How citation boosts promote scientific paradigm shifts and Nobel Prizes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages

  Mazloumian, Amin ^a   Eom, Young Ho ^b   Helbing, Dirk ^a   Lozano, Sergi ^a   Fortunato, Santo ^b  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b ISI FOUNDATION   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTHORITY; AWARDS AND PRIZES; CAREER; CITATION ANALYSIS; FUNDING; JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT; PUBLICATION; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCIENTIFIC LITERATURE; SCIENTIST; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; RESEARCH; SCIENCE; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

JOURNAL IMPACT FACTOR; NOBEL PRIZE; RESEARCH; SCIENCE;

EID: 79955773309     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018975     Document Type: Article

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