Lowell L. Hargens

Sociologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington; co-author, with Howard Schuman, of "Citation Counts and Social Comparisons: Scientists' Use and Evaluation of Citation Index Data," Social Science Research 19(3) (September 1990): 205–221. Matters to this vault as co-author of the primary study this vault's bibliometrics-misuse thread has been trying to verify directly since 2026-08-09: claim-cameron-2005-hargens-schuman-1990-citation-data-hiring-tenure-scope rests its 35%/60% department-survey figures on Brian D. Cameron's 2005 secondary paraphrase of this paper, not yet on a direct read of Hargens & Schuman's own text — the paper is paywalled on ScienceDirect (DOI 10.1016/0049-089X(90)90006-5) with no free-access route located as of this session. His UW faculty page (Tier 4, not read closely) lists a CV but no accessible publication PDFs.

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