Just five research fields scooped up more than half of the Nobel prizes for science awarded in recent decades, according to an analysis exposing an “honours inequality†that may be skewing research funding. John Ioannidis at Stanford University in California says he suspected that the most prestigious awards in science were clustering in certain fields, but it wasn’t until he and his colleagues combed through the Nobel winners from between 1995 and 2017 that the picture became clear.
|