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Researcher · SIL International · United States

William R. Merrifield

William R. Merrifield publishes mostly in Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Sociology and Political Science, on topics such as Linguistic Variation and Morphology, Historical Linguistics and Language Studies and Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation.

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World rank
#1,911,954
of 7,710,434 ranked researchers
Rank in United States
#583,624
of 1,627,098
Works
45
Citations
689
Citations per work
15.3
h-index
10
i10-index 10Top 19% in Language and Linguistics
William R. Merrifield

What does William R. Merrifield research?

William R. Merrifield's work is mostly in Arts and Humanities (24%), Social Sciences (22%), Psychology (5%).

Social Sciences: 23 works · 51.0% of their workArts and Humanities: 11 works · 24.5% of their workLanguage and Linguistics: 11 works · 24.5% of their workSocial Sciences: 10 works · 21.6% of their workLinguistics and Language: 5 works · 10.8% of their workSociology and Political Science: 3 works · 5.9% of their workGeography, Planning and Development: 2 works · 4.9% of their workPsychology: 2 works · 4.9% of their workExperimental and Cognitive Psychology: 2 works · 4.9% of their workEverything else: 20 works · 45.1% of their workPhysical Sciences: 2 works · 3.9% of their workEnvironmental Science: 2 works · 3.9% of their workEcology: 2 works · 3.9% of their workTHEIR WORKWilliam R.Merrifield45works
Physical Sciences4%Social Sciences51%

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 Humanities1124.5%
    2. Social Sciences1021.6%
    3. Psychology24.9%
  2. Everything else2045.1%
    1. Environmental Science23.9%
  1. 1Language and Linguistics24% of their works
  2. 2Linguistics and Language11% of their works
  3. 3Sociology and Political Science6% of their works
  4. 4Geography, Planning and Development5% of their works
  5. 5Experimental and Cognitive Psychology5% of their works
  6. 6Ecology4% of their works

Research topics

Which keywords describe William R. Merrifield's research?

The keywords of their largest research topics: Pragmatics, Language Change, Sociolinguistic Variation, Language Teaching, Morphology, Syntax, Etymology and Language Contact.

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. Pragmatics103 topics
  2. Language Change91 topic
  3. Sociolinguistic Variation91 topic
  4. Language Teaching72 topics
  5. Morphology72 topics
  6. Syntax72 topics
  7. Etymology62 topics
  8. Language Contact62 topics
  9. Linguistics62 topics
  10. Grammar41 topic
  11. Linguistic Historiography41 topic
  12. Saussure41 topic
  13. Semantics41 topic
  14. Biocultural Conservation31 topic
  15. Corpora31 topic
  16. Cultural History31 topic
  17. Earth Stewardship31 topic
  18. Hispanic Linguistics31 topic
  19. Indo-European31 topic
  20. Language Variation31 topic
  21. Spoken Language31 topic
  22. Turkic31 topic
  23. oral epics31 topic

Where does William R. Merrifield work?

William R. Merrifield's main affiliation in the publication record is SIL International, United States.

How many publications and citations does William R. Merrifield have?

OpenAlex counts 45 works and 689 citations for William R. Merrifield, an h-index of 10, ranking #1,911,954 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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