Work honored by Nobel prizes clusters heavily in a few scientific fields

• John P. A. Ioannidis ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Supervision, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: jioannid@stanford.edu

  Affiliations The Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford, CA, United States of America, The Meta-Research Innovation Center Berlin (METRIC-B), Berlin, Germany

  http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3118-6859

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• Ioana-Alina Cristea,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations The Meta-Research Innovation Center at Stanford (METRICS), Stanford, CA, United States of America, Department of Brain and Behavioral Science, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9854-7076

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• Kevin W. Boyack

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Methodology, Resources, Software, Visualization, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation SciTech Strategies, Inc., Albuquerque, NM, United States of America

  http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7814-8951

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