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Researcher · University of Jyväskylä · Finland

Tarja Nikula

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

ORCID 0000-0002-2802-9839 OpenAlex
World rank
#227,757
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in Finland
#1,249
of 37,370
Works
84
Citations
2.2k
Citations per work
26.5
h-index
26
i10-index 39Top 0.6% in Literature and Literary Theory
Tarja Nikula

What does Tarja Nikula research?

Tarja Nikula's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (60%), Social Sciences (20%), Psychology (6%).

Social Sciences: 73 works · 86.8% of their workArts and Humanities: 51 works · 60.5% of their workLiterature and Literary Theory: 29 works · 35.1% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 21 works · 25.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 17 works · 20.0% of their workLinguistics and Language: 8 works · 9.3% of their workEducation: 6 works · 6.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 3.9% of their workPsychology: 5 works · 6.3% of their workDevelopmental and Educational Psychology: 5 works · 6.3% of their workEverything else: 11 works · 13.2% of their workTHEIR WORKTarja Nikula84works
Social Sciences87%

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 Humanities5160.5%
    2. Social Sciences1720.0%
    3. Psychology56.3%
  2. Everything else1113.2%
  1. 1Literature and Literary Theory35% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics25% of their works
  3. 3Linguistics and Language9% of their works
  4. 4Education7% of their works
  5. 5Developmental and Educational Psychology6% of their works
  6. 6Sociology and Political Science4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe Tarja Nikula's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Multilingualism, Bilingual Education, Language Policy, CLIL, Content and Language Integrated Learning, Language Teaching, Corrective Feedback and Second Language Acquisition.

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 22 words, with their numbers
  1. Multilingualism873 topics
  2. Bilingual Education822 topics
  3. Language Policy822 topics
  4. CLIL631 topic
  5. Content and Language Integrated Learning631 topic
  6. Language Teaching472 topics
  7. Corrective Feedback371 topic
  8. Second Language Acquisition371 topic
  9. Cultural Sustaining Pedagogy191 topic
  10. Translanguaging191 topic
  11. Corpus Linguistics152 topics
  12. Second Language Learning101 topic
  13. Vocabulary Acquisition101 topic
  14. Social Interaction92 topics
  15. Academic Writing51 topic
  16. Discourse Analysis51 topic
  17. German as a Foreign Language51 topic
  18. Language Learning51 topic
  19. Conversation Analysis41 topic
  20. Interactional Linguistics41 topic
  21. Qualitative Research41 topic
  22. Social Sciences41 topic

Where does Tarja Nikula work?

Tarja Nikula's main affiliation in the publication record is University of Jyväskylä, Finland.

How many publications and citations does Tarja Nikula have?

OpenAlex counts 84 works and 2,226 citations for Tarja Nikula, an h-index of 26, ranking #227,757 of 7,710,434 researchers worldwide on the quality 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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