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Research on Language and Social Interaction
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Research on Language and Social Interaction

0835-1813

Published by: Taylor & Francis

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hrls20/current

Ranking & Metrics

Discipline name Position Best Scientists Publications D-Index
Social Sciences and Humanities 662 9 14 8

Additional Metrics

Number of Best Scientists*: 13
Documents by Best Scientists*: 19
Top 100 Ranked Scientists*: 0
SCIMAGO H-index: 77
SCIMAGO SJR: 1.686
Impact Factor: 2.1

Overview

Top Research Topics at Research on Language and Social Interaction?

The topics of Linguistics, Social psychology, Social relation, Communication and Conversation are the focal point of discussions in the journal. Discourse analysis, Conversation analysis, Language research and Grammar are among the concentrations of Linguistics that garnered much attention in the journal. Discussions in the journal are anchored in the subject of Discourse analysis and the similar topic of Interpersonal communication.

While work presented in it provided substantial information on Social psychology, it also covered topics in Epistemology, Action (philosophy) and Developmental psychology. It links adjacent topics like Social relation with On Language.

  • Linguistics (37.87%)
  • Social psychology (19.94%)
  • Social relation (12.39%)

What are the most cited papers published in the journal?

  • Stance, Alignment, and Affiliation During Storytelling: When Nodding Is a Token of Affiliation (653 citations)
  • Constructing Social Identity: A Language Socialization Perspective (552 citations)
  • Reflections on Quantification in the Study of Conversation (421 citations)

Research areas of the most cited articles at Research on Language and Social Interaction:

The published papers investigate studies in Social psychology, Linguistics, Social relation, Conversation and On Language. In addition to Social psychology research, the published papers aim to explore topics under Developmental psychology, Preference, Child protection and Negotiation. While Linguistics is the focus of the journal papers, it also provides insights into the studies of Communication and Embodied cognition.

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, Epistemology, Action (philosophy), Conversation and German are among the topics commonly tackled in the journal. The presented studies in Sign language fall within the purview of Linguistics but it also intertwines with topics in Comic strip. While the primary focus in Research on Language and Social Interaction is Epistemology, it also dissects topics surrounding Conversation analysis and Affordance as a whole.

The presented research on Action (philosophy) deals specifically with Cognitive science but it also addresses topics in Character (mathematics), Context (language use) and Longitudinal study. Conversation research presented falls under the umbrella topic of Communication. Some problems in German that were presented in it overlapped with concepts under Developmental psychology and Early childhood.

The most cited articles from the last journal are:

  • Longitudinal Conversation Analysis - Introduction to the Special Issue (7 citations)
  • Initiating a Complaint: Change Over Time in French L2 Speakers’ Practices (6 citations)
  • The Routinization of Grammar as a Social Action Format: A Longitudinal Study of Video-Mediated Interactions (6 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 Research on Language and Social Interaction (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Galina B. Bolden (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Anssi Peräkylä (9 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Celia Kitzinger (8 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • Tanya Stivers (8 papers) published 1 paper at the last edition,
  • Alexa Hepburn (8 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 Research on Language and Social Interaction (based on the number of publications) are:

  • Loughborough University (29 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of Helsinki (26 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of York (24 papers) absent at the last edition,
  • University of California, Los Angeles (20 papers) published 3 papers at the last edition,
  • University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (15 papers) absent 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, 0.00% of publications had an unrecognized affiliation. Out of the publications with recognized affiliations, 35.00% were posted by at least one author from the top 10 institutions publishing in the journal. Another 10.00% included authors affiliated with research institutions from the top 11-20 affiliations. Institutions from the 21-50 range included 25.00% of all publications and 30.00% 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.

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Top Publications

  • Audible Sniffs: Smelling-in-Interaction

    Lorenza Mondada

    (2020)
    33 Citations
  • Revisiting Preference Organization in Context: A Qualitative and Quantitative Examination of Responses to Information Seeking

    Jeffrey D. Robinson

    (2020)
    30 Citations
  • One Type of Polar, Information-Seeking Question and Its Stance of Probability: Implications for the Preference for Agreement

    Jeffrey D. Robinson

    (2020)
    24 Citations
  • Is Conversation Built for Two? The Partitioning of Social Interaction

    Tanya Stivers

    (2021)
    22 Citations
  • Over-Exposed Self-Correction: Practices for Managing Competence and Morality

    (2022)
    18 Citations
  • On "whistle" sound objects in English everyday conversation

    Elisabeth Reber;Elizabeth Couper-Kuhlen

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • Should police negotiators ask to "talk" or "speak" to persons in crisis? Word selection and overcoming resistance to dialogue proposals

    Rein Ove Sikveland;Rein Ove Sikveland;Elizabeth Stokoe

    (2020)
    14 Citations
  • The Bias Toward Single-Unit Turns in Conversation

    (2022)
    11 Citations
  • The anatomy of first-time and subsequent business-to-business "cold" calls

    Bogdana Huma;Elizabeth Stokoe

    (2020)
    6 Citations
  • Transitions as a Series of Sequences: Implications in Testing for and Diagnosing Autism

    Adam Talkington;Douglas W. Maynard

    (2021)
    3 Citations

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