Hall of Citation Laureates Since 2002

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.

Physics Zhong Lin Wang United States 2015	Regent’s Professor, Hightower Chair in Materials Science and Engineering,  School of Materials Science and Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia
Physics † Yoji Totsuka Japan 2007	Former Director-General, High Energy Accelerator Research Organization (KEK); Special University Professor, Emeritus, University of Tokyo, Tokyo
Physics Yoshinori Tokura Japan 2002, 2014	Director, RIKEN Center for Emergent Matter Science, Saitama, Japan, and Professor, Department of Applied Physics, University of Tokyo, Tokyo (Previously selected as a Citation Laureate in 2002 for work in a different area, high-temperature superconductivity.)
Physics Kip S. Thorne United States 2016	Feynman Professor of Theoretical Physics Emeritus, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Physics Rashid A. Sunyaev Germany, Russia 2017	Director and Scientific Member at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching, 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
Physics Paul J. Steinhardt United States 2006	Albert Einstein Professor of Science, Departments of Physics and of Astrophysical Sciences, Princeton, NJ
Physics David N. Spergel United States 2010	Charles Young Professor on the Class of 1897 Foundation and Chair, Department of Astrophysical Sciences,Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Physics David R. Smith United States 2009	William Bevan Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering and Director of the Center for Metamaterial and Integrated Plasmonics, Duke University, Durham, NC
Physics Patrice Simon France 2018	Professor in Materials Science, Université Paul Sabatier Toulouse III – CNRS, Toulouse
Physics † James F. Scott United Kingdom 2014	Director of Research, Cavendish Laboratory, Department of Physics, University of Cambridge, Cambridge
Physics John H. Schwarz United States 2002	Harold Brown Professor of Theoretical Physics, Division of Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Physics † Sheldon Schultz United States 2009	Research Professor of Physics, Department of Physics, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
Physics Brian P. Schmidt Australia 2010	Australian Research Council Federation Fellow, Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Australian National University, Weston Creek
Physics Rodney S. Ruoff 2018	IBS Director of the Center of Multidimensional Carbon Materials and Distinguished Professor, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology, Department of Chemistry and Schools of Materials Science and Engineering and Energy and Chemical Engineering, Ulsan
Physics † Vera C. Rubin United States 2008	Senior Fellow, Department of Terrestrial Magnetism, Carnegie Institution for Science, Washington, D.C.
Physics Adam G. Riess United States 2010	Professor, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD and Senior Member, Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, MD
Physics Martin J. Rees United Kingdom 2007	Astronomer Royal; Professor of Cosmology and Astrophysics, Institute of Astronomy, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom; Master of Trinity College at the University of Cambridge
Physics Ramamoorthy Ramesh United States 2014	Professor, Physics and MSE, and Associate Lab Director for Energy Technologies, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Physics Didier Queloz Switzerland 2013	Professor, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, and Professor, University of Geneva, Geneva
Physics Saul Perlmutter United States 2010	Professor, Department of Physics, University of California Berkeley, Berkeley and Senior Scientist, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA

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