The 267 Most-Cited Contemporary Authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
As I mentioned Monday, my son sent me a list of bibliographical entries in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, so I thought I'd update some of the citation analyses I did in 2010-2011. Below is an ordered list of the most-cited contemporary authors.
Some caveats:
* "Contemporary" means born 1900 or later.
* Each author is counted only once per entry, and then only if that author receives a bibliographical line as the first-listed author on the entry's main page. Evaluating second authorship proved intractable. Sorry! I recognize that this results in substantial underestimation of second-listed authors, which is especially regrettable when authorship order is determined alphabetically rather than by magnitude of contribution.
* Unlike my 2010 list, this list includes the historical entries.
* The SEP has a strongly "analytic"/Anglophone perspective. So Foucault, for example, at 20 entries, didn't quite make the cutoff.
* If you just plug the author's name as search term into SEP's front page, you'll get substantially more page hits than my method delivers (e.g., people in editing roles, or as second authors, on in subentries, or as false positives). So please don't critique my numbers via that method! I do welcome more thoughtful corrections.
* After computerized sort, I hand-coded the data, in some cases correcting misspellings and merging authors (e.g., Ruth Barcan = Ruth Marcus), more often separating authors with similar names (e.g., various A. Goldman's). I estimate coding error of up to about +/- 2 entries.
* Unsurprisingly, given the state of the discipline, it's overwhelmingly white men. For more details, see my gender and ethnicity analysis.
1. Lewis, David (214)
2. Quine, W.V.O. (164)
3. Putnam, Hilary (131)
4. Davidson, Donald (120)
4. Rawls, John (120)
6. Kripke, Saul (117)
7. Williams, Bernard (104)
8. Nozick, Robert (96)
9. Nagel, Thomas (94)
9. Nussbaum, Martha C. (94)
11. Searle, John (93)
12. Chisholm, Roderick M. (92)
13. Armstrong, David M. (87)
14. Fodor, Jerry (86)
15. Dummett, Michael (84)
16. Dennett, Daniel (83)
16. Harman, Gilbert (83)
16. Jackson, Frank (83)
19. Strawson, P. F. (82)
20. van Fraassen, Bas C. (77)
21. Dworkin, Ronald (74)
22. Williamson, Timothy (72)
23. Geach, Peter T. (71)
24. Chalmers, David J. (70)
24. Kitcher, Philip S. (70)
26. McDowell, John (69)
26. van Inwagen, Peter (69)
28. Sober, Elliott (66)
28. Stalnaker, Robert (66)
30. Bennett, Jonathan (65)
30. Hintikka, Jaakko (65)
30. Mackie, John L. (65)
30. Plantinga, Alvin (65)
30. Raz, Joseph (65)
35. Parfit, Derek (64)
35. Scanlon, T. M. (64)
37. Adams, Robert M. (63)
37. Goldman, Alvin I. (63)
37. Popper, Karl (63)
40. Ayer, A. J. (60)
40. Dretske, Fred (60)
40. Hacking, Ian (60)
43. Feinberg, Joel (57)
43. Gibbard, Allan (57)
43. Goodman, Nelson (57)
46. Burge, Tyler (55)
46. Tarski, Alfred (55)
48. Alston, William P. (54)
48. Earman, John (54)
48. Fine, Kit (54)
48. Frankfurt, Harry G. (54)
48. Rescher, Nicholas (54)
48. Wright, Crispin (54)
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Continued on the Underblog.
[Corrected Aug 8 - Aug 14.]