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Impact of the Soai-autocatalysis on natural sciences

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Twenty years ago Kenso Soai et al. published their important paper “Asymmetric autocatalysis and amplification of enantiomeric excess of a chiral molecule” in Nature. Their findings launched a new chapter in the natural sciences. According to www.scholar.google.com data (downloaded on 15 May 2015) in the past 20 years 929 researchers have referred to this work in 594 scientific documents of which 557 were written in the Latin alphabet. In the present paper we illustrate and analyze the social structure determined by these 557 articles and books by the use of graph theoretical tools and analysis of social networks.

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Fülöp, O., Barabás, B. Impact of the Soai-autocatalysis on natural sciences. J Math Chem 54, 10–17 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10910-015-0573-8

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