I’ve been checking on the breadth of some personal research on systems thinkers. (The list is incomplete, and may orient more towards systems scientists). Searching on Scopus gives an h-Index that counts scholarly references (with a boost, for the first person on the list who received a Nobel prize in chemistry).
The list below is sorted first on h-index, and then the number of citations.
For me, there were a few surprises. Others may be less surprised.
| Author | Documents | Citations | h-index |
| Prigogine, Ilya R. | 237 | 9,629 | 50 |
| Holling, Crawford S. | 66 | 27,402 | 38 |
| Midgley, Gerald | 83 | 2,948 | 33 |
| Checkland, Peter B. | 47 | 3,425 | 27 |
| Jackson, Michael C. | 76 | 2,716 | 26 |
| Odum, Howard T. | 55 | 4,579 | 24 |
| Ackoff, Russell L. | 68 | 2,411 | 23 |
| Wiener, Norbert | 72 | 3,758 | 22 |
| Rosen, Robert | 93 | 1,624 | 21 |
| Senge, Peter M. | 34 | 2,186 | 18 |
| Lewin, Kurt | 39 | 9,566 | 17 |
| Boulding, Kenneth E. | 79 | 2,074 | 16 |
| Trist, Eric L. | 21 | 4,537 | 15 |
| Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas | 27 | 1,013 | 15 |
| von Bertalanffy, Ludwig | 35 | 3,285 | 14 |
| Bateson, Gregory | 22 | 962 | 12 |
| Miller, James Grier | 20 | 562 | 11 |
| Meadows, Donella H. | 14 | 684 | 8 |
| Beer, Stafford | 29 | 250 | 8 |
| Emery, Frederick E. | 20 | 2,011 | 7 |
| Ashby, W. Ross | 15 | 671 | 6 |
| Churchman, C. West | 23 | 104 | 5 |
The h-index is supposed to be better in comparing researchers in the same field. Citations may or may not be better in the systems sciences, where we have a chemist alongside some economists.… Read more (in a new tab)
I’ve been checking on the breadth of some personal research on systems thinkers. (The list is incomplete, and may orient more towards systems scientists). Searching on Scopus gives an h-Index that counts scholarly references (with a boost, for the first person on the list who received a Nobel prize in chemistry).
The list below is sorted first on h-index, and then the number of citations.
For me, there were a few surprises. Others may be less surprised.
| Author | Documents | Citations | h-index |
| Prigogine, Ilya R. | 237 | 9,629 | 50 |
| Holling, Crawford S. | 66 | 27,402 | 38 |
| Midgley, Gerald | 83 | 2,948 | 33 |
| Checkland, Peter B. | 47 | 3,425 | 27 |
| Jackson, Michael C. | 76 | 2,716 | 26 |
| Odum, Howard T. | 55 | 4,579 | 24 |
| Ackoff, Russell L. | 68 | 2,411 | 23 |
| Wiener, Norbert | 72 | 3,758 | 22 |
| Rosen, Robert | 93 | 1,624 | 21 |
| Senge, Peter M. | 34 | 2,186 | 18 |
| Lewin, Kurt | 39 | 9,566 | 17 |
| Boulding, Kenneth E. | 79 | 2,074 | 16 |
| Trist, Eric L. | 21 | 4,537 | 15 |
| Georgescu-Roegen, Nicholas | 27 | 1,013 | 15 |
| von Bertalanffy, Ludwig | 35 | 3,285 | 14 |
| Bateson, Gregory | 22 | 962 | 12 |
| Miller, James Grier | 20 | 562 | 11 |
| Meadows, Donella H. | 14 | 684 | 8 |
| Beer, Stafford | 29 | 250 | 8 |
| Emery, Frederick E. | 20 | 2,011 | 7 |
| Ashby, W. Ross | 15 | 671 | 6 |
| Churchman, C. West | 23 | 104 | 5 |
The h-index is supposed to be better in comparing researchers in the same field. Citations may or may not be better in the systems sciences, where we have a chemist alongside some economists.… Read more (in a new tab)
