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Researcher · 657 Oslo · Norway

Alf Sommerfelt

Alf Sommerfelt publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Nutrition and Dietetics and Linguistics and Language, on topics such as Child Nutrition and Water Access, Historical Linguistics and Language Studies and Linguistics and language evolution.

OpenAlex
World rank
#1,977,799
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Norway
#12,407
of 33,005
Works
51
Citations
655
Citations per work
12.8
h-index
12
i10-index 13Top 14% in Language and Linguistics
Alf Sommerfelt

What does Alf Sommerfelt research?

Alf Sommerfelt's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (32%), Social Sciences (12%), Nursing (10%).

Social Sciences: 23 works · 44.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 17 works · 32.4% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 14 works · 27.8% of their workPhilosophy: 2 works · 4.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 6 works · 12.0% of their workLinguistics and Language: 4 works · 8.3% of their workSafety Research: 2 works · 3.7% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 38.9% of their workHealth Sciences: 9 works · 16.7% of their workNursing: 5 works · 10.2% of their workNutrition and Dietetics: 5 works · 10.2% of their workMedicine: 3 works · 6.5% of their workPediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health: 3 works · 6.5% of their workTHEIR WORKAlf Sommerfelt51works
Health Sciences17%Social Sciences44%

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. Arts and Humanities1732.4%
    2. Social Sciences612.0%
  2. Everything else2038.9%
    1. Nursing510.2%
    2. Medicine36.5%
  1. 1Language and Linguistics28% of their works
  2. 2Nutrition and Dietetics10% of their works
  3. 3Linguistics and Language8% of their works
  4. 4Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health6% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy5% of their works
  6. 6Safety Research4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Alf Sommerfelt's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Child Development, Language Teaching, Linguistic Historiography, Maternal and Child Undernutrition, Sociolinguistics, Indo-European, Linguistics and Child Mortality.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Child Development91 topic
  2. Language Teaching91 topic
  3. Linguistic Historiography91 topic
  4. Maternal and Child Undernutrition91 topic
  5. Sociolinguistics82 topics
  6. Indo-European71 topic
  7. Linguistics71 topic
  8. Child Mortality61 topic
  9. Maternal Mortality61 topic
  10. Argumentation51 topic
  11. Discourse Analysis51 topic
  12. Conditional Cash Transfers41 topic
  13. Language Education41 topic
  14. Multilingualism41 topic
  15. School Subsidies41 topic
  16. Language Contact31 topic
  17. Linguistic Borrowing31 topic

Where does Alf Sommerfelt work?

Alf Sommerfelt's main affiliation in the publication record is 657 Oslo, Norway.

How many publications and citations does Alf Sommerfelt have?

OpenAlex counts 51 works and 655 citations for Alf Sommerfelt, an h-index of 12, ranking #1,977,799 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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