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Leaders among the leaders in Economics: a network analysis of the Nobel Prize laureates

José Alberto Molinaa Departament of Economics, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, Spain;b Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Networks (BIFI), Zaragoza, Spain;c Institute of Labor Economics (IZA), Bonn, GermanyCorrespondence[email protected]
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David Iñiguezb Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Networks (BIFI), Zaragoza, Spain;d ARAID Foundation, Diputación General De Aragón, Zaragoza, SpainView further author information
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Gonzalo Ruizb Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Networks (BIFI), Zaragoza, SpainView further author information
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Alfonso Tarancónb Institute for Biocomputation and Physics of Complex Networks (BIFI), Zaragoza, Spain;e Departament of Theoretical Physics, University of Zaragoza, Zaragoza, SpainView further author information
Pages 584-589 | Published online: 14 May 2020

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