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Researchers at Acton Institute

John A. Swets, Sheldon Baron and Charles I. Malme rank highest among 11 ranked researchers whose main affiliation is Acton Institute.

The ranking

  1. 1 John A. SwetsUnited States · #200,660 worldwide219 citations · 18 works
  2. 2 Sheldon BaronUnited States · #250,147 worldwide151 citations · 18 works
  3. 3 Charles I. MalmeUnited States · #467,825 worldwide51 citations · 17 works
  4. 4 Samuel GreggUnited States · #851,182 worldwide6 citations · 27 works
  5. 5 Jordan J. BallorUnited States · #887,482 worldwide3 citations · 20 works
  6. 6 Barbara Allen WoodsUnited States · #997,570 worldwide25 citations · 15 works
  7. 7 P. W. SmithUnited States · #1,073,498 worldwide43 citations · 23 works
  8. 8 David L. KlepperUnited States · #1,228,520 worldwide5 citations · 18 works
  9. 9 Paul BenniUnited States · #1,274,828 worldwide50 citations · 15 works
  10. 10 Hugh BeyerUnited States · #1,313,273 worldwide19 citations · 30 works
  11. 11 Theodore J. SchultzUnited States · #1,445,388 worldwide7 citations · 15 works

Output against citations per work

A long record and a heavily-cited one are not the same career, and a list ordered by either buries the other. The upper left is a small body of work that travelled a long way.

051015mean 2.92501works (log) →citations per work →John A. Swets: 18, 12.2Sheldon Baron: 18, 8.4Charles I. Malme: 17, 3.0Samuel Gregg: 27, 0.2Jordan J. Ballor: 20, 0.1Barbara Allen Woods: 15, 1.7P. W. Smith: 23, 1.9David L. Klepper: 18, 0.3Paul Benni: 15, 3.3Hugh Beyer: 30, 0.6Theodore J. Schultz: 15, 0.5John A. SwetsSheldon BaronCharles I. MalmeSamuel Gregg
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One dot per researcher in the list above.

Ranked on the composite of field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Affiliation is the institution a researcher publishes from most; identities come from OpenAlex author disambiguation.