Born in Rome in 1948, Giorgio Parisi joins the Clarivate Citation Laureates as one of the most cited scholars in the world in scientific publications. The prestigious listing is considered the equivalent of a ‘nomination’ for the Nobel Prize and he received the recognition for “the revolutionary discoveries relating to quantum chromodynamics and the study of complex disordered systems”.

The Clarivate Citation Laureates list is the result of the analysis conducted by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) which every year evaluates the impact of the researchers who have most influenced the international scientific community. The Clarivate Citation Laureates 2021, including Parisi, welcomed 16 new researchers of different nationalities.