2026 Karen Tracy: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	40	5353	4965	2528	2302	122	6896

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

5353

4965

2528

2302

122

6896

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

6896

World Ranking

5353

National Ranking

2528

Overview

Karen Tracy is affiliated with the University of Colorado Boulder in the United States. Their research primarily spans social sciences, with a specialized focus on law and its intersection with language and communication. Tracy's work addresses areas including legal education, judicial processes, and sociocultural aspects of law.

The main fields of study associated with Tracy include:

Social Sciences

The subfields of study encompass:

Law
Language and Linguistics
General Health Professions
Gender Studies
Sociology and Political Science

Key topics featured in Tracy's research are:

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Legal Education and Practice Innovations
Law in Society and Culture
Judicial and Constitutional Studies
Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Jury Decision Making Processes

Their recent publications include:

Language-AND-Social Psychology: Epilogue (2020) in Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Preliminary jury instructing: a dilemmatic communication practice (2022) in Text and Talk
Pursuing and Resisting Argumentative Projects in Q&A Sequences During a Trial (2023) in SSRN Electronic Journal
Pursuing and resisting argumentative projects in Q&A sequences during a trial (2023) in Journal of Pragmatics
"Race Trouble": Competing Accounts in a Trial About Anti-White Racism (2023) in Journal of Language and Social Psychology

Frequent co-authors in Tracy's work include:

Menno H. Reijven
Jake Harwood
Bret Bradley
Michael Braun
Yunhyung Chung

Tracy often publishes in the following venues:

Journal of Language and Social Psychology
Text and Talk
SSRN Electronic Journal
Journal of Pragmatics
International Journal of Speech Language and the Law

Best Publications

Everyday Talk: Building and Reflecting Identities

Karen Tracy;Jessica Sarah Robles

760
Citations
Grounded Practical Theory: The Case of Intellectual Discussion

Robert T. Craig;Karen Tracy

460
Citations
The many faces of facework.

Karen Tracy

454
Citations
The discourse of requests: Assessment of a politeness approach.

Robert T. Craig;Karen Tracy;Frances Spisak

359
Citations
Emotion labor at 911: A case study and theoretical critique

Sarah J. Tracy;Karen Tracy

301
Citations
Rudeness at 911 Reconceptualizing Face and Face Attack

Karen Tracy;Sarah J. Tracy

266
Citations
Action-Implicative Discourse Analysis

Karen Tracy

251
Citations
Colloquium: Dilemmas of Academic Discourse

Karen Tracy

226
Citations
Interactional Trouble in Emergency Service Requests: A Problem of Frames

Karen Tracy

204
Citations
Conversational coherence : form, structure, and strategy

Robert T. Craig;Karen Tracy

203
Citations
Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent

Karen Tracy

194
Citations
Meetings: Discursive Sites for Building and Fragmenting Community

Karen Tracy;Aaron Dimock

190
Citations
“Reasonable Hostility”: Situation-appropriate face-attack

Karen Tracy

175
Citations
Premeeting Talk: An Organizationally Crucial Form of Talk

Julien C. Mirivel;Karen Tracy

168
Citations
The Discourse of RequestsAssessment of a Compliance-Gaining Approach

Karen Tracy;Robert T. Craig;Martin Smith;Frances Spisak

149
Citations
Multiple Goals in Discourse: An Overview of Issues

Karen Tracy;Nikolas Coupland

142
Citations
Questions, questioning, and institutional practices: an introduction

Karen Tracy;Jessica Robles

131
Citations
The identity work of questioning in intellectual discussion

Karen Tracy;Julie Naughton

123
Citations
Communicative Indices of Employee Performance With New Technology

Michael J. Papa;Karen Tracy

92
Citations
Crafting policies about controversial values: How wording disputes manage a group dilemma

Karen Tracy;Catherine Ashcraft

87
Citations
It's an Interesting Article!.

Karen Tracy

13
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nikolas Coupland Cardiff University

Jake Harwood University of Arizona

External Links

Personal website of Karen Tracy Google Scholar page

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