21/09/2016
Professor Dennis Lo Named 'Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate'
Professor Dennis Lo Named 'Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate'
Prof. Dennis Yuk-ming LO from the Faculty of Medicine at The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) has been named this year's 'Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate - Chemistry' for his achievement in detecting cell-free fetal DNA in maternal plasma, cited as a revolution in non-invasive prenatal testing. The honour came two days after he clinched the Future Science Prize – Life Science Prize, seen as China's Nobel Prize, for the same contribution. The annual Citation Laueates study, launched by the Intellectual Property and Science arm of Thomson Reuters, identifies the most influential science researchers who are considered as potential winners of the Nobel Prize in the near future.
According to scientific research citation data on the platform Web of Science™, 14 research papers that Prof. LO published on non-invasive prenatal diagnosis have been cited over 6,000 times since 1997. He ranks in the top 0.1% by citations in his research area worldwide in the same database. His paper1 published on Lancet in 1997 alone has been cited over 1,000 times.
About Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates
Since the year 2002, the annual Citation Laureates, organised by Thomson Reuters, uses scientific citation data to predict Nobel Prize honorees. The approach mines scientific research citations within their global search and discovery platform Web of Science™, and identifies highly cited papers to identify the most influential researchers in chemistry, physics, physiology or medicine, and economics.
1 Lo, Y. M. D., et al. (1997). Presence of fetal DNA in maternal plasma and serum. Lancet, 350(9076), 485-487.
Original source: Press Release on 21 September 2016, CUHK Communication and Public Relations Office Website CUHK Professor Dennis Lo Named 'Thomson Reuters Citation Laureate', an Honour Considered as an Index to Predict Nobel Prize Winners