In rankings, humanities citation ranking refers to the ranking of humanities, social sciences, and arts scholars; the shorthand (HuCR:25) means, e.g., that Hannah Arendt is ranked 25th in the following 2009 Reuters rankings;Reuters ranking | 2009
The following is a 2009 compiled "current trends" Thomson Reuters ranking of humanities and social science authors, based on authors whose books—not journals, as in the arts, humanities, and social sciences the “book” holds a more important position and is the primary vehicle of research and information conveyance—collectively, were cited 500 or more times in 2007: [1]
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# Author Fields Citations CR 1. Michel Foucault (1926-1984) Philosophy, sociology, criticism 2,521 7 2. Pierre Bourdieu (1930-2002) Philosophy 1,874 6 3. Jacques Derrida (1930-2004) Philosophy 1,874 2 4. Albert Bandura (1925-) Psychology 1,536 5. Anthony Giddens (1938-) Sociology 1,303 6. Erving Goffman (1922-1982) Sociology 1,066 3 7. Jurgen Habermas (1929-) Philosophy, sociology 1,049 8. Max Weber (1864-1920) Sociology 971 57 9. Judith Butler (1956-) Philosophy 960 10. Bruno Latour (1947-) Sociology, anthropology 944 2 11. Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) Psychoanalysis 903 150 12. Gilles Deleuze (1925-1995) (Ѻ) Philosophy 897 4 13. Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) Philosophy 882 66 14. Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) Philosophy 874 6 15. Noam Chomsky (1928-) Linguistics, philosophy 812 3 16. Ulrich Beck (1944-) Sociology 733 17. Jean Piaget (1896-1980) Philosophy 725 18. David Harvey (1935-) Geography 723 19. John Rawls (1921-2002) Philosophy 708 20. Geert Hofstede (1928-) Cultural studies 700 21. Edward Said (1935-2003) Criticism 694 22. Emile Durkheim (1858-1917) Sociology 662 12 23. Roland Barthes (1915-1980) Criticism, philosophy 631 24. Clifford Geertz (1926-2006) Anthropology 596 25. Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) Political theory 593 26. Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) Criticism, philosophy 583 28 27. Henri Tajfel (1919-1982) Social psychology 583 28. Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) Philosophy 583 14 29. Barney Glaser (1930-) Sociology 577 30. George Lakoff (1941-) Linguistics 577 31. John Dewey (1859-1952) Philosophy, psychology, education 575 3 32. Benedict Anderson (1936-) International studies 573 33 Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) Philosophy 566 34 Jacques Lacan (1901-1981) Psychoanalysis, philosophy, criticism 526 12 35 Thomas Kuhn (1922-1996) History and philosophy of science 519 17 36. Karl Marx (1818-1883) Political theory, economics, sociology 501 49 37. Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900) Philosophy 501 68
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References
1. Staff. (2009). "Most Cited Authors of Books in the Humanities, 2007" (Ѻ) , date provided by Thomson Reuters ISI Web of Science, Times Higher Education, Mar 29.
