Carlitz supervised 44 doctorates at Duke University and published over 770 papers.
Leonard Carlitz published about 771 technical papers comprising approximately 7,000 pages.
The effort to edit his collected works, undertaken originally by Professor John Brillhart, is ongoing.
On more than one day I observed him reading a journal paper raising a question that he found of interest, that evening writing up a paper of his own answering the question, and having it typed and sent off to a journal the following day.About 160 articles by Carlitz are about finite fields.
The textbook by Rudolf Lidl and Harald Niederreiter on the topic[3] has 141 articles authored or coauthored by Carlitz in its reference list.