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> Each author is only counted once per headline entry (subentries are excluded). In 2010, I found that this generated more plausible results than counting authors multiple times per entry.

In my subjective experience, a philosophical text will deal with a specific topic and name it in the title and less often the author. Papers with an author's name in the title often deal with the entire work or a phase of creation. Author names also often appear together with other names "Kant and Hume on Morality"[1].

So the list is for sure not about "… Most-Cited … Authors …".

[1] https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kant-hume-morality/




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