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Researcher · Vassar College · United States

Charles L. Briggs

Charles L. Briggs publishes mostly in Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Latin American history and culture, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies and Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies.

World rank
#47,179
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#21,709
of 358,040
Works
61
Citations
235
Citations per work
3.9

What does Charles L. Briggs research?

Anthropology: 10.4%Sociology and Political Science: 10.4%Language and Linguistics: 9.1%Political Science and International Relations: 7.8%other fields: 62.3%10%top field
Anthropology10.4%Sociology and Political Science10.4%Language and Linguistics9.1%Political Science and International Relations7.8%other fields62.3%

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

  1. 1Anthropology10% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics9% of their works
  4. 4Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory6% of their works
  6. 6History6% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Charles L. Briggs's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Policy, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, Colonial Spanish America, Visual Culture, Clientelism, Conversation Analysis and Fairy Tales.

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 Policy72 topics
  2. Pragmatics52 topics
  3. Sociolinguistics52 topics
  4. Colonial Spanish America41 topic
  5. Visual Culture41 topic
  6. Clientelism31 topic
  7. Conversation Analysis31 topic
  8. Fairy Tales31 topic
  9. Folklore31 topic
  10. Interactional Linguistics31 topic
  11. Latin America31 topic
  12. Multilingualism31 topic
  13. Translanguaging31 topic
  14. Ecomusicology21 topic
  15. Ethnomusicology21 topic
  16. Hispanic Linguistics21 topic
  17. Human Rights21 topic
  18. Humanitarianism21 topic
  19. Language Variation21 topic

Where does Charles L. Briggs work?

Charles L. Briggs's main affiliation in the publication record is Vassar College, United States.

How many publications and citations does Charles L. Briggs have?

Science Explorer counts 61 works and 235 citations for Charles L. Briggs, ranking #47,179 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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