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Brian Walker

Brian Walker publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, Language, Metaphor, and Cognition and Translation Studies and Practices.

World rank
#909,330
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#64,654
of 90,785
Works
26
Citations
27
Citations per work
1.0

What does Brian Walker research?

Language and Linguistics: 32.4%Literature and Literary Theory: 14.7%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 11.8%Linguistics and Language: 8.8%other fields: 32.3%32%top field
Language and Linguistics32.4%Literature and Literary Theory14.7%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology11.8%Linguistics and Language8.8%other fields32.3%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Language and Linguistics32% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory15% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology12% of their works
  4. 4Linguistics and Language9% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Brian Walker's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Corpus Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Social Interaction, Language, Academic Writing, Critical Discourse, Metaphor and Pragmatics.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Corpus Linguistics82 topics
  2. Discourse Analysis72 topics
  3. Social Interaction72 topics
  4. Language62 topics
  5. Academic Writing51 topic
  6. Critical Discourse51 topic
  7. Metaphor41 topic
  8. Pragmatics42 topics
  9. Time41 topic
  10. Language Change31 topic
  11. Sociolinguistic Variation31 topic
  12. Translation31 topic
  13. Translator Competence31 topic
  14. Argumentation21 topic
  15. Conversation Analysis21 topic
  16. Dictionaries21 topic
  17. Interactional Linguistics21 topic
  18. Lexicography21 topic
  19. Rhetoric21 topic
  20. Conflict of Interest11 topic
  21. Pharmaceutical Industry11 topic

Where does Brian Walker work?

Brian Walker's main affiliation in the publication record is Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Brian Walker have?

Science Explorer counts 26 works and 27 citations for Brian Walker, ranking #909,330 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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