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Researcher · École Française d'Extrême-Orient · France

Gérard Diffloth

Gérard Diffloth publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Political Science and International Relations and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Linguistics and Cultural Studies, Linguistics and language evolution and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies.

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World rank
#4,554,189
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in France
#191,794
of 324,115
Works
16
Citations
371
Citations per work
23.2
h-index
6
i10-index 4Top 39% in Language and Linguistics
Gérard Diffloth

What does Gérard Diffloth research?

Gérard Diffloth's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (50%), Social Sciences (29%), Computer Science (5%).

Social Sciences: 13 works · 78.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 8 works · 50.0% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 8 works · 47.4% of their workArcheology: 0 works · 2.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 5 works · 28.9% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 2 works · 10.5% of their workSociology and Political Science: 2 works · 10.5% of their workLinguistics and Language: 1 works · 7.9% of their workEverything else: 3 works · 15.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 1 works · 5.3% of their workComputer Science: 1 works · 5.3% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 1 works · 5.3% of their workTHEIR WORKGérard Diffloth16works
Physical Sciences5%Social Sciences79%

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 Humanities850.0%
    2. Social Sciences528.9%
  2. Everything else315.8%
    1. Computer Science15.3%
  1. 1Language and Linguistics47% of their works
  2. 2Political Science and International Relations10% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  4. 4Linguistics and Language8% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence5% of their works
  6. 6Archeology3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Gérard Diffloth's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Etymology, Linguistics, Morphology, Syntax, Language Contact, Language Evolution, Language Teaching and oral epics.

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. The words come from the keyword list OpenAlex gives each topic, not from the text of the papers, so a word can appear that none of the papers uses.

All 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Etymology92 topics
  2. Linguistics92 topics
  3. Morphology82 topics
  4. Syntax82 topics
  5. Language Contact72 topics
  6. Language Evolution72 topics
  7. Language Teaching52 topics
  8. Turkic51 topic
  9. oral epics51 topic
  10. Cultural History41 topic
  11. Indo-European41 topic
  12. Laos31 topic
  13. Linguistic Historiography31 topic
  14. Pragmatics31 topic
  15. Saussure31 topic
  16. Semantics31 topic
  17. Thailand31 topic
  18. Gender21 topic
  19. Language Change21 topic
  20. Linguistic Diversity21 topic
  21. Semitic Languages21 topic
  22. Sociolinguistic Variation21 topic
  23. Vietnam21 topic

Where does Gérard Diffloth work?

Gérard Diffloth's main affiliation in the publication record is École Française d'Extrême-Orient, France.

How many publications and citations does Gérard Diffloth have?

OpenAlex counts 16 works and 371 citations for Gérard Diffloth, an h-index of 6, ranking #4,554,189 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality score.

Ranked on field-normalised citation 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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