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D-Index
51
Citations
26892
World Ranking
2488
National Ranking
1210

Elinor Ochs 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 Elinor Ochs sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 89 publications — 8th percentile

8% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Elinor Ochs 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 Elinor Ochs 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: 51 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% 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

  • 1998 - Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Elinor Ochs is affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields with a primary focus on social sciences and arts and humanities. Specific subfields include language and linguistics, linguistics and language, sociology and political science, gender studies, and education.

Their work addresses a range of main topics:

  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Children's Rights and Participation
  • Gender, Feminism, and Media
  • Early Childhood Education and Development
  • Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
  • Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

Ochs has contributed to several academic venues, with publications appearing in:

  • Annual Review of Anthropology
  • Langage et société
  • Gender and Language
  • Cahiers de littérature orale

Recent notable papers include:

  • "Thinking in Between Disciplines", 2022, Annual Review of Anthropology
  • "Ethical Blind Spots in Ethnographic and Developmental Approaches to the Language Gap Debate", 2020, Langage et société
  • "Talk labour and doing 'being neoliberal mother'", 2021, Gender and Language
  • "Jeu et développement du langage chez l'enfant à travers le cheminement scientifique d'Elinor Ochs", 2025, Cahiers de littérature orale

Frequent coauthors in their research include Tamar Kremer-Sadl, Tamar Kremer-Sadlik, and Aliyah Morgenstern.

Throughout their career, Elinor Ochs has been recognized with several awards:

  • Fellow of the MacArthur Foundation, 1998
  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1998
  • Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1984

Best Publications

  • Living Narrative: Creating Lives in Everyday Storytelling

    Elinor Ochs;Lisa Capps

  • Culture and Language Development: Language Acquisition and Language Socialization in a Samoan Village

    Elinor Ochs

  • Constructing Social Identity: A Language Socialization Perspective

    Elinor Ochs

  • Planned and Unplanned Discourse

    Elinor Ochs;Bambi B. Schieffelin

  • Interaction and grammar

    Elinor Ochs;Emanuel A. Schegloff;Sandra A. Thompson

  • Language Socialization across Cultures

    William A. Corsaro;Bambi B. Schieffelin;Elinor Ochs

  • Linguistic resources for socializing humanity.

    Elinor Ochs

  • Language acquisition and socialization: Three developmental stories and their implications

    Bambi Schieffelin;E. Ochs

  • Language has a heart

    Elinor Ochs;Bambi Schieffelin

  • Co-Construction: An Introduction

    Sally Jacoby;Elinor Ochs

  • The Handbook of Language Socialization

    Alessandro Duranti;Elinor Ochs;Bambi B. Schieffelin

  • Language Socialization Across Cultures

    Bambi B. Schieffelin;Elinor Ochs

  • Inclusion as Social Practice: Views of Children with Autism

    Elinor Ochs;Tamar Kremer-Sadlik;Olga Solomon;Karen Gainer Sirota

  • The cultural structuring of mealtime socialization.

    Elinor Ochs;Merav Shohet

  • Storytelling as a Theory-Building Activity.

    Elinor Ochs;Carolyn Taylor;Dina Rudolph;Ruth Smith

  • Interaction and grammar: “When I come down I'm in the domain state”: grammar and graphic representation in the interpretive activity of physicists

    Elinor Ochs;Patrick Gonzales;Sally Jacoby

  • Talking to children in Western Samoa

    Elinor Ochs

  • The Theory of Language Socialization

    Elinor Ochs;Bambi B. Schieffelin

  • Left-Dislocation in Italian Conversation

    Alessandro Duranti;Elinor Ochs

  • Acquiring conversational competence

    Elinor Ochs;Bambi B. Schieffelin

  • Culture and language development

    Elinor Ochs

Frequent Co-Authors

Bambi B. Schieffelin
Bambi B. Schieffelin New York University
Alessandro Duranti
Alessandro Duranti University of California, Los Angeles
Emanuel A. Schegloff
Emanuel A. Schegloff University of California, Los Angeles
Rena L. Repetti
Rena L. Repetti University of California, Los Angeles
Sandra A. Thompson
Sandra A. Thompson University of California, Santa Barbara
Thomas N. Bradbury
Thomas N. Bradbury University of California, Los Angeles
Nelson Flores
Nelson Flores University of Pennsylvania
William A. Corsaro
William A. Corsaro Indiana University
Teresa L. McCarty
Teresa L. McCarty University of California, Los Angeles
Barbara Schneider
Barbara Schneider Michigan State University

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