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D-Index
53
Citations
13140
World Ranking
2275
National Ranking
1099

Maria Polinsky 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 Maria Polinsky sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 204 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Maria Polinsky 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 Maria Polinsky sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Maria Polinsky is affiliated with the University of Maryland, College Park in the United States. Their research primarily intersects the fields of Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, and Psychology, with a total of 26, 23, and 16 publications respectively in these areas. Their work extensively addresses Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language, and intersects with Artificial Intelligence, Developmental and Educational Psychology, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The main topics explored in Polinsky's work include Syntax, Semantics, and Linguistic Variation; Linguistic Variation and Morphology; Multilingual Education and Policy; Natural Language Processing Techniques; Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism; Language, Discourse, and Communication Strategies; as well as Language Development and Disorders.

Among recent papers associated with the broader research context, key publications include:

  • Language history on fast forward: Innovations in heritage languages and diachronic change (2021, Bilingualism Language and Cognition)
  • Headedness and the Lexicon: The Case of Verb-to-Noun Ratios (2020, Languages)
  • Form-Focused Instruction in the Heritage Language Classroom: Toward Research-Informed Heritage Language Pedagogy (2020, Frontiers in Education)
  • Collocations and near-native competence: Lexical strategies of heritage speakers of Russian (2020, International Journal of Bilingualism)
  • Cross-linguistic influence meets diminished input: A comparative study of heritage Russian in contact with Hebrew and English (2023, Second language Research)

Frequent co-authors in their body of work include Silvina Montrul, Natalia Meir, Gregory Scontras, Olesya Kisselev, and Rajiv Rao. This collaborative network reflects ongoing research engagement across multiple linguistic and psycholinguistic domains.

Polinsky's research is frequently published in venues such as Languages, Journal of Applied Linguistics and Lexicography, Linguistic Approaches to Bilingualism, Bilingualism Language and Cognition, and Frontiers in Education. These journals contribute to the dissemination of studies in applied linguistics, bilingualism, and educational approaches related to heritage language acquisition and development.

Best Publications

  • Heritage Languages: In the 'Wild' and in the Classroom

    Maria Polinsky;Olga Kagan

  • Heritage languages and their speakers: Opportunities and challenges for linguistics

    Elabbas Benmamoun;Silvina Montrul;Maria Polinsky

  • Heritage Languages and their Speakers

    Maria Polinsky

  • Incomplete Acquisition American Russian

    Maria Polinsky

  • Gender under Incomplete Acquisition: Heritage Speakers' Knowledge of Noun Categorization.

    Maria Polinsky

  • Long-Distance Agreement And Topic In Tsez

    Maria Polinsky;Eric Potsdam

  • Understanding heritage languages

    Maria Polinsky;Gregory Scontras

  • Reanalysis in Adult Heritage Language: A Case for Attrition.

    Maria Polinsky

  • American Russian: Language Loss Meets Language Acquisition

    M. Polinsky

  • Heritage language and linguistic theory

    Gregory Scontras;Zuzanna Z Fuchs;Maria Polinsky

  • The Russian language in the twentieth century

    Bernard Comrie;Gerald Stone;Maria Polinsky

  • Heritage Language Narratives

    Maria Polinsky

  • Causatives and transitivity

    Bernard Comrie;Maria Polinsky

  • The Atlas of Languages: The Origin and Development of Languages Throughout the World

    Bernard Comrie;Stephen Matthews;Maria Polinsky

  • Prolegomena to Heritage Linguistics

    Elabbas Benmamoun;Silvina Montrul;Maria Polinsky

  • Expanding the Scope of Control and Raising

    Maria Polinsky;Eric Potsdam

  • Defining an “ideal” heritage speaker: Theoretical and methodological challenges Reply to peer commentaries

    Elabbas Benmamoun;Silvina Montrul;Maria Polinsky

  • Cognitive and linguistic factors affecting subject/object asymmetry: An eye-tracking study of prenominal relative clauses in Korean

    Nayoung Kwon;Peter C. Gordon;Yoonhyoung Lee;Robert Kluender

  • Cross-Linguistic Parallels in Language Loss.

    Maria Polinsky

  • The Oxford handbook of language attrition.

    Monika Schmid;Barbara Köpke;Mirela Cherciov;Tuğba Karayayla

  • Subject preference in Korean

    Nayoung Kwon;Maria Polinsky;Robert Kluender;Donald Baumer

  • The nature of explanation in linguistic theory

    John C. Moore;Maria Polinsky

  • Deconstructing Ergativity: Two Types of Ergative Languages and Their Features

    Maria Polinsky

Frequent Co-Authors

Bernard Comrie
Bernard Comrie University of California, Santa Barbara
Silvina Montrul
Silvina Montrul University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Marta Kutas
Marta Kutas University of California, San Diego
Elizabeth Bates
Elizabeth Bates University of California, San Diego
Martin Haspelmath
Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Frederick J. Newmeyer
Frederick J. Newmeyer University of Washington
Peter C. Gordon
Peter C. Gordon University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Sandra A. Thompson
Sandra A. Thompson University of California, Santa Barbara
Larry M. Hyman
Larry M. Hyman University of California, Berkeley
John R. N. Taylor
John R. N. Taylor University of Pretoria

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