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linguistics and terminology studies

linguistics and terminology studies is a research topic within Language and Linguistics. Science Explorer counts 18k research works in it since 1950. 10.3% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers encompasses theoretical and applied studies in terminology and specialized language, including cognitive linguistics, ontologies, corpus linguistics, semantic relations, conceptual variation, lexical semantics, knowledge representation, and multidimensionality. The papers explore the dynamics of terminological variation, the processing of terms in specialized communication, and the representation of multidimensional and multimodal information in specialized domains.

  • Terminology
  • Specialized Language
  • Cognitive Linguistics
  • Ontologies
  • Corpus Linguistics
  • Semantic Relations
  • Conceptual Variation
  • Lexical Semantics
  • Knowledge Representation
  • Multidimensionality
Research works
18k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
1.9k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
-3%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Russia
16% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
linguistics and terminology studies

Which countries lead linguistics and terminology studies research?

By volume, Russia and Spain publish the most (377 and 368 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russia 377 works
  2. 2 Spain 368 works
  3. 3 France 308 works
  4. 4 United States 257 works
  5. 5 China 226 works
  6. 6 Ukraine 224 works
  7. 7 Brazil 173 works
  8. 8 Uzbekistan 168 works
  9. 9 Poland 141 works
  10. 10 Germany 130 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: 15.9%Spain: 15.5%France: 13.0%United States: 10.8%6 others listed: 44.8%16%largest
Russia377 · 15.9%Spain368 · 15.5%France308 · 13.0%United States257 · 10.8%6 others listed1,062 · 44.8%

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

Which institutions lead linguistics and terminology studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most linguistics and terminology studies research, followed by Universidad de Granada and Russian Academy of Sciences.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 96 works
  2. 2 Universidad de GranadaSpain 28 works
  3. 3 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 27 works
  4. 4 Université de LyonFrance 22 works
  5. 5 Uzbek State University of World LanguagesUzbekistan 22 works
  6. 6 Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 21 works
  7. 7 Vilnius UniversityLithuania 20 works
  8. 8 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 19 works
  9. 9 University of AlicanteSpain 18 works
  10. 10 Université Paris CitéFrance 17 works

Who are the leading researchers in linguistics and terminology studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on linguistics and terminology studies include Richard M. Ryan and Noam Chomsky.

  1. 1 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
  2. 2 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 linguistics and terminology studies?

The most cited paper in linguistics and terminology studies is "The Berkeley FrameNet Project" (Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe, 1998), with 2,572 citations. Next come "Qualitative Content Analysis: Theoretical Background and Procedures" (2,231) and "Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition" (2,020).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Berkeley FrameNet Project Collin F. Baker, Charles J. Fillmore, John B. Lowe Conference paperOpen access 1998 2,572
2 Qualitative Content Analysis: Theoretical Background and Procedures Philipp Mayring · Advances in mathematics education Book chapter 5 Sep 2014 2,231
3 Force Dynamics in Language and Cognition Léonard Talmy · Cognitive Science Open access 1988 2,020
4 Automatic sense disambiguation using machine readable dictionaries Michael Lesk Conference paperOpen access 1986 1,785
5 How Language Structures Space Léonard Talmy Book chapter 1983 1,601
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is linguistics and terminology studies research done?

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

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 140 works
  2. 2 ParisFrance 84 works
  3. 3 TashkentUzbekistan 70 works
  4. 4 KyivUkraine 70 works
  5. 5 MadridSpain 61 works
  6. 6 VilniusLithuania 37 works
  7. 7 Saint PetersburgRussia 35 works
  8. 8 São PauloBrazil 35 works
  9. 9 BarcelonaSpain 33 works
  10. 10 BeijingChina 33 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. TimișoaraRO · 21.9 works17×
  2. SamarkandUZ · 22.1 works17×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in linguistics and terminology studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study linguistics and terminology studies?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Geneva, Universidad de Granada and Universitat Pompeu Fabra 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 12.62%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →University of GenevaUniversidad de GranadaUniversitat Pompeu F…University of the Ba…
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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
1University of GenevaSwitzerland 71.730.7%7.9×12 +22.6%
2Universidad de GranadaSpain 67.711.4%14.3×28 -0.5%
3Universitat Pompeu FabraSpain 56.811.0%23.2×16 +9.5%
4University of the Basque CountrySpain 55.29.9%9.7×16 +80.9%
5Université de LyonFrance 53.53.2%9.8×22 +21.6%
6Universität InnsbruckAustria 53.519.1%9.5×9 +57.4%
7University of AlicanteSpain 50.77.9%17.8×18 -4.2%
8Université Paris CitéFrance 50.59.5%6.4×17 +32.8%
9Uzbek State University of World LanguagesUzbekistan 50.35.9%124.8×22 +102.0%
10Nakhchivan State UniversityAzerbaijan 49.217.6%53.8×12 -

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 linguistics and terminology studies, country by country

Is linguistics and terminology 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 linguistics and terminology studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.016% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%linguistics and terminology studies0.015% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of linguistics and terminology 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%linguistics and terminology 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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