Nobel season is here, and the prize for medicine has already been awarded. Besides the $1 million cash prize, winners gain serious bragging rights. However, according to a new study featured in the New York Times, winning a Nobel Prize does not seem to boost scientists’ productivity or have a significant impact on their field. Dr. John Ioannidis of Stanford, the lead author of the study published in the journal Royal Society Open Science, states, “If anything, it seems to have the opposite effect.”
To explore this, Ioannidis and his team compared the publishing and citation records of both Nobel Prize winners and MacArthur Fellows (also known as genius grant recipients) before and after receiving their respective awards. The results were surprising. According to the New York Times, “His team found that Nobel winners published about the same number of papers after receiving the award, but that post-award work had far fewer citations than pre-award work. MacArthur Fellows, on the other hand, published slightly more, but their citations remained about the same. The rate of citations per paper for both Nobel laureates and MacArthur Fellows decreased after winning.”
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