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Michael Halliday

Michael Halliday

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
65
Citations
138591
World Ranking
993
National Ranking
75

Michael Halliday 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 Michael Halliday sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 169 publications — 51st percentile

51% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Michael Halliday 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 Michael Halliday sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 65 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Michael Halliday was affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research primarily focused on topics related to language education and linguistics.

The scientist authored multiple papers published in the venue Language Context and Text The Social Semiotics Forum. These papers include:

  • Exploring the "language" part of language education (2023) in Language Context and Text The Social Semiotics Forum
  • On the concept of "educational linguistics" (2023) in Language Context and Text The Social Semiotics Forum

Frequent co-authors included Geoff Williams, with whom they collaborated on at least two occasions.

The main fields of study covered in their work were:

  • Arts and Humanities
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, the subfields addressed were:

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Linguistics and Language
  • Literature and Literary Theory

The key topics of their research consisted of:

  • Multilingual Education and Policy
  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
  • Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning

Best Publications

  • An Introduction to Functional Grammar

    Michael Halliday

  • Cohesion in English

    M. A. K. Halliday;Ruqaiya Hasan

  • Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective

    M. A. K. Halliday;Rugaiya Hasan

  • Explorations in the functions of language

    Michael Halliday

  • Language as social semiotic : the social interpretation of language and meaning

    M. A. K. Halliday

  • NOTES ON TRANSITIVITY AND THEME IN ENGLISH. PART 2

    M. A. K. Halliday

  • Spoken and Written Language

    M. A. K. Halliday

  • Writing Science: Literacy And Discursive Power

    M.A.K. Halliday;J.R. Martin

  • Halliday's Introduction to Functional Grammar

    Michael Halliday

  • The linguistic sciences and language teaching

    M. A. K. Halliday;Angus McIntosh;Peter Strevens

  • Language As Social Semiotic

    M.A.K. Halliday

  • Towards a Language-Based Theory of Learning

    M.A.K. Halliday

  • Learning How to Mean

    M.A.K. Halliday

  • Intonation and grammar in British English

    M. A. K. Halliday

  • Categories of the theory of grammar

    Michael Halliday

  • Learning How to Mean: Explorations in the Development of Language

    Michael Halliday

  • Linguistic function and literary style: an inquiry into the language of William Golding's The Inheritors

    M.A.K. Halliday

  • Functional Diversity in Language as Seen from a Consideration of Modality and Mood in English

    M. A. K. Halliday

  • Corpus studies and probabilistic grammar

    M. A. K. Halliday

  • A course in spoken English : intonation

    M. A. K. Halliday

  • Intonation and Grammar in British English

    David Crystal;M. A. K. Halliday

Frequent Co-Authors

James R. Martin
James R. Martin University of Sydney
Gunther Kress
Gunther Kress University College London
David Crystal
David Crystal Bangor University

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