Clarivate Analytics, a leader in providing trusted insights and analytics to enable researchers to accelerate discovery, has named 17 world-class researchers as Citation Laureates - researchers whose work is deemed to be, 'of Nobel stature', as attested by markedly high citation tallies recorded in the Web of Science citation index.
Each year since 2002, analysts at Clarivate Analytics have drawn on Web of Science publication and citation data to identify influential researchers in the research areas recognised by Nobel Prizes: Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Economics. This year, individuals whose research reports have been cited at high frequency - typically in the top .01 percent - and whose contributions to science has been transformative, even revolutionary, have been selected to join the hall of Citation Laureates.
On October 1, 2018, the Nobel Assembly will vote to confer sciences' highest honour and whilst this annual rite inspires worldwide speculation, Clarivate Analytics is the only organisation to use quantitative data to make annual forecasts of potential Nobel Prize recipients. To date, 46 Citation Laureates have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize, 27 within two years of being listed.
Authors of extremely highly cited papers (to be cited 2,000 times or more is a rarity indeed) are usually members of their national academies of sciences, hold high appointments in universities and other research institutes, or have received many top international prizes in their fields. They often go on to receive Nobel honours. While peer review remains the principal method to recognise research excellence, a parallel approach of appraising the citation record often provides important corroborating evidence to supplement peer review.
This year 11 of the 17 honourees are based at leading North American academic institutions; others come from the UK, France, Germany, Spain, Japan and South Korea.
The 2018 Citation Laureates include: Napoleone Ferrara, University of California; Minoru Kanehisa, Kyoto University; Solomon H. Snyder, Johns Hopkins University; David Awschalom, University of Chicago; Arthur C. Gossard, University of California; Sandra M. Faber, University of California; Yury Gogotsi, Drexel University; Rodney S. Ruoff, IBS CMCM Center and Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea; Patrice Simon, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III – CNRS; Eric N. Jacobsen, Harvard University; George M. Sheldrick, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen; JoAnne Stubbe, MIT; Manuel Arellano, CEMFI, Madrid; Stephen R. Bond, Oxford University; Wesley M. Cohen, Duke University; Daniel A. Levinthal, University of Pennsylvania; and David M. Kreps, Stanford University.
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