Clarivate unveils Citation Laureates 2025
Clarivate has announced the Citation Laureates 2025 – a distinguished group of 22 researchers whose work is deemed to be of Nobel class. Selected by experts at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) at Clarivate, these individuals have made pioneering contributions that are shaping the future of science and society.
Since the program’s inception, 83 Citation Laureates have gone on to receive Nobel Prizes, often years after their initial recognition by Clarivate.
Citation Laureates’ foundational research papers rank among the most highly cited in their fields, reflecting exceptional influence across disciplines and borders. This year’s Laureates have advanced knowledge in fields of urgent global relevance, including:
- Physiology or Medicine: Leukaemia, appetite regulation, and immune system research
- Physics: Signal processing, quantum computing, interstellar chemistry, and image compression
- Chemistry: Energy storage, green chemistry, sustainable energy, and cell engineering
- Economics: Remote work, automation, inequality, poverty, and the economic impact of culture and discrimination
The 2025 Laureates are affiliated with leading academic institutions in eight countries/regions. Ten are based in the United States, three in France, two each in Germany, Japan, and Switzerland, and one each in Canada, the Netherlands, and – for the first time – mainland China.
Tao Zhang, Academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor at the Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, is recognised for pioneering work in single-atom catalysis, a breakthrough that enables more efficient and sustainable chemical reactions. His selection as the first Citation Laureate based in Mainland China reflects the country’s growing influence in global science. According to the latest G20 research and innovation scorecard from ISI, Mainland China led the G20 in research output in 2024 with nearly 900,000 papers — triple its 2015 volume.
Emmanuel Thiveaud, Senior Vice President for Research & Analytics, Academia & Government at Clarivate, said: “Each year, the Citation Laureates program highlights researchers whose work has transformed their disciplines and delivered profound societal impact. Their research is not only highly cited but deeply influential. At Clarivate, we are proud to honour these pioneers whose contributions often foreshadow Nobel recognition and help shape a better future.”
Since 2002, ISI analysts have used publication and citation data from the Web of Science Core Collection to identify potential Nobel Prize recipients. Out of 64 million articles and proceedings indexed since 1970, less than 0.02% have been cited more than 2,000 times. Citation Laureates are selected from this elite group through rigorous citation analysis and expert insight.
The Citation Laureates 2025 are:
Physiology or Medicine
Andrea Ablasser, Professor, Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Glen N. Barber, Professor, Department of Surgery/Div Surg Oncology, Klotz Chair in Cancer Research, and Director of the Center for Innate Immunity and Inflammation, Pelotonia Institute for Immuno-Oncology, The James Cancer Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, United States
Zhijian ‘James’ Chen, George L. MacGregor Distinguished Chair in Biomedical Science, Director of the Inflammation Research Center, and Professor of Molecular Biology, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
John E. Dick, Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, and Helga and Antonio De Gasperis Chair in Blood Cancer Stem Cell Research, University Health Network; Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, and University Professor, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Kenji Kangawa, Former Director General of the Research Institute, National Cerebral and Cardiovascular Center, Osaka, Japan
Masayasu Kojima, Professor Emeritus, Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Institute of Life Science, Kurume University, Kurume, Fukuoka, Japan
Physics
Ingrid Daubechies, James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emerita of Mathematics, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, United States
Stéphane Mallat, Professor, Chair of Data Sciences, Collège de France, Paris, France
Yves Meyer, Professor Emeritus of Mathematics, École Normale Supérieure Paris-Saclay, Paris, France
David P. DiVincenzo, Director, Institute of Theoretical Nanoelectronics, Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Jülich, Germany; Professor, Institute for Quantum Information, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
Daniel Loss, Professor, Theoretical Physics, Director of the Center for Quantum Computing and Quantum Coherence (QC2), and Co-Director of National Center on Spin Qubits (NCCR SPIN), University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Ewine F. van Dishoeck, Professor of Molecular Astrophysics, Leiden University, Leiden, The Netherlands; External Scientific Member, Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, Garching, Germany
Chemistry
Clifford P. Brangwynne, Director, Omenn-Darling Bioengineering Institute, June K. Wu ’92 Professor in Engineering, and Professor of Chemical and Biological Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, United States; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator
Anthony A. Hyman, Director and Research Group Leader, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Michael K. Rosen, Mar Nell and F. Andrew Bell Distinguished Chair of the Biophysics Department, Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, United States
Jean-Marie Tarascon, Professor of Chemistry, Collège de France, Paris, France
Tao Zhang, Academician of Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Professor, Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Dalian, Mainland China
Economics
David Autor, Daniel (1972) and Gail Rubinfeld Professor, Department of Economics, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Lawrence F. Katz, Elisabeth Allison Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Marianne Bertrand, Chris P. Dialynas Distinguished Service Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business, Chicago, Illinois, United States
Sendhil Mullainathan, Peter de Florez Professor, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science and Economics (Dual Appointment), MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Nicholas Bloom, William Eberle Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States