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Sociologist, Professor Emeritus at the University of Washington; co-author, with [[entity-howard-schuman|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 [[entity-brian-d-cameron|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.

## References

- [[claim-cameron-2005-hargens-schuman-1990-citation-data-hiring-tenure-scope]]