From North American hegemony to global competition for scientific leadership? Insights from the Nobel population

• Thomas Heinze ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: theinze@uni-wuppertal.de

  Affiliations Interdisciplinary Center of Science and Technology Studies (IZWT), University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany, Institute of Sociology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4611-4591

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• Arlette Jappe,

  Roles Investigation, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Interdisciplinary Center of Science and Technology Studies (IZWT), University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

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• David Pithan

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Software, Visualization

  Affiliation Institute of Sociology, University of Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

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