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D-Index
42
Citations
14719
World Ranking
4583
National Ranking
773

Ben Rampton 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 Ben Rampton sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 149 publications — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Ben Rampton 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 Ben Rampton sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index: 177 scientists 31 D-Index: 210 scientists 32 D-Index: 222 scientists 33 D-Index: 188 scientists 34 D-Index: 181 scientists 35 D-Index: 243 scientists 36 D-Index: 261 scientists 37 D-Index: 272 scientists 38 D-Index: 278 scientists 39 D-Index: 300 scientists 40 D-Index: 297 scientists 41 D-Index: 308 scientists 42 D-Index: 313 scientists 43 D-Index: 300 scientists 44 D-Index: 269 scientists 45 D-Index: 260 scientists 46 D-Index: 228 scientists 47 D-Index: 251 scientists 48 D-Index: 203 scientists 49 D-Index: 186 scientists 50 D-Index: 187 scientists 51 D-Index: 166 scientists 52 D-Index: 138 scientists 53 D-Index: 141 scientists 54 D-Index: 131 scientists 55 D-Index: 137 scientists 56 D-Index: 109 scientists 57 D-Index: 129 scientists 58 D-Index: 95 scientists 59 D-Index: 105 scientists 60 D-Index: 106 scientists 61 D-Index: 86 scientists 62 D-Index: 94 scientists 63 D-Index: 77 scientists 64 D-Index: 79 scientists 65 D-Index: 59 scientists 66 D-Index: 68 scientists 67 D-Index: 51 scientists 68 D-Index: 49 scientists 69 D-Index: 40 scientists 70 D-Index: 43 scientists 71 D-Index: 40 scientists 72 D-Index: 50 scientists 73 D-Index: 46 scientists 74 D-Index: 43 scientists 75 D-Index: 45 scientists 76 D-Index: 45 scientists 77 D-Index: 30 scientists 78 D-Index: 25 scientists 79 D-Index: 31 scientists 80 D-Index: 29 scientists 81 D-Index: 18 scientists 82 D-Index: 21 scientists 83 D-Index: 26 scientists 84 D-Index: 15 scientists 85 D-Index: 15 scientists 86 D-Index: 19 scientists 87 D-Index: 19 scientists 88 D-Index: 12 scientists 89 D-Index: 7 scientists 90 D-Index: 19 scientists 91 D-Index: 20 scientists 92 D-Index: 13 scientists 93 D-Index: 9 scientists 94 D-Index: 13 scientists 95 D-Index: 8 scientists 96 D-Index: 7 scientists 97 D-Index: 6 scientists 98 D-Index: 6 scientists 99 D-Index: 6 scientists 100+ D-Index: 97 scientists
30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
  • Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Ben Rampton is affiliated with King's College London in the United Kingdom. Their academic work primarily spans the fields of Social Sciences and Arts and Humanities, with significant contributions to Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics, and Literature and Literary Theory. Other subfields include Sociology and Political Science as well as Gender Studies.

The main topics explored in Rampton's research include:

  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Gender Studies in Language

Recent papers authored by Rampton cover a range of sociolinguistic issues and were published between 2021 and 2024. These include:

  • "Sociolinguistics, memory studies, and the dynamics of interdisciplinarity," 2024, Language in Society
  • "Jan Blommaert and the use of sociolinguistics: Critical, political, personal," 2021, Language in Society
  • "Localising linguistic citizenship in England," 2023, Language Teaching

Additional recent papers coauthored by others in related fields include:

  • "International relations, sociolinguistics and the 'everyday': a linguistic ethnography of peace-building through language education," 2021, Peacebuilding
  • "Everyday Surveillance, Goffman, and Unfocused Interaction," 2020, Surveillance & Society

Frequent collaborators include Melanie Cooke, Sam Holmes, Dermot Bryers, and Becky Winstanley, with multiple joint publications.

Rampton's work has appeared most frequently in the following publication venues:

  • Language in Society
  • Peacebuilding
  • Surveillance & Society
  • Language Teaching
  • Journal of Sociolinguistics

In addition to journal articles, Rampton has contributed to books published by Multilingual Matters eBooks and Channel View Publications eBooks. Notably, the title "Linguistic Practice in Changing Conditions" was published multiple times in 2021, reflecting ongoing research themes.

Rampton has been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

  • Crossing : Language and Ethnicity Among Adolescents

    Ben Rampton

  • Language in Late Modernity: Interaction in an Urban School

    Ben Rampton

  • Language and Superdiversity

    Jan Blommaert;Ben Rampton;Ben Rampton

  • The Idealised Native Speaker, Reified Ethnicities, and Classroom Realities

    Constant Leung;Roxy Harris;Ben Rampton

  • Crossing: Language and Ethnicity among Adolescents

    Reyes I. Fidalgo;Ben Rampton

  • Neo‐Hymesian linguistic ethnography in the United Kingdom

    Ben Rampton

  • Language Crossing and the Problematisation of Ethnicity and Socialisation

    Ben Rampton

  • From 'Multi-ethnic adolescent heteroglossia' to 'Contemporary urban vernaculars'

    Ben Rampton

  • Interaction ritual and not just artful performance in crossing and stylization

    Ben Rampton

  • Styling the Other: Introduction

    Ben Rampton

  • Ethics, Advocacy, and Empowerment: Issues of Method in Researching Language.

    Deborah Cameron;Elizabeth Frazer;Penelope Harvey;Ben Rampton

  • Theory and method in linguistic ethnography

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  • Language in Late Modernity: List of figures

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  • Second Language Research in Late Modernity: A Response to Firth and Wagner.

    Ben Rampton

  • Retuning in applied linguistics

    Ben Rampton

  • Hegemony, social class and stylisation

    Ben Rampton

  • Deutsch in Inner London and the animation of an instructed foreign language

    Ben Rampton

  • Methodology in the Analysis of Classroom Discourse

    Ben Rampton;Celia Roberts;Constant Leung;Roxy Harris

  • UK LINGUISTIC ETHNOGRAPHY: A DISCUSSION PAPER Coordinating Committee UK Linguistic Ethnography Forum 1

    Ben Rampton;Karin Tusting;Janet Maybin;Richard Barwell

  • Sociolinguistics: Theoretical Debates

    Ben Rampton

  • Heteroglossia as Practice and Pedagogy

    Ben Rampton

  • Ritual and foreign language practices at school

    Ben Rampton

  • Critique in Interaction

    Ben Rampton

  • Politics and Change in Research in Applied Linguistics.

    Ben Rampton

  • Key terms in language and culture

    Ben Rampton

  • Sociolinguistics and social theory

    Ben Rampton

Frequent Co-Authors

Jan Blommaert
Jan Blommaert Tilburg University
Deborah Cameron
Deborah Cameron University of Oxford
Elizabeth Frazer
Elizabeth Frazer University of Oxford
Monica Heller
Monica Heller University of Toronto
Jef Verschueren
Jef Verschueren University of Antwerp
Martyn Hammersley
Martyn Hammersley The Open University

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