Most cited authors of books in the humanities

From the Times Higher Education:

Most cited authors of books in the humanities, 2007

1. Michel Foucault (2,521)
2. Pierre Bourdieu (2,465)
3. Jacques Derrida (1,874)
4. Albert Bandura (1,536)
5. Anthony Giddens (1,303)
6. Erving Goffman (1,066)
7. Jürgen Habermas (1,049)
8. Max Weber (971)
9. Judith Butler (960)
10. Bruno Latour (944)
11. Sigmund Freud (903)
12. Gilles Deleuze (897)
13. Immanuel Kant (882)
14. Martin Heidegger (874)
15. Noam Chomsky (812)
16. Ulrich Beck (733)
17. Jean Piaget (725)
18. David Harvey (723)
19. John Rawls (708)
20. Geert Hofstede (700)

Data provided by Thomson Reuters’ ISI Web of Science, 2007.

Thomson Reuters recently collected citations from the journal literature it indexed in 2007 to books and their authors. In the sciences, the journal is the main vehicle for scholarly communication, whereas in the social sciences and especially in the arts and humanities, the book holds a more important position in conveying and influencing research. The table above lists those authors whose books, collectively, were cited 700 or more times in 2007.

(Thanks to Brian Leiter for the pointer).