No, actually not. Let me elaborate on citations is not influence.
a) If citations are influence we should see - promotion by citations and - highly cited professor should have the best positions. Sit back, relax, google who are the highest cited professors in germany.
b) Citations reflect use of knowledge inside the profession. But other use our knowledge too. Central Banks, the federal government and antitrust consultants to name few. And they cite you only in extraordinarey circumstances. Put differently, if a paper of yours swings a major antitrust case or becomes tax law, that is influence.
Careful. When you actually talk to elite institution people you will notice that they absolutely care about influence and citations. There is a reason why despite his HRM endowment Scheuer didn’t make it in the big pond.