Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies is a research topic within Language and Linguistics. Science Explorer counts 34k research works in it since 1950. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on conversation analysis, interactional linguistic analysis, and discourse study, examining topics such as turn-taking, social interaction, identity construction, pragmatics, narrative analysis, politeness theory, and multimodal communication.

Conversation Analysis
Interactional Linguistics
Discourse Study
Turn-Taking
Social Interaction
Identity Construction
Pragmatics
Narrative Analysis
Politeness Theory
Multimodal Communication

Research works: 34k
In the world top 10%: 3.4k
Top-10% rate: 10.0%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -2%
Largest producer: United States

Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies

Which countries lead Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1k and 712 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1k works
2 China 712 works
3 United Kingdom 478 works
4 Germany 388 works
5 Indonesia 383 works
6 Spain 215 works
7 Japan 204 works
8 Australia 197 works
9 France 190 works
10 Italy 182 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.

United States1,047 · 26.2%China712 · 17.8%United Kingdom478 · 12.0%Germany388 · 9.7%6 others listed1,371 · 34.3%

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

Which institutions lead Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies research, followed by University of Helsinki and Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 65 works
2 University of HelsinkiFinland 53 works
3 Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina 30 works
4 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 29 works
5 Ghent UniversityBelgium 27 works
6 Monash UniversityAustralia 26 works
7 Guangdong University of Foreign StudiesChina 25 works
8 Tampere UniversityFinland 25 works
9 The University of QueenslandAustralia 24 works
10 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 24 works

Who are the leading researchers in Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies include Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke and Anselm L. Strauss.

1 Virginia Braun New Zealand 286k citations
2 Victoria Clarke United Kingdom 285k citations
3 Anselm L. Strauss United States 205k citations
4 David A. Kenny United States 198k citations
5 John W. Creswell United States 186k citations
6 Christopher D. Manning United States 179k citations
7 Chris Frith United Kingdom 175k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies?

The most cited paper in Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies is "One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis?" (Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke, 2020), with 9,387 citations. Next come "The contemporary theory of metaphor" (5,349) and "Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis" (5,049).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	One size fits all? What counts as quality practice in (reflexive) thematic analysis? Virginia Braun, Victoria Clarke · Qualitative Research in Psychology Open access	12 Aug 2020	9,387
2	The contemporary theory of metaphor George P. Lakoff · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapterOpen access	26 Nov 1993	5,349
3	Principles of Critical Discourse Analysis Teun A. van Dijk · Discourse & Society	Apr 1993	5,049
4	Grounding in communication. Herbert H. Clark, Susan E. Brennan · American Psychological Association eBooks Book chapter	1991	4,459
5	Identity and interaction: a sociocultural linguistic approach Mary Bucholtz, Kira Hall · Discourse Studies Open access	Oct 2005	3,778

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Where is Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies research done?

The largest centres of Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), Tokyo (Japan) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Lancaster and Tampere.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 110 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 90 works
3 TokyoJapan 81 works
4 ParisFrance 78 works
5 Hong KongChina 70 works
6 HelsinkiFinland 57 works
7 ShanghaiChina 53 works
8 MadridSpain 51 works
9 GuangzhouChina 49 works
10 MoscowRussia 49 works

Where it is the local speciality

LancasterGB · 23.3 works13×
TampereFI · 25.6 works11×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies?

Among universities, judged by research, Lancaster University, University College London and Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam 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	Lancaster UniversityUnited Kingdom	71.6	23.8%	14.9×	23	-4.6%
2	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	67.2	22.2%	3.0×	29	-5.9%
3	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands	66.4	30.6%	5.0×	12	+24.9%
4	Linköping UniversitySweden	65.4	23.6%	11.5×	19	-0.3%
5	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	65.2	19.1%	4.3×	19	+94.6%
6	The University of QueenslandAustralia	64.8	21.3%	4.2×	24	+12.2%
7	University of PotsdamGermany	64.3	27.3%	9.2×	13	+7.2%
8	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	63.5	17.5%	6.7×	24	-1.1%
9	University of HelsinkiFinland	62.6	8.1%	12.6×	53	-10.8%
10	Ghent UniversityBelgium	61.3	15.9%	5.8×	27	-0.1%
11	University of JyväskyläFinland	60.7	15.5%	15.7×	17	+29.6%
12	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	60.6	21.5%	3.4×	23	-10.3%
13	Monash UniversityAustralia	60.2	15.9%	4.4×	26	+45.0%
14	Tampere UniversityFinland	60.2	12.5%	13.7×	25	+45.9%
15	Loughborough UniversityUnited Kingdom	59.5	29.8%	7.9×	11	-32.9%
16	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	59.0	14.4%	5.7×	30	-7.4%
17	Beihang UniversityChina	58.6	18.7%	2.3×	15	+123.9%
18	University of ChicagoUnited States	58.2	15.6%	3.1×	16	+12.0%
19	University of NeuchâtelSwitzerland	57.3	22.4%	38.3×	14	-19.8%
20	University of ConnecticutUnited States	57.2	28.5%	3.2×	9	+53.2%
21	University of JordanJordan	54.4	14.0%	10.5×	17	+83.3%
22	University of ZurichSwitzerland	54.3	17.5%	4.4×	18	-8.1%
23	University of OuluFinland	54.0	11.5%	9.4×	16	+54.4%
24	Education University of Hong KongChina	53.9	22.5%	10.4×	9	+272.9%
25	University of FreiburgGermany	53.8	31.4%	4.2×	12	-27.8%
26	University of BaselSwitzerland	53.5	17.4%	5.8×	13	-24.5%
27	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	52.6	19.0%	4.0×	21	-13.2%
28	Humboldt-Universität zu BerlinGermany	52.6	13.3%	5.8×	13	+46.7%
29	Cardiff UniversityUnited Kingdom	52.5	12.3%	5.9×	16	+24.2%
30	University of California, Santa BarbaraUnited States	52.4	13.1%	7.9×	15	-0.1%
31	University of BolognaItaly	52.1	15.9%	3.8×	19	+10.9%
32	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	51.5	13.2%	5.5×	20	-8.9%
33	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	51.3	19.3%	1.9×	16	-11.2%
34	University of WashingtonUnited States	51.2	30.7%	1.4×	9	+46.8%
35	University of Wisconsin–MadisonUnited States	50.6	23.0%	2.2×	12	+26.2%
36	University of GroningenNetherlands	50.1	14.1%	3.7×	15	+16.4%
37	UNSW SydneyAustralia	50.0	18.6%	2.3×	13	+50.0%
38	University of OsloNorway	49.9	14.6%	5.7×	22	-23.4%
39	University of BirminghamUnited Kingdom	49.5	28.9%	2.7×	10	-37.9%
40	Bar-Ilan UniversityIsrael	49.2	17.0%	7.4×	12	+77.3%
41	Sichuan International Studies UniversityChina	48.2	18.4%	41.6×	9	+10.1%
42	University of MacauChina	48.0	16.6%	5.7×	11	+5.8%
43	Stockholm UniversitySweden	47.9	10.5%	11.8×	24	-31.6%
44	City University of Hong KongChina	47.4	22.1%	2.7×	9	-2.9%
45	University of BernSwitzerland	45.4	18.1%	3.4×	11	-0.3%
46	National University of SingaporeSingapore	44.1	19.7%	1.9×	13	-12.2%
47	University of Hong KongChina	43.4	14.1%	2.8×	16	-7.2%
48	Stanford UniversityUnited States	43.0	17.5%	1.2×	11	-24.9%
49	Guangdong University of Foreign StudiesChina	40.6	3.2%	40.4×	25	-1.7%
50	Prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz UniversitySaudi Arabia	39.3	6.2%	6.7×	10	+32.1%
51	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	35.0	12.1%	2.6×	12	-29.3%
52	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	25.5	0.0%	1.6×	9	+41.6%

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, Discourse, Communication Strategies, country by country

Is Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 2% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.028% in 2024.

Fractional works of Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies 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

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Which countries lead Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies?

What are the most cited papers in Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies?

Where is Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies?

Is Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies 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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