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D-Index
52
Citations
14989
World Ranking
2392
National Ranking
133

Stuart Webb 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 Stuart Webb sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 105 publications — 16th percentile

16% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Stuart Webb 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 Stuart Webb sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 52 D-Index — 70th percentile

70% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Stuart Webb is affiliated with the University of Western Ontario in Canada. Their research primarily focuses on the fields of Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Computer Science, with notable contributions to specific subfields including Developmental and Educational Psychology, Language and Linguistics, and Artificial Intelligence. This interdisciplinary approach situates their work at the intersection of cognitive and language sciences.

Webb's scholarly output engages deeply with topics such as Second Language Acquisition and Learning, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, and Natural Language Processing Techniques. Additional areas of interest include Text Readability and Simplification, Lexicography and Language Studies, Subtitles and Audiovisual Media, and Translation Studies and Practices.

Their research has been published extensively in several academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • Studies in Second Language Acquisition
  • Language Learning
  • Modern Language Journal
  • Applied Linguistics
  • Language Teaching Research

Recent papers authored by Webb illustrate their focus and thematic coverage across language education and acquisition topics. Selected publications include:

  • How Effective Are Intentional Vocabulary-Learning Activities? A Meta-Analysis (2020, Modern Language Journal)
  • HOW DOES MODE OF INPUT AFFECT THE INCIDENTAL LEARNING OF COLLOCATIONS? (2020, Studies in Second Language Acquisition)

Frequent collaborators include Zhouhan Jin, Thi Ngoc Yen Dang, Akifumi Yanagisawa, Takumi Uchihara, and Emi Iwaizumi. These partnerships reflect ongoing collaborative research efforts in language acquisition and applied linguistics fields.

The broad thematic scope of Webb's research encompasses cognitive and educational aspects of language learning, supported by methodological approaches from psychology and computational techniques. The integration of artificial intelligence concepts highlights the relevance of their work to evolving digital and automated language processing environments.

Best Publications

  • Learning word pairs and glossed sentences: the effects of a single context on vocabulary knowledge:

    Stuart Webb

  • The effects of repetition on vocabulary knowledge

    Stuart Webb

  • Researching and Analyzing Vocabulary

    I. S. P. Nation;Stuart Webb

  • RECEPTIVE AND PRODUCTIVE VOCABULARY LEARNING: The Effects of Reading and Writing on Word Knowledge

    Stuart Webb

  • RECEPTIVE AND PRODUCTIVE VOCABULARY SIZES OF L2 LEARNERS

    Stuart Webb

  • Vocabulary Demands of Television Programs

    Stuart Webb;Michael P. H. Rodgers

  • Incidental Learning of Collocation

    Stuart Webb;Jonathan Newton;Anna Chang

  • The Effects of Context on Incidental Vocabulary Learning.

    Stuart Webb

  • Incidental vocabulary acquisition through viewing L2 television and factors that affect learning

    Elke Peters;Stuart Webb

  • The Lexical Coverage of Movies

    Stuart Webb;Michael P. H. Rodgers

  • The updated Vocabulary Levels Test

    Stuart Webb;Yosuke Sasao;Oliver Ballance

  • The Effects of Repetition on Incidental Vocabulary Learning: A Meta-Analysis of Correlational Studies

    Takumi Uchihara;Stuart Webb;Akifumi Yanagisawa

  • Second language vocabulary learning through extensive reading with audio support: How do frequency and distribution of occurrence affect learning?

    Stuart Webb;Anna C-S Chang

  • Gauging the effects of exercises on verb–noun collocations

    Frank Boers;Murielle Demecheleer;Averil Coxhead;Stuart Webb

  • The Academic Spoken Word List.

    Thi Ngoc Yen Dang;Thi Ngoc Yen Dang;Averil Coxhead;Stuart Webb

  • The lexical profile of academic spoken English

    Thi Ngoc Yen Dang;Stuart Webb

  • The Effects of Vocabulary Learning on Collocation and Meaning.

    Stuart Webb;Eve Kagimoto

  • Second Language Vocabulary Growth

    Stuart Alexander Webb;Anna Ching-Shyang Chang

  • Examining second language receptive knowledge of collocation and factors that affect learning

    Thi My Hang Nguyen;Stuart Webb

  • Narrow Viewing: The Vocabulary in Related Television Programs

    Michael P. H. Rodgers;Stuart Webb

  • Learning Collocations: Do the Number of Collocates, Position of the Node Word, and Synonymy Affect Learning?

    Stuart Webb;Eve Kagimoto

Frequent Co-Authors

Pavel Trofimovich
Pavel Trofimovich Concordia University
Frank Boers
Frank Boers University of Western Ontario
Kazuya Saito
Kazuya Saito University College London
Talia Isaacs
Talia Isaacs University College London
Paul Nation
Paul Nation Victoria University of Wellington
Batia Laufer
Batia Laufer University of Haifa

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