Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
Hong Kong Highly Cited Researchers CitationSocial Sciences / Linguistics and Literature in Hong Kong Rankings 2025
The Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) highlight the most cited and influential researchers across a vast range of scientific fields, covering 197 main and sub-disciplines, including the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings. This service, offered exclusively by AD Scientific Index, aims to provide a balanced perspective by excluding data from CERN and other statistical sources that disproportionately favor certain researchers, particularly in the social sciences and humanities. This unique approach addresses the advantages researchers with multi-author publications and CERN involvement hold over others. Furthermore, citation rankings help uncover rule violations and unethical practices within the research community. For more detailed citation analyses, explore the Scientists Last 6 Years Citation Index, Universities Total Citations Rankings 2025, and Universities Last 6 Years Citations Rankings 2025.
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :1
literacy development across cultures
dyslexia
dysgraphia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,053
11,798
0.421
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :2
Applied linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Academic Discourse
English for Specific Purposes
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,705
8,045
0.389
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :3
Language education
language policy
learning
teacher education
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,041
5,399
0.317
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :4
English for academic purposes
English for specific purposes
second language writing
language policy
applied linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,729
8,550
0.580
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Second language writing
second language teacher education
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,247
7,731
0.584
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
computational linguistics
corpus linguistics
Chinese linguistics
lexical semantics
ontology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,037
5,493
0.456
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :7
Language Education
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,965
2,513
0.316
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :8
Ecolinguistics
Stylistics
Metaphor
Critical Discourse Analysis
Linguistic Humour
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,983
1,983
0.331
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :9
Bi-/Multilingualism
code-switching & translanguaging
Cantonese & Chinese literacy
English in HK & China
Cantonese as additio
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,954
1,911
0.321
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :10
Corpus Linguistics
Conversational Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis
Lexical Semantics
Pragmatics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,817
2,507
0.431
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :11
Cantonese and Sinitic languages
language typology
language contact
bilingual development
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,661
1,897
0.335
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :12
Bilingual development
second language acquisition
Cantonese grammar
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,284
1,701
0.322
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :13
Applied linguistics
World Englishes
L2 writing
L2 phonology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,880
1,935
0.397
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :14
Language Assessment and Applied Linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,656
1,955
0.420
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
Second Language Acquisition
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,460
2,534
0.568
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :16
English for specific purposes
world Englishes
sociolinguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,272
2,127
0.498
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :17
English for specific purposes
Language and law
Digital literacies
Multimodality
Language
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,174
2,972
0.712
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :18
sociolinguistics
language and the internet
internet linguistics
digital discourse
digital literacies
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,965
2,203
0.556
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Discourse Analysis
Corpus Linguistics
Pragmatics
Lexical Semantics
Professional Communication
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,860
1,192
0.309
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
Linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,824
1,968
0.515
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Knowledge graphs
Retrieval-augmented generation
Graph neural networks
Text-to-SQL
LLMs
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,761
3,554
0.945
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
English medium instruction
English for Specific Purposes
English for Academic Purposes
Discourse Analysis
Health communicati
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,554
3,329
0.937
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :23
Applied linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,489
1,703
0.488
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :24
Digital Literacies
Identity
Investment in Language Learning
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,350
2,716
0.811
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Computational linguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,035
1,245
0.410
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
24,721
223
56
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
Catherine Mcbride
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Central Ave, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
28,053
11,798
0.421
literacy development across cultures
dyslexia
dysgraphia
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
38,445
330
53
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
John Flowerdew
City University of Hong Kong
Coimbatore, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
20,705
8,045
0.389
Applied linguistics
Discourse Analysis
Academic Discourse
English for Specific Purposes
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
50,216
410
106
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
Amy Bm Tsui
University of Hong Kong
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
17,041
5,399
0.317
Language education
language policy
learning
teacher education
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
60,874
498
70
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Guangwei Hu
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
14,729
8,550
0.580
English for academic purposes
English for specific purposes
second language writing
language policy
applied linguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
69,951
569
141
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Icy Lee
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Central Ave, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
13,247
7,731
0.584
Second language writing
second language teacher education
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
78,769
647
97
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Chu-Ren Huang 黄居仁|黄 居仁
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
12,037
5,493
0.456
computational linguistics
corpus linguistics
Chinese linguistics
lexical semantics
ontology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
126,851
982
154
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Lindsay Miller
City University of Hong Kong
Coimbatore, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
7,965
2,513
0.316
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
171,269
1,265
13
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
Andrew Goatly
Lingnan University
Tuen Mun, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,983
1,983
0.331
Ecolinguistics
Stylistics
Metaphor
Critical Discourse Analysis
Linguistic Humour
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
172,083
1,269
198
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
David CS Li Alias
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,954
1,911
0.321
Bi-/Multilingualism
code-switching & translanguaging
Cantonese & Chinese literacy
English in HK & China
Cantonese as additio
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
176,102
1,292
202
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Winnie Cheng
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,817
2,507
0.431
Corpus Linguistics
Conversational Analysis
Critical Discourse Analysis
Lexical Semantics
Pragmatics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
180,954
1,322
338
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Stephen Matthews
University of Hong Kong
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,661
1,897
0.335
Cantonese and Sinitic languages
language typology
language contact
bilingual development
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
193,414
1,415
320
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Virginia Yip
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Central Ave, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
5,284
1,701
0.322
Bilingual development
second language acquisition
Cantonese grammar
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
209,064
1,511
338
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Jette G Hansen Edwards
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Central Ave, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,880
1,935
0.397
Applied linguistics
World Englishes
L2 writing
L2 phonology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
218,599
1,564
245
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
David D Qian
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,656
1,955
0.420
Language Assessment and Applied Linguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
227,531
1,637
418
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
Alessandro Benati
University of Hong Kong
Pok Fu Lam, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,460
2,534
0.568
Second Language Acquisition
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
236,805
1,695
267
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
Stephen Evans
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,272
2,127
0.498
English for specific purposes
world Englishes
sociolinguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
241,910
1,727
263
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Christoph A Hafner
City University of Hong Kong
Coimbatore, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
4,174
2,972
0.712
English for specific purposes
Language and law
Digital literacies
Multimodality
Language
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
253,605
1,791
393
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Carmen Lee
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Central Ave, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,965
2,203
0.556
sociolinguistics
language and the internet
internet linguistics
digital discourse
digital literacies
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
259,747
1,828
293
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Martin Warren
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,860
1,192
0.309
Discourse Analysis
Corpus Linguistics
Pragmatics
Lexical Semantics
Professional Communication
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
261,801
1,840
298
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Louise Cummings
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,824
1,968
0.515
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
265,652
1,851
300
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Xiao Huang
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,761
3,554
0.945
Knowledge graphs
Retrieval-augmented generation
Graph neural networks
Text-to-SQL
LLMs
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
278,845
1,917
293
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
Jack Pun
City University of Hong Kong
Coimbatore, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,554
3,329
0.937
English medium instruction
English for Specific Purposes
English for Academic Purposes
Discourse Analysis
Health communicati
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
283,401
1,936
30
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Paul Stapleton
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,489
1,703
0.488
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
293,375
1,998
429
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Ron Darvin
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Central Ave, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,350
2,716
0.811
Digital Literacies
Identity
Investment in Language Learning
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
318,832
2,156
326
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Chunyu Kit
City University of Hong Kong
Coimbatore, Hong Kong
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
3,035
1,245
0.410
Computational linguistics