Papers published by the Belle experiment have been selected for "Hot Papers" of 2004-2005 by Thomson Scientific, a business unit of The Thomson Corporation. Top 0.1% of published papers that acquired a high citation rate during the period of September 2005 to November 2005, among those issued between November 2003 and October 2005, have made the "Hot Paper" ranking.

The following six Belle publications were selected as "Hot Papers" by Thomson Scientific:

"Observation of a new narrow charmonium state in exclusive B+ ->K+ pi+pi-J/psi decays" Phys. Rev. Lett. 91 262001 (2003)
"Study of B- -> D**0 pi-(D**0 -> D(*)+ pi-) decays" Phys. Rev. D 69, 112002 (2004)
"Evidence for Direct CP Violation in B0 -> K+- pi-+ Decays" Phys. Rev. Lett. 93 191802 (2004)
"Improved measurement of CP violation parameters sin2phi1 and |lambda|, B meson lifetimes, and B0-B0bar mixing parameter Dmd" Phys. Rev. D 71, 072003 (2005)
"Neutral B Flavor Tagging for the Measurement of Mixing-induced CP Violation at Belle" Nucl. Instrum. Meth. A533: 516, (2004)

"Observation of a near-threshold omega-J/psi mass enhancement in exclusive B-->K omega J/psi decays" Phys. Rev. Lett. 94, 182002 (2005)

The Belle Collaboration consists of approximately 400 members from more than 50 institutes around the world. Among them, Nobuhiko Katayama (KEK), Masashi Hazumi (KEK), Toru Iijima (Nagoya Univ.), and Takeshi Okabe (Nagoya Univ.) appear as authors on all six papers, and Norio Tamura (Niigata Univ.), Yasushi Watanabe (Tokyo Tech), Young-Il Choi (Sungkyunkwan Univ.), and Simon Eidelman (Budker Institute) appear on five papers. The mentioned Belle members also hold the rank of "Hot Researcher". Furthermore, Tamura and Watanabe appear on papers from the Super Kamiokande neutrino experiment.