2026 Anna De Fina: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	37	6084	5650	2902	2646	111	10692

Anna De Fina publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna De Fina sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 111 publications — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Anna De Fina D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Anna De Fina sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 37 D-Index — 23rd percentile

23% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Overview

Anna De Fina is affiliated with Georgetown University in the United States. Their research spans several fields within the social sciences and humanities, with a primary focus on communication, language, and discourse studies. Their work intersects multiple domains such as communication strategies, digital communication, and media studies.

The main fields of study for Anna De Fina include:

Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities

Their subfields of study cover:

Communication
Language and Linguistics
Literature and Literary Theory
Human-Computer Interaction
Linguistics and Language

Key research topics explored by Anna De Fina include:

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Social Media and Politics
Digital Communication and Language
Multilingual Education and Policy
Media Studies and Communication
Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies

Anna De Fina has contributed papers to various prominent publication venues, including:

Applied Linguistics
Language Culture and Society
Narrative Inquiry
Language in Society
Language and Intercultural Communication

Notable recent publications by Anna De Fina include:

"Doing narrative analysis from a narratives-as-practices perspective" (2020) in Narrative Inquiry
"Sketches Toward a Decolonial Applied Linguistics" (2023) in Applied Linguistics
"Learning How to Tell, Learning How to Ask: Reciprocity and Storytelling as a Community Process" (2020) in Applied Linguistics
"'I especially loved the little Nana dancing on the balcony': The emergence, formation, and circulation of chronotopes in mass-mediated communication" (2022) in Language in Society

Frequent collaborators in Anna De Fina's research include:

Jan Blommaert
Giuseppe Paternostro
Johannes Angermüller
Jungyoon Koh
Alexandra Georgakopoulou

Among Anna De Fina's book contributions is a publication with Cambridge University Press:

"The Cambridge Handbook of Discourse Studies" (2020)

Best Publications

Analyzing Narrative: Discourse and Sociolinguistic Perspectives

Anna De Fina;Alexandra Georgakopoulou

1057
Citations
Identity in Narrative: A study of immigrant discourse

Anna De Fina

964
Citations
Discourse and Identity

Anna De Fina;Deborah Schiffrin;Michael G. W. Bamberg

697
Citations
Analysing narratives as practices

Anna De Fina;Alexandra Georgakopoulou

521
Citations
Discourse and Identity Construction

Michael Bamberg;Anna De Fina;Deborah Schiffrin

492
Citations
Narratives in interview — The case of accounts: For an interactional approach to narrative genres

Anna De Fina

402
Citations
Code-switching and the construction of ethnic identity in a community of practice

Anna De Fina

351
Citations
The ethnographic interview

Anna De Fina

314
Citations
Introduction: Interviews vs. ‘natural’ contexts: A false dilemma

Anna De Fina;Sabina Perrino

297
Citations
The Handbook of Narrative Analysis

Anna De Fina;Alexandra Georgakopoulou

295
Citations
Pronominal Choice, Identity and Solidarity in Political Discourse

Anna De Fina

254
Citations
Positioning level 3: Connecting local identity displays to macro social processes

Anna De Fina

251
Citations
Selves and identities in narrative and discourse

Michael G. W. Bamberg;Anna De Fina;Deborah Schiffrin

229
Citations
Dislocations/ Relocations: Narratives of Displacement

Mike Baynham;Anna De Fina

203
Citations
Discourse and Identity: Group identity, narrative and self-representations

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196
Citations
Chronotopic identities : on the spacetime organization of who we are

Jan Blommaert;Anna De Fina

190
Citations
Who tells which story and why? Micro and macro contexts in narrative

Anna de Fina

162
Citations
Language problem or language conflict? Narratives of immigrant women's experiences in the US

Anna De Fina;Kendall A. King

146
Citations
Researcher and informant roles in narrative interactions: Constructions of belonging and foreign-ness

Anna De Fina

122
Citations
Crossing borders: Time, space, and disorientation in narrative

Anna De Fina

117
Citations
Storytelling and audience reactions in social media

Anna De Fina

109
Citations
Telling Stories: Language, Narrative, and Social Life

Deborah Schiffrin;Anna De Fina;Anastasia Nylund

86
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Alexandra Georgakopoulou King's College London

Michael Bamberg Clark University

Jan Blommaert Tilburg University

Kendall A. King University of Minnesota

External Links

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