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Researcher · Institute for Christian Studies · Canada

Merrill Swain

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

OpenAlex
World rank
#4,219
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Canada
#61
of 183,316
Works
198
Citations
26k
Citations per work
131.1
h-index
66
i10-index 127Top 0.1% in Language and Linguistics
Merrill Swain

What does Merrill Swain research?

Merrill Swain's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (48%), Social Sciences (27%), Psychology (9%).

Social Sciences: 166 works · 83.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 95 works · 48.2% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 55 works · 27.7% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 41 works · 20.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 53 works · 26.6% of their workLinguistics and Language: 44 works · 22.0% of their workEducation: 9 works · 4.6% of their workPsychology: 18 works · 8.9% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 18 works · 8.9% of their workEverything else: 28 works · 14.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 4 works · 2.2% of their workComputer Science: 4 works · 2.2% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 4 works · 2.2% of their workTHEIR WORKMerrill Swain198works
Physical Sciences2%Social Sciences84%

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 Humanities9548.2%
    2. Social Sciences5326.6%
    3. Psychology188.9%
  2. Everything else2814.1%
    1. Computer Science42.2%
  1. 1Language and Linguistics28% of their works
  2. 2Linguistics and Language22% of their works
  3. 3Literature and Literary Theory20% of their works
  4. 4Developmental and Educational Psychology9% of their works
  5. 5Education5% of their works
  6. 6Artificial Intelligence2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Merrill Swain's research?

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

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. Multilingualism1673 topics
  2. Bilingual Education1402 topics
  3. Language Policy1402 topics
  4. Language Teaching1092 topics
  5. Corrective Feedback951 topic
  6. Second Language Acquisition951 topic
  7. CLIL821 topic
  8. Content and Language Integrated Learning821 topic
  9. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy581 topic
  10. Translanguaging581 topic
  11. Intercultural Communication271 topic
  12. Language Education271 topic
  13. Second Language Learning141 topic
  14. Vocabulary Acquisition141 topic
  15. Conversation Analysis121 topic
  16. Interactional Linguistics121 topic
  17. Language Change121 topic
  18. Sociolinguistic Variation121 topic
  19. Dynamic Assessment101 topic
  20. Educational Psychology101 topic

Where does Merrill Swain work?

Merrill Swain's main affiliation in the publication record is Institute for Christian Studies, Canada.

How many publications and citations does Merrill Swain have?

OpenAlex counts 198 works and 25,963 citations for Merrill Swain, an h-index of 66, ranking #4,219 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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