Thomson Reuters Predicts Nobelists

The information firm uses citation statistics to forecast potential winners of the 2015 Nobel Prizes in Chemistry and Physiology or Medicine.

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Science prize season is upon us. This year’s Lasker Awards went to researchers studying cancer immunotherapy and scientists studying the DNA-damage response, and the 2015 Nobel Prize announcements are right around the corner. And the annual tradition of trying to predict who might take home one of science’s top honors is also in full swing. Information service provider Thomson Reuters released its “Citation Laureates” today (September 24), and some of the hottest areas of life science are represented: studies of the gut microbiome, CRISPR/Cas9 genome editing, and work on regulatory T cells round out the biology research highlighted by the Thomson Reuters’s picks. Here is the complete list of Citation Laureates, which has included 37 eventual Nobel Prize winners since 2002. Stay tuned to The ...

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Bob Grant
From 2017 to 2022, Bob Grant was Editor in Chief of The Scientist, where he started in 2007 as a Staff Writer. Before joining the team, he worked as a reporter at Audubon and earned a master’s degree in science journalism from New York University. In his previous life, he pursued a career in science, getting a bachelor’s degree in wildlife biology from Montana State University and a master’s degree in marine biology from the College of Charleston in South Carolina. Bob edited Reading Frames and other sections of the magazine.
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