Ah I see. That's helpful to know because it appears that Google Scholar has removed their link to Claudine Gay's body of work, so I was only operating from a previous article I read online that suggested Bacow had amassed over 2,500 citations at that point in time compared to only 170 or so for Gay.
I see that Bacow now has over 2,700 citations so if Gay's lifetime citation count is over 2,500 and their h-indexes are similar then I definitely agree that you have a point there. As a non-academic I sort of assumed that all the elite university presidents were like Larry Summers, but as you point out he was a statistical outlier even among recent Harvard presidents.
Yes Summers was unusual among recent Harvard presidents. Sally Kornbluth at MIT has over 14K, so well ahead of the typical president. This is one reason she will survive the attempts to topple her.
Citations are a very crude measure, just a first step really, but people should at least start there.
Ah I see. That's helpful to know because it appears that Google Scholar has removed their link to Claudine Gay's body of work, so I was only operating from a previous article I read online that suggested Bacow had amassed over 2,500 citations at that point in time compared to only 170 or so for Gay.
I see that Bacow now has over 2,700 citations so if Gay's lifetime citation count is over 2,500 and their h-indexes are similar then I definitely agree that you have a point there. As a non-academic I sort of assumed that all the elite university presidents were like Larry Summers, but as you point out he was a statistical outlier even among recent Harvard presidents.
Yes Summers was unusual among recent Harvard presidents. Sally Kornbluth at MIT has over 14K, so well ahead of the typical president. This is one reason she will survive the attempts to topple her.
Citations are a very crude measure, just a first step really, but people should at least start there.
Thank you for your comments.