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Researcher · University of Alberta · Canada

Herbert L. Colston

Herbert L. Colston publishes mostly in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Philosophy, on topics such as Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies and Linguistics and Discourse Analysis.

World rank
#102,824
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#3,414
of 38,960
Works
34
Citations
228
Citations per work
6.7

What does Herbert L. Colston research?

Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 29.3%Language and Linguistics: 13.8%Philosophy: 8.6%Social Psychology: 8.6%other fields: 39.7%29%top field
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology29.3%Language and Linguistics13.8%Philosophy8.6%Social Psychology8.6%other fields39.7%

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

  1. 1Experimental and Cognitive Psychology29% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics14% of their works
  3. 3Philosophy9% of their works
  4. 4Social Psychology9% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory9% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Herbert L. Colston's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Metaphor, Time, Social Interaction, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis, Corpus Linguistics, Gender Differences and Argumentation.

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. Metaphor151 topic
  2. Time151 topic
  3. Social Interaction124 topics
  4. Pragmatics82 topics
  5. Discourse Analysis72 topics
  6. Corpus Linguistics52 topics
  7. Gender Differences52 topics
  8. Argumentation41 topic
  9. Conversation Analysis41 topic
  10. Interactional Linguistics41 topic
  11. Rhetoric41 topic
  12. Academic Writing31 topic
  13. Critical Discourse31 topic
  14. Humor Styles Questionnaire31 topic
  15. Psychological Well-being31 topic
  16. Computer-Mediated Communication21 topic
  17. Emoticons21 topic
  18. Fictionality21 topic
  19. Narrative21 topic
  20. Translation21 topic
  21. Translator Competence21 topic

Where does Herbert L. Colston work?

Herbert L. Colston's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Alberta, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Herbert L. Colston have?

Science Explorer counts 34 works and 228 citations for Herbert L. Colston, ranking #102,824 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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