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Researcher · California University of Pennsylvania · United States

William Labov

William Labov publishes mostly in Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, on topics such as Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Multilingual Education and Policy and Phonetics and Phonology Research.

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World rank
#28,710
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#10,802
of 1,627,098
Works
279
Citations
38k
Citations per work
137.0
h-index
60
i10-index 115Top 0.2% in Linguistics and Language
William Labov

What does William Labov research?

William Labov's work is mostly in Social Sciences (38%), Arts and Humanities (22%), Psychology (11%).

Social Sciences: 199 works · 71.4% of their workSocial Sciences: 107 works · 38.4% of their workLinguistics and Language: 83 works · 29.6% of their workSociology and Political Science: 16 works · 5.7% of their workGender Studies: 9 works · 3.1% of their workArts and Humanities: 62 works · 22.2% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 62 works · 22.2% of their workPsychology: 30 works · 10.8% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 30 works · 10.8% of their workEverything else: 71 works · 25.3% of their workPhysical Sciences: 9 works · 3.3% of their workComputer Science: 9 works · 3.3% of their workArtificial Intelligence: 9 works · 3.3% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam Labov279works
Physical Sciences3%Social Sciences71%

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. Social Sciences10738.4%
    2. Arts and Humanities6222.2%
    3. Psychology3010.8%
  2. Everything else7125.3%
    1. Computer Science93.3%
  1. 1Linguistics and Language30% of their works
  2. 2Language and Linguistics22% of their works
  3. 3Experimental and Cognitive Psychology11% of their works
  4. 4Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  5. 5Artificial Intelligence3% of their works
  6. 6Gender Studies3% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William Labov's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Speech Perception, Language Change, Sociolinguistic Variation, Sociolinguistics, Multilingualism, Translanguaging, Phonetics and Second Language Learning.

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 23 words, with their numbers
  1. Speech Perception1512 topics
  2. Language Change1041 topic
  3. Sociolinguistic Variation1041 topic
  4. Sociolinguistics994 topics
  5. Multilingualism481 topic
  6. Translanguaging481 topic
  7. Phonetics471 topic
  8. Second Language Learning471 topic
  9. Pragmatics382 topics
  10. Language Variation342 topics
  11. Phraseology342 topics
  12. Bilingualism322 topics
  13. Language Contact322 topics
  14. Conversation Analysis231 topic
  15. Interactional Linguistics231 topic
  16. Discourse Analysis191 topic
  17. Text Linguistics191 topic
  18. Anglicisms171 topic
  19. Children's Literature171 topic
  20. Gender Stereotyping171 topic
  21. Linguistic Borrowing171 topic
  22. Hispanic Linguistics151 topic
  23. Lexicography151 topic

Where does William Labov work?

William Labov's main affiliation in the publication record is California University of Pennsylvania, United States.

How many publications and citations does William Labov have?

OpenAlex counts 279 works and 38,224 citations for William Labov, an h-index of 60, ranking #28,710 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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