[HN Gopher] The most cited authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia ...
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       The most cited authors in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
        
       Author : bbor
       Score  : 5 points
       Date   : 2024-08-11 04:03 UTC (18 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (schwitzsplinters.blogspot.com)
        
       | bbor wrote:
       | Fascinating list that I thought yall would enjoy! If you're not
       | yet aware, https://plato.stanford.edu is as close to
       | "philosophical canon" as it gets in modern American academia.
       | 
       | Shoutout to Godel and Neumann taking top spots despite not really
       | being philosophers, at least in how they're remembered.
       | Comparatively, I'm honestly shocked that neither Bohr nor
       | Heisenberg made the cut, even though there's multiple articles on
       | quantum physics... Turing also managed to sneak in under the
       | wire, with 33 citations.
       | 
       | The bias inherent in the source is discussed in detail, and I
       | would also love to hear HN ideas on how to improve this project,
       | and how to visualize the results! I'm not the author, but this is
       | right up my alley to say the least, and I'd love to take a crack
       | at it.
        
         | defrost wrote:
         | > and how to visualize the results!
         | 
         | There's bound to be something to be teased out from who
         | referenced whom and when.
         | 
         | Eg: (random example)
         | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graham_Priest had a great many
         | students from the 1980s onwards, coinciding with the rise of
         | plato.stanford.edu personal computers and the internet.
         | 
         | He's come in at #51 or so likely on the back of a generation of
         | philosophy students with technology crossover writing up early
         | articles on plato and throwing in a citation to Priest.
         | 
         | I'm in no way implying this is undeserved, just as an example
         | of some of the weighting bias coming from the era when many
         | plato stub articles originated.
        
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