2026 Michael Billig: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	53	2208	2009	392	355	184	36941

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Current National Ranking

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Social Sciences and Humanities

2208

2009

392

355

184

36941

Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations

36941

World Ranking

2208

National Ranking

392

Overview

Michael Billig is affiliated with Loughborough University in the United Kingdom. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with significant contributions to subfields such as sociology and political science, demography, education, clinical psychology, and anthropology.

The scientist's work covers a variety of topics, including:

Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies
Place Attachment and Urban Studies
Religion, Society, and Development
Energy and Environment Impacts
Middle East and Rwanda Conflicts
Reproductive Health and Technologies
Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health

Michael Billig's recent publications include:

"Charcoal Production in Palestinian villages - The Paradox of resistance to innovation driving rural development," 2021, Journal of Rural Studies
"Increasing citizen satisfaction with municipal services: the function of intangible factors," 2020, International Review on Public and Nonprofit Marketing
"Opportunities for Regulatory Changes to Promote Pediatric Device Innovation in the United States: Joint Recommendations From Pediatric Innovator Roundtables," 2021, IEEE Journal of Translational Engineering in Health and Medicine
"Investigation of pyrolysis kinetics and gaseous compounds emitted during charcoal production from woods commonly used in the Eastern Mediterranean," 2021, Biofuels Bioproducts and Biorefining
"OMG, R U OK? Therapeutic Relationships between Caregivers and Youth at Risk on Social Media," 2020, Children and Youth Services Review

Frequent publication venues where the scientist has multiple contributions include:

Children and Youth Services Review
Frontiers in Psychology
GeoJournal
Social Compass
Israel Affairs

Among Michael Billig's frequent coauthors are:

Gideon Elazar
Etty Ankona
Yaakov Anker
Janet Cohen
Adam Badwan

Best Publications

Social categorization and intergroup behaviour

Henri Tajfel;Michael Billig;R. P. Bundy;Claude Flament

8818
Citations
Arguing and Thinking: A Rhetorical Approach to Social Psychology

Michael Billig

5907
Citations
Ideological Dilemmas: A Social Psychology of Everyday Thinking

Michael Billig;Susan Condor;Derek Edwards;Mike Gane

3212
Citations
Ideology and Opinions: Studies in Rhetorical Psychology

Michael Billig

2367
Citations
Social categorization and similarity in intergroup behaviour

Michael Billig;Henri Tajfel

2321
Citations
Laughter and Ridicule: Towards a Social Critique of Humour

Michael Billig

1900
Citations
Freudian Repression: Conversation Creating the Unconscious

Michael Billig

848
Citations
Whose Terms? Whose Ordinariness? Rhetoric and Ideology in Conversation Analysis:

Michael Billig

832
Citations
Social psychology and intergroup relations

Michael Billig

823
Citations
Prejudice, categorization and particularization: from a perceptual to a rhetorical approach

Michael Billig

762
Citations
Talking of the royal family

Michael Billig

653
Citations
Fascists: A social psychological view of the National Front

Michael Billig

638
Citations
Humour and hatred: The racist jokes of the Ku Klux Klan

Michael Billig

593
Citations
Accounts of health and illness: Dilemmas and representations

Alan Radley;Michael Billig

529
Citations
Learn to Write Badly: How to Succeed in the Social Sciences

Michael Billig

421
Citations
Ideology and Social Psychology: Extremism, Moderation and Contradiction

Michael Billig

403
Citations
El Análisis del discurso implica analizar: Crítica de seis atajos analíticos

Charles Antaki;Michael Billig;Derek Edwards;Jonathan Potter

354
Citations
The language of critical discourse analysis: the case of nominalization:

Michael Billig

310
Citations
The dialogic unconscious: Psychoanalysis, discursive psychology and the nature of repression

Michael Billig

227
Citations
The notion of ‘prejudice’: Some rhetorical and ideological aspects

Michael Billig

183
Citations
Learn to Write Badly: Contents

Unknown

82
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Potter Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Derek Edwards Loughborough University

Alan Radley Loughborough University

Henri Tajfel University of Bristol

Charles Antaki Loughborough University

Elizabeth Stokoe Loughborough University

Sue Wilkinson Loughborough University

Gary Alan Fine Northwestern University

Ruth Wodak Lancaster University

External Links

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