Why it has become more difficult to predict Nobel Prize winners: A bibliometric analysis of nominees and winners of the chemistry and physics prizes (1901-2007)

Scientometrics

Volumn 82, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 401-412

  Gingras, Yves ^a   Wallace, Matthew L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Centrality; Citation; Nobel Prize; Scientific disciplines

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952880974     PISSN: 01389130     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11192-009-0035-9     Document Type: Article

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