At what institutions did Nobel laureates do their prize-winning work? An analysis of biographical information on Nobel laureates from 1994 to 2014

Schlagberger, Elisabeth Maria; Bornmann, Lutz; Bauer, Johann

doi:10.1007/s11192-016-2059-2

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“…In a further study Chan et al [7] also found that publications of Nobel Laureates with collaborators tended to be cited more if they were work done early in the time span of the collaboration. In another study Schlagberger et al [8] looked at the affiliated institutions of Nobel Laureates from physics, chemistry and medicine/physiology. The finding was that as a country USA dominated in the number of affiliated Laureates, and the three institutions that was found to contain a larger number of Laureates at all time, UC Berkeley, Columbia University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), are also located there.…”

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The age at which Noble Prize research is conducted

Bjørk

2019

Scientometrics

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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The age at which Noble Prize research is conducted

Bjørk

2019

Scientometrics

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“…The Nobel prize is undoubtedly the most visible, influential, and coveted award across science. Nobel laureates represent a readily demarcated and most illustrious cohort of exceptional scientists, and data on their work have been repeatedly used [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14] to assess aspects of citation impact, perception of rewards, credit allocation, paradigm shifts, and networking in science. Much can be learned by studying this influential cohort.…”

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Work honored by Nobel prizes clusters heavily in a few scientific fields

2020

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We aimed to assess whether Nobel prizes (widely considered the most prestigious award in science) are clustering in work done in a few specific disciplines. We mapped the key Nobel prize-related publication of each laureate awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry (1995-2017). These key papers mapped in only narrow sub-regions of a 91,726-cluster map of science created from 63 million Scopus-indexed published items. For each key Nobel paper, a median of 435 (range 0 to 88383) other Scopus-indexed items were published within one year and were more heavily cited than the Nobel paper. Of the 114 high-level domains that science can be divided into, only 36 have had a Nobel prize. Five of the 114 domains (particle physics [14%], cell biology [12.1%], atomic physics [10.9%], neuroscience [10.1%], molecular chemistry [5.3%]) have the lion's share, accounting in total for 52.4% of the Nobel prizes. Using a more granular classification with 849 subdomains shows that only 71 of these sub-domains (8.3%) have at least one Nobel-related paper. Similar clustering was seen when we mapped all the 40,819 Scopus-indexed publications representing the career-long output of all the Nobel laureates. In conclusion, work resulting in Nobel prizes is concentrated in a small minority of scientific disciplines.

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“…to the Nobel Prize, the research of the Turing Award is relatively incomprehensive. There exist several works devoted to studying relevant attributes of the Nobel Prize [2] and the Nobel Prize laureates [3] while the research of the Turing Award is particularly rare. As the highest prize in the field of computer science, we believe that the analysis of the Turing Award can highlight the important contributions of the Turing Award laureates.…”

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The Evolution of Turing Award Collaboration Network: Bibliometric-Level and Network-Level Metrics

Kong

Shi

Wang

et al. 2019

IEEE Trans. Comput. Soc. Syst.

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The year of 2017 for the fiftieth anniversary of the Turing Award, which represents the top level award in the computer science field, is a milestone. We study the longterm evolution of the Turing Award Collaboration Network and it can be considered as a microcosm of the computer science field from 1974 to 2016. Firstly, scholars tend to publish papers by themselves at the early stages and they began to focus on tight collaboration since the late 1980s. Secondly, compared with the same scale random network, although the Turing Award Collaboration Network has small-world properties, it is not a scale-free network. The reason may be the limited number of collaborators for each scholar. It is impossible for scholars to connect to others freely (preferential attachment) as the scalefree network. Thirdly, to measure how far a scholar is from the Turing Award, we propose a metric called the Turing Number and find that the Turing Number decreases gradually over time. Meanwhile, we discover the phenomenon that scholars prefer to gather into groups to do research with the development of computer science. Our work presents a new way to explore the evolution of academic collaboration network in the field of computer science by building and analyzing the Turing Award Collaboration Network for decades.

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At what institutions did Nobel laureates do their prize-winning work? An analysis of biographical information on Nobel laureates from 1994 to 2014

Cited by 55 publications

References 51 publications

The age at which Noble Prize research is conducted

The age at which Noble Prize research is conducted

Work honored by Nobel prizes clusters heavily in a few scientific fields

The Evolution of Turing Award Collaboration Network: Bibliometric-Level and Network-Level Metrics

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