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Leaders among the leaders in Economics: a network analysis of the Nobel Prize laureates

Year: 2020

Type: article

Abstract: We analyse the production and networks of Nobel laureates in Economics, employing the Normalized Impact Factor (NIF) of their publications in the Journal of Citation Report (Economics), to identify the academic leaders among those laureates awarded between 1969 and 2016. Our results indicate that direct collaborations among laureates are, in general, rare, but when we add all the co-authors of the laureates, there appears a very large component containing 70% of the nodes, so that more than two thirds of the laureates can be connected through only two steps. Deaton, Tirole, Arrow, and Stiglitz are identified as leaders according to the total production of their respective networks.

Source: Applied Economics Letters

DOI: 10.1080/13504851.2020.1764478

Authors: José Alberto Molina, David Iñiguez, Gonzalo Ruiz, Alfonso Tarancón

Institutions: IZA - Institute of Labor Economics, Universidad de Zaragoza, Instituto de Biocomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos, Fundacion Agencia Aragonesa para la Investigacion y el Desarrollo

Language: English

Topic: scientometrics and bibliometrics research

Subfield: Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty

Field: Decision Sciences

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: Boston College, Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad, Gobierno de Aragón

Awards: Economía de la población, mercado de trabajo y economía industrial, Supercomputación y Física de Sistemas Complejos y Biológicos (COMPHYS), G7942310846