So I set up a Google Scholar page to track citations to my work [Insert self-deprecating reference to Carly Simon's "You're So Vain here]. Although I'm well familiar with Brian Leiter's citation count system, in which I've done quite well [Insert another self-deprecating reference to Carly Simon's "You're So Vain here], Google Scholar uses a different set of citation indices:
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So today's procratination project is figuring out whether, say, an h-index of 27 is good, bad, or mediocre.
In any case, it was interesting to see which of my articles and books are most frequently cited. Several projects over which I slaved long hours and ended up being quite proud of are disappointingly low on the list. I would have hoped that my treatise Corporation Law and Economics would have garnered more cites, for example, considering it was the biggest project of my professional life. I am pleased to see, however, that my main article on director primacy is my most frequently cited work. It's certainly the piece of which I am most proud and the one I think made my most important contribution. [Insert a particularly self-deprecating reference to Carly Simon's "You're So Vain here]
