Scientific prizes and the extraordinary growth of scientific topics

Scientific revolutions have famously inspired scientists and innovation but large-scale analyses of scientific revolutions in modern science are rare. Here, the authors investigate one possible factor connected with a topic’s extraordinary growth—scientific prizes.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ching Jin, Yifang Ma, Brian Uzzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25712-2
Description
Summary:Scientific revolutions have famously inspired scientists and innovation but large-scale analyses of scientific revolutions in modern science are rare. Here, the authors investigate one possible factor connected with a topic’s extraordinary growth—scientific prizes.
ISSN:2041-1723