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D-Index
67
Citations
58579
World Ranking
875
National Ranking
166

Deirdre Wilson 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 Deirdre Wilson sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 140 publications — 36th percentile

36% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Deirdre Wilson 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 Deirdre Wilson sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 67 D-Index — 89th percentile

89% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Deirdre Wilson is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has contributed to multiple research areas across psychology, arts and humanities, and chemistry. Their work spans interdisciplinary topics encompassing cognition, language, and chemical sciences.

The main fields of study represented in their research include:

  • Psychology
  • Arts and Humanities
  • Chemistry

Wilson's subfields of study reflect a diverse focus, including:

  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
  • Language and Linguistics
  • Organic Chemistry
  • Developmental and Educational Psychology

The core topics in Wilson's work cover various aspects of language, cognition, and chemistry:

  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Child and Animal Learning Development
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Click Chemistry and Applications
  • Catalytic C-H Functionalization Methods
  • Radical Photochemical Reactions

Wilson's recent scholarly outputs include the following papers:

  • Rethinking ostensive communication in an evolutionary, comparative, and developmental perspective., 2025, Psychological Review
  • Relevance theory: New horizons Foreword by Tim Wharton, Caroline Jagoe and Deirdre Wilson, 2022, Journal of Pragmatics
  • Graphical Abstract: Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 47/2020, 2020, Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Frequent co-authors include:

  • Dan Sperber
  • Tim Wharton
  • Caroline Jagoe
  • Carmen Leitner
  • Nikolai Zelinsky

Their work has appeared in multiple publication venues, primarily:

  • Psychological Review
  • Journal of Pragmatics
  • Angewandte Chemie International Edition

Best Publications

  • Relevance: Communication and Cognition

    Dan Sperber;Deirdre Wilson

  • Linguistic form and relevance

    Deirdre Wilson;Dan Sperber

  • Relevance: Communication and Cognition

    Lieselotte Pust;Dan Sperber;Deirdre Wilson

  • Pragmatics, Modularity and Mind-reading

    Dan Sperber;Deirdre Wilson

  • Epistemic Vigilance

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  • La pertinence : communication et cognition

    Dan Sperber;Deirdre Wilson;Abel Gerschenfeld

  • Irony and the Use-Mention Distinction

    D Sperber;D Wilson

  • Relevance: Communication and cognition, 2nd ed.

    Dan Sperber;Deirdre Wilson

  • Meaning and Relevance

    Deirdre Wilson;Dan Sperber

  • Metarepresentation in linguistic communication

    Deirdre Wilson

  • A unitary approach to lexical pragmatics: relevance, inference and ad hoc concepts.

    Deirdre Wilson;Robyn Carston

  • A deflationary account of metaphors

    Dan Sperber;Deirdre Wilson

  • On verbal irony

    Deirdre Wilson;Dan Sperber

  • The mapping between the mental and the public Lexicon

    D Sperber;D Wilson

  • Presuppositions and non-truth-conditional semantics

    Deirdre Susan Moir Wilson

  • Précis of Relevance: Communication and Cognition

    Dan Sperber;Deirdre Wilson

  • Truthfulness and Relevance

    Deirdre Wilson;Dan Sperber

  • The pragmatics of verbal irony: Echo or pretence?

    Deirdre Wilson

  • Metaphor, relevance and the 'emergent property' issue

    Deirdre Wilson;Robyn Carston

  • Relevance: Communication and Cognition

    Paul Meara;Dan Sperber;Deirdre Wilson

  • Pragmatics, modularity and mindreading

    D Sperber;D Wilson

  • Relevance theory: A tutorial

    D Wilson;D Sperber

Frequent Co-Authors

Dan Sperber
Dan Sperber Central European University
Robyn Carston
Robyn Carston University College London
Francesca Happé
Francesca Happé King's College London
Ira A. Noveck
Ira A. Noveck Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Neil Smith
Neil Smith City University of New York
Geoffrey K. Pullum
Geoffrey K. Pullum University of Edinburgh

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