>>12946282I think mainly just in applications, especially bioinformatics.
Idk if you were actually alive during the 80s, I wasn't but it seems like it must have been a super huge meme back then, like machine learning is today. The citation counts are crazy, it seems so inflated. E.g. Lotfi Zadeh, the guy who pioneered fuzzy sets, has one of the highest citation counts I've ever seen
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=S6H-0RAAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=aowell over 250K. That's more citations than Erdos or von Neumann, and nearly as high as Noam Chomsky.
It's kind of annoying that people in these applied meme fields will get a ton of recognition and funding, even though once the trend passes, their work often has less historical import than other subjects, but I guess it kind of makes sense given that everything has to ultimately have applications, if we want universities to keep being a useful societal institution? I study graph theory and combinatorics, which tends to get much less attention and funding than other fields, but as soon as you do the exact same shit, but on a computer and call it "network analysis" you will get 10x the funding and citations, for 1/2 the quantity of lasting results/knowledge.
