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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
286
Country Rank
126
Institution Rank : 5
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![United States](/flags/us.png)
![George Lakoff](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/e0/1733361.jpg)
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Politics
Law
Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
273,867
73,288
0.268
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
799
Country Rank
61
Institution Rank : 1
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/6596.jpg)
![United Kingdom](/flags/gb.png)
![Jim Coleman](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/74/1329973.jpg)
Applied linguistics
language learning and teaching
language education policy and practice
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
196,862
40,173
0.204
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
1,531
Country Rank
683
Institution Rank : 7
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/552.jpg)
![United States](/flags/us.png)
![James Paul Gee](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/b8/808827.jpg)
linguistics
literacy
learning
and video games
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
141,231
40,412
0.286
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
1,632
Country Rank
8
Institution Rank : 5
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10841.jpg)
![New Zealand](/flags/nz.png)
![Rod Ellis](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/cf/130131.jpg)
second language acquisition
task-based language teaching
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
136,778
42,836
0.313
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
1,855
Country Rank
42
Institution Rank : 2
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/5382.png)
![Netherlands](/flags/nl.png)
![Marshall Herbert Mcluhan](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/7b/1851205.jpg)
Literature studies
Media theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
127,825
34,003
0.266
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
3,569
Country Rank
293
Institution Rank : 4
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10967.png)
![United Kingdom](/flags/gb.png)
![Ken Hyland](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/de/1331703.jpg)
Applied linguistics
EAP
English for Academic Purposes
discourse analysis
English for Specific Purposes
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
91,197
41,988
0.460
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
4,310
Country Rank
2,066
Institution Rank : 109
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/8488.png)
![United States](/flags/us.png)
![Dan Jurafsky](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/a7/1649755.jpg)
Natural Language Processing
Speech Recognition
Computational Linguistics
Linguistics
Computational Social Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,651
41,949
0.514
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
4,412
Country Rank
2,115
Institution Rank : 5
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/2073.jpg)
![United States](/flags/us.png)
![David Gefen](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/be/1299751.jpg)
Trust
Research Methods
Ecommerce
IT Outsourcing
Sociolinguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,515
29,335
0.364
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
4,511
Country Rank
2,167
Institution Rank : 2
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/6448.jpg)
![United States](/flags/us.png)
![Douglas Biber](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Linguistics
corpus linguistics
English grammar
register
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
79,500
29,381
0.370
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
6,615
Country Rank
3,140
Institution Rank : 17
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10898.jpg)
![United States](/flags/us.png)
![Bernard Comrie](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/33/1832335.jpg)
linguistic typology
Caucasian languages
Papuan languages
historical linguistics
language documentation
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,210
14,786
0.234
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
6,687
Country Rank
261
Institution Rank : 10
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10438.jpg)
![Germany](/flags/de.png)
![Harald Baayen](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
linguistics
statistics
morphology
cognitive models of language processing
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
62,779
24,994
0.398
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
7,665
Country Rank
38
Institution Rank : 1
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/7090.jpg)
![Russia](/flags/ru.png)
![Владимир Ильич Карасик Vladimir I. Karasik](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/80/1102373.jpg)
Sociolinguistics
Pragmatics
Discourse Theory
Cultural Anthropology
Philological Hermeneutics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
57,635
20,460
0.355
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
7,817
Country Rank
299
Institution Rank : 25
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/664.jpg)
![Australia](/flags/au.png)
![Anna Wierzbicka](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Linguistics
Semantics
Anthropology
Cognitive Science
Psychology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,930
15,247
0.268
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
8,097
Country Rank
3,887
Institution Rank : 24
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/5710.jpg)
![United States](/flags/us.png)
![Susan Gass](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
second language acquisition
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,786
17,076
0.306
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
8,502
Country Rank
4,088
Institution Rank : 76
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/11200.jpg)
![United States](/flags/us.png)
![John Swales](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Genre Analysis
EAP
Discourse studies
Academic writing ...
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,254
16,629
0.307
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
8,534
Country Rank
4,102
Institution Rank : 106
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10888.jpg)
![United States](/flags/us.png)
![P David Pearson](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/9e/1738042.jpg)
Literacy
Education
Reading
Teacher Education
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,132
11,754
0.217
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
9,011
Country Rank
4,329
Institution Rank : 12
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/11048.png)
![United States](/flags/us.png)
![Richard Schmidt](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/71/1614312.jpg)
applied linguistics
second language acquisition
sociolinguistics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,276
15,190
0.291
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
9,417
Country Rank
4,526
Institution Rank : 46
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10917.jpg)
![United States](/flags/us.png)
![Susan Goldin Meadow](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
language creation and development
using gesture to communicate
think
and learn
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,772
18,522
0.365
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
9,756
Country Rank
175
Institution Rank : 18
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10523.jpg)
![Switzerland](/flags/ch.png)
![Luigi Rizzi](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,752
11,589
0.233
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
9,880
Country Rank
390
Institution Rank : 10
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/11438.jpg)
![Australia](/flags/au.png)
![Alastair Pennycook](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/08/1289.jpg)
critical applied linguistics
global spread of English
metrolingual practices
language & popular culture
semiotic assemblages
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,370
19,504
0.395
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
10,340
Country Rank
185
Institution Rank : 4
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10520.png)
![Switzerland](/flags/ch.png)
![Peter Trudgill](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
Lingustics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,882
12,796
0.267
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
10,403
Country Rank
4,985
Institution Rank : 1
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10954.png)
![United States](/flags/us.png)
![John Freeman](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
digital literature
Shakespeare
Thomas Morel
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,699
8,185
0.172
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
10,863
Country Rank
258
Institution Rank : 16
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10820.jpg)
![Netherlands](/flags/nl.png)
![Paul Boersma](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/0b/1853424.jpg)
Linguistics
Phonetics
Phonology
Speech technology
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,399
17,183
0.370
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
11,134
Country Rank
47
Institution Rank : 2
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/7090.jpg)
![Russia](/flags/ru.png)
![Виталий Григорьевич Костомаров Vitaly G. Kostomarov](/user/assets/images/profile/no-profile-photo.png)
стилистика
преподавание русского языка иностранцам
stylistics
teaching Russian to foreigners
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,688
13,603
0.298
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Rank
11,408
Country Rank
271
Institution Rank : 1
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/8912.jpg)
![Netherlands](/flags/nl.png)
![Jan Blommaert](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/pictures/ee/1829113.jpg)
sociolinguistics
discourse analysis
literacy
linguistic anthropology
social theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,948
19,602
0.436
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
286
Country Ranking
126
Institution Ranking
5
George Lakoff
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
273,867
73,288
0.268
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10888.jpg)
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Politics
Law
Psychology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
799
Country Ranking
61
Institution Ranking
1
Jim Coleman
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
196,862
40,173
0.204
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/6596.jpg)
Applied linguistics
language learning and teaching
language education policy and practice
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
1,531
Country Ranking
683
Institution Ranking
7
James Paul Gee
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
141,231
40,412
0.286
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/552.jpg)
linguistics
literacy
learning
and video games
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
1,632
Country Ranking
8
Institution Ranking
5
Rod Ellis
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
136,778
42,836
0.313
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10841.jpg)
second language acquisition
task-based language teaching
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
1,855
Country Ranking
42
Institution Ranking
2
Marshall Herbert Mcluhan
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
127,825
34,003
0.266
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/5382.png)
Literature studies
Media theory
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
3,569
Country Ranking
293
Institution Ranking
4
Ken Hyland
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
91,197
41,988
0.460
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10967.png)
Applied linguistics
EAP
English for Academic Purposes
discourse analysis
English for Specific Purposes
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
4,310
Country Ranking
2,066
Institution Ranking
109
Dan Jurafsky
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,651
41,949
0.514
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/8488.png)
Natural Language Processing
Speech Recognition
Computational Linguistics
Linguistics
Computational Social Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
4,412
Country Ranking
2,115
Institution Ranking
5
David Gefen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,515
29,335
0.364
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/2073.jpg)
Trust
Research Methods
Ecommerce
IT Outsourcing
Sociolinguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
4,511
Country Ranking
2,167
Institution Ranking
2
Douglas Biber
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
79,500
29,381
0.370
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/6448.jpg)
Linguistics
corpus linguistics
English grammar
register
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
6,615
Country Ranking
3,140
Institution Ranking
17
Bernard Comrie
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,210
14,786
0.234
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10898.jpg)
linguistic typology
Caucasian languages
Papuan languages
historical linguistics
language documentation
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* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
6,687
Country Ranking
261
Institution Ranking
10
Harald Baayen
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
62,779
24,994
0.398
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10438.jpg)
linguistics
statistics
morphology
cognitive models of language processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
7,665
Country Ranking
38
Institution Ranking
1
Владимир Ильич Карасик Vladimir I. Karasik
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
57,635
20,460
0.355
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/7090.jpg)
Sociolinguistics
Pragmatics
Discourse Theory
Cultural Anthropology
Philological Hermeneutics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
7,817
Country Ranking
299
Institution Ranking
25
Anna Wierzbicka
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,930
15,247
0.268
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/664.jpg)
Linguistics
Semantics
Anthropology
Cognitive Science
Psychology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
8,097
Country Ranking
3,887
Institution Ranking
24
Susan Gass
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,786
17,076
0.306
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/5710.jpg)
second language acquisition
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
8,502
Country Ranking
4,088
Institution Ranking
76
John Swales
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,254
16,629
0.307
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/11200.jpg)
Genre Analysis
EAP
Discourse studies
Academic writing ...
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
8,534
Country Ranking
4,102
Institution Ranking
106
P David Pearson
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,132
11,754
0.217
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10888.jpg)
Literacy
Education
Reading
Teacher Education
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
9,011
Country Ranking
4,329
Institution Ranking
12
Richard Schmidt
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,276
15,190
0.291
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/11048.png)
applied linguistics
second language acquisition
sociolinguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
9,417
Country Ranking
4,526
Institution Ranking
46
Susan Goldin Meadow
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,772
18,522
0.365
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10917.jpg)
language creation and development
using gesture to communicate
think
and learn
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
9,756
Country Ranking
175
Institution Ranking
18
Luigi Rizzi
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,752
11,589
0.233
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10523.jpg)
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
9,880
Country Ranking
390
Institution Ranking
10
Alastair Pennycook
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,370
19,504
0.395
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/11438.jpg)
critical applied linguistics
global spread of English
metrolingual practices
language & popular culture
semiotic assemblages
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
10,340
Country Ranking
185
Institution Ranking
4
Peter Trudgill
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,882
12,796
0.267
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
10,403
Country Ranking
4,985
Institution Ranking
1
John Freeman
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,699
8,185
0.172
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10954.png)
digital literature
Shakespeare
Thomas Morel
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
10,863
Country Ranking
258
Institution Ranking
16
Paul Boersma
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,399
17,183
0.370
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/10820.jpg)
Linguistics
Phonetics
Phonology
Speech technology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
11,134
Country Ranking
47
Institution Ranking
2
Виталий Григорьевич Костомаров Vitaly G. Kostomarov
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,688
13,603
0.298
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/7090.jpg)
стилистика
преподавание русского языка иностранцам
stylistics
teaching Russian to foreigners
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
World Ranking
11,408
Country Ranking
271
Institution Ranking
1
Jan Blommaert
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
44,948
19,602
0.436
![](https://cdn.adscientificindex.com/logos/8912.jpg)
sociolinguistics
discourse analysis
literacy
linguistic anthropology
social theory