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D-Index
53
Citations
23384
World Ranking
2218
National Ranking
1069

Peter Ladefoged 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 Peter Ladefoged sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 206 publications — 66th percentile

66% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Peter Ladefoged 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 Peter Ladefoged 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: 53 D-Index — 72nd percentile

72% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Peter Ladefoged was affiliated with the University of California, Los Angeles in the United States. Throughout their career, they contributed to the academic community with research and scholarship in linguistics and phonetics.

The available information does not list specific papers, coauthors, publication venues, book publications, fields, subfields, or main research topics associated with their work. Likewise, there are no recorded awards or distinctions in the present data.

Ladefoged's work was framed within the context of their institutional affiliation, which often indicates involvement in both teaching and research at a major research university.

As the scientist is deceased, this profile reflects their career in past tense based on the available data, presenting a factual overview devoid of evaluative commentary.

Best Publications

  • The Sounds of the World's Languages

    Peter Ladefoged;Ian Maddieson

  • A course in phonetics

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Variation and universals in VOT: evidence from 18 languages

    Taehong Cho;Peter Ladefoged

  • Information Conveyed by Vowels

    Peter Ladefoged;D. E. Broadbent

  • Fundamental problems in phonetics

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  • Handbook of the International Phonetic Association: A Guide to the Use of the International Phonetic Alphabet

    Carlos Gussenhoven;John Hajek;Madalena Cruz-Ferreira

  • Phonation types : a cross-linguistic overview

    Matthew Gordon;Peter Ladefoged

  • Acoustic and aerodynamic correlates of Korean stops and fricatives

    Taehong Cho;Sun-Ah Jun;Peter Ladefoged

  • Preliminaries to linguistic phonetics

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Vowels and consonants : an introduction to the sounds of languages

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Three areas of experimental phonetics

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Phonetic Data Analysis: An Introduction to Fieldwork and Instrumental Techniques

    Peter Ladefoged

  • A phonetic study of West African languages

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Factor analysis of tongue shapes.

    Richard Harshman;Peter Ladefoged;Louis Goldstein

  • Elements of Acoustic Phonetics

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Another view of endangered languages

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Vowels and Consonants

    Peter Ladefoged;Sandra Ferrari Disner

  • A phonetic study of West African languages: An auditory-instrumental survey

    Peter Ladefoged

  • Individual differences in vowel production

    Keith Johnson;Peter Ladefoged;Mona Lindau

  • Vowels of the world’s languages

    Peter Ladefoged;Ian Maddieson

  • Loudness, Sound Pressure, and Subglottal Pressure in Speech

    Peter Ladefoged;Norris P. McKinney

  • Stops in the World’s Languages

    Caroline Henton;Peter Ladefoged;Ian Maddieson

  • “Tense” and “lax” in four minority languages of China

    Ian Maddieson;Peter Ladefoged

  • Respiratory Muscles in Speech

    M. H. Draper;Peter Ladefoged;D. Whitteridge

  • Phonetic linguistics : essays in honor of Peter Ladefoged

    Peter Ladefoged;Victoria Fromkin

  • WHAT ARE LINGUISTIC SOUNDS MADE OF

    Peter Ladefoged

Frequent Co-Authors

Donald E. Broadbent
Donald E. Broadbent University of Oxford
Keith A. Johnson
Keith A. Johnson Harvard University
Louis Goldstein
Louis Goldstein University of Southern California
Fang Liu
Fang Liu Beihang University
Philip Lieberman
Philip Lieberman Brown University
Abeer Alwan
Abeer Alwan University of California, Los Angeles
Richard Wright
Richard Wright Georgia State University
Gerald E. Loeb
Gerald E. Loeb University of Southern California

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