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ArticleEntropy (Basel, Switzerland)2025

Does Excellence Correspond to Universal Inequality Level?

Soumyajyoti Biswas, Bikas K Chakrabarti, Asim Ghosh, Sourav Ghosh, Máté Józsa, Zoltán Néda

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Article in Entropy (Basel, Switzerland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Soumyajyoti BiswasDepartment of Physics, SRM University-AP, Amaravati 522240, India.
Bikas K ChakrabartiSaha Institute of Nuclear Physics, Kolkata 700064, India.
Asim GhoshDepartment of Physics, Raghunathpur College, Raghunathpur, Purulia 723133, India.
Sourav GhoshDepartment of Physics, SRM University-AP, Amaravati 522240, India.
Máté JózsaDeptartment of Physics, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-4492-5019
Zoltán NédaDeptartment of Physics, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400347 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.ORCID 0000-0002-7319-5123

Funding

European Union - NextgenerationEU and the Romanian Government contract no 760034/23.05.2023, code PNRR-C9-I8-CF255/29.11.2022
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We study the inequality of citations received for different publications of various researchers and Nobel laureates in Physics, Chemistry, Medicine and Economics using Google Scholar data from 2012 to 2024. Citation distributions are found to be highly unequal, with even greater disparity among Nobel laureates. Measures of inequality, such as the Gini and Kolkata indices, emerge as useful indicators for distinguishing Nobel laureates from others. Such high inequality corresponds to growing critical fluctuations, suggesting that excellence aligns with an imminent (self-organized dynamical) critical point. Additionally, Nobel laureates exhibit systematically lower values of the Tsallis-Pareto parameter

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citation dataGini indexinequality indicesKolkata indexLorenz curve

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PMID40422450
PMCPMC12111793

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