Original: According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992 , Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980 -- 92 period , and was the eighth most-cited source .
Simplified: According to the Arts and Humanities Citation Index in 1992 , Chomsky was cited as a source more often than any other living scholar during the 1980 -- 1992 time period .