{"id":19589,"date":"2013-11-07T00:54:38","date_gmt":"2013-11-07T05:54:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=19589"},"modified":"2013-11-07T00:54:38","modified_gmt":"2013-11-07T05:54:38","slug":"karl-marx-is-the-worlds-most-influential-scholar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/11\/karl-marx-is-the-worlds-most-influential-scholar\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Marx es el erudito m\u00e1s influyente del mundo."},"content":{"rendered":"
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How do you judge an academic? Can you compare scholars from different fields on equal footing? Whose work had the bigger impact down field, Albert Einstein or Ada Lovelace?<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

These seem like impossible questions to answer, but<\/span> as reported by Nature<\/em><\/span><\/a>, a team of information scientists out of Indiana University, Bloomington, think they\u2019ve found a way<\/span><\/a><\/span>. And, according to them, the most influential scholar is\u2026 Karl Marx.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s how they got there:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Scientists are already regularly judged\u2014by grant agencies, by tenure committees, by others\u2014on their citation rate. But, some scientific disciplines are way bigger than others, which means it\u2019s not really fair to compare theoretical physicists to, say, drug researchers, on citation count alone.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Indiana University researchers, say Nature<\/em>, tried to take this into account. First they looked to see if a scientist had not just one big study, but lots of work that was all cited regularly (rolled up in a measure called the<\/span> h-index<\/span><\/a><\/span>). Then, they compared the scientist\u2019s score against others in their own respective field. This let them calculate how much of a stand-out they were.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Karl Marx\u2019s score was \u201cmore than 22 times the average h-index of other scholars in history (but 11 times that of the average economist).\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Compared to 35,000 other high-profile scholars, Marx\u2019s score stood out the most. Second in line was psychologist Sigmund Freud. Third was the (still alive and working) physicist Edward Witten.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Does this mean that Das Kapital<\/em> is more important than string theory? Not necessarily, in the grand scheme of human existence. But on college campuses? Marx might be winning.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

More from Smithsonian.com:<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marxism Is Cool Again<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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