List of high-citation papers Shunzo Kumano
The total number of citations is 9237 in Inspire and 9455 in Google Scholar for my publications
including reports and proceedings on January 9, 2026. The citations only for the journal publi-
cations are 7634 in Inspire for 91 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 9, 2026.
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 9, 2026.
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.
1365 1374
The physics of the B factories, A. J. Bevan et al. (S.
Kumano 47th author), Eur. Phys. J. C 74 (2014) 3026,
1-928.
763 814
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.
444 623
Flavor asymmetry of anti-quark distributions in the nu-
cleon, S. Kumano, Phys. Rept. 303 (1998) 183-257.
328 402
50 Years of Quantum Chromodynamics, F. Gross et al. (S.
Kumano 46th author), Eur. Phys. J. C 83 (2023) 1125,
1-636.
313 327
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.
280 320
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.
244 381
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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.
244 107
Determination of nuclear parton distributions, M. Hirai,
S. Kumano, M. Miyama, Phys. Rev. D 64 (2001) 034003,
1-15.
226 305
Nuclear parton distribution functions and their uncertain-
ties, M. Hirai, S. Kumano, T.-H. Nagai, Phys. Rev. C 70
(2004) 044905, 1-10.
194 255
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.
157 174
Determination of polarized parton distribution functions
and their uncertainties, M. Hirai, S. Kumano, N. Saito,
Phys. Rev. D 69 (2004) 054021, 1-10.
157 196
Numerical solution of Q
2
evolution equations in a brute
force method, M. Miyama, S. Kumano, Comput. Phys.
Commun. 94 (1996) 185-215.
146 195
πNN form factor for explaining sea quark distributions in
the nucleon, S. Kumano, Phys. Rev. D 43 (1991) 59-63.
135 173
Origin of SU(2) flavor symmetry breaking in anti-quark
distributions, S. Kumano, J. T. Londergan, Phys. Rev. D
44 (1991) 717-724.
121 156
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.
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.
113 141
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.
106 137
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