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Institute for Bulgarian Language

In research, Institute for Bulgarian Language stands highest in Social Sciences (#10,478 of 10,521 worldwide), 2022–2025. Relative to its size it is most specialised in Language and Linguistics and Arts and Humanities — Language and Linguistics is 77.7× its share of world research.

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World rank, 2022–2025
#27,902
of 28,054 · #42,377 all time
Rank in Bulgaria
#92
of 92
Research works
228
▲ 442% vs 2013–17
Citations
231
1.0 per fractional work
Top-10% rate
2.6%
record average 16.5%
Open access
84%
world 28%

What is Institute for Bulgarian Language known for in research?

The fields where it stands highest, 2022–2025, ranked among every institution above the floor in each field.

FieldWorld rankWhere that sitsTop-10% rateWorksAll time
Social SciencesDomain #10,478 of 10,521 2.5%68 #16698

Each strip is that field’s whole ranked pool, with the notch where Institute for Bulgarian Language 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 world mark, because the world rate differs by field (from about 6% to 21% in this record).

What does Institute for Bulgarian Language specialise in?

Where its research is concentrated relative to its size: Language and Linguistics takes 77.7× the share of its output that it takes of world research.

  1. Language and LinguisticsSubfield · 29.7 works78×
  2. Arts and HumanitiesField · 35.1 works14×
← 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: 0.06× its world share, 0 worksAgricultural and Bio…Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 0.02× its world share, 0 worksBiochemistry, Geneti…Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics: 0.27× its world share, 0 worksPharmacology, Toxico…Computer Science: 1.74× its world share, 12 worksComputer ScienceEarth and Planetary Sciences: 0.12× its world share, 0 worksEarth and Planetary …Engineering: 0.24× its world share, 3 worksEngineeringEnvironmental Science: 0.21× its world share, 1 worksEnvironmental ScienceMaterials Science: 0.22× its world share, 1 worksMaterials SciencePhysics and Astronomy: 0.26× its world share, 0 worksPhysics and AstronomyHealth Professions: 0.04× its world share, 0 worksHealth ProfessionsMedicine: 0.06× its world share, 1 worksMedicineArts and Humanities: 13.95× its world share, 35 worksArts and HumanitiesBusiness, Management and Accounting: 0.47× its world share, 1 worksBusiness, Management…Decision Sciences: 0.49× its world share, 0 worksDecision SciencesEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 0.31× its world share, 1 worksEconomics, Econometr…Psychology: 1.47× its world share, 4 worksPsychologySocial Sciences: 2.46× its world share, 27 worksSocial Sciences1×world share
more than its size predictsabout as predictedless

Rings at 0.5×, 1× and 2×. Widest outward: Arts and Humanities, 13.9×. Every wedge is a field page.

Which keywords describe research at Institute for Bulgarian Language?

By fractional works in 2022–2025, weighted toward what it does more of than the world: Language, Sociolinguistics, Linguistics, Language Contact, Anglicisms, Linguistic Borrowing, Lexicography and Media.

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

Size is fractional works in 2022–2025 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. Language20▲ 93×7 topics
  2. Sociolinguistics18▲ 112×5 topics
  3. Linguistics18▲ 127×4 topics
  4. Language Contact18▲ 212×2 topics
  5. Anglicisms17▲ 730×1 topic
  6. Linguistic Borrowing17▲ 730×1 topic
  7. Lexicography9▲ 113×3 topics
  8. Social Media9▲ 7.1×2 topics
  9. Media9▲ 64×3 topics
  10. Ethnicity8▲ 25×4 topics
  11. Discourse Analysis8▲ 35×2 topics
  12. Phraseology8▲ 118×2 topics
  13. Cultural Communication8▲ 239×1 topic
  14. Pandemic8▲ 8.1×1 topic
  15. Culture7▲ 16×3 topics
  16. Education7▲ 4.8×4 topics
  17. Etymology7▲ 166×2 topics
  18. Historical Phonology7▲ 166×2 topics
  19. Language Evolution7▲ 197×2 topics
  20. Corpus Linguistics6▲ 34×2 topics
  21. Religion6▲ 16×4 topics
  22. Cultural History6▲ 56×1 topic
  23. Indo-European6▲ 311×1 topic
  24. Innovation5▲ 5.6×3 topics
  25. Migration5▲ 17×2 topics
  26. Economy5▲ 68×1 topic
  27. Management5▲ 6.9×1 topic
  28. Neural Machine Translation4▲ 52×1 topic
  29. Statistical Machine Translation4▲ 52×1 topic
  30. History4▲ 6.4×3 topics
  31. Human Rights4▲ 4.4×2 topics
  32. Cultural Studies4▲ 11×2 topics
  33. Byzantium3▲ 202×1 topic
  34. Eastern Mediterranean3▲ 202×1 topic
  35. Geopolitics3▲ 25×1 topic
  36. Knowledge Representation3▲ 40×2 topics
  37. Media Discourse3▲ 51×2 topics
  38. Cognition3▲ 22×2 topics
  39. Morphology2▲ 16×2 topics
  40. Syntax2▲ 40×2 topics

Which research topics does Institute for Bulgarian Language publish most on?

By volume in 2022–2025: Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity, Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication, Linguistics and language evolution and Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies.

Linguistics, Language Di…17Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity: 17 fractional worksDiscourse Analysis and C…8Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication: 8 fractional worksLinguistics and language…6Linguistics and language evolution: 6 fractional worksCultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies: 5 fractional worksNatural Language Processing Techniques: 4 fractional worksLiterature, Language, an…3Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies: 3 fractional worksByzantine Studies and History: 3 fractional workslinguistics and terminology studies: 2 fractional worksLexicography and Language Studies: 2 fractional worksLanguage, Communication, and Linguistic Studies: 2 fractional works
Language and LinguisticsCultural StudiesGeneral Social SciencesArtificial Intelligence3 others

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

  1. 1 Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity Language and Linguistics 17 works
  2. 2 Discourse Analysis and Cultural Communication Cultural Studies 8 works
  3. 3 Linguistics and language evolution Language and Linguistics 6 works
  4. 4 Cultural, Linguistic, Economic Studies General Social Sciences 5 works
  5. 5 Natural Language Processing Techniques Artificial Intelligence 4 works
  6. 6 Literature, Language, and Rhetoric Studies Sociology and Political Science 3 works
  7. 7 Byzantine Studies and History Classics 3 works
  8. 8 linguistics and terminology studies Language and Linguistics 2 works
  9. 9 Lexicography and Language Studies Language and Linguistics 2 works
  10. 10 Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies Communication 2 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 available84.5%not open15.5%

World: 28% of research is openly available.

with international co-authors5.6%domestic only94.4%

World: 19% is written across borders.

How has Institute for Bulgarian Language's research output changed?

Output in 2018–2022 was 442% higher than in 2013–2017.

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

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