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Tenure usually happens early on, so it is hard to detect if that person planned on dissolving questions beforehand.
If you think about the highest h-index philosophers, David Lewis, Daniel Dennet (67 and 66 respectively) you'll see that to spend one's lifetime dissolving questions gets you loads of impact. Parfit was awesome from the beggining (earning a special scholarship granted to four outstanding kids per year maximum) and is world famous for dissolving personal identity, and mathematizing some aspects of ethics. His H-index is lower because his books are unbelievably long.
Even if you publish a lot of papers, contra whomever said the opposite in another comment, you still get impact by dissolving.
Pinker's is 66. Nick is 28.
Notable exceptions would be chalmers, searle and putnam I suppose.
Someone outside philosophy of mind may speak for other areas. From what I recall, in philosophy of Math you really only go forward by not dissolving stuff.