Abstract
Scientific prizes are designed to encourage researchers, while scientific search engines shall support a structured literature review. Both areas are designed to help scientific work. Both should work or be granted unbiased – but depending on the point of view it seems as this is hard to achieve. While prizes are often granted to certain mainly well-known Universities and countries in which the prize was originally founded, scientific search engines have hidden algorithms as well. Searching with identical search parameters will provide different results for scientific texts when using different search engines. Within the article three different ones were explored a bit and one mean to achieve a bit of unbiased usage of the sources is PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses). The meta-analysis enables each reader to follow the steps and objectivize the findings.
Highlights
The PRISMA methodology still does not influence which search results will be searched at all – alone the number of found documents differs by each search engine
Search engines as well as committees to grant a prestigious prize have a huge bunch of objectives to follow for selecting the right work to honor or use as search result
The aim of the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) Statement is to help authors improve the reporting of systematic reviews and meta-analyses (Liberati et al 2009)
Summary
The essay takes up the article "Prizes and Productivity - How winning the Fields Medal Affects Scientific Output‖ by Borjas & Doran (2015). The authors analyze how winning a prestigious prize affects future output of especially young mathematicians. They compare two groups which have similar publication rates until the award year, after which the winner’s productivity declines. The later left their original fields and started working on unfamiliar topics. Winning the Fields Medal influences scientific output in the area of mathematics. Contrary to that BASE found less documents (identical search parameters) while focusing mainly on open access articles.
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