# Clarivate Reveals Citation Laureates 2026 Recognizing Transformative Scientific Breakthroughs

- Link: https://www.thailand-business-news.com/pr-news/clarivate-reveals-citation-laureates-2026-recognizing-transformative-scientific-breakthroughs
- Published: 2026-09-17T14:05:00+07:00
- Author: PR Newswire

|   |

_22 researchers honored for Nobel-class discoveries, including pioneers of GLP-1
medicines and other world-changing advances_

LONDON, Sept. 17, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — [Clarivate Plc](https://edge.prnewswire.com/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4775708-1&h=975482030&u=https%3A%2F%2Fclarivate.com%2F&a=Clarivate+Plc)(
NYSE: CLVT), a leading global provider of transformative intelligence, today announced
the [Citation Laureates 2026](https://edge.prnewswire.com/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4775708-1&h=730534753&u=https%3A%2F%2Fclarivate.com%2Fcitation-laureates%2F%3Futm_campaign%3Dcitation_laureates_retention_ag_ra_global_2026%25E2%2580%258B%26utm_content%3Dpress_release%26utm_term%3Dearned_press%26campaignname%3DCitation_Laureates_Retention_AG_RA_Global_2026%25E2%2580%258B%26campaignid%3D701QO000016r484YAA&a=Citation+Laureates+2026),
a distinguished group of 22 researchers whose work is of Nobel class. Selected by
experts at the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) at Clarivate, these individuals
have made pioneering contributions that continue to shape science and society.

Since the program’s inception, 89 Citation Laureates have gone on to receive Nobel
Prizes, often years after their initial recognition by Clarivate.

Bar Veinstein, President, Academia & Government at Clarivate, said: "For more than
two decades, Citation Laureates has been among the world’s most closely watched 
data-led indicators of exceptional research influence. The Citation Laureates program
recognizes researchers whose discoveries demonstrate the extraordinary value of 
fundamental research. Many of the advances we honor this year, from GLP-1 medicines
to precision gene editing and optical medical imaging, began as scientific questions
explored decades ago. Today, they are improving lives, informing policy and helping
shape the future. We are proud to recognize these researchers and the lasting impact
of their work."

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 profound societal importance,
including:

 ◦ **Physiology or Medicine:** GLP-1 biology and obesity treatment, optical imaging,
   and immune system research
 ◦ **Physics:** Advanced OLED displays, energy-efficient computing materials, and
   quantum electronics
 ◦ **Chemistry:** Self-assembled nanomaterials, biological electron transfer, and
   precision gene editing
 ◦ **Economics:** The digital economy, monetary policy and central banking, and 
   organizational innovation and economic dynamism

The Citation Laureates program helps researchers, institutions, funders and policymakers
identify highly influential research, while offering science media, Nobel observers
and the wider public insight into discoveries shaping the future.

Among this year’s most visible discoveries are the scientific advances underpinning
GLP-1 medicines, recognizing Daniel J. Drucker, Jens Juul Holst and Svetlana Mojsov.
Their foundational discoveries helped enable GLP-1 receptor agonist medicines, which
have transformed the treatment of diabetes and obesity for millions of people worldwide
and continue to demonstrate benefits across a growing range of health conditions.

Daniel J. Drucker, Senior Investigator at Sinai Health’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research
Institute, and University Professor, Department of Medicine Division of Endocrinology,
the Banting and Best Diabetes Centre-Novo Nordisk Chair in Incretin Biology, University
of Toronto, said: "It is an honor to be recognized as a Citation Laureate. The story
of GLP-1 medicines demonstrates the power of curiosity-driven research. What began
as a quest to understand how gut hormones regulate metabolism has led to therapies
that are improving the lives of millions of people worldwide. It is a reminder that
fundamental science can have impacts far beyond what researchers initially imagine."

The 2026 Laureates are affiliated with leading academic institutions in seven countries/
regions, reflecting the global nature of Nobel-class research. Sixteen are based
in the United States, and one each in Canada, Denmark, Israel, Japan, Mainland China,
and Switzerland.

Since 2002, ISI analysts have used publication and citation data from the Web of
Science Core Collection to identify researchers whose work is of Nobel class. Out
of more than 67 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 2026 are:**

  |

**Physiology or Medicine**

  |  
 |

**Daniel J. Drucker**, Senior Investigator at Sinai Health’s Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research
Institute; University Professor, Department of Medicine Division of Endocrinology, theBanting and Best Diabetes Centre-Novo Nordisk Chair in Incretin Biology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

**Jens Juul Holst**, Professor of Medical Physiology, Department of Biomedical Sciences,
and Senior Group Leader, Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic MetabolicResearch, The Panum Institute, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark

**Svetlana Mojsov**, Lulu Chow Wang and Robin Chemers Neustein Research Professor,
Rockefeller University, New York, New York, United States

 

"for identification and characterization of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 (GLP-1) and studies of
its biological activity"

  |  
 |

**James G. Fujimoto**, Elihu Thomson Professor of Electrical Engineering, Research
Laboratory of Electronics and Department Electrical Engineering and Computer Science,MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States

**David Huang**, Director of Research & Associate Director, Casey Eye Institute; Wold
Family Endowed Chair in Ophthalmic Imaging; Professor of Ophthalmology &Biomedical Engineering, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, Oregon, UnitedStates; Director, Center for Ophthalmic Optics & Lasers (COOL Lab)

**Eric A. Swanson**, Affiliate of the Research Laboratory of Electronics, MIT, Cambridge,
Massachusetts, United States

 

"for the development of optical coherence tomography, a new imaging modality in
medicine, biomedical research, and other applications"

  |  
 |

**Timothy A. Springer**, Latham Family Professor, Boston Children’s Hospital / Harvard
Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, United States

 

"for identifying key adhesion receptors in the immune system"

  |  
 |

**Physics**

  |  
 |

**Chihaya Adachi**, Distinguished Professor and Director of the Center for Organic
Photonics and Electronics Research (OPERA), Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan

**Stephen R. Forrest**, Peter A. Franken Distinguished University Professor and Paul G.
Goebel Professor of Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States

**Mark E. Thompson**, University Professor of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering and
Materials Science, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, United States

 

"for pioneering research on phosphorescent organic light-emitting diodes (PHOLEDs)
and thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF), enabling ultrahigh-efficiencyorganic light-emitting diodes"

  |  
 |

**Nicola A. Spaldin**, Professor, Department of Materials, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

 

"for fundamental theoretical developments leading to the establishment of room-
temperature magnetoelectric multiferroics, which are enabling new energy-efficientdevice paradigms"

  |  
 |

**Qikun Xue**, Member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, President of Southern
University of Science and Technology, Professor of Tsinghua University, Beijing,Mainland China

"for experimental observation of the quantum anomalous Hall Effect"

  |  
 |

**Chemistry**

  |  
 |

**David L. Allara**, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chemistry and
Materials and Engineering, Materials Research Institute, Pennsylvania State University, State College,Pennsylvania, United States

**Ralph G. Nuzzo**, G. L. Clark Research Professor of Analytical Chemistry, and Research
Professor of Chemistry, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois,United States

**Jacob Sagiv**, Professor, Molecular Chemistry and Materials Science Department, 
Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel

 

"for development of self-assembled monolayers (SAMS)"

  |  
 |

**Harry B. Gray**, Arnold O. Beckman Professor of Chemistry, California Institute of
Technology, Pasadena, California, United States

**Jay R. Winkler**, Member of the Beckman Institute and Faculty Associate in Chemistry,
California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, California, United States

 

"for advancing understanding of long-range electron transfer in proteins"

  |  
 |

**David R. Liu,** Thomas Dudley Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences, Harvard
University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States; Richard Merkin Professor, BroadInstitute; Investigator, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

 

"for developing base editing and prime editing, precision gene editing technologies that
directly edit DNA in living systems, revolutionizing the life sciences and enabling life-saving programmable medicines"

  |  
 |

**Economics**

  |  
 |

**Susan C. Athey**, The Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of
Business, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States

**Hal R. Varian**, Formerly Chief Economist, Google, and Professor Emeritus at the School
of Information, Haas School of Business, and the Department of Economics, University ofCalifornia Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States

 

"for pioneering analysis of the economics of information technology"

  |  
 |

**Michael D. Woodford**, John Bates Clark Professor of Political Economy, Columbia 
University, New York, New York, United States

 

"for contributions to the theory and practice of monetary policy"

  |  
 |

**Sidney G. Winter**, Deloitte and Touche Professor Emeritus of Management, The
Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States

 

"for studies of economic dynamism and organizational behavior inspired by evolutionary 
theory"

  |

While the Citation Laureates program does not aim to predict Nobel Prize recipients
in a specific year, it highlights researchers whose work is of Nobel class and merits
global recognition.

**Notes to editors:**

 ◦ View the full list of [Citation Laureates 2026](https://edge.prnewswire.com/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4775708-1&h=730534753&u=https%3A%2F%2Fclarivate.com%2Fcitation-laureates%2F%3Futm_campaign%3Dcitation_laureates_retention_ag_ra_global_2026%25E2%2580%258B%26utm_content%3Dpress_release%26utm_term%3Dearned_press%26campaignname%3DCitation_Laureates_Retention_AG_RA_Global_2026%25E2%2580%258B%26campaignid%3D701QO000016r484YAA&a=Citation+Laureates+2026)
   and their recognized discoveries.
 ◦ Explore the research behind this year’s Citation Laureates and discover how today’s
   breakthroughs were decades in the making on the Clarivate [blog](https://edge.prnewswire.com/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4775708-1&h=3576776338&u=https%3A%2F%2Fclarivate.com%2Facademia-government%2Fblog%2Fthe-long-road-from-insight-to-impact-how-todays-breakthroughs-were-decades-in-the-making&a=blog).
 ◦ View the full list of Citation Laureates named since 2002 in the [Hall of Citation Laureates](https://edge.prnewswire.com/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4775708-1&h=489004649&u=https%3A%2F%2Fclarivate.com%2Fcitation-laureates%2Fhall-of-citation-laureates%2F%3Futm_campaign%3Dcitation_laureates_retention_ag_ra_global_2026%25E2%2580%258B%26utm_content%3Dpress_release%26utm_term%3Dearned_press%26campaignname%3DCitation_Laureates_Retention_AG_RA_Global_2026%25E2%2580%258B%26campaignid%3D701QO000016r484YAA&a=Hall+of+Citation+Laureates).
 ◦ David Pendlebury, Head of Research Analysis at the Institute for Scientific Information
   at Clarivate, is available for interviews.
 ◦ The 2026 Nobel Prize announcements will take place from 5-12 October and will
   be streamed live at [www.nobelprize.org](https://edge.prnewswire.com/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4775708-1&h=1868812092&u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nobelprize.org%2F&a=www.nobelprize.org).

**About Clarivate**
Clarivate is a leading global provider of transformative intelligence.
We offer enriched data, insights & analytics, workflow solutions and expert services
in the areas of Academia & Government, Intellectual Property and Life Sciences &
Healthcare. For more information, please visit [www.clarivate.com](https://edge.prnewswire.com/c/link/?t=0&l=en&o=4775708-1&h=811550123&u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.clarivate.com%2F&a=www.clarivate.com)

**Media contact:**

Rebecca Krahenbuhl, Senior Manager, External Communications, Academia & Government

[newsroom@clarivate.com](https://www.thailand-business-news.com/pr-news/newsroom@clarivate.com)

 

---

  |  This article was produced by Cision PR Newswire, our trusted news partner. The views expressed and the content presented here are solely those of the author and may not fully reflect the opinions of Thailand Business News. |

---

 
**Read the original article :** [Clarivate Reveals Citation Laureates 2026 Recognizing Transformative Scientific Breakthroughs ](http://www.prnasia.com/story/archive/5049415_AE49415_0?rand=184833)