Of 22 named researchers, first Russian Citation Laureates
selected
PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 20, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate
Analytics, the global leader in providing trusted insights and
analytics to accelerate the pace of innovation, today announced its
2017 Citation Laureates.
Each year since 2002, analysts at Clarivate Analytics have mined
millions of citations in the Web of Science to identify top-tier
researchers in physiology or medicine, physics and chemistry –
fields recognized by the Nobel Prizes in science. It also names
Citation Laureates in economics since the Swedish National Bank
established an award in this domain, in memory of Alfred Nobel, in 1968.
Citation Laureates are scientists and economists whose
publications have been cited so often by their colleagues – and
thus who have been so influential – that they are forecast as
potential recipients of the Nobel Prize in this year or in the
future.
In 15 years, 43 Citation Laureates have gone on to receive Nobel
honors.
A good bet for a Nobel Prize this year may be the award in
Physics for the detection of gravitational waves resulting from the
coalescence of black holes, something predicted by Einstein more
than a century ago. The likely recipients would be Kip S. Thorne of Caltech and Rainer Weiss of MIT,
who were named Clarivate Analytics Citation Laureates last
year.
There are many noteworthy nominees. For the first time, Russian
scientists have been named Citation Laureates. This year's cohort
also includes researchers from Denmark, Germany, Greece, India, Japan,
The Netherlands, South Korea and Taiwan, as well as from the UK and
USA. They are listed below.
The 2017 Clarivate Analytics Citation Laureates:
PHYSIOLOGY or MEDICINE
Lewis C. Cantley
Meyer Director and Professor of Cancer Biology, Sandra and
Edward Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medical College,
New York, NY, USA
For discovering the signaling pathway phosphoinositide 3-kinase
(PI3K) and elucidation of its role in tumor growth
Karl J. Friston
Professor of Imaging Neuroscience and Wellcome Principal
Research Fellow, Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging, University
College London, London, UK
For fundamental contributions to the analysis of brain imaging
data, specifically through statistical parametric mapping and
voxel-based morphometry
Yuan Chang
American Cancer Society Research Professor, Distinguished
Professor of Pathology, and UPMC Endowed Chair in Cancer Virology,
University of Pittsburgh School of
Medicine, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
-and-
Patrick S. Moore
Director of the Cancer Virology Program, University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, American
Cancer Society Research Professor, Distinguished Professor of
Microbiology and Molecular Genetics and the Pittsburgh Foundation
Chair in Innovative Cancer Research, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
For their discovery of the Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpes
virus, or human herpesvirus 8 (KSHV/HHV8)
PHYSICS
Phaedon Avouris
IBM Fellow and Group Leader for Nanometer Scale Science and
Technology, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
-and-
Cornelis (Cees) Dekker
Distinguished University Professor and Director of the Kavli
Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft,
The Netherlands, Delft,
The Netherlands
-and-
Paul McEuen
John A. Newman Professor of Physical Science, Department of
Physics, Cornell University,
Ithaca, NY, USA
For seminal contributions to carbon-based electronics
Mitchell J. Feigenbaum
Toyota Professor, Laboratory of Mathematical Physics,
Rockefeller University, New York, NY USA
For pioneering discoveries in nonlinear and chaotic physical
systems and for identification of the Feigenbaum Constant
Rashid A. Sunyaev
Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for
Astrophysics in Garching, Germany
(since 1995), Head of the High-Energy Astrophysics Department of
the Institute for Space Research, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Moscow (in 1982 - 2002; Chief
Scientist since 1992); Visiting Professor of the Institute for
Advanced Study, Princeton (since
2010), Moscow, Russia
For his profound contributions to our understanding of the
universe, including its origins, galactic formation processes, disk
accretion of black holes, and many other cosmological phenomena
CHEMISTRY
John E. Bercaw
Centennial Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus, Division of
Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA
-and-
Robert G. Bergman
Gerald E.K. Branch Distinguished Professor, Department of
Chemistry, University of California
Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
USA
-and-
Georgiy B. Shul'pin
Senior Scientific Researcher, N. N. Semenov Institute of
Chemical Physics, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia
For critical contributions to C-H functionalization
Jens Nørskov
Leland T. Edwards Professor in the School of Engineering and
Professor of Photon Science and Senior Fellow at the Precourt
Institute for Energy, Department of Chemical Engineering,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
For fundamental advances, theoretical and practical, in
heterogeneous catalysis on solid surfaces
Tsutomu Miyasaka
Professor of Photoelectrochemistry and Energy Science, Faculty
of Biomedical Engineering and Graduate School of Engineering, Toin
University of Yokohama; group
leader of national research projects funded by Japan Science
Technology Agency (JST) and Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency
(JAXA), Yokohama, Japan
-and-
Nam-Gyu Park
Professor, School of Chemical Engineering, Sungkyunkwan
University, Seoul, South Korea
-and-
Henry J. Snaith
Professor in Physics, Clarendon Laboratory, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
For their discovery and application of perovskite materials to
achieve efficient energy conversion
ECONOMICS
Colin F. Camerer
Robert Kirby Professor of Behavioral Finance and Economics,
Division of Humanities and Social Sciences, and Tianqiao and
Chrissy Chen Center for Social and Decision Neuroscience Leadership
Chair, Caltech, Pasadena, CA,
USA
-and-
George F. Loewenstein
Herbert A. Simon University Professor of Economics and
Psychology, Carnegie Mellon University,
Pittsburgh, PA, USA
For pioneering research in behavioral economics and in
neuroeconomics
Robert E. Hall
Robert and Carole McNeil Joint Hoover Senior Fellow and
Professor of Economics, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA,
USA
For his analysis of worker productivity and studies of
recessions and unemployment
Michael C. Jensen
Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration,
Emeritus, Business School, Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA,
USA
-and-
Stewart C. Myers
Robert C. Merton (1970) Professor
of Financial Economics, Emeritus, Sloan School
of Management, MIT, Cambridge,
MA, USA
-and-
Raghuram G. Rajan
Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of
Finance, Booth School of Business, University
of Chicago, Chicago, IL,
USA
For their contributions illuminating the dimensions of decisions
in corporate finance
"Analysis that begins with and mainly depends on highly-cited
papers, allows Clarivate Analytics to objectively identify
excellence in research," said Jessica
Turner, global head of the Scientific and Academic Research
business at Clarivate Analytics. "It is our honor to recognize
trailblazing researchers and we hope this designation is an honor
for them. Our analysis faithfully reflects what their colleagues'
citations have already indicated about the influence and importance
of the Citation Laureates' research contributions. However, our
analysis only reflects what their colleagues have already indicated
about the influence and importance of the Citation Laureates'
research contributions.
"This is what we do," she added, "we comprehensively record and
carefully analyze scientific and academic research to provide a
clear and accurate window on the world of research."
For detailed information on the methodology of this study, the
Citation Laureates and their fields of research and institutional
affiliations visit:
https://clarivate.com/2017-citation-laureates/
Follow @Clarivate, @WebofScience and #CitationLaureate on
Twitter for up-to-the-minute news on the predictions and deeper
insight into their fields of research.
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