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Most cited living moral & political philosophers (with Google Scholar pages) [CORRECTED AGAIN–moving to fron from November 17]

Fortunately, most of the most prominent living moral & political philosophers have such pages, although some who would surely be on the list do not (e.g., Allan Gibbard, Thomas Nagel, Martha Nussbaum). I only count those most of whose citations are in moral and political philosophy. (I excluded those primarily working in bioethics, which has promiscuous citation practices, as does medicine as a scholarly field generally.)

  1. Will Kymlicka (Queen’s U [Canada]): 100,520
  2. Peter Singer (Princeton [emeritus]): 90,430
  3. Phillip Pettit (Princeton/ANU): 51,890
  4. Robert Goodin (ANU): 43,950
  5. Thomas Pogge (Yale): 43,830
  6. Joshua Cohen (Apple/Berkeley): 41,100
  7. David Miller (Oxford [emeritus]): 40,500
  8. John Broome (Oxford [emeritus]): 35,100
  9. Allen Buchanan (Arizona/Duke [emeritus]): 28,600
  10. Elizabeth Anderson (Michigan): 25,880
  11. T.M. Scanlon (Harvard): 25,630
  12. Christine Korsgaard (Harvard): 24,750
  13. Philippe van Parijs (Louvain [emeritus]): 21,350
  14. Ingrid Roybens (Utrecht): 20,830
  15. Stephen Darwall (Yale): 15,660
  16. Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (Duke): 15,300
  17. Michael Smith (Princeton [emeritus]): 14,130
  18. David Velleman (Johns Hopkins; NYU [emeritus]): 13,680
  19. Jeff McMahan (Oxford [emeritus]): 13,270
  20. Gerald Dworkin (UC Davis [emeritus]): 12,880

The top of the list is dominated by philosophers who work in political philosophy, no doubt because that work gets cited more outside academic philosophy (e.g., in political science and law journals). The “most cited” “pure” moral philosopher on the list is Korsgaard.

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