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Researcher · University of Hong Kong · China

Kevin W. H. Tai

Kevin W. H. Tai publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics and Linguistics and Language, on topics such as Second Language Learning and Teaching, EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning and Multilingual Education and Policy.

ORCID 0000-0002-2098-8082 OpenAlex
World rank
#14,808
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in China
#833
of 978,568
Works
70
Citations
2.1k
Citations per work
29.7
h-index
26
i10-index 40Top 0.6% in Literature and Literary Theory
Kevin W. H. Tai

What does Kevin W. H. Tai research?

Kevin W. H. Tai's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (66%), Social Sciences (29%), Psychology (3%).

Social Sciences: 69 works · 97.9% of their workArts and Humanities: 46 works · 66.1% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 25 works · 35.5% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 21 works · 30.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 20 works · 29.1% of their workLinguistics and Language: 20 works · 28.0% of their workEducation: 1 works · 1.1% of their workPsychology: 2 works · 2.7% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 2 works · 2.7% of their workEverything else: 1 works · 1.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 0 works · 0.5% of their workComputer Science: 0 works · 0.5% of their workComputer Science Applications: 0 works · 0.5% of their workTHEIR WORKKevin W. H. Tai70works
Physical Sciences0%Social Sciences98%

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 Humanities4666.1%
    2. Social Sciences2029.1%
    3. Psychology22.7%
  2. Everything else11.6%
    1. Computer Science00.5%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory36% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics31% of their works
  3. 3Linguistics and Language28% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology3% of their works
  5. 5Education1% of their works
  6. 6Computer Science Applications0% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Kevin W. H. Tai's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Policy, Multilingualism, CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Language Teaching, Corrective Feedback, Second Language Acquisition and Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Policy1082 topics
  2. Multilingualism1082 topics
  3. CLIL571 topic
  4. Content and Language Integrated Learning571 topic
  5. Language Teaching572 topics
  6. Corrective Feedback521 topic
  7. Second Language Acquisition521 topic
  8. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy511 topic
  9. Translanguaging511 topic
  10. Corpus Linguistics122 topics
  11. Social Interaction122 topics
  12. Academic Writing71 topic
  13. Discourse Analysis71 topic
  14. Conversation Analysis51 topic
  15. Interactional Linguistics51 topic
  16. Second Language Learning51 topic
  17. Vocabulary Acquisition51 topic
  18. Multimodal Literacy21 topic
  19. New Literacies21 topic
  20. Computational Thinking11 topic
  21. Programming Education11 topic

Where does Kevin W. H. Tai work?

Kevin W. H. Tai's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Hong Kong, China.

How many publications and citations does Kevin W. H. Tai have?

OpenAlex counts 70 works and 2,077 citations for Kevin W. H. Tai, an h-index of 26, ranking #14,808 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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