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D-Index
43
Citations
8837
World Ranking
4372
National Ranking
64

William S.-Y. Wang 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 William S.-Y. Wang sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 208 publications — 67th percentile

67% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

William S.-Y. Wang 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 William S.-Y. Wang sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 43 D-Index — 46th percentile

46% 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

  • 1978 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

What is he best known for?

The fields of study he is best known for:

  • Linguistics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Phonology

His primary scientific interests are in Linguistics, Cognitive psychology, Process, Visual perception and Communication. Linguistics is represented through his Reading, Phonology, Lexicon, Phonological change and Phonological rule research. His Cognitive psychology study frequently draws connections to other fields, such as Chinese characters.

His Visual perception research is multidisciplinary, incorporating perspectives in Orthography, Dyslexia, Speech perception, Experimental psychology and Phonetic transcription. His study explores the link between Communication and topics such as Visual matching that cross with problems in Phonetics and Speech recognition. His biological study spans a wide range of topics, including Orthographic projection and Perception.

His most cited work include:

  • Competing Changes as a Cause of Residue (293 citations)
  • Individual differences in language ability and language behavior (261 citations)
  • Chemical looping processes for CO2 capture and carbonaceous fuel conversion – prospect and opportunity (220 citations)

What are the main themes of his work throughout his whole career to date?

William S.-Y. Wang spends much of his time researching Linguistics, Speech recognition, Artificial intelligence, Perception and Natural language processing. His study in Historical linguistics, Lexical diffusion, Language Experience Approach, Phonology and Computational linguistics is done as part of Linguistics. His work in Speech recognition tackles topics such as Mandarin Chinese which are related to areas like Tone.

His Artificial intelligence study integrates concerns from other disciplines, such as Grammar, Set and Pattern recognition. His Perception research includes elements of Acoustics, Context and Cognitive psychology. William S.-Y. Wang interconnects Chinese characters and Stroop effect in the investigation of issues within Cognitive psychology.

He most often published in these fields:

  • Linguistics (31.47%)
  • Speech recognition (22.84%)
  • Artificial intelligence (18.97%)

What were the highlights of his more recent work (between 2014-2021)?

  • Perception (17.67%)
  • Speech recognition (22.84%)
  • Linguistics (31.47%)

In recent papers he was focusing on the following fields of study:

William S.-Y. Wang mostly deals with Perception, Speech recognition, Linguistics, Cognitive psychology and Mandarin Chinese. His research integrates issues of Psycholinguistics and Written language in his study of Perception. His Speech recognition study combines topics in areas such as Deep linguistic processing, Speech perception, Semantic memory and Phonetics.

William S.-Y. Wang works mostly in the field of Phonetics, limiting it down to topics relating to Auditory perception and, in certain cases, Natural language processing and Artificial intelligence, as a part of the same area of interest. His Linguistics research incorporates elements of Linguistic relativity and Transition. His Cognitive psychology research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Test and Target arrow.

Between 2014 and 2021, his most popular works were:

  • Delta, theta, beta, and gamma brain oscillations index levels of auditory sentence processing. (48 citations)
  • Resting State EEG-based biometrics for individual identification using convolutional neural networks (43 citations)
  • Phonological Features of Tone (31 citations)

In his most recent research, the most cited papers focused on:

  • Linguistics
  • Artificial intelligence
  • Statistics

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Speech recognition, Perception, Identification, Noise and Linguistics. His Speech recognition study combines topics from a wide range of disciplines, such as Deep linguistic processing and Phonetics. Natural language processing and Artificial intelligence are the subject areas of his Deep linguistic processing study.

His research on Phonetics often connects related topics like Auditory perception. He has included themes like Character, Chinese characters, Psycholinguistics and Written language in his Perception study. His work deals with themes such as Speech perception, P3b and Superior temporal sulcus, which intersect with Linguistics.

Best Publications

  • Competing Changes as a Cause of Residue

    William S-Y. Wang

  • Chemical looping processes for CO2 capture and carbonaceous fuel conversion – prospect and opportunity

    Liang-Shih Fan;Liang Zeng;William Wang;Siwei Luo

  • Individual differences in language ability and language behavior

    Charles John Fillmore;Daniel Kempler;William S.-Y. Wang

  • The Chinese Language

    William S. Y. Wang

  • Paternal population history of East Asia: sources, patterns, and microevolutionary processes.

    Tatiana Karafet;Liping Xu;Ruofu Du;William Shi Yuan Wang

  • Vocal Physiology: Voice Production, Mechanisms and Functions

    William S-Y. Wang;Osamu Fujimura

  • Speech Recoding in Reading Chinese Characters.

    Ovid J. Tzeng;Daisy L. Hung;William S-Y. Wang

  • Visual lateralisation effect in reading Chinese characters

    Ovid J.L. Tzeng;Daisy L. Hung;Bill Cotton;William S.Y. Wang

  • 13 Vowel Features, Paired Variables, and the English Vowel Shift

    William S-Y. Wang

  • Modelling endangered languages: The effects of bilingualism and social structure

    James W. Minett;William Shi Yuan Wang

  • The Position of Embedding Transformations in a Grammar

    Charles J. Fillmore

  • The influence of language experience on categorical perception of pitch contours

    Gang Peng;Gang Peng;Hong-Ying Zheng;Tao Gong;Ruo-Xiao Yang

  • Language regions of brain are operative in color perception

    Wai Ting Siok;Paul Kay;William Shi Yuan Wang;Alice H D Chan

  • Tone 3 in Pekinese

    William S-Y. Wang;Kung-Pu Li

  • Brain size does not predict general cognitive ability within families

    P. Thomas Schoenemann;Thomas F. Budinger;Vincent M. Sarich;William Shi Yuan Wang;William Shi Yuan Wang

  • The First Two R's

    Ovid J. L. Tzeng;William S. Y. Wang

  • Self‐organization and selection in the emergence of vocabulary

    Jinyun Ke;James W. Minett;Ching Pong Au;William Shi Yuan Wang

  • The Lexicon in phonological change

    William S.-Y. Wang

  • Cerebral lateralization of function and bilingual decision processes: Is thinking lateralized? ☆

    Curtis Hardyck;Ovid J.L. Tzeng;William Shi Yuan Wang

  • The invasion of language: emergence, change and death

    William Shi Yuan Wang;James W. Minett

  • When words collide: orthographic and phonological interference during word processing.

    John Polich;Gregory McCarthy;William Shi Yuan Wang;Emanuel Donchin

  • The Oxford Handbook of Chinese Linguistics

    William S Y Wang;Chaofen Sun

Frequent Co-Authors

Liang-Shih Fan
Liang-Shih Fan The Ohio State University
Ovid J.L. Tzeng
Ovid J.L. Tzeng Academia Sinica
Thierry Blu
Thierry Blu Chinese University of Hong Kong
Charles J. Fillmore
Charles J. Fillmore University of California, Berkeley
John H. Holland
John H. Holland University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Vittorio Loreto
Vittorio Loreto Sapienza University of Rome
Liang Zeng
Liang Zeng Tianjin University
James S. Magnuson
James S. Magnuson University of Connecticut
Diana Deutsch
Diana Deutsch University of California, San Diego
Michael F. Hammer
Michael F. Hammer University of Arizona

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