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Tim McNamara 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 Tim McNamara sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 152 publications — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Tim McNamara 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 Tim McNamara sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Overview

Tim McNamara is affiliated with the University of Melbourne in Australia. Their research broadly spans several fields within the social sciences and arts and humanities, with a particular focus on language, education, and sociolinguistics.

The main fields of study associated with McNamara's work include:

  • Social Sciences
  • Arts and Humanities

Within these areas, their research further delves into subfields such as:

  • Language and Linguistics
  • Education
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • General Health Professions
  • Literature and Literary Theory

McNamara's work engages with a range of topics, notably:

  • EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning
  • Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare
  • Second Language Learning and Teaching
  • Military, Security, and Education Studies
  • Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Research
  • Russian Literature and Bakhtin Studies
  • Cambodian History and Society

Frequent publication venues where McNamara's research appears include:

  • Applied Linguistics
  • Assessing Writing
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Journal of Sociolinguistics
  • Studies in Language Assessment

Some of the recent papers authored or coauthored by McNamara are:

  • The Anti-Shibboleth: The Traumatic Character of the Shibboleth as Silence (2020, Applied Linguistics)
  • Three Rothkos (2021, Journal of Sociolinguistics)

Other recent publications related to McNamara's research environment but authored by frequent collaborators include:

  • Language and Trauma: An Introduction (2020, Applied Linguistics)
  • 'I will go to my grave fighting for grammar': Exploring the ability of language-trained raters to implement a professionally-relevant rating scale for writing (2020, Assessing Writing)
  • Capturing domain expert perspectives in devising a rating scale for a health specific writing test: How close can we get? (2020, Assessing Writing)

Frequent coauthors working alongside McNamara are:

  • Ute Knoch
  • Barbara Ying Zhang
  • Catherine Elder
  • Eleanor Flynn
  • Annemiek Huisman

Best Publications

  • Measuring Second Language Performance

    T. F. McNamara

  • Origin of the West Nile Virus Responsible for an Outbreak of Encephalitis in the Northeastern United States

    R. S. Lanciotti;J. T. Roehrig;V. Deubel;J. Smith

  • Language testing: The social dimension

    Carsten Roever;Tim McNamara

  • Assessed Levels of Second Language Speaking Proficiency: How Distinct?

    Noriko Iwashita;Annie Brown;Tim McNamara;Sally O’Hagan

  • Rater characteristics and rater bias: implications for training

    Tom Lumley;T.F. McNamara

  • ‘Interaction’ in second language performance assessment: Whose performance?1

    T F McNAMARA

  • Language assessment as social practice: challenges for research

    Tim McNamara

  • Can We Predict Task Difficulty in an Oral Proficiency Test? Exploring the Potential of an Information-Processing Approach to Task Design

    Noriko Iwashita;Tim McNamara;Catherine Elder

  • Using G-theory and Many-facet Rasch measurement in the development of performance assessments of the ESL speaking skills of immigrants:

    Brian K. Lynch;T. F. McNamara

  • Theorizing Social Identity; What Do We Mean by Social Identity? Competing Frameworks, Competing Discourses

    Tim Mcnamara

  • AN EXAMINATION OF RATER ORIENTATIONS AND TEST-TAKER PERFORMANCE ON ENGLISH-FOR-ACADEMIC-PURPOSES SPEAKING TASKS

    Annie Brown;Noriko Iwashita;Tim McNamara

  • Estimating the difficulty of oral proficiency tasks: what does the test-taker have to offer?:

    Catherine Elder;Noriko Iwashita;Tim McNamara

  • Developing a comprehensive, empirically based research framework for classroom-based assessment

    Kathryn Hill;Tim McNamara

  • 21st Century Shibboleth: Language Tests, Identity and Intergroup Conflict

    Tim Mcnamara

  • Item Response Theory and the validation of an ESP test for health professionals

    T.F. McNamara

  • Language testing : The social dimension

    Tim Mcnamara;Carsten Roever

  • Validity in Language Testing: The Challenge of Sam Messick's Legacy

    Tim McNamara

  • Fairness Versus Justice in Language Testing: The Place of English Literacy in the Australian Citizenship Test

    Tim McNamara;Kerry Ryan

  • An outbreak of West Nile virus in a New York City captive wildlife population.

    George V Ludwig;Paul P Calle;Joseph A Mangiafico;Bonnie L Raphael

  • What counts as effective communication in nursing? Evidence from nurse educators' and clinicians' feedback on nurse interactions with simulated patients

    Sally O'Hagan;Elizabeth Manias;Catherine Elder;John Pill

  • Experimenting with Uncertainty: Essays in Honour of Alan Davies

    T. McNamara;K. O’Loughlin

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Elder
Catherine Elder University of Melbourne
Elizabeth Manias
Elizabeth Manias Deakin University
Elana Shohamy
Elana Shohamy Tel Aviv University
Jonathan F. Smith
Jonathan F. Smith Research Triangle Park Foundation
Gillian Wigglesworth
Gillian Wigglesworth University of Melbourne
Nicholas Komar
Nicholas Komar Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Robert S. Lanciotti
Robert S. Lanciotti Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
John T. Roehrig
John T. Roehrig Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Duane J. Gubler
Duane J. Gubler Duke NUS Graduate Medical School
John S. Mackenzie
John S. Mackenzie Curtin University

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