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Peter Tiersma

Peter Tiersma publishes mostly in Law, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Jury Decision Making Processes, Phonetics and Phonology Research and Legal Education and Practice Innovations.

World rank
#662,553
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#202,204
of 358,040
Works
17
Citations
34
Citations per work
2.0

What does Peter Tiersma research?

Law: 38.5%Language and Linguistics: 19.2%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology: 11.5%Linguistics and Language: 7.7%other fields: 23.1%38%top field
Law38.5%Language and Linguistics19.2%Experimental and Cognitive Psychology11.5%Linguistics and Language7.7%other fields23.1%

Shares of their own output, by the field each of their topics belongs to. The grey slice is everything not listed.

  1. 1Law38% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics19% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology12% of their works
  4. 4Linguistics and Language8% of their works
  5. 5Political Science and International Relations8% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Peter Tiersma's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Speech Perception, Decision Making, Jury, Legal Education, Phonetics, Second Language Learning, Welfare Rights Advice and Indo-European.

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 17 words, with their numbers
  1. Speech Perception52 topics
  2. Decision Making41 topic
  3. Jury41 topic
  4. Legal Education31 topic
  5. Phonetics31 topic
  6. Second Language Learning31 topic
  7. Welfare Rights Advice31 topic
  8. Indo-European21 topic
  9. Language Change21 topic
  10. Legal Semiotics21 topic
  11. Linguistics21 topic
  12. Sociolinguistic Variation21 topic
  13. Visual Jurisprudence21 topic
  14. Assurance Cases11 topic
  15. Discourse Analysis11 topic
  16. Language Variation11 topic
  17. Safety Assurance11 topic

Where does Peter Tiersma work?

Peter Tiersma's main affiliation in the publication record is Loyola Marymount University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Peter Tiersma have?

Science Explorer counts 17 works and 34 citations for Peter Tiersma, ranking #662,553 of 1,633,909 researchers worldwide on the composite 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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