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Matthew S. Dryer

Matthew S. Dryer

University of Alberta
Canada

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
34
Citations
11161
World Ranking
6816
National Ranking
409

Matthew S. Dryer 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 Matthew S. Dryer 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.

Matthew S. Dryer 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 Matthew S. Dryer 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: 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.

Best Publications

  • The World Atlas of Language Structures Online

    Matthew S. Dryer;Martin Haspelmath

  • The Greenbergian word order correlations

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • Primary Objects, Secondary Objects, and Antidative

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • Large Linguistic Areas and Language Sampling

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • The Greenbergian Word Order Correlations

    Unknown

  • Are Grammatical Relations Universal

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • Passive in the world's languages

    Unknown

  • Focus, pragmatic presupposition, and activated propositions

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • On the Six-Way Word Order Typology

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • Descriptive theories, explanatory theories, and Basic Linguistic Theory

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • Handbook of Amazonian Languages

    Unknown

  • Object-verb order and adjective-noun order: Dispelling a myth

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • SVO Languages and the OV:VO Typology.

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • On the order of demonstrative, numeral, adjective, and noun

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • Universals of negative position

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • The World Atlas of Language Structures Online

    Unknown

  • Word order

    Unknown

  • Verb-object-negative order in Central Africa

    Matthew S. Dryer

  • The positional tendencies of sentential noun phrases in universal grammar

    Matthew Synge Dryer

  • Why statistical universals are better than absolute universals

    Matthew S. Dryer

Frequent Co-Authors

Martin Haspelmath
Martin Haspelmath Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Bernard Comrie
Bernard Comrie University of California, Santa Barbara
Johanna Nichols
Johanna Nichols University of California, Berkeley
Balthasar Bickel
Balthasar Bickel University of Zurich
Denis Creissels
Denis Creissels Laboratoire Dynamique du Langage
Tom Güldemann
Tom Güldemann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Roger Levy
Roger Levy MIT
Frederick J. Newmeyer
Frederick J. Newmeyer University of Washington
Östen Dahl
Östen Dahl Stockholm University
Maria Polinsky
Maria Polinsky University of Maryland, College Park

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