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Researcher · McGill University · Canada

James A. McGilvray

James A. McGilvray publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Cognitive Neuroscience and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Historical Linguistics and Language Studies, Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation and Language and cultural evolution.

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World rank
#2,139,422
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#70,707
of 183,316
Works
73
Citations
883
Citations per work
12.1
h-index
12
i10-index 13Top 14% in Language and Linguistics
James A. McGilvray

What does James A. McGilvray research?

James A. McGilvray's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (32%), Social Sciences (11%), Neuroscience (10%).

Social Sciences: 37 works · 50.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 23 works · 31.6% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 19 works · 25.6% of their workPhilosophy: 4 works · 6.0% of their workSocial Sciences: 8 works · 11.3% of their workCultural Studies: 4 works · 6.0% of their workSociology and Political Science: 4 works · 5.3% of their workPsychology: 5 works · 7.5% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 works · 7.5% of their workEverything else: 29 works · 39.1% of their workLife Sciences: 8 works · 10.5% of their workNeuroscience: 8 works · 10.5% of their workCognitive Neuroscience: 8 works · 10.5% of their workTHEIR WORKJames A.McGilvray73works
Life Sciences10%Social Sciences50%

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 Humanities2331.6%
    2. Social Sciences811.3%
    3. Psychology57.5%
  2. Everything else2939.1%
    1. Neuroscience810.5%
  1. 1Language and Linguistics26% of their works
  2. 2Cognitive Neuroscience10% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology8% of their works
  4. 4Cultural Studies6% of their works
  5. 5Philosophy6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe James A. McGilvray's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language, Language Teaching, Linguistic Historiography, Semantics, Syntax, Cultural Evolution, Social Learning and Metaphor.

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. Language132 topics
  2. Language Teaching121 topic
  3. Linguistic Historiography121 topic
  4. Semantics101 topic
  5. Syntax101 topic
  6. Cultural Evolution81 topic
  7. Social Learning81 topic
  8. Metaphor51 topic
  9. Time51 topic
  10. Color Constancy41 topic
  11. Colorimetry41 topic
  12. Embodied Cognition31 topic
  13. Evolutionary Synthesis31 topic
  14. Mechanistic Explanation31 topic
  15. Neural Processing31 topic
  16. Predictive Brain Theory31 topic
  17. Visual Perception31 topic

Where does James A. McGilvray work?

James A. McGilvray's main affiliation in the publication record is McGill University, Canada.

How many publications and citations does James A. McGilvray have?

OpenAlex counts 73 works and 883 citations for James A. McGilvray, an h-index of 12, ranking #2,139,422 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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