Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates

Under the name of Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates scientists since 2002 once a year by media conglomerate Thomson Reuters called, which are classified as favorites for a future award of a Nobel Prize or other scientific awards due to their frequent citation in high-ranking scientific publications (journals with high impact factor ). Thomson Reuters published the list of his favorites each few weeks before the award of the Nobel Prizes.

In the Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates it is not a science prize in the true sense. The naming is due to a quantitative analysis of literature data, rather than scientific achievements.

34 of the scientists mentioned 208 have - as of October 2013 - later actually won a Nobel Prize. 2013 nominated Thomson Reuters Barry Sharpless, who had already won the 2001 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.

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Highlighted in bold are scientists who have actually won the nomination by a Nobel Prize, the year of the award and the tray if it differed in brackets of the proposed category. Items marked with a (†) people have died before they could have won a Nobel Prize.