{"id":3165,"date":"2007-08-12T06:52:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-12T06:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/08\/damn-i-should-have-been-a-mineralogist\/"},"modified":"2007-08-12T06:52:12","modified_gmt":"2007-08-12T06:52:12","slug":"damn-i-should-have-been-a-mineralogist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2007\/08\/damn-i-should-have-been-a-mineralogist\/","title":{"rendered":"Damn, I should have been a mineralogist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN Money, of all places, comes <a href=http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/news\/newsfeeds\/articles\/prnewswire\/NEF03510082007-1.htm>a list of the most highly cited authors in Geosciences<\/a>, courtesy of Thomson Scientific.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><b>Top Ten Highly Cited Authors in Geosciences, 1996-2007<\/b><\/p>\n<table cellpadding='3'>\n<tr>\n<td>Name<\/td>\n<td>Institution<\/td>\n<td>Department\/Specialty<\/td>\n<td>Total Number of Citations<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Frank C. Hawthorne<\/td>\n<td>University of Manitoba<\/td>\n<td><b>Crystallography\/Mineralogy<\/b><\/td>\n<td>2,204<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Roger Powell<\/td>\n<td> University of Melbourne (Australia)<\/td>\n<td> <b>Metamorphic Geology<\/b><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Charles W. Carlson<\/td>\n<td> University of California, Berkeley <\/td>\n<td>Space Physics<\/td>\n<td>1,822<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Timothy J.B. Holland<\/td>\n<td>University of Cambridge<\/td>\n<td><b>Petrology<\/b><\/td>\n<td>1,592<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Andre Balogh<\/td>\n<td>Imperial College London<\/td>\n<td>Space Physics<\/td>\n<td>1,568<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>H. John B. Birks<\/td>\n<td> University of Bergen (Norway)<\/td>\n<td>Ecology\/Palaeoecology<\/td>\n<td>1,548<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Peter C. Burns<\/td>\n<td>University of Notre Dame<\/td>\n<td><b>Mineralogy<\/b><\/td>\n<td>1,414<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Henri Reme<\/td>\n<td> CNRS, CESR, Toulouse (France)<\/td>\n<td>Space Science<\/td>\n<td>1,335<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Joel D. Grice<\/td>\n<td>Canadian Museum of Nature<\/td>\n<td><b>Mineralogy<\/b><\/td>\n<td>1,330<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Juhn G. Liou<\/td>\n<td>Stanford University<\/td>\n<td>Geology\/Environmental<\/td>\n<td>1,327<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\nOne thousand citations over a ten-year period means that, on average, two papers which cite these guys&#8217; work come out every <em>week<\/em>. Whatever your misgivings about the way citations are used as a metric for academic performance, that&#8217;s pretty impressive, and for me, intimidating: within a month, everyone on this list has pretty much matched my entire career thus far.  Ulp.<br \/>\nI was interested to note that fully 50% of these citation supermen are mineralogists and petrologists &#8211; the hardest of hard rock geologists.  Clearly I picked the wrong subdiscipline (although in fact, I missed a lot of hard rock stuff while I was still flirting with Physics as an undergrad, so it wasn&#8217;t really a choice). Is there something about that particular field which makes it easier, relatively, to garner citations?  Shorter, more self-contained projects, perhaps; or lots of big collaborations; or a field dominated with a few big guns or labs, with fingers in lots of crystallographic pies. It can&#8217;t be just that all the smartest and\/or most productive geoscientists become petrologists&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From CNN Money, of all places, comes a list of the most highly cited authors in Geosciences, courtesy of Thomson Scientific. Top Ten Highly Cited Authors in Geosciences, 1996-2007 Name Institution Department\/Specialty Total Number of Citations Frank C. 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