Clarivate Reveals 2020 Citation Laureates - Annual List of Researchers of Nobel Class

54 Citation Laureates named by the Institute for Scientific Information have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize

24 new Citation Laureates named, from six countries (USA, Canada, Germany, Japan, South Korea and United Kingdom)

LONDON, Sept. 23, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CCC), a global leader in providing trusted information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation, today named 24 world-class researchers from six countries as Citation Laureates. These are researchers whose work is deemed to be 'of Nobel class', as demonstrated by analysis carried out by the Institute for Scientific Information(TM) (ISI).

Each year since 2002, ISI analysts have drawn on Web of Science(TM) publication and citation data to identify influential researchers in the research areas recognized by Nobel Prizes: Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and Economics. Out of some 50 million articles and proceedings indexed in the Web of Science since 1970, only 5,700 (or .01%) have been cited 2,000 or more times. It is from the authors of this group of papers that Citation Laureates are identified and selected. They are individuals whose research reports are highly cited and whose contributions to science have been extremely influential, even transformative.

In early October 2020, the Nobel Assembly will vote to confer science's highest honor. Whilst this annual rite inspires worldwide speculation, Clarivate is the only organization to use quantitative data in addition to qualitative assessment to provide valuable insights about who may be chosen. To date, 54 Citation Laureates listed in the Hall of Citation Laureates have gone on to receive a Nobel Prize.

Joel Haspel SVP Strategy, Science, Clarivate said: "This year's Laureates have advanced humanity's understanding of topics as varied as the gender pay gap, nanocrystals and how galaxies are formed. They have pushed the boundaries of clinical care with advances in personalized medicine and vaccine development. We are delighted to recognize and celebrate their immense achievements, demonstrating that their citation tallies reflect their influence on their colleagues, disciplines and the wider world."

David Pendlebury, Senior Citation Analyst at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate said: "To be cited 2,000 times or more is a rarity. Authors of very highly cited papers are usually members of national academies of sciences, hold senior appointments in universities and other research institutes, and have received many top international prizes in their fields. Indeed, some of them have helped to shape their fields of study. Some of these 'scientific elites' go on to receive Nobel honors, demonstrating each year the association between citations in the literature, influence through a research community, and peer judgement."

This year 19 of the 24 honorees are based at leading academic institutions in the United States; others hail from Canada, Germany, Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom.

The 2020 Citation Laureates are:

                   
            
              Physiology or Medicine

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                        Pamela J. Bjorkman, David Baltimore Professor of
                         Biology and Biological Engineering, California
                         Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA USA, and

                        Jack L. Strominger, Higgins Research Professor of
                         Biochemistry, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
                         USA

                        For determining the structure and function of
                         major histocompatibility complex (MHC) proteins,
                         a landmark discovery in molecular immunology that
                         has contributed to drug and vaccine development

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                            Yusuke Nakamura, Director, Cancer Precision
                          Medicine Center, Japanese Foundation for Cancer
                            Research, Tokyo, JAPAN; Emeritus Professor,
                          University of Tokyo, Tokyo JAPAN; and, Emeritus
                           Professor, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
                                                USA.

                          For pioneering research developing and applying
                                genetic polymorphic markers and for
                              contributions to genome-wide association
                          studies, both heralding personalized approaches
                                         to cancer treatment

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                        Huda Y. Zoghbi, Professor, Departments of
                         Pediatrics, Molecular and Human Genetics,
                         Neurology and Neuroscience, Baylor College of
                         Medicine, Houston, TX, USA and Founding
                         director, Jan and Dan Duncan Neurological
                         Research Institute, Texas Children's Hospital,
                         Houston, TX USA; also, Howard Hughes Medical
                         Institute Investigator.

                        For discoveries on the pathogenesis of
                         neurological disorders including the genetic
                         origins of Rett syndrome

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              Physics

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                        Thomas L. Carroll, Research Physicist, Center for
                         Computational Materials Science, U.S. Naval
                         Research Laboratory, Washington, DC USA, and

                        Louis M. Pecora, Research Physicist, Magnetic
                         Materials and Nonlinear Dynamics, U.S. Naval
                         Research Laboratory, Washington, DC USA

                        For research in nonlinear dynamics including
                         synchronization of chaotic systems

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                        Hongjie Dai, J.G. Jackson & C.J. Wood Professor of
                         Chemistry, Stanford University, Stanford, CA USA,
                         and

                        Alex Zettl, Professor of Physics at the University
                         of California at Berkeley, and Senior Faculty
                         Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National
                         Laboratory, Berkeley, CA USA

                        For fabrication and novel applications of carbon
                         and boron nitride nanotubes

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                        Carlos S. Frenk, Director of the Institute for
                         Computational Cosmology, and Ogden Professor of
                         Fundamental Physics, Durham University, Durham,
                         UK,

             and Julio F. Navarro, Lansdowne Science
              Professor, University of Victoria, Victoria, BC
              CANADA, and Simon D.M. White, former Director,
              Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics, Garching,
              GERMANY

                        For their fundamental studies of galaxy formation
                         and evolution, cosmic structure, and dark matter
                         halos

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              Chemistry

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                        Moungi G. Bawendi, Lester Wolfe Professor of
                         Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
                         Cambridge, MA USA

             and Christopher B. Murray, Richard Perry
              University Professor of Chemistry and Materials
              Science and Engineering, University of
              Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA USA

             and Taeghwan Hyeon, SNU Distinguished Professor,
              Seoul National University, Seoul SOUTH KOREA;
              also Director of Center for Nanoparticle Research
              of Institute for Basic Science

                        For synthesis of nanocrystals with precise
                         attributes for a wide range of applications in
                         physical, biological, and medical systems

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                        Stephen L. Buchwald, Camille Dreyfus Professor of
                         Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
                                       Cambridge, MA USA, And

                         John F. Hartwig, Henry Rapoport Chair in Organic
                         Chemistry, University of California at Berkeley,
                                          Berkeley, CA USA

                          For contributions to organometallic chemistry,
                            notably the Buchwald-Hartwig amination which
                           forms carbon-nitrogen bonds through palladium-
                         catalyzed coupling reactions of amines with aryl
                                               halides

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                         Makoto Fujita, Distinguished Professor, Division
                            of Advanced Molecular Science, Institute for
                           Molecular Science, University of Tokyo, Tokyo
                                                JAPAN

                         For advances in supramolecular chemistry through
                           self-assembly strategies that take inspiration
                                         from nature itself

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              Economics

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                              David A. Dickey, William Neal Reynolds
                           Distinguished Professor, North Carolina State
                                    University, Raleigh, NC USA,

                      And Wayne A. Fuller, Distinguished Professor
                     Emeritus, Iowa State University, Ames, IA USA,
                    And Pierre Perron, Professor of Economics, Boston
                                University, Boston, MA USA

                        Dickey and Fuller for statistical tests of a unit
                                  root in time-series analysis and

                        Perron 
              for the statistical analysis of
                                     non-stationary time series

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                        Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics,
                         Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA

                        For contributions to labor economics, especially
                         her analysis of women and the gender pay gap

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                        Steven T. Berry, David Swensen Professor of
                         Economics and Jeffrey Talpins Faculty Director
                         of the Tobin Center for Economic Policy, Yale
                         University, New Haven, CT USA, and

                        James A. Levinsohn, Director of the Jackson
                         Institute for Global Affairs, Charles W.
                         Goodyear Professor in Global Affairs, and
                         Professor of Economics and Management, Yale
                         University, New Haven, CT USA, and

                        Ariel Pakes, Thomas Professor of Economics,
                         Harvard University, Cambridge, MA USA

                        For their 
              BLP random coefficients
                         logit model for demand estimation

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Commenting on his appointment as a Citation Laureate, Pierre Perron, Professor of Economics, Boston University said: "It is the best honor I could have hoped for. The reason I am so grateful is that it is based on facts: citations, impact on the profession... To me this is what is important as an econometrician, producing work that is useful for applications. Not publishing overly technical papers that appeal to only a few. I am a proletarian at heart! In that sense, it is much more rewarding than elections to elite societies. I decided early on that I would have my own research agenda, working mostly with PhD students. It worked well and I am proud of the work, its impact on the profession and on all the students I worked with."

To learn more about the methodology of the list and view our Hall of Citation Laureates, please visit our website here.

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David Pendlebury, Senior Citation Analyst at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate is available for interview.

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