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D-Index
40
Citations
13589
World Ranking
5189
National Ranking
65

Östen Dahl 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 Östen Dahl sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 167 publications — 50th percentile

50% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Östen Dahl 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 Östen Dahl 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
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This scientist: 40 D-Index — 34th percentile

34% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2006 - Member of Academia Europaea

Overview

Östen Dahl is affiliated with Stockholm University in Sweden and has contributed to several fields within the arts, humanities, social sciences, and psychology. Their research primarily focuses on language and linguistics, with work spanning subfields such as communication, experimental and cognitive psychology, and gender studies.

Their scholarly output covers a variety of topics including syntax, semantics, linguistic variation, morphology, and aspects of language use such as swearing, euphemism, and multilingualism. Additional areas of interest include language, metaphor, cognition, lexicography, and gender studies in language.

  • Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation
  • Linguistic Variation and Morphology
  • Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism
  • Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
  • Lexicography and Language Studies
  • Gender Studies in Language

Östen Dahl has published in notable venues, predominantly the Annual Review of Linguistics, where one paper titled Perfects Across Languages appeared in 2021. This paper has received citations indicating engagement from the research community.

  • Annual Review of Linguistics

Their 2021 publication:

  • Perfects Across Languages, 2021, Annual Review of Linguistics

Throughout their career, Östen Dahl has been recognized by the academic community with awards such as membership in the Academia Europaea, granted in 2006.

Best Publications

  • Tense and aspect systems

    Östen Dahl

  • Typology of sentence negation

    Östen Dahl

  • The growth and maintenance of linguistic complexity

    Östen Dahl

  • Tense and aspect in the languages of Europe

    Östen Dahl

  • The Creation of Tense and Aspect Systems in the Languages of the World

    Joan L. Bybee;Östen Dahl

  • Logic in linguistics

    Jens S. Allwood;Lars-Gunnar Andersson;Östen Dahl

  • On the Definition of the Telic-Atelic (Bounded-Nonbounded) Distinction

    Östen Dahl

  • The grammar of future time reference in European languages

    Östen Dahl

  • Animacy in grammar and discourse

    Ö. Dahl;K. Fraurud

  • Animacy and the notion of semantic gender

    Östen Dahl

  • Current relevance and event reference

    Östen Dahl

  • The tense-aspect systems of European languages in a typological perspective

    Östen Dahl

  • Animacy and egophoricity: Grammar, ontology and phylogeny

    Östen Dahl

  • Kinship in grammar

    Östen Dahl;Maria Koptjevskaja-Tamm

  • Temporal distance: remoteness distinctions in tense-aspect systems

    Östen Dahl

  • The progressive in Romance, as compared with English

    Östen Dahl

  • Explanations for Language Universals

    Brian Butterworth;Bernard Comrie;Östen Dahl

  • Egophoricity in discourse and syntax

    Östen Dahl

  • The Simple and Compound Past in Romance languages

    Östen Dahl

  • Perfects and iamitives: two gram types in one grammatical space

    Östen Dahl;Bernhard Wälchli

  • Grammaticalization in the North: Noun phrase morphosyntax in Scandinavian vernaculars

    Östen Dahl

  • Progressive markers in Germanic languages

    Östen Dahl

  • Logic in Linguistics

    Richmond W. Thomason;Jens Allwood;Lars-Gunnar Andersson;Osten Dahl

Frequent Co-Authors

Brian Butterworth
Brian Butterworth University College London
Bernard Comrie
Bernard Comrie University of California, Santa Barbara
Joan L. Bybee
Joan L. Bybee University of New Mexico
Roger Lass
Roger Lass University of Cape Town
Matthew S. Dryer
Matthew S. Dryer University of Alberta
Balthasar Bickel
Balthasar Bickel University of Zurich
Tom Güldemann
Tom Güldemann Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Dieter Wunderlich
Dieter Wunderlich Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

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