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Rajend Mesthrie

Rajend Mesthrie publishes mostly in Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Multilingual Education and Policy and Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity.

World rank
#634,964
of 1,633,909 ranked researchers
Rank in South Africa
#2,021
of 5,570
Works
49
Citations
81
Citations per work
1.7

What does Rajend Mesthrie research?

Linguistics and Language: 44.9%Language and Linguistics: 31.9%Sociology and Political Science: 5.8%Literature and Literary Theory: 4.3%other fields: 13.1%45%top field
Linguistics and Language44.9%Language and Linguistics31.9%Sociology and Political Science5.8%Literature and Literary Theory4.3%other fields13.1%

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

  1. 1Linguistics and Language45% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics32% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  4. 4Literature and Literary Theory4% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology4% of their works
  6. 6Political Science and International Relations3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Rajend Mesthrie's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Sociolinguistics, Speech Perception, Language Change, Sociolinguistic Variation, Multilingualism, Translanguaging, Language Contact and Linguistic Borrowing.

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 19 words, with their numbers
  1. Sociolinguistics222 topics
  2. Speech Perception192 topics
  3. Language Change161 topic
  4. Sociolinguistic Variation161 topic
  5. Multilingualism151 topic
  6. Translanguaging151 topic
  7. Language Contact71 topic
  8. Linguistic Borrowing71 topic
  9. Dictionaries51 topic
  10. Lexicography51 topic
  11. Language Teaching42 topics
  12. Conversation Analysis31 topic
  13. Interactional Linguistics31 topic
  14. Phonetics31 topic
  15. Second Language Learning31 topic
  16. Corrective Feedback21 topic
  17. Linguistic Historiography21 topic
  18. Saussure21 topic
  19. Second Language Acquisition21 topic

Where does Rajend Mesthrie work?

Rajend Mesthrie's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Cape Town, South Africa.

How many publications and citations does Rajend Mesthrie have?

Science Explorer counts 49 works and 81 citations for Rajend Mesthrie, ranking #634,964 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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