BYU Humanities Google Scholar

The following are links to the Google Scholar profiles for Professors and Associate Professors in the College of Humanities at BYU, who had a Google Scholar profile in October 2020. As can be seen, one person had roughly one third of the total citations for the (Full) Professors and Associate Professors in the college.

This list was created at roughly the same time that Mark Davies left BYU in 2020 -- eight years before the normal retirement age. Mark left because the dean of the college (Scott Miller) had blocked him from receiving any more research funding, and without research funding (for travel, sabbaticals, etc) it is pretty much impossible to be a faculty member. This permanent loss of funding support was a punitive action by Scott Miller, after Mark informed the university of serious "financial malfeasance" by the College of Humanities regarding income from the English corpora. Subsequently, administrators at BYU refused to help resolve the issue, which is part of a culture of ignoring whistleblowers and "closing ranks" and promoting "yes men" at BYU.

It is not overly surprising that BYU would pay such little attention to academic productivity, since the primary mission of BYU is religious in nature, rather than academic. In certain respects, BYU is more like a religious seminary than an actual university. As a result, some people at BYU really don't understand how to support and protect projects that have real academic importance and significance.

	Name (click for Google Scholar profile)	# citations*	Rank	Department
1	Mark Davies	6429	Professor	Linguistics
	Everyone else
2	Deryle Lonsdale	2861	Assoc Professor	Linguistics
3	Dan Dewey	2019	Professor	Linguistics
4	Greg Clark	1369	Professor	English
5	Jennifer Bown	1058	Professor	German and Russian
6	Dave Eddington	718	Professor	Linguistics
7	Rob Martinsen	646	Assoc Professor	Spanish and Portuguese
8	Allen Christenson	376	Professor	Comparative Arts and Letters
9	Wendy Smemoe	334	Assoc Professor	Linguistics
10	Troy Cox	263	Assoc Professor	Linguistics
11	Nicholas Mason	242	Professor	English
12	Earl Brown	222	Assoc Professor	Linguistics
13	Eric Eliason	220	Professor	English
14	Matthew Wickman	198	Professor	English
15	Chris Crowe	194	Professor	English
16	Teresa Bell	172	Assoc Professor	German and Russian
17	Marc Olivier	153	Professor	French and Italian
18	Ben Crosby	119	Assoc Professor	English
19	Brian Price	108	Professor	Spanish and Portuguese
20	Carl Sederholm	106	Professor	Comparative Arts and Letters
21	Paul Westover	106	Assoc Professor	English
22	Heather Belnap	100	Assoc Professor	Comparative Arts and Letters
23	Scott Miller (Dean)	87	Professor	Asian and Near Eastern Languages
24	Frank Christianson (Assoc Dean)	61	Professor	English
25	Julie Allen	59	Professor	Comparative Arts and Letters
26	Kristin Matthews	46	Professor	English
27	Emron Esplin	40	Assoc Professor	English
28	Rex Nielson	38	Assoc Professor	Spanish and Portuguese
29	Daryl Lee	34	Professor	French and Italian
30	Lynn Williams	31	Professor	Spanish and Portuguese
31	David Laraway	28	Professor	Philosophy
32	Marlene Esplin	23	Assoc Professor	Comparative Arts and Letters
33	Peter Leman	21	Assoc Professor	English
34	Patrick Madden	20	Professor	English
35	Leslee Thorne-Murphy (Assoc Dean)	16	Professor	English
36	Corry Cropper (Assoc Dean)	16	Professor	French and Italian
37	David Jensen	16	Assoc Professor	Philosophy
38	Christian Clement	14	Assoc Professor	German and Russian
39	Michelle James	10	Assoc Professor	German and Russian
40	Anna-Lisa Halling	3	Assoc Professor	Spanish and Portuguese
	TOTAL: Everyone else	12,147

*: the number of citations for the previous five years, based on the Google Scholar data from October 2020 (soon after Mark Davies retired from BYU). By limiting the results to just the previous five years, there would be no bias towards people had been in the profession for a longer period of time. This is the same reason that we only look at Full and Associate Professors. It would be unfair to compare to Assistant Professors, who presumably would have only been publishing for seven years or less -- not enough time for a good comparison to those who had been publishing for 15-20 years or more.

The following are other (Full) Professors and Associate Professor, who appear not to have Google Scholar profiles. (We have searched for each of these professors individually in Google Scholar. If you are aware of any of these professors that do have a profile, please let us know.)

Full Professors: Dana Bourgerie, Daniel C. Peterson, David Honey, Donald Parry, John Gee, R. Kirk Belnap, Richard McBride II, Stephen Ricks, Charlotte A Stanford, Francesca Lawson, George Handley, Joseph Parry, Larry Peer, Martha Peacock, Thomas Wayment, Brett McInelly, Deborah Dean, Dennis Cutchins, Dennis Perry, Kimberly Johnson, Lance Larsen, , Marie Orton, Yvon LeBras, Grant Lundberg, Hans-Wilhelm Kelling, Rob McFarland, Tony Brown, Alan Manning, Janis Nuckolls, Lynn Henrichsen, Norman Evans, Ray Clifford, Blair Bateman, Dale Pratt, Doug Weatherford, Erik Alder, Greg Thompson, Jeff Turley, Lin Sherman, Mara Garcia, Scott Alvord, Valerie Hegstrom.

Associate Professors: Jack Stoneman, James Toronto, Paul Warnick, Spencer Scoville, Steve Riep, Cecilia Peek, James Swensen, Marc Yamada, Matthew Ancell, Michael Call, Mike Pope, Nate Kramer, Robert Colson III, Roger Macfarlane, Seth Jeppesen, Stephen Bay, Aaron Eastley, Brian Jackson, Brian Roberts, Bruce Young, David Stock, Dawan Coombs, Edward Cutler, Jamie Horrocks, Jamin Rowan, Jill Rudy, Joey Franklin, John Talbot, Jon Ostenson, Keith Lawrence, Miranda Wilcox, Nancy Christiansen, Phil Snyder, Stephen Tuttle, Trent Hickman, Anca Sprenger, Bob Hudson, Jennifer Haraguchi, Laura Catharine Smith, Mark Purves, Michael Kelly, Tom Spencer, Dallin Oaks, Dirk Elzinga, Don Chapman, Jeremy Browne, Ryan Christensen, Travis Anderson, Erik Larson, Gregory Stallings, Rob Smead, Willis Fails.

It is possible that some of these individuals had a number of citations to their research as well. Our experience, however, is that those faculty who would have the "most robust" Google Scholar profiles (i.e. who have published the most, and who have been cited the most) are the ones who actually bother to create one in the first place. For example, Linguistics is the department in the College of Humanities that (per capita) has the highest number of publications every year (2x-3x the college average), and it also has the highest percentage of faculty with Google Scholar profiles.