by Jon Lackman | 15 February 2006 | Journals, Modern
The Winter 2006 Critical Inquiry ranks the authorities most commonly cited by the journal’s authors at each stage in its 32-year history. Most popular in 1974-9: Ernst Gombrich, Jacques Derrida, Stanley Fish, Roland Barthes and Wayne Booth. 1999-2004: Sigmund Freud, Jacques Derrida, Walter Benjamin, Michel Foucault and Gilles Deleuze. Current editor W.J.T. Mitchell comes in 26th overall, with 39 citations. Plato, 53rd.