2026 Marjolijn Verspoor: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	34	6838	6350	268	254	174	8950

Marjolijn Verspoor 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 Marjolijn Verspoor sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 174 publications — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Marjolijn Verspoor 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 Marjolijn Verspoor sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 34 D-Index — 13th percentile

13% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Marjolijn Verspoor is affiliated with the University of Groningen in the Netherlands and works primarily within the fields of Arts and Humanities, Psychology, and Computer Science. Their research interests span a range of interconnected subfields including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence, Literature and Literary Theory, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

Their main research topics focus on Second Language Acquisition and Learning, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Second Language Learning and Teaching, Text Readability and Simplification, Natural Language Processing Techniques, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, as well as Speech and Dialogue Systems.

Marjolijn Verspoor has contributed to several recent publications, including:

"MEASURING LONGITUDINAL WRITING DEVELOPMENT USING INDICES OF SYNTACTIC COMPLEXITY AND SOPHISTICATION" (2020) in Studies in Second Language Acquisition
"Learning an L2 and L3 at the same time: help or hinder?" (2020) in International Journal of Multilingualism
"Measures of variability in transitional phases in second language development" (2021) in IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching
"Mandarin vocabulary growth, teacher qualifications and teacher talk in child heritage language learners" (2020) in International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
"Variability as normal as apple pie" (2021) in Linguistics Vanguard

Their authorship also includes several books published by well-known academic presses, such as "Learner Corpus Research Meets Second Language Acquisition" (2020) published by Cambridge University Press, "English Sentence Constructions" (2022) from John Benjamins Publishing Company, and "Learning Russian Through Films," which is slated for publication by University of Groningen Press in 2025.

Frequently collaborating coauthors include:

Rasmus Steinkrauss
Wander Lowie
Bert Le Bruyn
Ting Huang
Kees de Bot

Marjolijn Verspoor's work appears regularly in specialized academic venues, with multiple publications in journals such as System, Journal of the European Second Language Association, Language Learning, SSRN Electronic Journal, and Studies in Second Language Acquisition.

Best Publications

A Dynamic Systems Theory approach to second language acquisition

Kees De Bot;Wander Lowie;Marjolijn Verspoor

1828
Citations
Cognitive Exploration Of Language And Linguistics

René Dirven;Marjolijn Verspoor

1046
Citations
Second Language Acquisition: An Advanced Resource Book

Kees de Bot;Wander Lowie;Marjolijn Verspoor

744
Citations
Variability in Second Language Development from a Dynamic Systems Perspective

Marjolijn Verspoor;Wander Lowie;Marijn van Dijk

499
Citations
A Dynamic Approach to Second Language Development. Methods and Techniques.

Marjolijn Verspoor;K. de Bot;Wander Lowie

449
Citations
A dynamic usage based perspective on L2 writing

Marjolijn Verspoor;Marjolijn Verspoor;Monika S. Schmid;Xiaoyan Xu

366
Citations
Dynamic Patterns in Development of Accuracy and Complexity: A Longitudinal Case Study in the Acquisition of Finnish

Marianne Spoelman;Marjolijn Verspoor

362
Citations
Making sense of polysemous words

Marjolijn Verspoor;Wander Lowie

299
Citations
Individual Differences and the Ergodicity Problem

Wander M. Lowie;Marjolijn H. Verspoor;Marjolijn H. Verspoor

255
Citations
Variability and Variation in Second Language Acquisition Orders: A Dynamic Reevaluation

Wander Lowie;Wander Lowie;Marjolijn Verspoor;Marjolijn Verspoor

178
Citations
Explorations in linguistic relativity

Martin Pütz;Marjolijn Verspoor

177
Citations
Dynamic systems theory as a comprehensive theory of second language development.

K. de Bot;W.M. Lowie;Steven Thorne;M.H. Verspoor

169
Citations
English Sentence Analysis: An introductory course

Marjolijn Henriëtte Verspoor;Kim Sauter

144
Citations
Cognitive Exploration of Language and Linguistics: Second revised edition

René Dirven;Marjolijn Verspoor

119
Citations
Dynamic systems theory and a usage based approach to second language development

Marjolijn H. Verspoor;Heike Behrens

85
Citations
Dynamic Systems Theory and Applied Linguistics: the ultimate “so what”?

de Cornelis Bot;Marjolijn Verspoor;Wander Lowie

84
Citations
The effects of English bilingual education in the Netherlands

Marjolijn Verspoor;Cornelis de Bot;Xiaoyan Xu

69
Citations
A dynamic view as a complementary perspective

de Cornelis Bot;Wander Lowie;Marjolijn Verspoor

69
Citations
Frequency and function in WH question acquisition. A usage-based case study of German L1 acquisition

C.L.J. (Kees) de Bot;M.H. (Marjolijn) Verspoor;R.G.A. Steinkrauss

65
Citations
Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning

Marjolijn Verspoor;K Dong Lee;E Sweetser

61
Citations
Chapter 7. Complex Dynamic Systems Theory and L2 pedagogy: Lessons to be learned

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45
Citations
Chapter 10. Dynamic Systems Theory as a comprehensive theory of second language development

Kees de Bot;Wander Lowie;Steven L. Thorne;Marjolijn Verspoor

16
Citations
Cognitive Linguistic Approaches to Teaching Vocabulary and Phraseology

Marjolijn Verspoor

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Kees de Bot University of Groningen

René Dirven University of Duisburg-Essen

Steven L. Thorne Portland State University

Norbert Schmitt University of Nottingham

Eve Sweetser University of California, Berkeley

Scott A. Crossley Vanderbilt University

External Links

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