The Web of Science Group recently named 19 world-class researchers as “Citation Laureates” for their highly-cited research and extremely influential and transformative contributions to science.
Ten of the researchers are based at leading academic institutions in the United States, while others hail from Austria, Denmark, Germany, Israel, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
These are researchers whose work is deemed to be “of Nobel class”, as analysed by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI).
ISI citation analyst David Pendlebury said the laureates had advanced the understanding of topics like economic growth, cryptography, Parkinson’s disease, rheumatoid arthritis and cancer.
“They have given us new tools to map the human genome, personalise medicine and test drugs without harming animals.
“The high number of citations they produced throughout their careers is a quantitative narrative of how their discoveries have influenced their peers, the broader scientific community, and the world at large.”
Out of some 47 million papers indexed in the Web of Science since 1970, only 4,900 (or 0.01 per cent) have been cited 2,000 or more times. It is from this group of authors that ISI’s Citation Laureates are selected.
Authors of very highly cited papers (to be cited 2,000 times or more is a rarity) are usually members of national academies of sciences, hold high appointments in universities or research institutes, and have received many top international prizes.
Many of these “scientific elites” usually go on to receive the Nobel Prize.
To date, 50 Citation Laureates had received a Nobel Prize, with 29 within two years of being listed.
Each year since 2002, ISI analysts had drawn on Web of Science publication and citation data to identify influential researchers. To learn about the methodology of the list and view the Hall of Citation Laureates, please visit:https://clarivate.com/webofsciencegroup/solutions/citation-laureates/