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Kingsley Bolton

Kingsley Bolton

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
36
Citations
5581
World Ranking
6488
National Ranking
87

Kingsley Bolton 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 Kingsley Bolton sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 231 publications — 74th percentile

74% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Kingsley Bolton 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 Kingsley Bolton 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: 36 D-Index — 19th percentile

19% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Best Publications

  • English in Asia, Asian Englishes, and the issue of proficiency

    Kingsley Bolton

  • English as an academic language at a Swedish university: parallel language use and the ‘threat’ of English

    Kingsley Bolton;Maria Kuteeva

  • A corpus-based study of connectors in student writing: Research from the International Corpus of English in Hong Kong (ICE-HK)

    Kingsley Bolton;Gerald Nelson;Joseph Hung

  • English in China Today

    Kingsley Bolton;David Graddol

  • The Sociolinguistics of Hong Kong and the Space for Hong Kong English.

    Kingsley Bolton

  • Hong Kong English : Autonomy and creativity

    Kingsley Bolton

  • Chinese Englishes: From Canton Jargon to Global English.

    Kingsley Bolton

  • World Englishes today

    Kingsley Bolton

  • Where WE stands: approaches, issues, and debate in world Englishes

    Kingsley Bolton

  • World Englishes and linguistic landscapes

    Kingsley Bolton

  • Charting multilingualism : language censuses and language surveys in Hong Kong

    John Bacon-Shone;Kingsley Bolton

  • Language Use, Proficiency and Attitudes in Hong Kong

    John Bacon-Shone;Kingsley Bolton;K. K. Luke

  • World Englishes : Critical Concepts in Linguistics

    Kingsley Bolton;Braj B. Kachru

  • The dynamics of multilingualism in contemporary Singapore

    Kingsley Bolton;Bee Chin Ng

  • English in contemporary Sweden: Perceptions, policies, and narrated practices†

    Kingsley Bolton;Christiane Meierkord

  • Towards developmental world Englishes

    Kingsley Bolton;David Graddol;Christiane Meierkord

  • English in China's universities : past and present

    Kingsley Bolton;Werner Botha

  • Futures for Hong Kong English

    Kingsley Bolton;Shirley Lim

  • The Statistics of English across Asia

    Kingsley Bolton;John Bacon-Shone

  • Sociolinguistics today : international perspectives

    Kingsley Bolton;Helen Kwok

Frequent Co-Authors

Braj B. Kachru
Braj B. Kachru University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Rajend Mesthrie
Rajend Mesthrie University of Cape Town
Andy Kirkpatrick
Andy Kirkpatrick Griffith University
Peter I. De Costa
Peter I. De Costa Michigan State University
Bob Adamson
Bob Adamson University of Nottingham Ningbo China

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