2026 N. J. Enfield: 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	55	1997	1809	148	139	272	14575

Overview

N. J. Enfield is affiliated with the University of Sydney in Australia. Their research spans several interdisciplinary fields, primarily within the social sciences, arts and humanities, and psychology. Enfield's work engages deeply with language, discourse, and cognition while intersecting with sociopolitical studies and cultural evolution.

Enfield's main fields of study include:

Social Sciences
Arts and Humanities
Psychology

Within these broader fields, Enfield focuses on subfields such as:

Language and Linguistics
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Linguistics and Language
Sociology and Political Science
Political Science and International Relations

The main topics of their research cover:

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
Language and cultural evolution
Multilingual Education and Policy
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
Anthropological Studies and Insights

Enfield has contributed to multiple recent papers, including:

"Beyond Single-Mindedness: A Figure-Ground Reversal for the Cognitive Sciences," 2023, published in Cognitive Science
"Interactive repair and the foundations of language," 2023, published in Trends in Cognitive Sciences
"Misinformation: an empirical study with scientists and communicators during the COVID-19 pandemic," 2021, published in BMJ Open Science
"Shared cross-cultural principles underlie human prosocial behavior at the smallest scale," 2023, published in Scientific Reports
"Linguistic concepts are self-generating choice architectures," 2022, published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Enfield include:

Jack Sidnell
Mark Dingemanse
Charles H. P. Zuckerman
Andreas Liesenfeld
Marlou Rasenberg

Enfield's work has also been disseminated through book publications with notable academic presses. These include:

The MIT Press: "Consequences of Language" (2022), "Language vs. Reality" (2022)
Cambridge University Press: "The Languages of Mainland Southeast Asia" (2021)

Their publications have appeared frequently in venues such as:

Cognitive Science
Trends in Cognitive Sciences
BMJ Open Science
Scientific Reports
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Best Publications

Universals and cultural variation in turn taking in conversation

Tanya Stivers;Nicholas J. Enfield;Penelope Brown;Christina Englert

1616
Citations
The Anatomy of Meaning: Speech, Gesture, and Composite Utterances

N. J. Enfield

538
Citations
Projecting the End of a Speaker's Turn: A Cognitive Cornerstone of Conversation

Jan Peter De Ruiter;Holger Mitterer;N. J. Enfield

517
Citations
Roots of Human Sociality : Culture, Cognition and Interaction

N. J. Enfield;Stephen C. Levinson

459
Citations
AREAL LINGUISTICS AND MAINLAND SOUTHEAST ASIA

N. J. Enfield

436
Citations
Linguistic Epidemiology: Semantics and Grammar of Language Contact in Mainland Southeast Asia

N. J. Enfield

431
Citations
Demonstratives in Space and Interaction: Data from Lao Speakers and Implications for Semantic Analysis

N. J. Enfield

375
Citations
Principles of event segmentation in language: The case of motion events

Jürgen Bohnemeyer;Nicholas J. Enfield;James Essegbey;Iraide Ibarretxe-Antuñano

356
Citations
Universal Principles in the Repair of Communication Problems.

Mark Dingemanse;Seán G. Roberts;Julija Baranova;Joe Blythe

337
Citations
Differential coding of perception in the world's languages

Asifa Majid;Asifa Majid;Seán G. Roberts;Ludy Cilissen;Karen Emmorey

329
Citations
Relationship Thinking: Agency, Enchrony, and Human Sociality

N. J. Enfield

320
Citations
Person reference in interaction: Linguistic, cultural, and social perspectives

N. J. Enfield;Tanya Stivers

299
Citations
A coding scheme for question-response sequences in conversation

Tanya Stivers;Tanya Stivers;N. J. Enfield

296
Citations
A grammar of Lao

N. J. Enfield

290
Citations
The Cambridge Handbook of Linguistic Anthropology

N. J. Enfield;Paul Kockelman;Jack Sidnell

257
Citations
‘Lip-pointing’: A discussion of form and function with reference to data from Laos

N. J. Enfield

235
Citations
Is ''Huh?'' a Universal Word? Conversational Infrastructure and the Convergent Evolution of Linguistic Items

Mark Dingemanse;Francisco Torreira;Francisco Torreira;N. J. Enfield

234
Citations
Cross-linguistic categorisation of the body: Introduction

N. J. Enfield;Asifa Majid;Miriam Van Staden

228
Citations
Question-response sequences in conversation across ten languages: An introduction

N.J. Enfield;Tanya Stivers;Tanya Stivers;Stephen C. Levinson

198
Citations
Social consequences of common ground

N. J. Enfield

191
Citations
Ethnosyntax : Explorations in Grammar and Culture

N. J. Enfield

179
Citations
Intersubjectivity and progressivity in person (and place) reference

N. J. Enfield;Tanya Stivers

136
Citations
The Anatomy of Meaning: Contents

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116
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University

Asifa Majid University of York

Tanya Stivers University of California, Los Angeles

Sotaro Kita University of Warwick

Paul Drew University of York

Bernard Comrie University of California, Santa Barbara

Anna Wierzbicka Australian National University

Holger Mitterer University of Malta

Elena Lieven University of Manchester

Morten H. Christiansen Cornell University

External Links

Personal website of N. J. Enfield Google Scholar page

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