In October 2016, Thomson Reuters Intellectual Property and Science Business was acquired by Onex and Baring Asia and the newly independent company was named as Clarivate.
There appears to be a correlation between high citation rates for a published researcher and the award of prestigious accolades.
Furthermore, citation rates disclose researchers furnishing instrumental contributions that advance the science of their respective field.
At least one from the list of Thomson Reuters Citation Laureates has won a Nobel Prize each year since 1989, except for 1993 and 1996.
The Thomson Reuters list are researchers who have been cited often in the previous two or more decades, "write multiple high-impact reports, and do so over many years.