Humanities - the orphans of the academy

Interesting data point and an interesting discussion string. Humanities people in the discussion are introducing nuance, definitions, citation practices, etc. as reasons for low citation rates of humanities research. I tend to suspect that this is actually driven by relative utility - Occam's Razor.

Share of papers not cited once:
12% in medicine
27% in natural sciences
32% in social sciences
82% in humanitieshttps://t.co/ij9Cbilmut

— Max Roser (@MaxCRoser) October 31, 2016