According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992, Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar from 1980 to 1992, and was the eighth most cited source overall.
Prema Arts and Humanities Citation Indeks 1992. godine, Chomsky je bio citiran kao izvor više nego bilo koji drugi živući učenjak u razdoblju 1980 – 1992 a bio je osmi najcitiraniji učenjak u bilo kojem razdoblju.