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Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng

Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng

Leiden University
Netherlands

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
32
Citations
7528
World Ranking
7223
National Ranking
283

Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng 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 Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 103 publications — 15th percentile

15% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng 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 Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng 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: 32 D-Index — 8th percentile

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

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

Best Publications

  • On the typology of wh-questions

    Lisa Lai Shen Cheng

  • Bare and Not-So-Bare Nouns and the Structure of NP

    Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng;Rint Sybesma

  • Licensing Wh- in situ

    Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng;Johan Rooryck

  • Classifiers in Four Varieties of Chinese

    Lisa L.-S. Cheng;Rint Sybesma

  • On Dou-quantification

    Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng

  • Word order and information structure in Makhuwa-Enahara

    Unknown

  • The prosody and syntax of Zulu relative clauses

    Unknown

  • Two Types of Donkey Sentences

    L. L.-S. Cheng;C.-T. J. Huang

  • Where's the topic in Zulu?

    Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng;Laura J. Downing

  • Phasal Syntax = Cyclic Phonology?

    Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng;Laura J. Downing

  • Contrasts and Positions in Information Structure: Against FocusP: arguments from Zulu

    Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng;Laura J. Downing

  • Wh-words as Polarity Items

    Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng

  • Syntactic and phonological phrasing in Bemba relatives

    Unknown

  • Phonological and syntactic phrasing in Bemba relatives

    Nancy C Kula;Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng

  • Wh-in-situ, from the 1980s to Now

    Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng

  • Verb copying in Mandarin Chinese

    Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng

  • Deconstructing the shì … de construction

    Lisa Lai-Shen Cheng

  • Clefts in Durban Zulu

    Unknown

  • Locative Relatives in Durban Zulu

    Lisa L.-S. Cheng;Laura J. Downing

  • How universal is the Universal Grinder

    Lisa L.S. Cheng;Jenny Doetjes;Rint Sybesma

Frequent Co-Authors

Anastasia Giannakidou
Anastasia Giannakidou University of Chicago
Niels O. Schiller
Niels O. Schiller Leiden University
C. W. J. Beenakker
C. W. J. Beenakker Leiden University
Noam Chomsky
Noam Chomsky MIT

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