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Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity

Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity is a research topic within Language and Linguistics. Science Explorer counts 24k 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 explores linguistic borrowing, language contact phenomena, and the influence of one language on another. It delves into topics such as anglicisms, neologisms, pragmatic borrowing, sociolinguistics, and the cultural and semantic implications of lexical influence. The papers also discuss bilingualism and the impact of English on various European languages.

  • Linguistic Borrowing
  • Language Contact
  • Anglicisms
  • Neologisms
  • Pragmatic Borrowing
  • Sociolinguistics
  • Lexical Influence
  • Cultural Implications
  • Semantic Changes
  • Bilingualism
Research works
24k
fractional, since 1950
In the world top 10%
2.5k
per year above
Top-10% rate
10.3%
share of its works in the world top 10%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
+6%
the tick is no change
Largest producer
Ukraine
17% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity

Which countries lead Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity research?

By volume, Ukraine and Russia publish the most (560 and 524 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Ukraine 560 works
  2. 2 Russia 524 works
  3. 3 Poland 402 works
  4. 4 United States 374 works
  5. 5 China 263 works
  6. 6 Germany 261 works
  7. 7 Indonesia 258 works
  8. 8 Croatia 247 works
  9. 9 Romania 202 works
  10. 10 France 175 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.

Ukraine: 17.1%Russia: 16.0%Poland: 12.3%United States: 11.5%6 others listed: 43.0%17%largest
Ukraine560 · 17.1%Russia524 · 16.0%Poland402 · 12.3%United States374 · 11.5%6 others listed1,406 · 43.0%

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

Which institutions lead Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity research?

By volume in 2022-now, Russian Academy of Sciences publishes the most Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity research, followed by Institut za filozofiju and Jagiellonian University.

By volume, 2022-now

  1. 1 Russian Academy of SciencesRussia 64 works
  2. 2 Institut za filozofijuCroatia 62 works
  3. 3 Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 57 works
  4. 4 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 52 works
  5. 5 University of ZagrebCroatia 50 works
  6. 6 Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 46 works
  7. 7 Weatherford CollegeUnited States 42 works
  8. 8 University of WarsawPoland 41 works
  9. 9 University of LjubljanaSlovenia 41 works
  10. 10 Taras Shevchenko National University of KyivUkraine 41 works

Who are the leading researchers in Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity include Noam Chomsky, Michael Tomasello and Christian Schmitt.

  1. 1 Noam Chomsky United States 141k citations
  2. 2 Michael Tomasello Germany 135k citations
  3. 3 Christian Schmitt France 126k 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, Language Diversity, and Identity?

The most cited paper in Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity is "The Psychology of Attitudes" (Dipankar Chakravarti, Alice H. Eagly, Shelly Chaiken, 1997), with 7,186 citations. Next come "Are Emily and Greg More Employable Than Lakisha and Jamal? A Field Experiment on Labor Market Discrimination" (4,548) and "Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena" (2,216).

Most cited papers
#PaperReleasedCitations
1 The Psychology of Attitudes Dipankar Chakravarti, Alice H. Eagly, Shelly Chaiken · Journal of Marketing Research May 1997 7,186
2 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
3 Universals in language usage: Politeness phenomena Penelope Brown, Stephen C. Levinson · Max Planck Digital Library Book chapter 1978 2,216
4 The Phonology of English as an International Language Judy B. Gilbert, John M. Levis, Jennifer A. Jenkins · TESOL Quarterly 2001 1,797
5 Reading: A psycholinguistic guessing game Kenneth S. Goodman · Journal of the Reading Specialist May 1967 1,770
All 99 most cited papers, with filters and sorting

Where is Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity research done?

The largest centres of Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity research in 2022-now are Moscow (Russia), Kyiv (Ukraine), Zagreb (Croatia) and Krakow (Poland). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Zadar and Donji grad.

Largest cities, 2022-now

  1. 1 MoscowRussia 202 works
  2. 2 KyivUkraine 186 works
  3. 3 ZagrebCroatia 131 works
  4. 4 KrakowPoland 81 works
  5. 5 WarsawPoland 79 works
  6. 6 LjubljanaSlovenia 63 works
  7. 7 LvivUkraine 58 works
  8. 8 BeijingChina 58 works
  9. 9 ParisFrance 57 works
  10. 10 BudapestHungary 54 works

Where it is the local speciality

  1. ZadarHR · 22.6 works61×
  2. Donji gradHR · 25.8 works40×
← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity?

Among universities, judged by research, Nakhchivan State University, Jagiellonian University 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.

0%20%40%mean 14.51%fractional works in this field (log) →share of work in the world top 10% →Nakhchivan State Uni…Weatherford CollegeTribhuvan UniversityJagiellonian Univers…
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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 64.336.2%44.7×14 -
2Jagiellonian UniversityPoland 58.35.6%16.3×57 +41.7%
3Weatherford CollegeUnited States 54.49.2%6.0×42 +173.8%
4Tribhuvan UniversityNepal 51.26.8%6.8×28 +58.3%
5University of ZurichSwitzerland 51.228.9%3.4×13 -8.7%
6University of HelsinkiFinland 49.514.5%4.4×16 +44.2%
7Tallinn UniversityEstonia 49.424.4%31.9×9 +31.2%
8University of BelgradeSerbia 48.15.5%11.2×40 -1.6%
9Moscow State Institute of International RelationsRussia 47.86.9%33.6×30 +20.8%
10Adam Mickiewicz University in PoznańPoland 46.77.1%21.6×46 -16.6%

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 Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity, country by country

Is Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 6% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2023. The fastest-growing topics are Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity.

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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, Language Diversity, and Identity as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

still counting0.010%0.020%0.030%Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity0.024% in 202519801990200020102020

Fractional works of Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity 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, Language Diversity, and Identity10.3% 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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