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Close to the edge: co-authorship proximity of Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine, 1991---2010, to cross-disciplinary brokers

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Scientometrics, Volume 103, Issue 1

Pages 267 - 299

https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1526-5

Published: 01 April 2015 Publication History

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Between 1991 and 2010, 45 scientists were honored with Nobel prizes in Physiology or Medicine. It is shown that these 45 Nobel laureates are separated, on average, by at most 2.8 co-authorship steps from at least one cross-disciplinary broker, defined as a researcher who has published co-authored papers both in some biomedical discipline and in some non-biomedical discipline. If Nobel laureates in Physiology or Medicine and their immediate collaborators can be regarded as forming the intuitive "center" of the biomedical sciences, then at least for this 20-year sample of Nobel laureates, the center of the biomedical sciences within the co-authorship graph of all of the sciences is closer to the edges of multiple non-biomedical disciplines than typical biomedical researchers are to each other.

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Scientometrics Volume 103, Issue 1

April 2015

328 pages

ISSN:0138-9130

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Tol R(2024)The Nobel familyScientometrics10.1007/s11192-024-04936-1129:3(1329-1346)Online publication date: 1-Mar-2024
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Dong XLin KGao YHu B(2023)Nobel Citation Effects on Scientific PublicationsInformation Processing and Management: an International Journal10.1016/j.ipm.2023.10341060:4Online publication date: 1-Jul-2023
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.ipm.2023.103410
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Fields C(2016)Nobel numbersJournal of the Association for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.2354767:9(2212-2222)Online publication date: 1-Sep-2016
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