%0 Journal Article
%T Do Scientific Advancements Lean on the Shoulders of Giants? A Bibliometric Investigation of the Ortega Hypothesis
%A Lutz Bornmann
%A F¨¦lix de Moya Aneg¨®n
%A Loet Leydesdorff
%J PLOS ONE
%D 2012
%I Public Library of Science (PLoS)
%R 10.1371/journal.pone.0013327
%X In contrast to Newton's well-known aphorism that he had been able ¡°to see further only by standing on the shoulders of giants,¡± one attributes to the Spanish philosopher Ortega y Gasset the hypothesis saying that top-level research cannot be successful without a mass of medium researchers on which the top rests comparable to an iceberg.
%U http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013327