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Discipline name D-index D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines. Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking
Social Sciences and Humanities D-index 46 Citations 7,065 143 World Ranking 1582 National Ranking 303

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Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • Social science

Brigitte Nerlich mainly focuses on Social science, Climate change, Environmental ethics, Public relations and Metaphor. Her Social science study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Social media, Construct, Politics and Discourse analysis. Brigitte Nerlich has researched Climate change in several fields, including The Internet, Narrative and Behavior change.

She has included themes like Carbon finance and Spanish Civil War in her Environmental ethics study. Her Public relations research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in New media, Journalism, Public opinion and Public policy. Her research integrates issues of Rhetorical device, Cognitive linguistics and Mass media in her study of Metaphor.

Her most cited work include:

  • Science communication reconsidered. (248 citations)
  • Theory and language of climate change communication (202 citations)
  • Disease metaphors in new epidemics: the UK media framing of the 2003 SARS epidemic. (164 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Linguistics, Metaphor, Social science, Epistemology and Public relations. Her Metaphor study combines topics in areas such as Literature, Framing and Mass media. Her study in Social science is interdisciplinary in nature, drawing from both Environmental ethics, Discourse analysis, Politics and Media studies.

Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Context and Newspaper. Her research on Public relations often connects related topics like Climate change. The Climate change study combines topics in areas such as The Internet and Environmental resource management.

She most often published in these fields:

  • Linguistics (20.72%)
  • Metaphor (13.94%)
  • Social science (11.55%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2013-2021)?

  • Climate change (9.96%)
  • Public relations (9.96%)
  • Environmental ethics (9.56%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Her primary areas of study are Climate change, Public relations, Environmental ethics, Politics and Context. The various areas that Brigitte Nerlich examines in her Climate change study include The Internet, Framing, Environmental resource management and Metaphor. When carried out as part of a general Public relations research project, her work on Public engagement is frequently linked to work in Globe, therefore connecting diverse disciplines of study.

Her studies in Environmental ethics integrate themes in fields like Social psychology, Public discourse, Psychological resilience and Skepticism. Her work in Politics covers topics such as Social science which are related to areas like Dialectic. Her research in Context intersects with topics in Expression, Societal impact of nanotechnology and Newspaper.

Between 2013 and 2021, her most popular works were:

  • Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC Working Group 1 report. (107 citations)
  • Fracking in the UK press: threat dynamics in an unfolding debate. (96 citations)
  • Communicating climate change: conduits, content, and consensus (54 citations)

In her most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Law
  • Linguistics
  • Social science

Brigitte Nerlich mostly deals with Climate change, Public relations, Context, Newspaper and Thematic analysis. Her work in the fields of Political economy of climate change overlaps with other areas such as Location. Her Public relations study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Deliberative democracy, Viewpoints, The Internet, Corpus linguistics and Deliberation.

Her Newspaper study incorporates themes from Economic growth, Environmental communication, Skepticism and Spanish Civil War. Her work in Thematic analysis addresses subjects such as Blame, which are connected to disciplines such as Mass media and Reproductive health. Her biological study deals with issues like Metaphor, which deal with fields such as Social science.

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Best Publications

Science communication reconsidered.

Tania M. Bubela;Matthew C. Nisbet;Rick Borchelt;Fern Brunger.
Nature Biotechnology (2009)

415 Citations

Theory and language of climate change communication

Brigitte Nerlich;Nelya Koteyko;Brian J. Brown.
Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change (2010)

400 Citations

Disease metaphors in new epidemics: the UK media framing of the 2003 SARS epidemic.

Patrick Wallis;Brigitte Nerlich.
Social Science & Medicine (2005)

329 Citations

'Climategate': paradoxical metaphors and political paralysis

Brigitte Nerlich.
Environmental Values (2010)

215 Citations

Avian flu: the creation of expectations in the interplay between science and the media.

Brigitte Nerlich;Christopher Halliday.
Sociology of Health and Illness (2007)

204 Citations

Metaphors and biorisks: The war on infectious diseases and invasive species

Brendon M. H. Larson;Brigitte Nerlich;Patrick Wallis.
Science Communication (2005)

183 Citations

Climate change on Twitter: topics, communities and conversations about the 2013 IPCC Working Group 1 report.

Warren Pearce;Kim Holmberg;Iina Hellsten;Brigitte Nerlich.
PLOS ONE (2014)

180 Citations

Fracking in the UK press: threat dynamics in an unfolding debate.

Rusi Jaspal;Brigitte Nerlich.
Public Understanding of Science (2014)

177 Citations

Semantic Theories in Europe, 1830–1930: From etymology to contextuality

Brigitte Nerlich.
(1992)

157 Citations

Metaphors We Die By? Geoengineering, Metaphors, and the Argument From Catastrophe

Brigitte Nerlich;Rusi Jaspal.
Metaphor and Symbol (2012)

155 Citations

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