Hall of Citation
Laureates
Discover every Citation Laureate named since 2002 — individuals whose Nobel-class work has shaped disciplines and inspired global progress.
The Hall of Citation Laureates is a searchable archive of every researcher recognized by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) since 2002. Selected through rigorous analysis of Web of Science citation data, Citation Laureates are scientists and economists whose discoveries show exceptional influence and are considered Nobel class. Since the program began, 89 Citation Laureates have later received a Nobel Prize, underscoring its long-standing record of identifying influential researchers whose work advances knowledge and benefits society.
Use the search and filtering tools below to explore Citation Laureates by year, discipline, country, institution, or Nobel Prize recipient status. To learn more, explore the latest Citation Laureates, read about the Citation Laureates methodology, discover Nobel Prize winners who were previously named Citation Laureates, or browse Laureates by category in Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Economics.
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Chemistry Stanislas Leibler United States 2023 |
Gladys T. Perkin Professor, Laboratory of Living Matter, Rockefeller University, New York, New York; Professor, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey |
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Chemistry Michael Elowitz United States 2023 "Experiencing that ‘click’ in perception is an amazing pleasure" |
Professor, Division of Biology and Biological Engineering, Caltech, Pasadena, California, United States; Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigator Watch interview |
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Chemistry James J. Collins United States 2023 "Don’t try to become an influencer, try to become an expert" |
Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science and Professor of Biological Engineering, MIT; Member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology Faculty; Founding Faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University; and Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, Massachusetts Watch interview |
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Physiology or Medicine Masashi Yanagisawa Japan, United States 2023 "I told myself that I will save the patients the day after tomorrow" |
Director of the International Institute for Integrative Sleep Medicine (WPI-IIIS), University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan; Adjunct Professor, Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas Watch interview |
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Physiology or Medicine Clifford B. Saper United States 2023 "Science works best as a team sport" |
James Jackson Putnam Professor of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts Watch interview |
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Physiology or Medicine Emmanuel Mignot United States 2023 "The best thing that I could do is become obsolete" |
Craig Reynolds Professor of Sleep Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University, Stanford, California Watch interview |
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Physiology or Medicine Rob Knight United States 2023 "Collaboration is essential for making progress in science" |
Director of the Center for Microbiome Innovation and Professor of Pediatrics, Bioengineering, and Computer Science & Engineering, University of California San Diego, San Diego, California Watch interview |
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Physiology or Medicine Michel Sadelain United States 2023 "The ultimate satisfaction is seeing patients benefit from this novel approach to immunotherapy" |
Stephen and Barbara Friedman Chair; Director, Center for Cell Engineering, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York Watch interview |
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Physiology or Medicine Steven A. Rosenberg United States 2023 "There’s no greater stimulus to work hard and try to do your best than seeing cancer patients daily" |
Senior Investigator and Chief, Surgery Branch at the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland Watch interview |
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Physiology or Medicine Carl H. June United States 2023 "There could not be a better time to enter into science" |
Richard W. Vague Professor in Immunotherapy in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; and Director of the Center for Cellular Immunotherapies, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Watch interview |
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Economics Herbert Gintis United States 2022 |
Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts; External Professor, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico |
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Economics Samuel Bowles United States 2022 |
Research Professor and Director of the Behavioral Sciences Program, Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, New Mexico; Professor Emeritus, Department of Economics, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts |
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Economics Andrew J. Oswald United Kingdom 2022 |
Professor of Economics and Behavioural Science, University of Warwick, Coventry |
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Economics Lord Richard Layard United Kingdom 2022 |
Co-Director, Community Wellbeing Programme, Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics, London |
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Economics † Richard A. Easterlin United States 2022 |
University Professor Emeritus of Economics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California Watch interview |
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Economics Simon Johnson United States 2022 |
Ronald A. Kurtz (1954) Professor of Entrepreneurship of Economics and Professor, Global Economics and Management, MIT Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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Economics James A. Robinson United States 2022 |
Reverend Dr. Richard L. Pearson Professor of Global Conflict Studies, and Institute Director, The Pearson Institute for the Study and Resolution of Global Conflicts, Harris School of Public Policy, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois |
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Economics Daron Acemoglu United States 2022 |
Institute Professor, Department of Economics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts Watch interview |
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Physics Kenji Watanabe Japan 2022 |
Chief Researcher, Electric and Electronic Materials Field, Electroceramics Group, Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba |
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Physics Takashi Taniguchi Japan 2022 |
Fellow and Director of International Center for Materials Nanoarchitectonics, National Institute for Materials Science (NIMS), Tsukuba |
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