Knowledge recency to the birth of Nobel Prize-winning articles: Gender, career stage, and country

Scientific ideas seldom come entirely from nothing; they often originate from existing knowledge. In this study, we aim to identify the relationship between the knowledge recency and Nobel Prize-winning articles (NPs) from the perspectives of gender, career stage, and country of the originators. Scientific literatures published by Nobel laureates in the Physiology or Medicine field are treated as NPs, and the age of references cited in those...