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Researcher · University of Cambridge · United Kingdom

Michael Lapidge

Michael Lapidge publishes mostly in Classics, History and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Medieval Literature and History, Linguistics and language evolution and Historical and Religious Studies of Rome.

OpenAlex
World rank
#92,461
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#8,045
of 367,258
Works
220
Citations
4.3k
Citations per work
19.6
h-index
37
i10-index 59Top 0.2% in Classics
Michael Lapidge

What does Michael Lapidge research?

Michael Lapidge's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (71%), Social Sciences (9%).

Social Sciences: 177 works · 80.4% of their workArts and Humanities: 157 works · 71.4% of their workClassics: 67 works · 30.5% of their workHistory: 42 works · 19.1% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 33 works · 15.2% of their workArcheology: 15 works · 6.6% of their workSocial Sciences: 20 works · 9.0% of their workAnthropology: 11 works · 4.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 9 works · 4.2% of their workEverything else: 43 works · 19.6% of their workTHEIR WORKMichael Lapidge220works
Social Sciences80%

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 Humanities15771.4%
    2. Social Sciences209.0%
  2. Everything else4319.6%
  1. 1Classics30% of their works
  2. 2History19% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics15% of their works
  4. 4Archeology7% of their works
  5. 5Anthropology5% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Michael Lapidge's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Literature, Medieval, Cultural History, Late Antiquity, Indo-European, Linguistics, Religious Identity and Middle Ages.

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. Literature941 topic
  2. Medieval941 topic
  3. Cultural History642 topics
  4. Late Antiquity502 topics
  5. Indo-European491 topic
  6. Linguistics491 topic
  7. Religious Identity492 topics
  8. Middle Ages482 topics
  9. Ceremonial331 topic
  10. Rome331 topic
  11. Byzantium281 topic
  12. Eastern Mediterranean281 topic
  13. Wales211 topic
  14. Welsh literature211 topic
  15. Ancient Rome171 topic
  16. Greek Literature171 topic
  17. Medieval Literature151 topic
  18. Religious Practices151 topic
  19. Christian-Muslim Relations121 topic
  20. Gospel Translation121 topic

Where does Michael Lapidge work?

Michael Lapidge's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cambridge, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Michael Lapidge have?

OpenAlex counts 220 works and 4,309 citations for Michael Lapidge, an h-index of 37, ranking #92,461 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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