Joel Mokyr has published in the most prestigious economics journals, but his co-authors include people who have most of their impact in demography, history or anthropology, most of whom have never worked together. Nothing like the network of Aghion & Howitt

Philippe Aghion is _the_ economist, among his prominent co-authors are 3 Nobel winners (now 4), former chief economist of the IMF, writers of popular textbooks, all connected through co-authorships in a nice, large network of economists.

Yesterday's economics Nobel went for explaining economic growth with "creative destruction" (Aghion & Howitt) and "technological progress" (Mokyr). As much as both those things mean innovation, it's interesting how different the academic paths of the laureates are:

No wonder the third laureate, Shimon Sakaguchi is from Japan, who has a remarkably even distribution of impact globally

Medicine Nobel laureate Fred Ramsdell - frequent co-author of another laureate Mary Brunkow - has been cited by scientists working in Japan over 1.3k times, that's nearly 9% of all his citations, and the highest above what is expected of any country.