Subfield · Language and Linguistics
Most cited papers in Language and Linguistics
What are the most cited papers in Language and Linguistics?
The most cited paper in Language and Linguistics is "WordNet" (George Armitage Miller, 1995), with 14,290 citations. Next come "One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis?" (9,387) and "The Psychophysics Toolbox." (9,189).
Showing 50 of 100 papers. Every paper with more than 1,786 citations is listed.
| # | Paper | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | WordNet George Armitage Miller · Communications of the ACM | Nov 1995 | 14,290 |
| 2 | One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis? Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke · Qualitative Research in Psychology | 12 Aug 2020 | 9,387 |
| 3 | The Psychophysics Toolbox. David H. Brainard · PubMed | 1997 | 9,189 |
| 4 | Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English Kathleen M. Broussard, Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson et al. · TESOL Quarterly | 2000 | 8,233 |
| 5 | The Psychology of Attitudes Dipankar Chakravarti, Alice H. Eagly, Shelly Chaiken · Journal of Marketing Research | May 1997 | 7,186 |
| 6 | Teaching by Principles: An Interactive Approach to Language Pedagogy Stefan Frazier, H. Douglas Brown · TESOL Quarterly | 2001 | 6,240 |
| 7 | The Fine Structure of the Left Periphery Luigi Rizzi · Kluwer international handbooks of linguistics | 1997 | 5,756 |
| 8 | The contemporary theory of metaphor George P. Lakoff · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 26 Nov 1993 | 5,349 |
| 9 | The Faculty of Language: What Is It, Who Has It, and How Did It Evolve? MARC DAVID HAUSER, Noam Chomsky, W. Tecumseh Fitch · Science | 21 Nov 2002 | 5,242 |
| 10 | Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis Teun A. van Dijk · Discourse & Society | Apr 1993 | 5,049 |
| 11 | THEORETICAL BASES OF COMMUNICATIVE APPROACHES TO SECOND LANGUAGE TEACHING AND TESTING Michael Canale, Merrill Swain · Applied Linguistics | 1980 | 5,011 |
| 12 | The Role of Consciousness in Second Language Learning1 R. W. SCHMIDT · Applied Linguistics | Jun 1990 | 4,905 |
| 13 | Qualitative Content Analysis Philipp Mayring · Forum: Qualitative Social Research (Freie Universität Berlin) | 25 Aug 2008 | 4,840 |
| 14 | Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination Marianne Bertrand, Sendhil Mullainathan · American Economic Review | Sep 2004 | 4,548 |
| 15 | Grounding in communication. Herbert H. Clark, Susan E. Brennan · American Psychological Association eBooks | 1991 | 4,459 |
| 16 | Language, Context, and Text: Aspects of Language in a Social-Semiotic Perspective Charles F. Meyer, Μ. Α. Κ. Halliday, Ruqaiya Hasan · TESOL Quarterly | Jun 1987 | 4,157 |
| 17 | The Psychology of the Language Learner: Individual Differences in Second Language Acquisition Zoltán Dörnyei | 29 Jun 2005 | 4,119 |
| 18 | Communication and concurrency Wojciech Penczek · Science of Computer Programming | May 1990 | 3,977 |
| 19 | Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach Mary Bucholtz, Kira Hall · Discourse Studies | Oct 2005 | 3,778 |
| 20 | The meaning of ‘meaning’ Hilary Putnam · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 12 Jan 2010 | 3,774 |
| 21 | Buchbesprechungen Alexander Pundt · Zeitschrift für Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie A&O | Jul 2006 | 3,771 |
| 22 | A Cognitive Approach to Language Learning Paula Samper García, Peter Skehan · TESOL Quarterly | 1999 | 3,524 |
| 23 | A theory of focus interpretation Mats Rooth · Natural Language Semantics | Feb 1992 | 3,203 |
| 24 | Quantitative Analysis of Culture Using Millions of Digitized Books Jean-Baptiste Michel, Yuan Kui Shen, Aviva Presser Aiden et al. · Science | 16 Dec 2010 | 3,145 |
| 25 | Culture and Cognition Paul DiMaggio · Annual Review of Sociology | Aug 1997 | 3,086 |
| 26 | Diglossia Charles A. Ferguson · WORD | 1959 | 3,051 |
| 27 | Action and embodiment within situated human interaction Charles Goodwin · Journal of Pragmatics | Sep 2000 | 3,047 |
| 28 | A classification of illocutionary acts John Rogers Searle · Language in Society | Apr 1976 | 3,041 |
| 29 | Narrative Analysis: Oral Versions of Personal Experience1 William Labov, Joshua Waletzky · Journal of Narrative and Life History | 1997 | 2,908 |
| 30 | Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes Anita M. Pomerantz · Cambridge University Press eBooks | 4 Apr 1985 | 2,904 |
| 31 | Social Identity, Investment, and Language Learning Bonny Norton Peirce · TESOL Quarterly | 1995 | 2,880 |
| 32 | TASK-BASED LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING Alison Mackey · Studies in Second Language Acquisition | Sep 2004 | 2,871 |
| 33 | The English Lexicon Project David A. Balota, Melvin Ju-min Yap, Keith A. Hutchison et al. · Behavior Research Methods | Aug 2007 | 2,836 |
| 34 | Rules and Representations. Terry L. Smith, Noam Chomsky · The Philosophical Review | 1982 | 2,821 |
| 35 | A New Academic Word List Averil Coxhead · TESOL Quarterly | 2000 | 2,790 |
| 36 | Language and woman's place Robin Tolmach Lakoff · Language in Society | Apr 1973 | 2,780 |
| 37 | Undoing Appropriateness: Raciolinguistic Ideologies and Language Diversity in Education Nelson Flores, Jonathan Rosa · Harvard Educational Review | Jun 2015 | 2,780 |
| 38 | Rethinking Linguistic Relativity Celia Roberts · International Journal of Bilingualism | Sep 1997 | 2,758 |
| 39 | Translanguaging as a Practical Theory of Language Li Wei · Applied Linguistics | 6 Oct 2017 | 2,752 |
| 40 | Critical period effects in second language learning: The influence of maturational state on the acquisition of English as a second language Jacqueline S. Johnson, Elissa L. Newport · Cognitive Psychology | 1989 | 2,743 |
| 41 | Self-reports: How the questions shape the answers. Norbert Schwarz · American Psychologist | Feb 1999 | 2,722 |
| 42 | Toward a mechanistic psychology of dialogue Martin John Pickering, Simon Garrod · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Apr 2004 | 2,692 |
| 43 | The myth of language universals: Language diversity and its importance for cognitive science Nicholas D. Evans, Stephen C. Levinson · Behavioral and Brain Sciences | Oct 2009 | 2,671 |
| 44 | Three Factors in Language Design Noam Chomsky · Linguistic Inquiry | 2005 | 2,659 |
| 45 | The symbol grounding problem Stevan Harnad · Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena | Jun 1990 | 2,630 |
| 46 | A Cross-Language Study of Voicing in Initial Stops: Acoustical Measurements Leigh Lisker, Arthur S. Abramson · WORD | 1964 | 2,615 |
| 47 | The Berkeley FrameNet Project Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe | 1998 | 2,572 |
| 48 | Linguistic complexity: locality of syntactic dependencies Edward A. F. Gibson · Cognition | Aug 1998 | 2,562 |
| 49 | Teacher cognition in language teaching: A review of research on what language teachers think, know, believe, and do Simon Borg · Language Teaching | Apr 2003 | 2,542 |
| 50 | The Child's Learning of English Morphology Jean Berko · WORD | Aug 1958 | 2,504 |
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