Abstract
Nobel laureates in science publish more and are more apt to collaborate than a matched sample of scientists. Interviews with 41 of 55 laureates and comparison of their research output with the output of the matched sample indicate that these patterns hold at every stage of the life-work-cycle. As laureates report and as their publications corroborate, they exercise noblesse oblige in arranging co-authorship in collaborative publications. Receipt of the Nobel prize is followed by declining productivity and changed work practices, as a result of changed role obligations and activities. Reductions in productivity are more severe for laureates who experience comparatively large increments in prestige through the prize than for those who were already eminent. The prize generates strain in collaborative associations so that most of these terminate soon after the award
Keywords
ReceiptProductivityPrestigeSample (material)PublicationWork (physics)SociologyPolitical scienceSocial scienceLawEconomicsEconomic growthEngineeringPhilosophyAccountingLinguistics
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- 32
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- 391-391
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Harriet Zuckerman
(1967).
Nobel Laureates in Science: Patterns of Productivity, Collaboration, and Authorship.
American Sociological Review
, 32
(3)
, 391-391.
https://doi.org/10.2307/2091086
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- 10.2307/2091086