The Nobel Prize has a negative impact on its laureates

a New search which has not yet passed peer review, claims that Nobel laureates in medicine and biology tend to significantly reduce the research they do after winning the prestigious trophy.

Analyzing data from Nobel Prize winners between 1950 and 2009, researchers at Stanford University and the University of Waterloo focused on three measures. The number and recentness of published research and the number of references to other research. Then they compared the data with people of the same age who had won a Lasker Prize, another award in the medical field.

In all three data categories, Nobel Prize winners had higher numbers than Lasker Prize winners before receiving the award, and after receiving the number, the numbers were reversed. After the Nobel Prize, it seems that the level of activity of scientists is lower than that of those who won the Lasker Prize.

These declines may indicate the negative effects of awards, changed incentives, or completely different careers for medical researchers who won a Nobel Prize.

And while the analysis isn’t detailed enough to prove cause and effect, it does show an interesting pattern. We cannot say that after the Nobel Prize-winning researchers give up, but it seems that their research activity is not intense, which raises the question of whether the award causes a decrease in innovative, high-quality research.

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