LONDON, Sept. 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Clarivate
Plc (NYSE:CLVT), a global leader in providing trusted
information and insights to accelerate the pace of innovation,
today named 16 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 (ISI)™.
Each year since 2002, ISI analysts have drawn on Web of
Science™ 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 52 million articles and proceedings indexed in the Web of
Science since 1970, only 6,500 (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 publications are highly cited and whose
contributions to science have been extremely influential, even
transformative.
In early October 2021, the Nobel Assembly will vote to
confer science's highest honor. While 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 might be chosen. To date, 59 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
Citation Laureates have pioneered some of the most important
research of our time, accelerating our understanding of subjects as
varied as free radicals, virus identification and financial crises.
It is because of their foundational work that the pace of
innovation in drug development, economic theory and
entrepreneurship can continue to progress. We are delighted to
recognize and celebrate their enormous achievements, demonstrating
that their citation records reflect their influence on their
colleagues, research fields and society as a whole."
Commenting on his recognition as a Citation Laureate,
Joel Mokyr, Robert H. Strotz
Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Economics and
History at Northwestern University
said: "In Adam Smith's The Theory of Moral Sentiments, he
says the main reason why people work so hard and go through all
this trouble is they want other people like themselves to respect
them. So being recognized by Clarivate as a Citation Laureate tells
me that at least somebody is paying attention to my work, and that
makes me feel very good. People have this inner need to be
recognized by people like themselves, and I think peer recognition
is therefore a big driver of all kinds of science in the world
today – and that's been a great blessing because it's science, of
course, that has brought us where we are."
David Pendlebury, Senior Citation
Analyst at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate
said: "For a paper 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, many 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 nine of the 16 honorees are based at leading
academic institutions in the United
States, three are based in Japan, and others hail from France,
Italy, Korea and Singapore.
The 2021 Citation Laureates are:
Physiology or
Medicine
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Jean-Pierre
Changeux, Professor Emeritus, Collège de France & Institut
Pasteur, Paris, FRANCE; International Faculty, Kavli Institute for
Brain & Mind, University of California San Diego, San Diego,
California, USA (2012-2022)
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For contributions
to our understanding of neuroreceptors and especially the
identification of the nicotinic acetylcholine receptor and its
allosteric properties
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Toshio Hirano,
President, National Institutes for Quantum and Radiological Science
and Technology, Chiba; Professor Emeritus, Osaka University, Osaka,
JAPAN, and
Tadamitsu Kishimoto, Professor, Laboratory of Immune
Regulation, WPI Immunology Frontier Research Center, Osaka
University, Osaka, JAPAN
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For discovery of
interleukin-6, description of its physiological and pathological
actions, that has contributed to drug development
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Karl M.
Johnson, Formerly with Center for Disease Control and
Prevention; Adjunct Professor Emeritus, University of New Mexico,
New Mexico, USA, and
Ho Wang Lee, Professor Emeritus, Korea University, Seoul,
REPUBLIC OF KOREA; Former President & Member, The National
Academy of Sciences, Seoul, REPUBLIC OF KOREA
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For identification
and isolation of the Hantaan virus (hantavirus), agent of
hemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome
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Physics
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Alexei Y.
Kitaev, Ronald and Maxine Linde Professor of Theoretical
Physics and Mathematics, California Institute of Technology and
Institute of Quantum Information and Matter, Pasadena, California,
USA
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For topological
quantum computation, in which quantum information is encoded and
protected using topological properties of many-body
systems
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Mark E. J.
Newman, Anatol Rapoport Distinguished University Professor of
Physics, Department of Physics and Center for the Study of Complex
Systems, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan,
USA
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For wide-ranging
research on network systems including work on community structure
and random graph models
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Giorgio
Parisi, Emeritus Professor of Theoretical Physics, University
of Rome La Sapienza, Rome, ITALY
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For
ground-breaking discoveries in quantum-chromodynamics and in the
study of complex disordered systems
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Chemistry
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Barry
Halliwell, Senior Advisor (Academic Appointments and
Research Excellence), Office of the Senior Deputy President and
Provost, National University of Singapore (NUS); Chair of the
Biomedical Advisory Council, Agency for Science, Technology and
Research (A*STAR); Distinguished Professor, Department of
Biochemistry, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS,
SINGAPORE
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For pioneering
research in free-radical chemistry including the role of free
radicals and antioxidants in human disease
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William L.
Jorgensen, Sterling Professor of Chemistry, Department of
Chemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA
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For methods and
studies in the computational chemistry of organic and biomolecular
systems in solution, contributing to rational drug design and
synthesis
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Mitsuo
Sawamoto, Professor, Frontier Research Institute, Chubu
University, Kasugai, Aichi, JAPAN; Professor Emeritus, Kyoto
University, Kyoto, JAPAN
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For discovery and
development of metal-catalyzed living radical
polymerization
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Economics
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David B.
Audretsch, Distinguished Professor, Ameritech Chair of
Economic Development, and Director, Institute for Development
Strategies, O'Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs,
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana, USA, and
David J.
Teece, Director, Tusher Initiative for the Management of
Intellectual Capital; Professor of Business Administration,
Institute for Business Innovation, Haas School of Business,
University of California, Berkeley, Berkeley, California,
USA
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For pioneering
research on entrepreneurship, innovation, and
competition
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Joel Mokyr,
Robert H. Strotz Professor of Arts and Sciences and Professor of
Economics and History, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois,
USA
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For studies of the
history and culture of technological progress and its economic
consequences
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Carmen M.
Reinhart, Minos A. Zombanakis Professor of the
International Financial System, Harvard Kennedy School, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, USA, and
Kenneth S.
Rogoff, Professor of Economics and Thomas D. Cabot
Professor of Public Policy, Department of Economics, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
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For contributions
to international macroeconomics and insights on global debt and
financial crises
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To learn more about the methodology of the list and view our
Hall of Citation Laureates, please visit our website.
Notes to editors:
David Pendlebury, Senior Citation
Analyst at the Institute for Scientific Information at Clarivate is
available for interview.
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