Pope Francis has reportedly made it to Prospect Magazine's list of top 50 world thinkers.
The Pope is the only religious leader to make it to the list that aims to recognize people who have influenced the year's biggest questions in politics, economics, science and philosophy.
According to the Guardian, public would vote in an online poll to decide on the world's most important thinker and The Pope has the chance to follow in the footsteps of last year's winner, the militant atheist Richard Dawkins, who fails to feature in 2014's top 50.
Prospect's managing editor, Jonathan Derbyshire, said that The Pope has really led, individually, the regeneration of the Vatican and he is there not as a religionist but as a social thinker.
The list also features 17 economists, 13 philosophers, three scientists, three technology theorists, an entrepreneur, writers and activists, the report added.
Pope Francis recently topped Fortune Magazine's list of world's greatest leaders.