Here's a contrary point of view: by his own admission in that article, Higgs has published "fewer than 10" papers in the last 50 years! What has he been doing since 1964?
Raw metrics like papers and citations are easily gamed, and not great ways to evaluate productivity, but surely there are limits...
(And before you say, "but he gave us the Higgs!", several other researchers did closely related work at the same time [1], so humanity would still know about a mass-producing scalar boson.)
Raw metrics like papers and citations are easily gamed, and not great ways to evaluate productivity, but surely there are limits...
(And before you say, "but he gave us the Higgs!", several other researchers did closely related work at the same time [1], so humanity would still know about a mass-producing scalar boson.)
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1964_PRL_symmetry_breaking_pap...