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Researcher · University of Liège · Belgium

Jean-Marc Defays

Jean-Marc Defays publishes mostly in Linguistics and Language, Philosophy and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as French Language Learning Methods, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis and Historical Linguistics and Language Studies.

OpenAlex
World rank
#7,698,017
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Belgium
#67,013
of 67,186
Works
445
Citations
143
Citations per work
0.3

What does Jean-Marc Defays research?

Jean-Marc Defays's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (43%), Social Sciences (43%).

Social Sciences86%

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 Humanities19243.1%
    2. Social Sciences19142.9%
  1. Everything else6214.0%
  1. 1Linguistics and Language30% of their works
  2. 2Philosophy20% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics13% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science10% of their works
  5. 5Literature and Literary Theory10% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Jean-Marc Defays's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Multilingualism, Sociolinguistics, Social Justice, Intercultural Communication, Language Education, Argumentation, Discourse Analysis and Language Policy.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Multilingualism2513 topics
  2. Sociolinguistics1872 topics
  3. Social Justice1722 topics
  4. Intercultural Communication1601 topic
  5. Language Education1601 topic
  6. Argumentation1341 topic
  7. Discourse Analysis1341 topic
  8. Language Policy912 topics
  9. Language Teaching731 topic
  10. Linguistic Historiography731 topic
  11. Language Diversity531 topic
  12. Youth Language531 topic
  13. Professional Practices471 topic
  14. Public Action471 topic
  15. CLIL381 topic
  16. Content and Language Integrated Learning381 topic
  17. Artistic Expression121 topic
  18. Environmental Participation121 topic
  19. Literary History121 topic
  20. Territorial Governance121 topic

Where does Jean-Marc Defays work?

Jean-Marc Defays's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Liège, Belgium.

How many publications and citations does Jean-Marc Defays have?

OpenAlex counts 445 works and 143 citations for Jean-Marc Defays, an h-index of 4, ranking #7,698,017 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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