| Dynamical model of elementary particles based on an analogy with superconductivity. I Y Nambu, G Jona-Lasinio Physical review 122 (1), 345, 1961 | 8311 | 1961 |
| Dynamical model of elementary particles based on an analogy with superconductivity. II Y Nambu, G Jona-Lasinio Physical review 124 (1), 246, 1961 | 3469 | 1961 |
| Quasi-particles and gauge invariance in the theory of superconductivity Y Nambu Physical Review 117 (3), 648, 1960 | 2490 | 1960 |
| Axial vector current conservation in weak interactions Y Nambu Physical Review Letters 4 (7), 380, 1960 | 1798 | 1960 |
| Three-triplet model with double SU (3) symmetry MY Han, Y Nambu Physical Review 139 (4B), B1006, 1965 | 1713 | 1965 |
| Strings, monopoles, and gauge fields Y Nambu Physical Review D 10 (12), 4262, 1974 | 1516 | 1974 |
| Relativistic dispersion relation approach to photomeson production GF Chew, ML Goldberger, FE Low, Y Nambu Physical Review 106 (6), 1345, 1957 | 1508 | 1957 |
| Generalized hamiltonian dynamics Y Nambu Physical Review D 7 (8), 2405, 1973 | 1430 | 1973 |
| Application of dispersion relations to low-energy meson-nucleon scattering GF Chew, ML Goldberger, FE Low, Y Nambu Physical Review 106 (6), 1337, 1957 | 609 | 1957 |
| QCD and the string model Y Nambu Physics Letters B 80 (4-5), 372-376, 1979 | 427 | 1979 |
| String-like configurations in the Weinberg-Salam theory Y Nambu Nuclear Physics B 130 (3), 505-515, 1977 | 411 | 1977 |
| The use of the proper time in quantum electrodynamics I Y Nambu Progress of Theoretical Physics 5 (1), 82-94, 1950 | 332 | 1950 |
| Possible existence of a heavy neutral meson Y Nambu Physical Review 106 (6), 1366, 1957 | 329 | 1957 |
| Dynamics of the Zweig-Iizuka Rule and a New Vector Meson below 2 GeV/c 2 PGO Freund, Y Nambu Physical Review Letters 34 (26), 1645, 1975 | 276 | 1975 |
| An empirical mass spectrum of elementary particles Y Nambu Progress of theoretical physics 7 (5-6), 595-596, 1952 | 250 | 1952 |
| Dispersion Theory Treatment of Pion Production in Electron-Nucleon Collisions S Fubini, Y Nambu, V Wataghin Physical Review 111 (1), 329, 1958 | 241 | 1958 |
| Magnetic and electric confinement of quarks Y Nambu Phys. Rep.;(Netherlands) 23 (3), 1976 | 235 | 1976 |
| Dispersion relations for nucleon-nucleon scattering ML Goldberger, Y Nambu, R Oehme Annals of Physics 2 (3), 226-282, 1957 | 231 | 1957 |
| Chirality conservation and soft pion production Y Nambu, D Lurie Physical Review 125 (4), 1429, 1962 | 226 | 1962 |
| Force potentials in quantum field theory Y Nambu Progress of Theoretical Physics 5 (4), 614-633, 1950 | 226 | 1950 |
