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D-Index
54
Citations
24720
World Ranking
2082
National Ranking
1000

Dell Hymes 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 Dell Hymes sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 261 publications — 81st percentile

81% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Dell Hymes 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 Dell Hymes 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: 54 D-Index — 73rd percentile

73% 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

  • 1969 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
  • 1968 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Dell Hymes was affiliated with the University of Pennsylvania in the United States. Their research primarily focused on the Social Sciences, with notable attention to Linguistics and Language, Gender Studies, and Cultural Studies.

Their work addressed several main topics, including:

  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Gender Studies in Language
  • Caribbean history, culture, and politics

Hymes contributed scholarly articles predominantly to the International Journal of the Sociology of Language. Two recent papers include:

  • "The Scope of Sociolinguistics" (2020), published in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language
  • "Pidginization and Creolization of Languages: Their Social Contexts" (2020), published in the International Journal of the Sociology of Language

Dell Hymes did not have frequent co-authors listed in the available data. The International Journal of the Sociology of Language appeared as their primary publication venue with multiple contributions.

Their achievements include being named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1969 and a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1968.

Best Publications

  • The ethnography of speaking

    Dell Η. Hymes

  • Foundations in Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach

    Dell H. Hymes

  • Directions in Sociolinguistics: The Ethnography of Communication

    Joseph Bosco;John J. Gumperz;Dell Hymes

  • Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Life

    Dell Hymes

  • Functions of Language in the Classroom

    Courtney B. Cazden;Vera P. John;Dell H. Hymes

  • Proxemics [and Comments and Replies]

    Edward T. Hall;Ray L. Birdwhistell;Bernhard Bock;Paul Bohannan

  • Pidginization and Creolization of Languages.

    R. B. le Page;Dell Hymes

  • Models of the Interaction of Language and Social Setting

    Dell Hymes

  • Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality: Toward An Understanding Of Voice

    Dell H. Hymes

  • Acerca de la competencia comunicativa

    Dell Hathaway Hymes;Juan Gómez Bernal

  • Introduction: Toward Ethnographies of Communication1

    Unknown

  • "In vain I tried to tell you": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics

    Dell H. Hymes

  • Language in culture and society : a reader in linguistics and anthropology

    Dell H. Hymes

  • Breakthrough into performance

    Dell Hymes

  • Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking: Ways of Speaking

    Unknown

  • Language in Education: Ethnolinguistic Essays

    Dell H. Hymes

  • Foundations of Sociolinguistics: An Ethnographic Approach

    Unknown

  • Folklore's Nature and the Sun's Myth

    Dell Hymes

  • Vers la compétence de communication

    Dell H. Hymes;Daniel Coste

  • Language, Communication, Chimpanzees [and Comments and Reply]

    Georges Mounin;L. Brunelle;Ronald Dare;Marc R. Feldesman

  • Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative Inequality

    Dell Hymes

  • Context and Meaning in Cultural Anthropology

    Dell Hymes;Melford E. Spiro

  • 34. Communicative Competence

    Unknown

  • Review of Dell Hymes, Ethnography, Linguistics, Narrative, Inequality: Toward an Understanding of Voice

    Barbara Johnstone;Dell Hymes

  • In Search of the Primitive. A Critique of Civilization

    Dell Hymes;Stanley Diamond

  • "In Vain I Tried to Tell You": Essays in Native American Ethnopoetics

    Craig Mishler;Dell Hymes

Frequent Co-Authors

John J. Gumperz
John J. Gumperz University of California, Berkeley
Joseph H. Greenberg
Joseph H. Greenberg Stanford University
Peter Burke
Peter Burke University of California, Riverside
Monica Heller
Monica Heller University of Toronto
Thomas A. Sebeok
Thomas A. Sebeok Indiana University
Barbara Johnstone
Barbara Johnstone Carnegie Mellon University

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