“Sparking”and“Igniting”Key Publications of 2020 Nobel Prize Laureates

作     者：Fangjie Xil Ronald Rousseau Xiaojun Hu Fangjie Xi;Ronald Rousseau;Xiaojun Hu

作者机构：Medical Information CenterZhejiang University School of MedicineHangzhou 310058China Faculty of Social SciencesUniversity of AntwerpMiddelheimlaan 22020 AntwerpenBelgium Centre for R&D Monitoring(ECOOM)and Dept.MSIKU LeuvenNaamsestraat 613000 LeuvenBelgium Department of Neurology of Affiliated Hospital 2Zhejiang University School of MedicineHangzhou 310009China 

出 版 物：《Journal of Data and Information Science》 (数据与情报科学学报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第6卷第2期

页      面：28-40页

核心收录：

学科分类：1205[管理学-图书情报与档案管理] 12[管理学] 120502[管理学-情报学] 

基　　金：the National Natural Science Foundation of China Grant numbers:71974167 and 71573225 

主　　题：Sparking Indices Sparking fundamental research Igniting fundamental research Nobel Prize laureates Under-cited influential research 

摘      要：Purpose:This article aims to determine the percentage ofSparkingarticles among the work of this year’s Nobel Prize winners in medicine,physics,and ***/methodology/approach:We focus on under-cited influential research among the key publications as mentioned by the Nobel Prize Committee for the 2020 Noble Prize ***,we extracted data from the Web of Science,and calculated the Sparking Indices using the formulas as proposed by Hu and Rousseau in 2016 and *** addition,we identified another type of igniting articles based on the notion in ***:In the fields of medicine and physics,the proportions of articles with sparking characteristics share 78.571%and 68.75%respectively,yet,in chemistry 90%articles characterized byigniting.Moreover,the two types of articles share more than 93%in the work of the Nobel Prize included in this *** limitations:Our research did not cover the impact of topic,socio-political,and author’s reputation on the Sparking *** implications:Our study shows that the Sparking Indices truly reflect influence of the best research work,so it can be used to detect under-cited influential articles,as well as identifying fundamental ***/value:Our findings suggest that the Sparking Indices have good applicability for research evaluation.