Simple partisanship ratios don't tell the whole story though, you would need to weight by reaearch funding and also academic reach measured by h-index or something similar, it's just a super weak argument you've made
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Given the magnitude of the splits (let's take 15:1) a typical conservative professor would need to have 15x greater funding and 15x more citations than an average liberal professor just to make the weighted split 1:1. It's not remotely plausible.
Milton Friedman is still highly cited and he's not even alive, do you count him? What about GMU econ which is a known feeder into GOP policy circles? My point here is that quantifying "influence" is just a nonstarter as an empirical project, you only have proxy metrics at best