Knowledge recency to the birth of Nobel Prize-winning articles: Gender, career stage, and country
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Highlights：
• Nobel Prize-winning articles in the Physiology or Medicine fields build their work on recent advances, but show an increasing favor to older literature than before.
• Older Nobel Prize winners tend to cite more earlier articles than Prize winners in other career stages.
• Gender is not an influencing factor of knowledge recency.
• The knowledge recency of Nobel Prize-winning articles in English speaking countries is lower than in non-English speaking countries.
摘要
•Nobel Prize-winning articles in the Physiology or Medicine fields build their work on recent advances, but show an increasing favor to older literature than before.•Older Nobel Prize winners tend to cite more earlier articles than Prize winners in other career stages.•Gender is not an influencing factor of knowledge recency.•The knowledge recency of Nobel Prize-winning articles in English speaking countries is lower than in non-English speaking countries.
论文关键词：Nobel Prize-winning articles,Age of references,Transformative research,Knowledge recency,Innovation
论文评审过程：Received 28 May 2019, Revised 9 May 2020, Accepted 13 May 2020, Available online 2 June 2020, Version of Record 2 June 2020.
论文官网地址：https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2020.101053
