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Researcher · University of Basel · Switzerland

Miriam A. Locher

Miriam A. Locher publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Literature and Literary Theory and Human-Computer Interaction, on topics such as Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies, Discourse Analysis in Language Studies and Digital Communication and Language.

ORCID 0000-0002-4630-7388 OpenAlex
World rank
#190,511
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Switzerland
#3,827
of 80,918
Works
158
Citations
6k
Citations per work
38.1
h-index
35
i10-index 61Top 1.1% in Language and Linguistics
Miriam A. Locher

What does Miriam A. Locher research?

Miriam A. Locher's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (44%), Computer Science (9%), Psychology (6%).

Social Sciences: 86 works · 54.7% of their workArts and Humanities: 69 works · 43.7% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 43 works · 27.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 26 works · 16.2% of their workPsychology: 10 works · 6.3% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 10 works · 6.3% of their workSocial Sciences: 7 works · 4.7% of their workSociology and Political Science: 7 works · 4.7% of their workEverything else: 48 works · 30.6% of their workPhysical Sciences: 23 works · 14.7% of their workComputer Science: 14 works · 8.9% of their workHuman-Computer Interaction: 14 works · 8.9% of their workEngineering: 9 works · 5.8% of their workElectrical and Electronic Engineering: 9 works · 5.8% of their workTHEIR WORKMiriam A. Locher158works
Physical Sciences15%Social Sciences55%

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 Humanities6943.7%
    2. Psychology106.3%
    3. Social Sciences74.7%
  2. Everything else4830.6%
    1. Computer Science148.9%
    2. Engineering95.8%
  1. 1Language and Linguistics28% of their works
  2. 2Literature and Literary Theory16% of their works
  3. 3Human-Computer Interaction9% of their works
  4. 4Experimental and Cognitive Psychology6% of their works
  5. 5Electrical and Electronic Engineering6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science5% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Miriam A. Locher's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Social Interaction, Pragmatics, Conversation Analysis, Interactional Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Multimodality, Corpus Linguistics and Academic Writing.

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 25 words, with their numbers
  1. Social Interaction1503 topics
  2. Pragmatics762 topics
  3. Conversation Analysis681 topic
  4. Interactional Linguistics681 topic
  5. Discourse Analysis602 topics
  6. Multimodality602 topics
  7. Corpus Linguistics592 topics
  8. Academic Writing501 topic
  9. Critical Discourse501 topic
  10. Digital Communication422 topics
  11. Language Variation422 topics
  12. Gender Differences402 topics
  13. Computer-Mediated Communication321 topic
  14. Emoticons321 topic
  15. Metaphor241 topic
  16. Time241 topic
  17. Sociolinguistics182 topics
  18. Communication Practices101 topic
  19. Text Linguistics101 topic
  20. Translation91 topic
  21. Translator Competence91 topic
  22. CMOS81 topic
  23. Oscillators81 topic
  24. Swearing81 topic
  25. Taboo Language81 topic

Where does Miriam A. Locher work?

Miriam A. Locher's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Basel, Switzerland.

How many publications and citations does Miriam A. Locher have?

OpenAlex counts 158 works and 6,025 citations for Miriam A. Locher, an h-index of 35, ranking #190,511 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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