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Researcher · University of Technology Sydney · Australia

Alastair Pennycook

Alastair Pennycook publishes mostly in Linguistics and Language, Literature and Literary Theory and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Multilingual Education and Policy, Second Language Learning and Teaching and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning.

ORCID 0000-0002-4656-6187 OpenAlex
World rank
#9,217
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Australia
#242
of 140,210
Works
308
Citations
27k
Citations per work
88.3
h-index
71
i10-index 145Top 0.1% in Linguistics and Language
Alastair Pennycook

What does Alastair Pennycook research?

Alastair Pennycook's work is mostly in Social Sciences (40%), Arts and Humanities (32%).

Social Sciences: 221 works · 71.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 122 works · 39.7% of their workLinguistics and Language: 85 works · 27.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 22 works · 7.1% of their workGender Studies: 8 works · 2.6% of their workEducation: 7 works · 2.3% of their workArts and Humanities: 99 works · 32.0% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 52 works · 16.9% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 47 works · 15.1% of their workEverything else: 87 works · 28.3% of their workTHEIR WORKAlastairPennycook308works
Social Sciences72%

Their six largest subfields, inside their fields and domains; the grey slice is everything else they publish. The interactive view splits every one of their works down to single topics.

The fields and subfields, with their numbers
    1. Social Sciences12239.7%
    2. Arts and Humanities9932.0%
  2. Everything else8728.3%
  1. 1Linguistics and Language28% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory17% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics15% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science7% of their works
  5. 5Gender Studies3% of their works
  6. 6Education2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alastair Pennycook's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Policy, Multilingualism, Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy, Translanguaging, CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Social Interaction and Language Teaching.

Size is their works in the topics tagged with each word, from their 8 largest topics. Each links to the topic it comes from most.

All 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Policy2192 topics
  2. Multilingualism2192 topics
  3. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy1481 topic
  4. Translanguaging1481 topic
  5. CLIL711 topic
  6. Content and Language Integrated Learning711 topic
  7. Social Interaction582 topics
  8. Language Teaching401 topic
  9. Second Language Acquisition401 topic
  10. Language Change381 topic
  11. Sociolinguistic Variation381 topic
  12. Conversation Analysis321 topic
  13. Interactional Linguistics321 topic
  14. Academic Writing261 topic
  15. Discourse Analysis261 topic
  16. Children's Literature161 topic
  17. Gender Stereotyping161 topic
  18. History111 topic
  19. Science111 topic

Where does Alastair Pennycook work?

Alastair Pennycook's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Technology Sydney, Australia.

How many publications and citations does Alastair Pennycook have?

OpenAlex counts 308 works and 27,193 citations for Alastair Pennycook, an h-index of 71, ranking #9,217 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised excellence (50%), output (30%) and citations (20%). Counts come from OpenAlex author records, which occasionally merge different people who share a name or split one person into several.

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