Once again, some folks who would likely be way up there–like David Kaplan, Stephen Neale, and Nathan Salmon–do not have Google Scholar pages. Some linguistics faculty are very important for philosophers of language (like Barbara Partee with 26,600 citations, and David Beaver with 11,400), but I’ve focused on those primarily in philosophy departments (linguistics tends to have more extensive citation practices than philospohy). (Borderline cases are philosophers whose most cited work appears in linguistics or other cognate fields, such as Hans Kamp [23,100 citations] and Nicholas Asher [20,100 citations].) Some on the “metaphysics & epistemology” list (like Robert Stalnaker and Jason Stanley) also have a lot of citations in philosophy of language, but since they appeared on the other list, I omit them here. As before, the criterion is that the clear majority of citations are to work in philosophy of language. I list the top 10 here, since numbers drop off thereafter, meaning that there are likely to be many others without Google Scholar pages who would have made the list.

1. Robert Brandom (Pittsburgh): 31,400
2. Francois Recanati (Jean Nicod/Paris): 24,100
3. John Perry (Stanford [emeritus]): 18,100
4. Kent Bach (San Francisco State [emeritus]): 17,600
5. Ernest LePore (Rutgers): 14,700
6. Michael Devitt (CUNY [emeritus]): 12,800
7. Scott Soames (Southern California): 12,100
8. Robert May (UC Davis [emeritus]): 11,300
9. Herman Cappelen (Hong Kong): 8,100
10. John MacFarlane (Berkeley): 7,900

Just outside the top 10: Peter Ludlow (5,500), Alex Miller (5,500), Jennifer Saul (5,100) and Paul Pietroski (4,900).