How does Clarivate pick its potential Nobel prize winners?

Experts at Clarivate’s Institute for Science Information (ISI) first began releasing a list of researchers whose work has been classed as deserving of the Nobel prize in 2002. This list of ‘citation laureates’, released a couple of weeks before the Nobel prizes are announced, is created following rigorous analysis – both qualitative and quantitative – carried out over many months to find researchers who have had their work cited 2000 times or more and who have demonstrated exceptional influence across their field and others.

But what other qualitative factors do the experts at ISI consider to carry out their analysis, how long does it take and why does it feel it is important to recognise researchers in this way just a few weeks before the Nobel prizes? With the help of David Pendlebury, head of research analysis at the ISI, we answer these questions.