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Researcher · Pennsylvania State University · United States

Suresh Canagarajah

Suresh Canagarajah publishes mostly in Literature and Literary Theory, Linguistics and Language and Language and Linguistics, on topics such as Multilingual Education and Policy, Second Language Learning and Teaching and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning.

ORCID 0000-0002-1292-2366 OpenAlex
World rank
#1,516
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#608
of 1,627,098
Works
258
Citations
21k
Citations per work
81.3
h-index
64
i10-index 146Top 0.1% in Literature and Literary Theory
Suresh Canagarajah

What does Suresh Canagarajah research?

Suresh Canagarajah's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (46%), Social Sciences (40%).

Social Sciences: 221 works · 85.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 119 works · 46.0% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 69 works · 26.8% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 50 works · 19.2% of their workSocial Sciences: 103 works · 39.8% of their workLinguistics and Language: 57 works · 21.9% of their workEducation: 26 works · 9.9% of their workSociology and Political Science: 15 works · 5.7% of their workDemography: 6 works · 2.3% of their workEverything else: 37 works · 14.2% of their workTHEIR WORKSureshCanagarajah258works
Social Sciences86%

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 Humanities11946.0%
    2. Social Sciences10339.8%
  2. Everything else3714.2%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory27% of their works
  2. 2Linguistics and Language22% of their works
  3. 3Language and Linguistics19% of their works
  4. 4Education10% of their works
  5. 5Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  6. 6Demography2% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Suresh Canagarajah's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Language Policy, Multilingualism, Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy, Translanguaging, Globalization, CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning and Social Interaction.

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 21 words, with their numbers
  1. Language Policy2122 topics
  2. Multilingualism2122 topics
  3. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy1221 topic
  4. Translanguaging1221 topic
  5. Globalization1133 topics
  6. CLIL901 topic
  7. Content and Language Integrated Learning901 topic
  8. Social Interaction852 topics
  9. Language Teaching711 topic
  10. Second Language Acquisition711 topic
  11. Academic Writing541 topic
  12. Discourse Analysis541 topic
  13. Conversation Analysis311 topic
  14. Interactional Linguistics311 topic
  15. Ethnicity222 topics
  16. Diaspora131 topic
  17. Transnationalism131 topic
  18. Diversity101 topic
  19. Global Citizenship Education101 topic
  20. Language Change91 topic
  21. Sociolinguistic Variation91 topic

Where does Suresh Canagarajah work?

Suresh Canagarajah's main affiliation in the publication record is Pennsylvania State University, United States.

How many publications and citations does Suresh Canagarajah have?

OpenAlex counts 258 works and 20,979 citations for Suresh Canagarajah, an h-index of 64, ranking #1,516 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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