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Linguistics
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Linguistics

0024-3949

Published by: Walter de Gruyter

https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/ling/html?lang=en

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 729 12 30 7

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 26
Documents by Best Scientists*: 42
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 2
SCIMAGO H-index: 60
SCIMAGO SJR: 0.732
Impact Factor: 1.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Linguistics?

Linguistics focuses largely on the fields of Linguistics, Theoretical linguistics, Verb, Syntax and Semantics. The research on Linguistics discussed in Linguistics draws on the closely related field of Humanities.

  • Linguistics (99.22%)
  • Theoretical linguistics (13.25%)
  • Verb (5.92%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • “Sometimes I'll start a sentence in Spanish Y TERMINO EN ESPAÑOL”: Toward a typology of code-switching (1494 citations)
  • Activity types and language (752 citations)
  • Po-faced receipts of teases (365 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Linguistics:

The most cited articles cover a variety of subjects, including Linguistics, Theoretical linguistics, Grammar, Syntax and Semantics. Topics like Verb, Noun, Pragmatics, Grammaticalization and Modal verb are tackled as part of the discussions on Linguistics in the most cited papers. The journal papers focus on Theoretical linguistics but the discussions also offer insight into other areas such as Sentence and Word order.

What topics the last edition of the journal is best known for?

  • Linguistics
  • Law
  • Artificial intelligence

The previous edition focused in particular on these issues:

Linguistics was organized to reinforce research efforts on Linguistics, Perspective (graphical), Translation (geometry), Mandarin Chinese and Reading (process). The studies on Linguistics discussed can also contribute to research in the domains of Typology and Perception. The research on Perception tackled can also make contributions to studies in the areas of Stress (linguistics) and Noun.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Role-reference associations and the explanation of argument coding splits (6 citations)
  • How to express evolution in English Pokémon names (4 citations)
  • Reference without anaphora: on agency through grammar (4 citations)

Papers citation over time

A key indicator for each journal is its effectiveness in reaching other researchers with the papers published at that venue.

The chart below presents the interquartile range (first quartile 25%, median 50% and third quartile 75%) of the number of citations of articles over time.

The top authors publishing in Linguistics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Anatoly Liberman (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Gunter Senft (17 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Joe E. Pierce (16 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Jack Fellman (10 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Geert Booij (9 papers) absent at the last edition.

The overall trend for top authors publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top authors.

Only papers with recognized affiliations are considered

The top affiliations publishing in Linguistics (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Max Planck Society (67 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Radboud University Nijmegen (11 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition, 2 more than at the previous edition,
  • University of Zurich (9 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition the same number as at the previous edition,
  • National Research University – Higher School of Economics (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (8 papers) published 2 papers at the last edition.

The overall trend for top affiliations publishing in this journal is outlined below. The chart shows the number of publications at each edition of the journal for top affiliations.

Publication chance based on affiliation

The publication chance index shows the ratio of articles published by the best research institutions in the journal edition to all articles published within that journal. The best research institutions were selected based on the largest number of articles published during all editions of the journal.

The chart below presents the percentage ratio of articles from top institutions (based on their ranking of total papers).Top affiliations were grouped by their rank into the following tiers: top 1-10, top 11-20, top 21-50, and top 51+. Only articles with a recognized affiliation are considered.

During the most recent 2021 edition, 37.35% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 30.77% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 5.77% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 21.15% of all publications and 42.31% were from other institutions.

Returning Authors Index

A very common phenomenon observed among researchers publishing scientific articles is the intentional selection of journals they have already attended in the past. In particular, it is worth analyzing the case when the authors participate in the same journal from year to year.

The Returning Authors Index presented below illustrates the ratio of authors who participated in both a given as well as the previous edition of the journal in relation to all participants in a given year.

Returning Institution Index

The graph below shows the Returning Institution Index, illustrating the ratio of institutions that participated in both a given and the previous edition of the conference in relation to all affiliations present in a given year.

The experience to innovation index

Our experience to innovation index was created to show a cross-section of the experience level of authors publishing in a journal. The index includes the authors publishing at the last edition of a journal, grouped by total number of publications throughout their academic career (P) and the total number of citations of these publications ever received (C).

The group intervals were selected empirically to best show the diversity of the authors' experiences, their labels were selected as a convenience, not as judgment. The authors were divided into the following groups:

  • Novice - P < 5 or C < 25 (the number of publications less than 5 or the number of citations less than 25),
  • Competent - P < 10 or C < 100 (the number of publications less than 10 or the number of citations less than 100),
  • Experienced - P < 25 or C < 625 (the number of publications less than 25 or the number of citations less than 625),
  • Master - P < 50 or C < 2500 (the number of publications less than 50 or the number of citations less than 2500),
  • Star - P ≥ 50 and C ≥ 2500 (both the number of publications greater than 50 and the number of citations greater than 2500).

The chart below illustrates experience levels of first authors in cases of publications with multiple authors.

Top Publications

  • Role-reference associations and the explanation of argument coding splits

    Martin Haspelmath

    (2021)
    111 Citations
  • The nice-of-you construction and its fragments

    Adele E. Goldberg;Thomas Herbst

    (2021)
    15 Citations
  • Inflection and derivation as traditional comparative concepts

    (2023)
    14 Citations
  • Why we need a gradient approach to word order

    (2023)
    13 Citations
  • Extraction from NP, frequency, and minimalist gradient harmonic grammar

    (2022)
    10 Citations
  • Acquiring verb-argument structure in Tagalog: a multivariate corpus analysis of caregiver and child speech

    (2022)
    8 Citations
  • Variation and change in grammatical gender marking: the case of Dutch ethnolects

    F.L.M.P. Hinskens;R.W.N.M. van Hout;P.C. Muysken;A. Wijngaarden

    (2021)
    7 Citations
  • Affix substitution in Indonesian: A computational modeling approach

    (2022)
    7 Citations
  • Avoiding stress on non-lexical material in nouns and verbs: predictable verb prosody in Serbo-Croatian stress standard varieties

    (2023)
    2 Citations
  • Partitives, pseudopartitives and the preposition apo in Greek

    Artemis Alexiadou;Melita Stavrou

    (2020)
    2 Citations

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