Long live the scientists: Tracking the scientific fame of great minds in physics

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Highlights：

• This study utilizes millions of Google digitalized texts to track the historical achievements and scientific fame of great minds beyond academia.

• Our findings suggest that great scientific minds live long intellectually and that their glory is especially perceived by their own groups—their home countries or researchers who share their same languages.

• The paper discusses the novelties and caveats when applying Google digitalized texts to gauge the impacts of scholars and their achievements on a broad public.

摘要

•This study utilizes millions of Google digitalized texts to track the historical achievements and scientific fame of great minds beyond academia.•Our findings suggest that great scientific minds live long intellectually and that their glory is especially perceived by their own groups—their home countries or researchers who share their same languages.•The paper discusses the novelties and caveats when applying Google digitalized texts to gauge the impacts of scholars and their achievements on a broad public.

论文关键词：Scientific fame,Own-group preference,Google corpus,Altmetrics

论文评审过程：Received 15 February 2018, Revised 21 August 2018, Accepted 23 August 2018, Available online 18 September 2018, Version of Record 18 September 2018.

论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2018.08.008