Citation Rankings
Highly Cited Researchers
World Highly Cited Researchers CitationSocial Sciences / Linguistics and Literature Rankings 2025
Citation Rankings (Highly Cited Researchers) and the list of the most cited and influential researchers cover a wide range of scientific fields, spanning 197 main and sub-disciplines, as well as the Art and Humanities Citation Rankings and Social Sciences and Humanities Citation Rankings, offering a unique service. Additionally, the list without CERN, Statistical Data, etc., provided exclusively by “AD Scientific Index”, is part of our effort to balance the situation created by CERN and researchers with statistical data, who have an advantage over others, especially those in the social and humanities fields. There should be new regulations for multi-author and CERN papers. Citation lists also reveal many rule violations and unethical practices. See also for more specific citation analyses: 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
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
Ranking Based On Selection :2
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
Ranking Based On Selection :3
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
Ranking Based On Selection :4
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
Ranking Based On Selection :5
Literature studies
Media theory
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
127,825
34,003
0.266
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :6
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
Ranking Based On Selection :7
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
Ranking Based On Selection :8
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
Ranking Based On Selection :9
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
Ranking Based On Selection :10
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
Ranking Based On Selection :11
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
Ranking Based On Selection :12
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
Ranking Based On Selection :13
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
Ranking Based On Selection :14
second language acquisition
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,786
17,076
0.306
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :15
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
Ranking Based On Selection :16
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
Ranking Based On Selection :17
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
Ranking Based On Selection :18
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
Ranking Based On Selection :19
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,752
11,589
0.233
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :20
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
Ranking Based On Selection :21
Lingustics
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,882
12,796
0.267
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Ranking Based On Selection :22
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
Ranking Based On Selection :23
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
Ranking Based On Selection :24
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
Ranking Based On Selection :25
Sociolinguistics
Gender and discourse..
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,082
14,334
0.318
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
290
126
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 1
George Lakoff
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
273,867
73,288
0.268
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
Politics
Law
Psychology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
801
61
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 2
Jim Coleman
Open University UK
Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
196,862
40,173
0.204
Applied linguistics
language learning and teaching
language education policy and practice
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,529
683
7
Ranking Based On Selection: 3
James Paul Gee
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
141,231
40,412
0.286
linguistics
literacy
learning
and video games
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,629
8
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 4
Rod Ellis
University of Auckland
Auckland, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
136,778
42,836
0.313
second language acquisition
task-based language teaching
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
1,856
42
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 5
Marshall Herbert Mcluhan
Maastricht University
Maastricht, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
127,825
34,003
0.266
Literature studies
Media theory
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
3,567
293
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 6
Ken Hyland
University of East Anglia
Norwich, United Kingdom
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
91,197
41,988
0.460
Applied linguistics
EAP
English for Academic Purposes
discourse analysis
English for Specific Purposes
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,307
2,061
107
Ranking Based On Selection: 7
Dan Jurafsky
Stanford University
Stanford, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
81,651
41,949
0.514
Natural Language Processing
Speech Recognition
Computational Linguistics
Linguistics
Computational Social Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,410
2,110
5
Ranking Based On Selection: 8
David Gefen
Drexel University
Philadelphia, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
80,515
29,335
0.364
Trust
Research Methods
Ecommerce
IT Outsourcing
Sociolinguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
4,507
2,163
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 9
Douglas Biber
Northern Arizona University
Flagstaff, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
79,500
29,381
0.370
Linguistics
corpus linguistics
English grammar
register
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,600
3,135
17
Ranking Based On Selection: 10
Bernard Comrie
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
63,210
14,786
0.234
linguistic typology
Caucasian languages
Papuan languages
historical linguistics
language documentation
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
6,671
260
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 11
Harald Baayen
Universität Tubingen
Tübingen, Germany
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
62,779
24,994
0.398
linguistics
statistics
morphology
cognitive models of language processing
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,650
38
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 12
Владимир Ильич Карасик Vladimir I. Karasik
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
57,635
20,460
0.355
Sociolinguistics
Pragmatics
Discourse Theory
Cultural Anthropology
Philological Hermeneutics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
7,800
295
25
Ranking Based On Selection: 13
Anna Wierzbicka
Australian National University
Canberra, Australia
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
56,930
15,247
0.268
Linguistics
Semantics
Anthropology
Cognitive Science
Psychology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,083
3,879
24
Ranking Based On Selection: 14
Susan Gass
Michigan State University
East Lansing, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
55,786
17,076
0.306
second language acquisition
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,490
4,079
76
Ranking Based On Selection: 15
John Swales
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,254
16,629
0.307
Genre Analysis
EAP
Discourse studies
Academic writing ...
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,520
4,093
106
Ranking Based On Selection: 16
P David Pearson
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
54,132
11,754
0.217
Literacy
Education
Reading
Teacher Education
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
8,997
4,317
12
Ranking Based On Selection: 17
Richard Schmidt
University of Hawaii System
Honolulu, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
52,276
15,190
0.291
applied linguistics
second language acquisition
sociolinguistics
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,402
4,519
46
Ranking Based On Selection: 18
Susan Goldin Meadow
University of Chicago
Chicago, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
50,772
18,522
0.365
language creation and development
using gesture to communicate
think
and learn
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,738
176
19
Ranking Based On Selection: 19
Luigi Rizzi
Université de Geneve
Geneva, Switzerland
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,752
11,589
0.233
Linguistics
Cognitive Science
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
9,863
386
10
Ranking Based On Selection: 20
Alastair Pennycook
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
49,370
19,504
0.395
critical applied linguistics
global spread of English
metrolingual practices
language & popular culture
semiotic assemblages
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,325
185
4
Ranking Based On Selection: 21
Peter Trudgill
Université de Fribourg
Fribourg, Switzerland
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,882
12,796
0.267
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,389
4,970
1
Ranking Based On Selection: 22
John Freeman
University of Detroit Mercy
Detroit, United States
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
47,699
8,185
0.172
digital literature
Shakespeare
Thomas Morel
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
10,854
257
16
Ranking Based On Selection: 23
Paul Boersma
University of Amsterdam
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
46,399
17,183
0.370
Linguistics
Phonetics
Phonology
Speech technology
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,120
47
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 24
Виталий Григорьевич Костомаров Vitaly G. Kostomarov
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,688
13,603
0.298
стилистика
преподавание русского языка иностранцам
stylistics
teaching Russian to foreigners
* Total Citation Counts Rankings
Rankings
11,342
37
2
Ranking Based On Selection: 25
Janet Holmes
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington, New Zealand
Citation Metrics
Total
Last 6 Years
Last 6 Years / Total
45,082
14,334
0.318
Sociolinguistics
Gender and discourse..