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Researcher · SIL International · United States

Kenneth S. Olson

Kenneth S. Olson publishes mostly in Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Phonetics and Phonology Research and Multilingual Education and Policy.

OpenAlex
World rank
#2,683,897
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#783,628
of 1,627,098
Works
32
Citations
403
Citations per work
12.6
h-index
9
i10-index 7Top 26% in Linguistics and Language
Kenneth S. Olson

What does Kenneth S. Olson research?

Kenneth S. Olson's work is mostly in Social Sciences (34%), Arts and Humanities (17%), Psychology (14%).

Social Sciences: 21 works · 64.8% of their workSocial Sciences: 11 works · 33.8% of their workLinguistics and Language: 9 works · 26.8% of their workAnthropology: 2 works · 7.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 5 works · 16.9% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 5 works · 16.9% of their workPsychology: 5 works · 14.1% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 5 works · 14.1% of their workEverything else: 9 works · 26.8% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 5.6% of their workComputer Science: 2 works · 5.6% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 2 works · 5.6% of their workLife Sciences: 1 works · 2.8% of their workBiochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology: 1 works · 2.8% of their workGenetics: 1 works · 2.8% of their workTHEIR WORKKenneth S. Olson32works
Life Sciences3%Physical Sciences6%Social Sciences65%

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 Sciences1133.8%
    2. Arts and Humanities516.9%
    3. Psychology514.1%
  2. Everything else926.8%
    1. Computer Science25.6%
    1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology12.8%
  1. 1Linguistics and Language27% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics17% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology14% of their works
  4. 4Anthropology7% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence6% of their works
  6. 6Genetics3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kenneth S. Olson's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Speech Perception, Language Change, Sociolinguistic Variation, Prosody, Phonetics, Second Language Learning, Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics.

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 20 words, with their numbers
  1. Speech Perception232 topics
  2. Language Change131 topic
  3. Sociolinguistic Variation131 topic
  4. Prosody122 topics
  5. Phonetics101 topic
  6. Second Language Learning101 topic
  7. Sociolinguistics82 topics
  8. Pragmatics62 topics
  9. Multilingualism51 topic
  10. Translanguaging51 topic
  11. Semantics41 topic
  12. Syntax41 topic
  13. Language Contact31 topic
  14. Linguistic Borrowing31 topic
  15. Cleft Lip21 topic
  16. Corpora21 topic
  17. Genetics21 topic
  18. Neural Machine Translation21 topic
  19. Spoken Language21 topic
  20. Statistical Machine Translation21 topic

Where does Kenneth S. Olson work?

Kenneth S. Olson's main affiliation in the publication record is SIL International, United States.

How many publications and citations does Kenneth S. Olson have?

OpenAlex counts 32 works and 403 citations for Kenneth S. Olson, an h-index of 9, ranking #2,683,897 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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