Japan's Citation Laureates, 1981-98

n October 30th, at the Tokyo-American Club in Tokyo, ISI-Thomson Scientific honored 30 Japanese scientists as Citation Laureates—researchers who, since 1981, have each published more than a dozen high-impact, or world-class, papers in their field, as measured by citations. The names of these distinguished scientists appear here. 

A high-impact paper is, according to ISI-Thomson Scientific, one of the 200 most-cited papers in a specific field published in a particular year. The papers examined were published from 1981 to 1998, and the citation counts recorded were from the paper’s year of publication through 1999. High-impact papers are rare in the scientific literature: in general, few papers are cited much if at all, and even fewer are cited frequently enough to be one of the 200 most-cited papers in their field in a given year (from fewer than 1% to fewer than .1%, depending on the size of the field). Even rarer are individual scientists who have produced multiple high-impact papers...