Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies

Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies is a research topic within Communication. Science Explorer counts 15k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the complexities of intercultural communication in various contexts, including education and business. It delves into topics such as language, cultural competence, media discourse, professional identity, and the challenges and strategies of cross-cultural communication. The influence of globalization on communication and the development of linguistic and cultural skills are also central themes.

Intercultural Communication
Education
Business
Language
Cultural Competence
Media Discourse
Professional Identity
Cross-Cultural Communication
Linguistic Strategies
Globalization

Research works: 15k
In the world top 10%: 1.5k
Top-10% rate: 9.8%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -3%
Largest producer: Russia

Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies

Which countries lead Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies research?

By volume, Russia and Ukraine publish the most (3.1k and 824 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 Russia 3.1k works
2 Ukraine 824 works
3 Uzbekistan 453 works
4 United States 273 works
5 China 204 works
6 Kazakhstan 198 works
7 Tajikistan 73 works
8 Azerbaijan 67 works
9 Belarus 59 works
10 Indonesia 58 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

Russia3,076 · 58.2%Ukraine824 · 15.6%Uzbekistan453 · 8.6%United States273 · 5.2%6 others listed659 · 12.5%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies research, followed by Moscow State Institute of International Relations and Weatherford College.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 143 works
2 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 106 works
3 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 99 works
4 Kazan Federal UniversityRussia 98 works
5 Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia 90 works
6 St Petersburg UniversityRussia 82 works
7 Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia 81 works
8 Moscow State Pedagogical UniversityRussia 78 works
9 Moscow State UniversityTajikistan 69 works
10 Moscow State Linguistic UniversityRussia 67 works

What are the most cited papers in Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies?

The most cited paper in Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies is "Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena" (Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson, 1978), with 2,216 citations. Next come "The Communicative Approach to Language Teaching" (627) and "Gender stereotypes: Perception or rationalization?" (517).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson · Max Planck Digital Library Book chapter	1978	2,216
2	The Communicative Approach to Language Teaching Graham Thurgood, C. J. Brumfit, Keith L. Johnson · TESOL Quarterly	Sep 1981	627
3	Gender stereotypes: Perception or rationalization? Curt Hoffman, Nancy Hurst · Journal of Personality and Social Psychology	Feb 1990	517
4	COMMUNICATIVE COMPETENCE Jôzef Lucjusz Podgôrecki, Janusz Ropski · Historical and social-educational ideas Open access	23 Oct 2015	329
5	The psycholinguistic nature of the reading process Wayne State University Press · Journal of Communication Disorders	Nov 1970	304

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Where is Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies research done?

The largest centres of Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Saint Petersburg (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Tashkent (Uzbekistan). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Kokand and Saransk.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 MoscowRussia 987 works
2 Saint PetersburgRussia 254 works
3 KyivUkraine 231 works
4 TashkentUzbekistan 212 works
5 Kazan’Russia 121 works
6 WeatherfordUnited States 99 works
7 AlmatyKazakhstan 96 works
8 ChelyabinskRussia 94 works
9 SamaraRussia 83 works
10 KharkivUkraine 77 works

Where it is the local speciality

KokandUZ · 22.1 works95×
SaranskRU · 31.2 works73×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Peoples' Friendship University of Russia and Weatherford College score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	Lomonosov Moscow State UniversityRussia	73.5	11.0%	18.6×	81	+34.5%
2	Peoples' Friendship University of RussiaRussia	70.9	17.4%	55.0×	90	-25.9%
3	Weatherford CollegeUnited States	68.6	9.4%	14.4×	99	+94.1%
4	Kemerovo State UniversityRussia	68.3	25.1%	68.2×	29	-8.5%
5	Chelyabinsk State UniversityRussia	64.5	9.0%	181.9×	67	+124.6%
6	V. N. Karazin Kharkiv National UniversityUkraine	63.7	13.0%	28.9×	30	+26.1%
7	Volgograd State UniversityRussia	63.6	14.1%	99.9×	30	+8.2%
8	Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic UniversityRussia	63.1	17.8%	15.7×	17	-4.6%
9	Moscow State UniversityTajikistan	62.6	4.7%	50.5×	69	+33.0%
10	Pushkin State Russian language InstituteRussia	62.4	16.4%	695.6×	42	-16.5%
11	N. I. Lobachevsky State University of Nizhny NovgorodRussia	62.3	14.2%	41.8×	28	+11.3%
12	Federal College of Education, KanoNigeria	62.2	17.7%	35.8×	18	-
13	Kazan Federal UniversityRussia	61.5	10.2%	70.6×	98	-32.6%
14	Moscow State Linguistic UniversityRussia	60.9	10.4%	301.8×	67	+0.2%
15	Don State Technical UniversityRussia	59.2	17.2%	28.4×	17	-54.4%
16	Financial UniversityRussia	59.1	9.4%	36.0×	41	+61.9%
17	L. N. Gumilyov Eurasian National UniversityKazakhstan	58.8	10.2%	31.9×	25	+101.5%
18	St Petersburg UniversityRussia	57.8	8.0%	33.5×	82	-16.8%
19	Vinnytsia Mykhailo Kotsiubynskyi State Pedagogical UniversityUkraine	57.3	16.5%	48.7×	10	+130.8%
20	Kazakh Ablai Khan University of International Relations and World LanguagesKazakhstan	57.2	15.2%	233.5×	15	+45.9%
21	Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia	56.8	9.0%	119.8×	106	-38.2%
22	Saratov State UniversityRussia	56.6	13.0%	57.9×	25	+27.0%
23	Al-Farabi Kazakh National UniversityKazakhstan	56.4	10.3%	34.5×	33	+18.6%
24	Moscow City UniversityRussia	56.2	12.5%	237.5×	42	-3.9%
25	Saint Petersburg State University of EconomicsRussia	56.0	20.1%	59.0×	10	+16.6%
26	Tashkent State University of Oriental StudiesUzbekistan	55.8	8.6%	128.8×	33	+44.8%
27	Southwest Minnesota State UniversityUnited States	55.3	12.4%	67.1×	14	+300.0%
28	Baikal State UniversityRussia	54.9	11.9%	63.5×	18	+48.3%
29	Uzbek State University of World LanguagesUzbekistan	54.1	4.7%	256.2×	66	+31.7%
30	Samara National Research UniversityRussia	53.8	14.0%	49.1×	32	-14.1%
31	Kuban State UniversityRussia	53.7	10.1%	105.2×	40	+1.2%
32	National Research University Higher School of EconomicsRussia	53.4	12.9%	16.2×	34	-12.9%
33	Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine	53.3	12.8%	33.5×	48	-32.5%
34	Moscow State Pedagogical UniversityRussia	53.1	9.4%	155.3×	78	-30.6%
35	Ryazan State UniversityRussia	53.0	16.9%	182.4×	13	+25.8%
36	Herzen UniversityRussia	52.9	11.3%	108.7×	48	-18.4%
37	Borys Grinchenko Kyiv Metropolitan UniversityUkraine	52.5	8.6%	57.1×	26	+81.9%
38	Saint Petersburg University of Management and EconomicsRussia	51.8	12.7%	111.7×	12	+154.5%
39	Chuvash State UniversityRussia	51.7	13.9%	45.5×	15	+10.1%
40	National Research Mordovia State UniversityRussia	51.0	13.4%	75.1×	28	-8.1%
41	Omsk State UniversityRussia	50.9	15.3%	111.0×	18	-21.2%
42	Belarusian State UniversityBelarus	49.2	10.3%	25.9×	14	+24.4%
43	Osh State UniversityKyrgyzstan	47.3	19.9%	45.1×	10	-50.9%
44	University of EducationPakistan	45.8	9.9%	29.9×	15	-
45	Sumy State UniversityUkraine	45.6	11.3%	31.0×	16	-12.5%
46	University of Science and TechnologyYemen	45.3	8.1%	29.7×	15	-
47	Pedagogical UniversityMozambique	44.5	5.2%	60.1×	31	-18.5%
48	Korea University of Science and TechnologySouth Korea	38.8	8.5%	17.4×	11	-
49	Minsk State Linguistic UniversityBelarus	35.5	4.8%	513.9×	12	+91.5%

Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies, country by country

Is Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 3% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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The same series as a ribbon: one cell per year, darker for more. The line above answers how much; this answers when.

Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.020% in 2024.

Fractional works of Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Which countries lead Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

What are the most cited papers in Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies?

Where is Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies?

Is Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

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