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D-Index
61
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29661
World Ranking
1312
National Ranking
251

Li Wei 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 Li Wei sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 208 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Li Wei 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 Li Wei 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: 61 D-Index — 83rd percentile

83% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Li Wei is affiliated with University College London in the United Kingdom and has an extensive body of research primarily focused on language education, multilingualism, and second language learning. Their academic work is situated within the social sciences and arts and humanities, with significant contributions to linguistics and language studies, literature and literary theory, and social psychology.

Their scholarly output covers a range of topics including multilingual education and policy, second language learning and teaching, EFL/ESL teaching and learning, language discourse and communication strategies, linguistic variation and morphology, discourse analysis in language studies, and the interaction between language, metaphor, and cognition.

Li Wei has published several recent papers of note:

  • Not a First Language but One Repertoire: Translanguaging as a Decolonizing Project, 2022, RELC Journal
  • Translanguaging as a Political Stance: Implications for English Language Education, 2021, ELT Journal

Other influential works connected to their field of study include:

  • Rejecting Abyssal Thinking in the Language and Education of Racialized Bilinguals: A Manifesto, 2021, Critical Inquiry in Language Studies
  • Anxiety, Enjoyment, and Boredom in Language Learning Amongst Junior Secondary Students in Rural China: How Do They Contribute to L2 Achievement?, 2022, Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • Constructing Playful Talk through Translanguaging in English Medium Instruction Mathematics Classrooms, 2020, Applied Linguistics

Their frequent collaborators include Kevin W. H. Tai, Roberto Filippi, Chengchen Li, Zhu Hua, and Tong King Lee, reflecting a diverse network in applied linguistics and bilingualism research.

Li Wei has contributed to various academic venues, with multiple publications in:

  • Bilingualism Language and Cognition
  • Applied Linguistics
  • International Journal of Bilingualism
  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • System

Among their book publications, one noted title is Thinking and Speaking in a Second Language, published in 2022 by Cambridge University Press.

Best Publications

  • Language, Bilingualism and Education

    Ofelia García;Li Wei

  • Translanguaging and Education

    Ofelia García;Li Wei

  • Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language

    Li Wei

  • Moment analysis and translanguaging space: discursive construction of identities by multilingual Chinese youth in Britain

    Li Wei

  • Translanguaging: Language, Bilingualism and Education

    Ofelia Garcia;Li Wei

  • Dimensions of bilingualism

    Li Wei

  • Not a First Language but One Repertoire: Translanguaging as a Decolonizing Project

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  • Rejecting abyssal thinking in the language and education of racialized bilinguals: A manifesto

    Ofelia García;Nelson Flores;Kate Seltzer;Li Wei

  • Separate and flexible bilingualism in complementary schools: Multiple language practices in interrelationship

    Angela Creese;Adrian Blackledge;Taşkin Baraç;Arvind Bhatt

  • Contesting ‘Language’ as ‘Heritage’: Negotiation of Identities in Late Modernity

    Adrian Blackledge;Angela Creese;Taşkin Baraç;Arvind Bhatt

  • Multilinguality, multimodality, and multicompetence: code- and modeswitching by minority ethnic children in complementary schools

    Li Wei

  • Translanguaging, Bilingualism, and Bilingual Education

    Ofelia García;Li Wei

  • A control process model of code-switching

    David W. Green;Li Wei

  • A social network approach to code-switching: the example of a bilingual community in Britain

    Lesley Milroy;Li Wei

  • “How can you tell?”: Towards a common sense explanation of conversational code-switching

    Li Wei

  • ‘What do you want me to say?’ On the Conversation Analysis approach to bilingual interaction

    Li Wei

  • The Blackwell Guide to Research Methods in Bilingualism and Multilingualism

    Li Wei;Melissa G. Moyer

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Multi-Competence

    Cook;L Wei

  • Language and superdiversity: An interdisciplinary perspective

    Adrian Blackledge;Mike Baynham;Melanie Cooke

  • New Chinglish and the Post-Multilingualism challenge: Translanguaging ELF in China

    Li Wei

  • Transnational experience, aspiration and family language policy

    Zhu Hua;Li Wei

  • Polite Chinese children revisited: creativity and the use of codeswitching in the Chinese complementary school classroom

    Li Wei;Chao-jung Wu

  • Conversational code-switching in a Chinese community in Britain: a sequential analysis

    Li Wei;Lesley Milroy

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Auer
Peter Auer University of Freiburg
Zhu Hua
Zhu Hua Birkbeck, University of London
Ofelia García
Ofelia García City University of New York
Jean-Marc Dewaele
Jean-Marc Dewaele Birkbeck, University of London
Barbara Dodd
Barbara Dodd University of Queensland
Adrian Blackledge
Adrian Blackledge University of Stirling
Lesley Milroy
Lesley Milroy University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Vivian Cook
Vivian Cook Newcastle University
Angela Creese
Angela Creese University of Warwick
David W. Green
David W. Green University College London

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