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Researcher · University of Edinburgh · United Kingdom

Simon Kirby

Simon Kirby publishes mostly in Cultural Studies, Economics and Econometrics and General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, on topics such as Language and cultural evolution, German Economic Analysis & Policies and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation.

ORCID 0000-0002-6496-1340 OpenAlex
World rank
#154,822
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United Kingdom
#13,972
of 367,258
Works
482
Citations
14k
Citations per work
28.2
h-index
53
i10-index 134Top 0.1% in Cultural Studies
Simon Kirby

What does Simon Kirby research?

Simon Kirby's work is mostly in Economics, Econometrics and Finance (24%), Social Sciences (15%), Arts and Humanities (8%).

Social Sciences: 260 works · 54.0% of their workEconomics, Econometrics and Finance: 116 works · 24.0% of their workEconomics and Econometrics: 64 works · 13.3% of their workGeneral Economics, Econometrics and Finance: 52 works · 10.7% of their workSocial Sciences: 72 works · 15.0% of their workCultural Studies: 72 works · 15.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 40 works · 8.3% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 40 works · 8.3% of their workPsychology: 32 works · 6.7% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 32 works · 6.7% of their workEverything else: 185 works · 38.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 37 works · 7.7% of their workComputer Science: 37 works · 7.7% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 37 works · 7.7% of their workTHEIR WORKSimon Kirby482works
Physical Sciences8%Social Sciences54%

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. Economics, Econometrics and Finance11624.0%
    2. Social Sciences7215.0%
    3. Arts and Humanities408.3%
    4. Psychology326.7%
  2. Everything else18538.3%
    1. Computer Science377.7%
  1. 1Cultural Studies15% of their works
  2. 2Economics and Econometrics13% of their works
  3. 3General Economics, Econometrics and Finance11% of their works
  4. 4Language and Linguistics8% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence8% of their works
  6. 6Experimental and Cognitive Psychology7% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Simon Kirby's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language, Cultural Evolution, Social Learning, Economic Policy, Financial Crisis, Monetary Policy, Macroeconomic Stability and Wealth Effects.

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. Language2182 topics
  2. Cultural Evolution1801 topic
  3. Social Learning1801 topic
  4. Economic Policy1562 topics
  5. Financial Crisis1562 topics
  6. Monetary Policy1072 topics
  7. Macroeconomic Stability1021 topic
  8. Wealth Effects1021 topic
  9. Semantics611 topic
  10. Syntax611 topic
  11. Development Studies541 topic
  12. Globalization541 topic
  13. Economic Growth531 topic
  14. Fiscal Policy531 topic
  15. Metaphor381 topic
  16. Time381 topic
  17. Neural Machine Translation371 topic
  18. Statistical Machine Translation371 topic
  19. Gesture301 topic
  20. Sign Language301 topic

Where does Simon Kirby work?

Simon Kirby's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom.

How many publications and citations does Simon Kirby have?

OpenAlex counts 482 works and 13,595 citations for Simon Kirby, an h-index of 53, ranking #154,822 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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