Analysis of the Ig-Nobel Prize

Ikuo Kitagaki∗, Keizo Nagaoka and Atsushi Hikita
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Ikuo Kitagaki∗: Kaetsu University, Kodaira, Tokyo, Japan
Keizo Nagaoka: Waseda University, Mikajima, Saitama, Japan
Atsushi Hikita: Hiroshima University, Kagamiyama, Higashi-hiroshima, Japan

International Journal of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, 2018, vol. 4, issue 4, 160-167

Abstract: The Ig Nobel Prizes are selected and given to the winners based on the criterion of "Research that makes people LAUGH and then THINK". It naturally includes unexpected or fantastic research. This material conducts the statistical analysis and qualitative analysis of the research. As the consideration, it refers to the feature of the Japanese researches. As the statistical analysis, first, we survey how much the relevant research materials are registered to the academic database SCOPUS. We obtained that the registration rate gets bigger along with the year since 1991 when the Prize started. Second, we survey how many research of a country were awarded. In the survey, we selected the three field of physics, chemistry and medicine/physiology as same as the scientific field of the authentic Novel Prize. We allocated each five years beginning in 1991 to a section then got the average over the three fields for each section. Then we obtained that the USA got the biggest proportion for the 1st thru. 4th section and Japan got the biggest proportion for the 5th section which means 2011 thru. 2015. As the qualitative analysis, we survey how unexpected the awarded researches are. Then we obtained that there are seven types in those researches; sex organ or excretion relations, dangerous relations, and so forth. Lastly, we conduct the consideration on Japanese features. We obtained the features; Japanese winners tend to regard scientific approach, regard original unexpectedness which supposed to be an emotion inductive to laughing instead of regarding the laugh itself and so forth

Keywords: Ig Nobel Prize; statistical analysis; laugh (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.20469/ijhss.4.10001-4

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