2026 Andy Kirkpatrick: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	41	4968	4607	351	337	154	8839

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

4968

4607

351

337

154

8839

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

8839

World Ranking

4968

National Ranking

351

Overview

Andy Kirkpatrick is affiliated with Griffith University in Australia and works primarily in the fields of Arts and Humanities as well as Social Sciences. Their research spans multiple subfields, notably Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics, and Literature and Literary Theory, with additional focus on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Social Psychology.

The main topics of their scholarly work include:

Second Language Learning and Teaching
Multilingual Education and Policy
EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
Linguistic Variation and Morphology
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition

Kirkpatrick has contributed to several research papers, including:

Englishes in the Expanding Circle: Focus on Asia (2020), published in Russian Journal of Linguistics
English in Asian and European Higher Education (2021), published in The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
'We Want Fork but No Pork': (Im)Politeness in Humour by Asian Users of English as a Lingua Franca and Australian English Speakers (2020), published in Contrastive Pragmatics
Index (2020), published in Cambridge University Press eBooks

The scientist frequently collaborates with other researchers, including Lixun Wang, Anthony J. Liddicoat, Ian Walkinshaw, Iris Schaller-Schwaner, and Saran Kaur Gill.

Publication venues where Kirkpatrick's work appears include:

Russian Journal of Linguistics
Journal of Asian Pacific Communication
Contrastive Pragmatics
The Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics
Cambridge University Press eBooks

Kirkpatrick's book publications involve contributions to titles such as Is English an Asian Language? (2020) published by Cambridge University Press and World English: Research and Practice (2020) from Griffith University.

Best Publications

World Englishes: Implications for International Communication and English Language Teaching

Andy Kirkpatrick

847
Citations
English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN: A Multilingual Model

Andy Kirkpatrick

753
Citations
English as an Asian lingua franca and the multilingual model of ELT

Andy Kirkpatrick

424
Citations
Chinese pragmatic norms and ‘China English’

Andy Kirkpatrick;Xu Zhichang

385
Citations
Emerging South-East Asian Englishes and intelligibility

David Deterding;Andy Kirkpatrick

371
Citations
The Routledge handbook of world Englishes

Andy Kirkpatrick

320
Citations
English as an international language in Asia : implications for language education

Andy Kirkpatrick;Roland Sussex

273
Citations
English in ASEAN: implications for regional multilingualism

Andy Kirkpatrick

273
Citations
How Much Do They Understand? Lectures, students and comprehension

Denise Mulligan;Andy Kirkpatrick

230
Citations
The pronunciation of Hong Kong English

David Deterding;Jennie Wong;Andy Kirkpatrick

220
Citations
English as a Lingua Franca: Attitude and Identity

Andy Kirkpatrick

214
Citations
English as the official working language of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN): Features and strategies

Andy Kirkpatrick

197
Citations
English as an Asian Lingua Franca: the ‘Lingua Franca Approach’ and implications for language education policy

Andy Kirkpatrick

181
Citations
Traditional Chinese text structures and their influence on the writing in Chinese and English of contemporary mainland Chinese students

Andy Kirkpatrick

173
Citations
English as a medium of instruction in Asian education (from primary to tertiary): Implications for local languages and local scholarship

Andy Kirkpatrick

167
Citations
The Language(s) of HE: EMI and/or ELF and/or Multilingualism?

Andy Kirkpatrick

165
Citations
The international intelligibility of Hong Kong English

Andy Kirkpatrick;David Deterding;Jennie Wong

147
Citations
The Routledge International Handbook of Language Education Policy in Asia

Andy Kirkpatrick;Anthony J. Liddicoat

137
Citations
Language education policy and practice in East and Southeast Asia

Andy Kirkpatrick;Anthony J. Liddicoat

105
Citations
Chinese Rhetoric and Writing: An Introduction for Language Teachers

Andy Kirkpatrick;Zhichang Xu

97
Citations
English as a Lingua Franca in ASEAN

Andy Kirkpatrick

68
Citations
Which model of English: Native-speaker, nativised or lingua franca?

Andy Kirkpatrick

18
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony J. Liddicoat University of Warwick

Ernesto Macaro University of Oxford

David Lasagabaster University of the Basque Country

Suzanne Romaine University of Oxford

David Nunan Anaheim University

David Crystal Bangor University

Merrill Swain University of Toronto

Jim Cummins University of Toronto

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