chomsky citations although faithful reader linguist rarely contribute case however feel contribute confidence since professional librarian linguist avocation point clear large majority citations work chomsky linguistic works rather political ones looked briefly citations works chomsky published 1980 used three databases produced institute scientific information arts humanities search science citation index social scisearch primary source citation counts fields note citation indexes look primarily journal article references also note delve things detail made counts based short titles expert works chomsky overall three databases less 5 citations appear chomsky nonlinguistic works remember citations works published 1980 percentages vary three databases arts humanities approx 3 nonlinguistic works social scisearch approx 7 nonlinguistic works science citation index much 1 nonlinguistic works donna cromer centennial science engineering library univ new mexico info3 hal unm edu