<pre><code>big_list = [['LR Hirsch, AM Gobin, AR Lowery, F Tam… - Annals of biomedical …, 2006 - Springer'],
['C Loo, A Lowery, N Halas, J West, R Drezek - Nano letters, 2005 - ACS Publications'],
['SJ Oldenburg, JB Jackson, SL Westcott… - Applied Physics …, 1999 - aip.scitation.org'],
['RD Averitt, SL Westcott, NJ Halas - JOSA B, 1999 - osapublishing.org'],
['LR Hirsch, JB Jackson, A Lee, NJ Halas… - Analytical …, 2003 - ACS Publications'],
['SJ Oldenburg, RD Averitt, NJ Halas - US Patent 6,344,272, 2002 - Google Patents'],
['AM Gobin, MH Lee, NJ Halas, WD James… - Nano …, 2007 - ACS Publications'],
['JB Lassiter, J Aizpurua, LI Hernandez, DW Brandl… - Nano …, 2008 - ACS Publications'],
['JB Jackson, NJ Halas - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2001 - ACS Publications'],
['RD Averitt, D Sarkar, NJ Halas - Physical Review Letters, 1997 - APS']]
authors_list = [[n.strip() for n in l[0].split('-')[0].split(',')] for l in big_list]
years_list = [int(l[0].split('-')[1].split(',')[-1]) for l in big_list]
publishers_list = [l[0].split('-')[2].strip() for l in big_list]
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