kumano, M. Miyama, Phys. Rev. D 64 (2001) 034003,
1-15.
223 300
Nuclear parton distribution functions and their uncertain-
ties, M. Hirai, S. Kumano, T.-H. Nagai, Phys. Rev. C 70
(2004) 044905, 1-10.
192 253
50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics, F. Gross et al. (S.
Kumano 46th author), Eur. Phys. J. C 83 (2023) 1125,
1-636.
160 173
Determination of polarized parton distribution functions
and their uncertainties, M. Hirai, S. Kumano, N. Saito,
Phys. Rev. D 69 (2004) 054021, 1-10.
156 198
Numerical solution of Q
2
evolution equations in a brute
force method, M. Miyama, S. Kumano, Comput. Phys.
Commun. 94 (1996) 185-215.
138 186
πNN form factor for explaining sea quark distributions in
the nucleon, S. Kumano, Phys. Rev. D 43 (1991) 59-63.
135 174
Hadron tomography by generalized distribution ampli-
tudes in pion-pair production process γ
∗
γ → π
0
π
0
and
gravitational form factors for pion, S. Kumano, Qin-Tao
Song, O. V. Teryaev, Phys. Rev. D 97 (2018) 014020,
1-28.
131 139
Origin of SU(2) flavor symmetry breaking in anti-quark
distributions, S. Kumano, J. T. Londergan, Phys. Rev. D
44 (1991) 717-724.
119 155
Numerical solution of Q
2
evolution equations for polarized
structure functions, M. Hirai, S. Kumano, M. Miyama,
Comput. Phys. Commun. 108 (1998) 38-55.
107 134
Effects of πNN form factor on pionic contributions to
¯u(x) −
¯
d(x) distribution in the nucleon, S. Kumano, Phys.
Rev. D 43 (1991) 3067-3070.
105 132
2
Two-loop anomalous dimensions for the structure func-
tion h
1
, S. Kumano, M. Miyama, Phys. Rev. D56 (1997)
R2504-R2508.
102 134
On the physics potential to study the gluon content of
proton and deuteron at NICA SPD, A. Arbuzov et al. (S.
Kumano 16th author), Prog. Nucl. Part. Phys. 119
(2021) 103858, 1-43.
100 119
Determination of gluon polarization from deep inelastic
scattering and collider data, M. Hirai, S. Kumano, Nucl.
Phys. B 813 (2009) 106-122.
100 119
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