2 Japanese on British firm's list of Nobel-class researchers

It got nothing to do with Nobel comittee, it just third party that try to make a bet based on citation who'll get Nobel Prize next month.

https://www.bloomberg.com/press-releases/2017-09-20/identifying-extreme-impact-in-research-clarivate-analytics-uses-citations-to-forecast-nobel-prize-winners-j7sz8nyf

@sakurasuki

Sounds like sour grapes to me!

Good luck to all the individuals nominated!!

23 individuals from institutions in five countries

That's an average of 4.6 people per country, and it means Japan is under-represented. Come on, Japan, do better research!

Clarivate is a data analysis company that handles scientific literature, and it makes senseto correlate highly cited papers with the probability of winning a Nobel prize. Several publishers also make polls for Noble predictions, which are quite popular, but the success rate not very high. Atthe end, we just have to wait two more weeks.

And remember, Nobel prizes in science are typically awarded for research done 20 years ago or so, so it doesn’t necessarily reflect the scientific power of a country.