On the Google-Fame of Scientists and Other Populations

Details On the Google-Fame of Scientists and Other Populations On the Google-Fame of Scientists and Other Populations

2005-04-05

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504034v1

Modeling Cooperative Behavior in the Social Sciences; AIP Conf. Proc. Vol. 779, pp. 81-89. 2005

Physics

Physics and Society

6 pages, 1 figure, to appear in the proceedings of the 8th Granada seminar on Computational Physics

Scientific paper

10.1063/1.2008594

We study the fame distribution of scientists and other social groups as measured by the number of Google hits garnered by individuals in the population. Past studies have found that the fame distribution decays either in power-law [arXiv:cond-mat/0310049] or exponential [Europhys. Lett., 67, (4) 511-516 (2004)] fashion, depending on whether individuals in the social group in question enjoy true fame or not. In our present study we examine critically Google counts as well as the methods of data analysis. While the previous findings are corroborated in our present study, we find that, in most situations, the data available does not allow for sharp conclusions.

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