According to
Essential Science IndicatorsSMfrom
Thomson
Reuters, the paper currently ranked at #1 among
Materials Science papers published in the past decade is
"Room-temperature ultraviolet nanowire nanolasers" (Huang,
MH, et al., Science 292[5523]: 1897-9, 8 June
2001), with 2,849 citations to its credit up to February
28, 2009.