Faculty

Michael Lens

Professor, UCLA

1,776 citations Google Scholar h-index 21

As of 2026-10-15.

Citations, all65th

Citations, fulls46th

h-index, all68th

h-index, fulls50th

Percentile among the professors in this dataset, and among all faculty in it.

Total citations recorded by this project, Google Scholar. Up 12% over that span.

Details

Rank: Professor
PhD: 2011, NYU
Years since PhD: 15
Citations per year: 118
Interests: Affordable Housing, Crime, Applied Econometric Methods

Google Scholar profile
OpenAlex author record
ORCID
ResearchGate
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OpenAlex, for comparison

Citations: 981
h-index: 18
Works: 67

OpenAlex is journal-centric and normally counts fewer citations than Scholar. Shown for context, not used in rankings. Here OpenAlex counts 55% of the Scholar total; across the 735 faculty on this site with both figures, the typical share is 58%.