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Center for Applied Linguistics

In research, Center for Applied Linguistics stands highest in Social Sciences (#1,973 of 9,585 worldwide), Social Sciences (#1,747 of 5,988 worldwide) and Language and Linguistics (#113 of 321 worldwide), 2022-now. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Literature and Literary Theory (Linguistics and Language is 36.2× its share of world research).

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World rank, 2022-now
#4,826
of 22,385 · #3,887 all time
Rank in United States
#664
of 3,332
Research works
5.3k
▼ 27% vs 2018-21
Citations
54k
10.3 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
10.0%
all institutions 10.0%
vs its own fields
0.78×
1.00× is exactly expected
Open access
34%
world 40%
International
19%
world 18%
Center for Applied Linguistics

What is Center for Applied Linguistics known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022-now, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #1,973 of 9,585 10.7%637 #984
Social SciencesField #1,747 of 5,988 8.4%270 #1173
Language and LinguisticsSubfield #113 of 321 17.7%135 #117
EducationSubfield #821 of 1,930 9.5%91 #572
Arts and HumanitiesField #876 of 1,896 13.8%251 #380
Artificial IntelligenceSubfield #1,044 of 1,862 5.5%85 #1000
Computer ScienceField #2,608 of 4,417 7.1%114 #2383
PsychologyField #1,295 of 2,121 9.4%93 #944
Physical SciencesDomain #7,506 of 10,670 7.3%134 #7958

Each strip is that field's whole ranked pool, with the notch where Center for Applied Linguistics sits in it, in the colour of the band that rank falls in. The track under the rate is the rate itself: it carries no average mark, because the average differs by field (from about 6% in Dentistry to 21% in Economics).

Which of those standings moved

The same fields on both windows: where it stood over the whole record, and where it stands in 2022-now. The distance is the story, and it is the one thing the two rank columns above cannot show.

  1. Social Sciences#984 #1,973
  2. Social Sciences#1,173 #1,747
  3. Language and Linguistics#117 #113
  4. Education#572 #821
  5. Arts and Humanities#380 #876
  6. Artificial Intelligence#1,000 #1,044
  7. Computer Science#2,383 #2,608
  8. Psychology#944 #1,295
  9. Physical Sciences#7,958 #7,506
all time2022-now, better2022-now, worse

A dot further right is a better standing. Fields it was not ranked in over the whole record are left out.

Which fields of science does Center for Applied Linguistics work in?

In 2022-now, 78% of research at Center for Applied Linguistics is in Social Sciences, 16% in Physical Sciences. Its largest fields are Social Sciences (32%), Arts and Humanities (29%), Psychology (14%). It does 3.1× the world's share of Social Sciences.

Social Sciences: 763 fractional works · 77.9% of its workSocial Sciences: 314 fractional works · 32.1% of its workEducation: 100 fractional works · 10.3% of its workSociology and Political Science: 64 fractional works · 6.5% of its workLinguistics and Language: 41 fractional works · 4.2% of its workPolitical Science and International Relations: 27 fractional works · 2.7% of its workCommunication: 21 fractional works · 2.1% of its workCultural Studies: 16 fractional works · 1.6% of its workGender Studies: 11 fractional works · 1.1% of its workLaw: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workAnthropology: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDemography: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workGeneral Social Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workUrban Studies: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSafety Research: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workTransportation: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Administration: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workArts and Humanities: 285 fractional works · 29.2% of its workLanguage and Linguistics: 154 fractional works · 15.8% of its workLiterature and Literary Theory: 66 fractional works · 6.8% of its workPhilosophy: 21 fractional works · 2.1% of its workHistory: 19 fractional works · 2.0% of its workHistory and Philosophy of Science: 7 fractional works · 0.7% of its workArcheology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workClassics: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workReligious studies: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workVisual Arts and Performing Arts: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMusic: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workPsychology: 135 fractional works · 13.7% of its workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 56 fractional works · 5.7% of its workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 40 fractional works · 4.1% of its workSocial Psychology: 32 fractional works · 3.3% of its workClinical Psychology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 11 fractional works · 1.1% of its workEconomics and Econometrics: 10 fractional works · 1.0% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workBusiness, Management and Accounting: 10 fractional works · 1.1% of its workOrganizational Behavior and Human Resource Management: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workMarketing: 2 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 4 fractional works · 0.5% of its workDecision Sciences: 7 fractional works · 0.8% of its workManagement Science and Operations Research: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workInformation Systems and Management: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workPhysical Sciences: 153 fractional works · 15.7% of its workComputer Science: 133 fractional works · 13.6% of its workArtificial Intelligence: 97 fractional works · 9.9% of its workInformation Systems: 15 fractional works · 1.6% of its workHuman-Computer Interaction: 9 fractional works · 0.9% of its workComputer Science Applications: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workSignal Processing: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workComputer Vision and Pattern Recognition: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workEngineering: 11 fractional works · 1.1% of its workAerospace Engineering: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMechanical Engineering: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workEnvironmental Science: 5 fractional works · 0.5% of its workMathematics: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEarth and Planetary Sciences: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workPhysics and Astronomy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workEnergy: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workLife Sciences: 34 fractional works · 3.4% of its workNeuroscience: 25 fractional works · 2.6% of its workCognitive Neuroscience: 25 fractional works · 2.5% of its workSmaller subfields together: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workMolecular Biology: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workAgricultural and Biological Sciences: 4 fractional works · 0.4% of its workHealth Sciences: 29 fractional works · 3.0% of its workMedicine: 16 fractional works · 1.6% of its workPsychiatry and Mental health: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workPublic Health, Environmental and Occupational Health: 3 fractional works · 0.3% of its workHealth Informatics: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 8 fractional works · 0.8% of its workHealth Professions: 13 fractional works · 1.3% of its workGeneral Health Professions: 9 fractional works · 0.9% of its workSpeech and Hearing: 2 fractional works · 0.2% of its workSmaller subfields together: 1 fractional works · 0.1% of its workNursing: 0 fractional works · 0.0% of its workALL ITS WORKCenter forApplied…979fractional works, 2022-now
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences16%Health Sciences3%Social Sciences78%

Each ring splits the one inside it: the four domains of science, their fields, their subfields. Size is fractional works in 2022-now. Every slice is a page; the interactive view zooms down to single topics and colours each by how much more of it this institution does than the world.

Its 4 domains and 21 fields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences31432.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities28529.2%
    3. Psychology13513.7%
    4. Economics, Econometrics and Finance111.1%
    5. Business, Management and Accounting101.1%
    6. Decision Sciences70.8%
    1. Computer Science13313.6%
    2. Engineering111.1%
    3. Environmental Science50.5%
    4. Mathematics10.1%
    5. Earth and Planetary Sciences10.1%
    6. Physics and Astronomy10.1%
    7. Energy10.1%
    8. Materials Science00.0%
    1. Neuroscience252.6%
    2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology40.4%
    3. Agricultural and Biological Sciences40.4%
    1. Medicine161.6%
    2. Health Professions131.3%
    3. Nursing00.0%
    4. Dentistry00.0%
All of science, and how each field's share has moved since 1950: the Science domain explorer

What does Center for Applied Linguistics specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Linguistics and Language takes 36.2× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Linguistics and LanguageSubfield · 40.7 works36×
  2. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 154.4 works36×
  3. Literature and Literary TheorySubfield · 66.1 works13×
  4. Experimental and Cognitive PsychologySubfield · 56.1 works12×
  5. Arts and HumanitiesField · 285.3 works10×
  6. Developmental and Educational PsychologySubfield · 40.3 works9.0×
  7. CommunicationSubfield · 20.7 works7.8×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient, a volume reading rather than an impact one. It surfaces small, lopsided specialities.

Field profile

Location quotient across every field it publishes in: outside the ring is more than an institution of this size would be expected to publish, inside it is less.

Agricultural and Biological Sciences: 0.09× its world share, 4 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.08× its world share, 4 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Neuroscience: 1.58× its world share, 25 worksNeuroscienceComputer Science: 1.75× its world share, 133 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.08× its world share, 1 worksEarth and Planetary …Energy: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksEnergyEngineering: 0.07× its world share, 11 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.10× its world share, 5 worksEnvironmental ScienceMathematics: 0.11× its world share, 1 worksMathematicsPhysics and Astronomy: 0.05× its world share, 1 worksPhysics and AstronomyDentistry: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksDentistryHealth Professions: 0.49× its world share, 13 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.09× its world share, 16 worksMedicineNursing: 0.08× its world share, 0 worksNursingArts and Humanities: 10.10× its world share, 285 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.33× its world share, 10 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.79× its world share, 7 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.51× its world share, 11 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 4.51× its world share, 134 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.54× its world share, 314 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 10.1×. Every wedge is a field page.

All 20 fields, with their numbers
  1. Arts and Humanities10.10×285 works
  2. Psychology4.51×134 works
  3. Social Sciences2.54×314 works
  4. Computer Science1.75×133 works
  5. Neuroscience1.58×25 works
  6. Decision Sciences0.79×7 works
  7. Economics, Econometrics and Finance0.51×11 works
  8. Health Professions0.49×13 works
  9. Business, Management and Accounting0.33×10 works
  10. Energy0.11×1 works
  11. Mathematics0.11×1 works
  12. Environmental Science0.10×5 works
  13. Agricultural and Biological Sciences0.09×4 works
  14. Medicine0.09×16 works
  15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology0.08×4 works
  16. Earth and Planetary Sciences0.08×1 works
  17. Nursing0.08×0 works
  18. Engineering0.07×11 works
  19. Physics and Astronomy0.05×1 works
  20. Dentistry0.02×0 works

Who are the top researchers at Center for Applied Linguistics?

Ranked on the quality score, Diane L. August, Deborah J. Short and Donna Christian lead among researchers whose main affiliation is Center for Applied Linguistics.

  1. 1 Diane L. August United States · #130,706 worldwide 7.4k citations · 89 works
  2. 2 Deborah J. Short United States · #486,034 worldwide 3.2k citations · 66 works
  3. 3 Donna Christian United States · #1,142,935 worldwide 3k citations · 121 works
  4. 4 Gerd Carling United States · #1,444,241 worldwide 414 citations · 109 works
  5. 5 Marilyn Merritt United States · #1,622,929 worldwide 578 citations · 18 works
  6. 6 Jelle Mast United States · #1,683,322 worldwide 510 citations · 60 works
  7. 7 DORRY MANN KENYON United States · #1,687,749 worldwide 3.3k citations · 50 works
  8. 8 Roel Coesemans United States · #1,978,190 worldwide 262 citations · 23 works
  9. 9 Arthur Holmer United States · #2,342,765 worldwide 824 citations · 72 works
  10. 10 William W. Gage United States · #2,442,920 worldwide 877 citations · 26 works
All ranked researchers at Center for Applied Linguistics

What are the most cited papers from Center for Applied Linguistics?

The most cited paper from Center for Applied Linguistics is "A large annotated corpus for learning natural language inference" (Samuel R. Bowman, Gabor Angeli, Christopher E. Potts et al., 2015), with 3,497 citations. Next come "Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language" (2,752) and "Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations" (1,385).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 A large annotated corpus for learning natural language inference Samuel R. Bowman, Gabor Angeli, Christopher E. Potts et al. Conference paperOpen access 2015 3,497
2 Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language Li Wei · Applied Linguistics Open access 6 Oct 2017 2,752
3 Translingual Practice: Global Englishes and Cosmopolitan Relations Suresh Canagarajah 12 Dec 2012 1,385
4 Developing Literacy in Second-Language Learners: Report of the National Literacy Panel on Language-Minority Children and Youth. Diane L. August, Timothy Shanahan 2006 1,331
5 Linguistic change, social network and speaker innovation James Milroy, Lesley Milroy · Journal of Linguistics Sep 1985 1,264
All 59 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Which keywords describe research at Center for Applied Linguistics?

By fractional works in 2022-now, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Teaching, Social Interaction, Language, Pragmatics, Pedagogy and Education.

▲ more of its work than of the world's◆ about the world's share▼ less than the world's

Size is fractional works in 2022-now in the topics tagged with each word; colour is the word's share of this institution's work against its share of the world's. The 40 words are chosen for being large and distinctive. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 40 words, with their numbers
  1. Corpus Linguistics84▲ 41×5 topics
  2. Discourse Analysis81▲ 34×8 topics
  3. Education76▲ 4.5×50 topics
  4. Language Teaching69▲ 26×8 topics
  5. Social Interaction66▲ 17×11 topics
  6. Language63▲ 26×13 topics
  7. Pragmatics61▲ 40×6 topics
  8. Pedagogy60▲ 12×16 topics
  9. Sociolinguistics55▲ 31×8 topics
  10. Globalization51▲ 2.7×54 topics
  11. Qualitative Research50▲ 6.1×15 topics
  12. Gender Studies48▲ 32×7 topics
  13. Social Sciences47▲ 33×3 topics
  14. Learning47▲ 16×7 topics
  15. Special Education45▲ 76×4 topics
  16. Methodology44▲ 91×1 topic
  17. Quantitative Methods44▲ 338×1 topic
  18. Embodiment43▲ 23×6 topics
  19. Bilingualism40▲ 30×7 topics
  20. Speech Perception40▲ 48×3 topics
  21. Multilingualism38▲ 24×6 topics
  22. Neural Machine Translation38▲ 42×1 topic
  23. Statistical Machine Translation38▲ 42×1 topic
  24. History37▲ 5.4×23 topics
  25. Language Policy34▲ 25×4 topics
  26. Lexicography34▲ 40×5 topics
  27. Language Evolution34▲ 86×2 topics
  28. Syntax34▲ 48×3 topics
  29. Bilingual Education33▲ 29×3 topics
  30. Second Language Learning33▲ 36×2 topics
  31. Language Acquisition31▲ 27×4 topics
  32. Neural Basis31▲ 35×2 topics
  33. Multimodality30▲ 59×2 topics
  34. Religion30▲ 6.5×18 topics
  35. Second Language Acquisition29▲ 33×3 topics
  36. Ethnicity29▲ 8.0×12 topics
  37. Cognition28▲ 20×5 topics
  38. Prosody28▲ 74×2 topics
  39. Perception27▲ 39×5 topics
  40. Corrective Feedback26▲ 37×1 topic

Which research topics does Center for Applied Linguistics publish most on?

By volume in 2022-now: Social and Educational Sciences, Natural Language Processing Techniques, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies.

Social and Educational Sciences: 44 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 38 fractional worksEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning: 26 fractional worksDiscourse Analysis in Language Studies: 23 fractional worksLanguage, Metaphor, and Cognition: 22 fractional worksPhonetics and Phonology Research: 21 fractional worksSyntax, Semantics, Lingu…21Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation: 21 fractional worksMultilingual Education and Policy: 20 fractional worksLanguage, Discourse, Communication Strategies: 20 fractional worksLinguistic Variation and…18Linguistic Variation and Morphology: 18 fractional works
EducationArtificial IntelligenceLanguage and LinguisticsLiterature and Literary Theory2 others

Area is fractional works; colour is the subfield each topic belongs to.

  1. 1 Social and Educational Sciences Education 44 works
  2. 2 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 38 works
  3. 3 EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Language and Linguistics 26 works
  4. 4 Discourse Analysis in Language Studies Literature and Literary Theory 23 works
  5. 5 Language, Metaphor, and Cognition Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 22 works
  6. 6 Phonetics and Phonology Research Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 21 works
  7. 7 Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation Language and Linguistics 21 works
  8. 8 Multilingual Education and Policy Linguistics and Language 20 works
  9. 9 Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies Language and Linguistics 20 works
  10. 10 Linguistic Variation and Morphology Linguistics and Language 18 works

How open and international is its research?

Against the world's own shares: the tick on each track. Both are shares of its output, so they sit on one scale and can be read against each other as well as against the world.

openly available33.6%not open66.4%

World: 40% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors19.2%domestic only80.8%

World: 18% is written across borders.

How has Center for Applied Linguistics's research output changed?

Output in 2022-2025 was 27% lower than in 2018-2021.

still counting1990200020102020
grewheldshrank

The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Center for Applied Linguistics as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0028% in 2024.

still counting0.0050%0.010%Center for Applied Linguistics0.0041% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Center for Applied Linguistics over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year, against all institutions in the same year.

still counting20%40%all institutions10.0% in 2025Center for Applied Linguistics8.3% in 2025200020102020

Of each year's output, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for its field and year. Peak 33.3% in 1990.

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