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Lexicography and Language Studies

Lexicography and Language Studies is a research topic within Language and Linguistics. Science Explorer counts 28k research works in it since 1950. 10.1% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers focuses on the theory, practice, and development of dictionaries and lexicography, including the impact of electronic tools, bilingual dictionaries, corpus-based approaches, and the historical evolution of dictionary usage.

  • Lexicography
  • Dictionaries
  • Electronic
  • Language
  • Usage
  • Bilingual
  • Corpus
  • Learners
  • Meaning
  • History
Research works
28k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.8k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.1%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-11%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
17% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Lexicography and Language Studies

Which countries lead Lexicography and Language Studies research?

By volume, Russia and the United States publish the most (386 and 311 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 386 works
  2. 2 United States 311 works
  3. 3 Ukraine 230 works
  4. 4 Poland 220 works
  5. 5 Spain 209 works
  6. 6 China 197 works
  7. 7 Uzbekistan 195 works
  8. 8 Indonesia 171 works
  9. 9 France 155 works
  10. 10 Germany 149 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.

Russia: 17.4%United States: 14.0%Ukraine: 10.3%Poland: 9.9%6 others listed: 48.4%17%largest
Russia386 · 17.4%United States311 · 14.0%Ukraine230 · 10.3%Poland220 · 9.9%6 others listed1,076 · 48.4%

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

Which institutions lead Lexicography and Language Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Lexicography and Language Studies research, followed by Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique and Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 51 works
  2. 2 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 46 works
  3. 3 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 30 works
  4. 4 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 28 works
  5. 5 University of WarsawPoland 26 works
  6. 6 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 23 works
  7. 7 Uzbek State University of World LanguagesUzbekistan 21 works
  8. 8 Karshi State UniversityUzbekistan 21 works
  9. 9 National University of UzbekistanUzbekistan 19 works
  10. 10 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 18 works

Who are the leading researchers in Lexicography and Language Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Lexicography and Language Studies include George Davey Smith, Christopher D. Manning and Mike J Clarke.

  1. 1 George Davey Smith United Kingdom 435k citations
  2. 2 Christopher D. Manning United States 179k citations
  3. 3 Mike J Clarke United Kingdom 175k citations
  4. 4 Noam Chomsky United States 141k 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 Lexicography and Language Studies?

The most cited paper in Lexicography and Language Studies is "WordNet" (George Armitage Miller, 1995), with 14,290 citations. Next come "Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English" (8,233) and "The English Lexicon Project" (2,836).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 WordNet George Armitage Miller · Communications of the ACM Open access Nov 1995 14,290
2 Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English Kathleen M. Broussard, Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson et al. · TESOL Quarterly 2000 8,233
3 The English Lexicon Project David A. Balota, Melvin Ju-min Yap, Keith A. Hutchison et al. · Behavior Research Methods Open access Aug 2007 2,836
4 A New Academic Word List Averil Coxhead · TESOL Quarterly 2000 2,790
5 The Berkeley FrameNet Project Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe Conference paperOpen access 1998 2,572
All 98 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Lexicography and Language Studies research done?

The largest centres of Lexicography and Language Studies research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Tashkent (Uzbekistan), Kyiv (Ukraine) and Paris (France). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Qarshi.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 148 works
  2. 2 TashkentUzbekistan 78 works
  3. 3 KyivUkraine 78 works
  4. 4 ParisFrance 51 works
  5. 5 Saint PetersburgRussia 44 works
  6. 6 ZagrebCroatia 41 works
  7. 7 KrakowPoland 41 works
  8. 8 WarsawPoland 37 works
  9. 9 BeijingChina 36 works
  10. 10 MadridSpain 34 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. QarshiUZ · 21.3 works71×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

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

See Lexicography and Language Studies on the map

Where is the best place to study Lexicography and Language Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, Nakhchivan State University, Universidad de Granada and University of Zurich 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.

0%20%40%mean 15.85%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of ZurichUniversidad de GranadaNakhchivan State Uni…Adam Mickiewicz Univ…
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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.
#UniversityScoreTop 10%SpecialisationWorksGrowth
1Nakhchivan State UniversityAzerbaijan 64.522.4%65.2×15 +744.4%
2Universidad de GranadaSpain 62.125.5%6.1×13 +2.1%
3University of ZurichSwitzerland 58.032.7%3.2×8 +21.3%
4Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 57.08.3%19.9×30 -20.0%
5Stellenbosch UniversitySouth Africa 56.324.1%10.2×14 -9.8%
6Weatherford CollegeUnited States 53.79.1%4.8×23 +125.5%
7Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 53.53.3%11.4×28 +16.7%
8University of WarsawPoland 53.07.2%13.8×26 0.0%
9Leiden UniversityNetherlands 50.216.8%5.9×12 +1.7%
10Tashkent State University of Oriental StudiesUzbekistan 49.89.1%97.7×18 +197.2%

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 Lexicography and Language Studies, country by country

Is Lexicography and Language Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 11% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.

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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 Lexicography and Language Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.018% in 2024.

still counting0.020%0.040%Lexicography and Language Studies0.016% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Lexicography and Language 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.

still counting5%10%15%Lexicography and Language Studies10.3% in 2025200020102020

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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