OBJECTIVES To compare H index scores for healthcare researchers returned by Google Scholar, Web of Science and Scopus databases, and to assess whether a researcher's age, country of institutional affiliation and physician status influences calculations. SUBJECTS AND METHODS One hundred and ninety-five Nobel laureates in Physiology and Medicine from 1901 to 2009 were considered. Year of first ...

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Abstract The 2021 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded jointly to Benjamin List and David MacMillan “for the development of asymmetric organocatalysis.” This choice remarkable for a number reasons. It singled out very “chemical” discovery, whereas recent years, chemistry prizes often went discoveries biochemistry, it two relatively young men. concept organocatalysis has been around since late 1...

The British Post Office has joined Sweden, the US, and other postal services in issuing a commemorative set of stamps to mark the centenary of the first award of the Nobel Prizes in 1901. Sweden and the US are, in fact, issuing a stamp carrying exactly the same design; a profile of Alfred Nobel together with his image on one side of the Nobel Prize medals. But the British Post Office has done s...

In the recently concluded series on the 1,000 articles most cited in the Science Citation Inde# (.SCP ), 1961 to 1982, I drew attention to the many Nobel laureates who were authors of one or more of these highly cited papers. 1 It was no surprise that 14 percent of the 1,000 papers were written by Nobel Prize winners, since we knew that as a group they are heavily cited. In 1965 Irv Sher, ISP’s...