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Related: About this forumKarl Marx Is the World’s Most Influential Scholar
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/11/karl-marx-is-the-worlds-most-influential-scholar/How do you judge an academic? Can you compare scholars from different fields on equal footing? Whose work had the bigger impact down field, Albert Einstein or Ada Lovelace?
These seem like impossible questions to answer, but as reported by Nature, a team of information scientists out of Indiana University, Bloomington, think theyve found a way. And, according to them, the most influential scholar is Karl Marx.
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The Indiana University researchers, say Nature, tried to take this into account. First they looked to see if a scientist had not just one big study, but lots of work that was all cited regularly (rolled up in a measure called the h-index). Then, they compared the scientists score against others in their own respective field. This let them calculate how much of a stand-out they were.
Karl Marxs score was more than 22 times the average h-index of other scholars in history (but 11 times that of the average economist).
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These seem like impossible questions to answer, but as reported by Nature, a team of information scientists out of Indiana University, Bloomington, think theyve found a way. And, according to them, the most influential scholar is Karl Marx.
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The Indiana University researchers, say Nature, tried to take this into account. First they looked to see if a scientist had not just one big study, but lots of work that was all cited regularly (rolled up in a measure called the h-index). Then, they compared the scientists score against others in their own respective field. This let them calculate how much of a stand-out they were.
Karl Marxs score was more than 22 times the average h-index of other scholars in history (but 11 times that of the average economist).
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Karl Marx Is the World’s Most Influential Scholar (Original Post)
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Nov 2013
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idwiyo
(5,113 posts)1. k&r
rurallib
(62,406 posts)2. but - but W told us it was Jesus
oh - scholar - my bad.
Laelth
(32,017 posts)3. Interesting. Thanks for posting. k&r n/t
-Laelth
LooseWilly
(4,477 posts)4. More even than Ayn Rand? Inconceivable...
Starry Messenger
(32,342 posts)5. She didn't even place.
sadcry!
LooseWilly
(4,477 posts)6. This is obviously the result of liberally biased facts.