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Co-authorship proximity of A. M. Turing Award and John von Neumann Medal winners to the disciplinary boundaries of computer science

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It is shown that winners of the A. M. Turing Award or the John von Neumann Medal, both of which recognize achievement in computer science, are separated from some other A. M. Turing Award or John von Neumann Medal winner by at most 1.4 co-authorship steps on average, and from some cross-disciplinary broker, and hence from some discipline other than computer science, by at most 1.6 co-authorship steps on average. A. M. Turing Award and John von Neumann Medal recipients during this period are, therefore, on average closer in co-authorship terms to some other discipline that typical computer scientists are, on average, to each other.

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  1. See http://amturing.acm.org/call_for_nominations.cfm; accessed Jan, 2015.

  2. See http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/awards_guidelines.html; accessed Jan, 2015.

  3. http://www.oakland.edu/enp/erdpaths/; accessed Jan, 2015.

  4. http://amturing.acm.org/; accessed Nov–Dec, 2014.

  5. http://www.ieee.org/about/awards/medals/vonneumann.html; accessed Jan. 2015.

  6. http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/; accessed Jan, 2015.

  7. http://www.oakland.edu/enp/erdpaths/, accessed Jan, 2015.

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Table 1 Summary of the co-authorship results for A. M. Turing Award winners shown as subgraphs in Figs. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 and 9
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Table 2 Summary of the co-authorship results for John von Neumann Medal recipients who are not also A. M. Turing Award winners
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Fields, C. Co-authorship proximity of A. M. Turing Award and John von Neumann Medal winners to the disciplinary boundaries of computer science. Scientometrics 104, 809–825 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-015-1575-9

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