Turing Award elites revisited: patterns of productivity, collaboration, authorship and impact

The Turing Award is recognized as the most influential and prestigious award in field of computer science (CS). With rise science, a large amount bibliographic data has been analyzed an attempt to understand hidden mechanism scientific evolution. These include analysis Nobel Prize, including physics, chemistry, medicine, etc. In this article, we extract analyze 72 laureates from complete data, fill gap lack analysis, discover development characteristics CS independent discipline. First, show have long-term high-quality educational backgrounds, more than 61% them degree mathematics, which indicates that mathematics played significant role CS. Secondly, shows not all scholars high productivity h-index; is, number publications h-index leading indicator for evaluating Award. Third, average age awardees increased 40 around 70 recent years. This may be because new breakthroughs take longer, some technologies need time prove their influence. Besides, also found past 10 years, international collaboration experienced explosive growth, showing paradigm form collaboration. It worth noting emergence female winners eye-catching. Finally, by analyzing personal publication records, find many people are likely publish high-impact articles during high-yield periods.