83 Citation Laureates named by the Institute for Scientific
Information have received a Nobel Prize since 2002
LONDON, Oct. 15,
2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate Plc (NYSE:CLVT),
a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today
announced the success of its annual Citation
Laureates™ program, following the accurate forecast of eight
Nobel Prize 2024 recipients.
Powered by trusted, high-quality data from the Web of Science
Core Collection™ citation index, the Citation Laureates program
combines rigorous citation analysis with expert qualitative
insights to pinpoint researchers with exceptional citation records
who have the potential to receive Nobel honors. This ability to
forecast Nobel success – whether years in advance or just months
before the official announcements – underscores the reliability and
value of this data-driven approach.
Since 2002, the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI)™ at
Clarivate has identified 441 researchers as Citation Laureates,
with 83 later receiving a Nobel Prize. It has successfully forecast
recipients every year since 2007.
David Baker, Demis Hassabis and
John M. Jumper were named as
Citation Laureates this year, just weeks before their Nobel in
Chemistry. Physiology or Medicine Nobelists Victor Ambros and
Gary Ruvkun were first recognized as
Citation Laureates 16 years ago, in 2008. The prize in Economic
Sciences, awarded to Daron Acemoglu, Simon
Johnson and James A. Robinson
was forecast in 2022.
David Pendlebury, Head of
Research Analysis, ISI, Clarivate, said: "The Nobel committees'
choices for both Physics and Chemistry can only be described as
bold. The acknowledgment of the transformational role of AI in
research in the two categories, back-to-back, is unprecedented. In
Chemistry, we quickly saw something extremely unusual with the key
AlphaFold paper from Hassabis and Jumper of DeepMind. Published
just three years ago, in 2021, it swiftly amassed more than 16,000
citations in the Web of Science Core Collection. This phenomenally
high number is statistically unusual and was achieved so quickly,
we could not ignore its influence."
Dr. Nandita Quaderi, Senior Vice President &
Editor-in-Chief, Web of Science, Clarivate, said:
"Accurately predicting Nobel laureates is challenging. Our ISI
analysts have combined their deep bibliometric expertise with more
recent AI approaches to develop a proprietary methodology to
identify researchers 'of Nobel class'. These individuals are
responsible for producing the research that has the greatest
societal impact and will help shape the future by solving the
world's most pressing and complex challenges."
The eight Citation Laureates named as Nobel laureates in 2024
are:
Victor Ambros and
Gary Ruvkun: Nobel Prize in
Physiology or Medicine for their discovery of microRNA and its role
in post-transcriptional gene regulation, named Citation Laureates
in 2008. Ambros and Ruvkun's pioneering research on microRNAs dates
back to 1993, and Ambros's key paper is cited nearly 10,000
times – an occurrence so rare that only 500 publications out of 61
million we have indexed since 1970 are cited at this level. The
field they helped establish has expanded dramatically from a
handful of papers 20 years ago to around 16,000 per year in
2020.
David Baker, Demis
Hassabis and John M.
Jumper: Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their research into
protein structure prediction and computational protein design
respectively, identified by ISI In September
2024. Hassabis and Jumper's 2021 paper has already
received more than 16,000 citations – a remarkable number that
reflects the revolutionary impact of this work.
Daron Acemoglu, Simon
Johnson and James A.
Robinson: The Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic
Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel
for studies of how institutions are formed and affect prosperity,
named Citation Laureates in 2022. The ISI identified all three
using publication and citation analysis – their co-authored 2001
paper has received more than 5,000 citations, which ranks it among
the top 10 papers in economics indexed in the Web of Science since
2000.
Notes to editors:
- Analysts at the ISI name Citation Laureates aligned to the four
Nobel categories of Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry and
Economic Sciences. In 2011, 2013 and 2021, the ISI accurately
predicted Nobel laureates in all four fields of research.
- Since 2007, the ISI at Clarivate has successfully forecast
researchers who have been the recipients of Nobel Prizes every
single year.
- Learn more about the Hall of Citation Laureates and watch
our video interviews with David
Baker, John M. Jumper, Daron
Acemoglu and James A. Robison.
- David Pendlebury, Head of
Research Analysis at the Institute for Scientific Information at
Clarivate is available for interviews.
About Clarivate
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intelligence. We offer enriched data, insights & analytics,
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& Government, Intellectual Property and Life Sciences &
Healthcare. For more information, please
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Rebecca Krahenbuhl, Senior Manager,
External Communications
newsroom@clarivate.com
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