2026 Carol Myers-Scotton: 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	33	7016	6515	3410	3109	96	8958

Carol Myers-Scotton 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 Carol Myers-Scotton sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 96 publications — 11th percentile

11% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Carol Myers-Scotton 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 Carol Myers-Scotton sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 33 D-Index — 10th percentile

10% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Carol Myers-Scotton is affiliated with Michigan State University in the United States. Their research contributions span multiple fields within the social sciences and psychology.

The scientist has contributed to areas including:

Social Sciences
Psychology

Within these broader fields, their work extends into specific subfields such as:

Linguistics and Language
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

Their research topics notably cover themes related to:

Multilingual Education and Policy
Phonetics and Phonology Research

Carol Myers-Scotton has published research in the following venue:

Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University

Among their documented publications is:

The Matrix Language Frame Model and Code-Switching in Bilingual Speech, 2021, Bulletin of Chelyabinsk State University

There are no recorded frequent co-authors or book publications associated with their profile in the source data.

Best Publications

Duelling Languages: Grammatical Structure in Codeswitching

Carol Myers-Scotton

1017
Citations
Contact Linguistics: Bilingual Encounters and Grammatical Outcomes

Carol Myers-Scotton

848
Citations
Multiple voices : an introduction to bilingualism

Carol Myers-Scotton

808
Citations
Social Motivations For Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa

Carol Myers-Scotton

678
Citations
Handbook of language and social psychology

Howard Giles;W. P. Robinson

631
Citations
Comparing codeswitching and borrowing

Carol Myers‐Scotton

371
Citations
Common and uncommon ground: Social and structural factors in codeswitching

Carol Myers-Scotton

322
Citations
Social Motivations for Codeswitching: Evidence from Africa

Ben G. Blount;Carol Myers-Scotton

291
Citations
Four types of morpheme: evidence from aphasia, code switching, and second-language acquisition

Carol Myers-Scotton;Janice L. Jake

261
Citations
Code-switching as indexical of social negotiations

Carol Myers-Scotton

242
Citations
Making a minimalist approach to codeswitching work: Adding the Matrix Language

Janice L. Jake;Carol Myers-Scotton;Steven Gross

220
Citations
Calculating speakers: Codeswitching in a rational choice model

Carol Myers-Scotton;Agnes Bolonyai

198
Citations
Matching lemmas in a bilingual language competence and production model: evidence from intrasentential code switching

Carol Myers-Scotton;Janice L. Jake

194
Citations
Endangered languages: A way to dusty death: the Matrix Language turnover hypothesis

Unknown

194
Citations
Orderly mixing and accommodation in South African codeswitching

Rosalie Finlayson;Karen Calteaux;Carol Myers-Scotton

182
Citations
Elite closure as a powerful language strategy: the African case

Unknown

181
Citations
The structure of Tsotsitaal and Iscamtho: code switching and in-group identity in South African townships

Sarah Slabbert;Carol Myers-Scotton

124
Citations
Codeswitching with English: types of switching, types of communities

Carol Myers-Scotton

121
Citations
Codes and Consequences: Choosing Linguistic Varieties

Carol Myers-Scotton

120
Citations
Explaining the role of norms and rationality in codeswitching

Carol Myers-Scotton

103
Citations
Natural codeswitching knocks on the laboratory door

Carol Myers-Scotton

102
Citations
Testing the 4-M model: An introduction:

Carol Myers-Scotton;Janice L. Jake

84
Citations
Codeswitching and Compromise Strategies: Implications for Lexical Structure

Janice L. Jake;Carol Myers-Scotton

81
Citations
Frequency and intentionality in (un)marked choices in codeswitching: “This is a 24-hour country”

Carol Myers-Scotton

69
Citations
Revisiting the 4-M model: Codeswitching and morpheme election at the abstract level:

Carol M Myers-Scotton;Janice L Jake

64
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

James J. Collins MIT

Ruth Wodak Lancaster University

Jenny Cheshire Queen Mary University of London

Kendall A. King University of Minnesota

Monica Heller University of Toronto

Walt Wolfram North Carolina State University

Paul Drew University of York

Douglas W. Maynard University of Wisconsin–Madison

Alessandro Duranti University of California, Los Angeles

Suzanne Romaine University of Oxford

External Links

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