Prof.Sugiyama has been ranked a top cited scientist in the field of Pharmacology & Toxicology! According to a recent report of ISI Essential Science Indicators, Prof.Yuichi Sugiyama has been ranked a top cited scientist in the field of Pharmacology & Toxicology. His original articles published in the past 10 years, between January 1997 and February 2007, have received the highest number of citations in this field, with 4,617 total citations to date. In particular, "Studies on drug transporters and the quantitative analysis of the role of drug transporters in drug clearance and tissue distribution of drugs" has been highly cited for the last 10 years. ESI provides citation analyses coming from all scientific research areas (a total of 22 fields), involving 11,000 scientific journals around the world and ten million articles. The top-10-ranked scientists in the field of Pharmacology & Toxicology are named on the ESI website. Dr.Hiroshi Suzuki(The University of Tokyo), Dr. CD Klaassen, Kansas, USA) and Dr.FP Guengerich, (Nashville, USA), are among the top 10 scientists in the field of xenobiotic metabolism and toxicity. Prof.Yuichi Sugiyama is currently the president of both the "International Society for the Study of Xenobiotics (ISSX)" and the "Japanese Society for Xenobiotic Metabolism and Disposition (JSSX)". Please visit to http://in-cites.com/top/2007/first07-pha.html#Top for the details. Congratulations !