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Simon J. Greenhill

Simon J. Greenhill

D-Index & Metrics

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index
49
Citations
11742
World Ranking
2906
National Ranking
76

Simon J. Greenhill 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 Simon J. Greenhill sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 115 publications — 21st percentile

21% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Simon J. Greenhill 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 Simon J. Greenhill sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 49 D-Index — 64th percentile

64% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Simon J. Greenhill is affiliated with the Max Planck Society in Germany and has an extensive publication record in the field of social sciences, with a particular focus on cultural studies, language, and linguistics. Their work spans several interdisciplinary subfields, including artificial intelligence and sociology and political science.

Their research covers a range of main topics related to language and cultural evolution, linguistic variation and morphology, natural language processing techniques, linguistics and language evolution, linguistics and cultural studies, evolutionary game theory and cooperation, and Spanish linguistics and language studies.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Simon J. Greenhill include:

  • Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity, 2021, Nature Ecology & Evolution
  • The Database of Cross-Linguistic Colexifications, reproducible analysis of cross-linguistic polysemies, 2020, Scientific Data
  • Language trees with sampled ancestors support a hybrid model for the origin of Indo-European languages, 2023, Science
  • Phylogeographic analysis of the Bantu language expansion supports a rainforest route, 2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • The uses and abuses of tree thinking in cultural evolution, 2021, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Simon J. Greenhill include:

  • Russell D. Gray
  • Robert Forkel
  • Fiona M. Jordan
  • Johann-Mattis List
  • Christoph Rzymski

Simon J. Greenhill's work is regularly published in venues such as:

  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • OPAL (Open@LaTrobe) (La Trobe University)
  • Journal of Language Evolution
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Scientific Reports

Best Publications

  • Language Phylogenies Reveal Expansion Pulses and Pauses in Pacific Settlement

    Russell Gray;Alexei J. Drummond;Simon Greenhill

  • Mapping the origins and expansion of the Indo-European language family

    Remco Bouckaert;Philippe Lemey;Michael D. Dunn;Simon J. Greenhill;Simon J. Greenhill

  • Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals

    Michael Dunn;Simon J. Greenhill;Stephen C. Levinson;Russell D. Gray

  • Does horizontal transmission invalidate cultural phylogenies

    Simon J. Greenhill;Thomas E. Currie;Russell D. Gray

  • Emotion semantics show both cultural variation and universal structure

    Joshua Conrad Jackson;Joseph Watts;Teague R. Henry;Johann-Mattis List

  • Languages evolve in punctuational bursts

    Quentin D. Atkinson;Andrew Meade;Chris Venditti;Simon J. Greenhill

  • On the shape and fabric of human history

    Russell D. Gray;David Bryant;David Bryant;Simon J. Greenhill

  • The Austronesian Basic Vocabulary Database: From Bioinformatics to Lexomics

    Simon J. Greenhill;Robert Blust;Russell D. Gray

  • D-PLACE: A global database of cultural, linguistic and environmental diversity

    Kathryn R. Kirby;Russell D. Gray;Simon J. Greenhill;Fiona M. Jordan

  • Rise and fall of political complexity in island South-East Asia and the Pacific

    Thomas E. Currie;Thomas E. Currie;Simon J. Greenhill;Russell D. Gray;Toshikazu Hasegawa

  • Broad supernatural punishment but not moralizing high gods precede the evolution of political complexity in Austronesia

    Joseph Watts;Simon J. Greenhill;Quentin Douglas Atkinson;Thomas E. Currie

  • Matrilocal residence is ancestral in Austronesian societies.

    Fiona M. Jordan;Russell D. Gray;Simon J. Greenhill;Ruth Mace

  • The pleasures and perils of Darwinizing culture (with phylogenies)

    Russell D. Gray;Simon J. Greenhill;Robert M. Ross

  • Dated language phylogenies shed light on the ancestry of Sino-Tibetan

    Laurent Sagart;Guillaume Jacques;Yunfan Lai;Robin J. Ryder

  • Global predictors of language endangerment and the future of linguistic diversity

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  • Evolutionary dynamics of language systems

    Simon J. Greenhill;Simon J. Greenhill;Chieh Hsi Wu;Xia Hua;Michael Dunn

  • The Potential of automatic word comparison for historical linguistics

    Johann Mattis List;Simon J. Greenhill;Russell D. Gray

  • Population Size and the Rate of Language Evolution: A Test Across Indo-European, Austronesian, and Bantu Languages

    Simon J. Greenhill;Xia Hua;Caela F. Welsh;Hilde Schneemann

  • Cross-Linguistic Data Formats, advancing data sharing and re-use in comparative linguistics

    Robert Forkel;Johann-Mattis List;Simon J. Greenhill;Simon J. Greenhill;Christoph Rzymski

  • The shape and tempo of language evolution

    Simon J. Greenhill;Quentin Douglas Atkinson;A. Meade;Russell D. Gray

  • Population structure and cultural geography of a folktale in Europe

    Robert M. Ross;Simon J. Greenhill;Quentin D. Atkinson

Frequent Co-Authors

Quentin D. Atkinson
Quentin D. Atkinson University of Auckland
Lindell Bromham
Lindell Bromham Australian National University
Joseph Bulbulia
Joseph Bulbulia Victoria University of Wellington
Remco R. Bouckaert
Remco R. Bouckaert University of Auckland
Marcel Cardillo
Marcel Cardillo Australian National University
Stephen C. Levinson
Stephen C. Levinson Radboud University
Alexei J. Drummond
Alexei J. Drummond University of Auckland
Mark Pagel
Mark Pagel University of Reading
Robert K. Colwell
Robert K. Colwell University of Connecticut
Bobbi S. Low
Bobbi S. Low University of Michigan–Ann Arbor

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