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Researcher · Worcester Polytechnic Institute · United States

John Trimbur

John Trimbur publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Sociology and Political Science and Education, on topics such as Literacy, Media, and Education, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies and Multilingual Education and Policy.

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World rank
#155,321
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#58,480
of 1,627,098
Works
92
Citations
7.2k
Citations per work
78.1
h-index
22
i10-index 30Top 1.1% in Literature and Literary Theory
John Trimbur

What does John Trimbur research?

John Trimbur's work is mostly in Social Sciences (41%), Arts and Humanities (19%), Psychology (4%).

Social Sciences: 59 works · 64.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 38 works · 41.1% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 17.8% of their workEducation: 13 works · 14.1% of their workLinguistics and Language: 5 works · 5.4% of their workPolitical Science and International Relations: 3 works · 3.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 17 works · 18.9% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 17 works · 18.9% of their workPsychology: 4 works · 4.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 4 works · 4.3% of their workEverything else: 33 works · 35.7% of their workTHEIR WORKJohn Trimbur92works
Social Sciences64%

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. Social Sciences3841.1%
    2. Arts and Humanities1718.9%
    3. Psychology44.3%
  2. Everything else3335.7%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory19% of their works
  2. 2Sociology and Political Science18% of their works
  3. 3Education14% of their works
  4. 4Linguistics and Language5% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe John Trimbur's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Multimodal Literacy, New Literacies, Academic Writing, Discourse Analysis, Multilingualism, Translanguaging, Metacognition and Self-Regulation.

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 16 words, with their numbers
  1. Multimodal Literacy131 topic
  2. New Literacies131 topic
  3. Academic Writing91 topic
  4. Discourse Analysis91 topic
  5. Multilingualism91 topic
  6. Translanguaging91 topic
  7. Metacognition61 topic
  8. Self-Regulation61 topic
  9. Gramsci51 topic
  10. Hegemony51 topic
  11. Journal Writing51 topic
  12. Reflective Practice51 topic
  13. South Africa51 topic
  14. protests51 topic
  15. Language Teaching41 topic
  16. Second Language Acquisition41 topic

Where does John Trimbur work?

John Trimbur's main affiliation in the publication record is Worcester Polytechnic Institute, United States.

How many publications and citations does John Trimbur have?

OpenAlex counts 92 works and 7,183 citations for John Trimbur, an h-index of 22, ranking #155,321 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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