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Phonetics and Phonology Research

Phonetics and Phonology Research is a research topic within Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Science Explorer counts 38k research works in it since 1950. 10.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers covers a wide range of topics related to speech perception, phonetics, second language learning, prosody, perceptual learning, acoustic and articulatory phonetics, intonation, speech production, and language acquisition.

Speech Perception
Phonetics
Second Language Learning
Prosody
Perceptual Learning
Acoustic Phonetics
Articulatory Phonetics
Intonation
Speech Production
Language Acquisition

Research works: 38k
In the world top 10%: 4.1k
Top-10% rate: 10.8%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: +5%
Largest producer: United States

Phonetics and Phonology Research

Which countries lead Phonetics and Phonology Research research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (1.5k and 568 works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 1.5k works
2 China 568 works
3 France 344 works
4 Germany 290 works
5 United Kingdom 281 works
6 Japan 256 works
7 Brazil 243 works
8 Canada 235 works
9 Spain 198 works
10 India 178 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 States1,481 · 36.4%China568 · 13.9%France344 · 8.5%Germany290 · 7.1%6 others listed1,390 · 34.1%

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

Which institutions lead Phonetics and Phonology Research research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Phonetics and Phonology Research research, followed by Indiana University and University of Toronto.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 172 works
2 Indiana UniversityUnited States 43 works
3 University of TorontoCanada 42 works
4 University of California, Los AngelesUnited States 33 works
5 University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom 31 works
6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 30 works
7 New York UniversityUnited States 29 works
8 University of British ColumbiaCanada 29 works
9 The Ohio State UniversityUnited States 29 works
10 Yale UniversityUnited States 27 works

Who are the leading researchers in Phonetics and Phonology Research?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Phonetics and Phonology Research include Karl John Friston, Nicholas G. Martin and Bruce Leonard Miller.

1 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
2 Nicholas G. Martin Australia 228k citations
3 Bruce Leonard Miller United States 196k citations
4 Dorret Irene Boomsma Netherlands 186k citations
5 Michael I. Jordan United States 182k citations
6 Christopher D. Manning United States 179k citations
7 Ian J. Deary United Kingdom 176k 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 Phonetics and Phonology Research?

The most cited paper in Phonetics and Phonology Research is "The cortical organization of speech processing" (Gregory S. Hickok, David Poeppel, 2007), with 5,693 citations. Next come "Perception of the speech code." (3,759) and "Speech Recognition with Primarily Temporal Cues" (3,139).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	The cortical organization of speech processing Gregory S. Hickok, David Poeppel · Nature reviews. Neuroscience Review	13 Apr 2007	5,693
2	Perception of the speech code. Alvin M. Liberman, F. S. Cooper, Donald Shankweiler et al. · Psychological Review	1967	3,759
3	Speech Recognition with Primarily Temporal Cues Robert V. Shannon, Fan‐Gang Zeng, Vivek Kamath et al. · Science	13 Oct 1995	3,139
4	The TRACE model of speech perception James L. McClelland, Jeffrey L. Elman · Cognitive Psychology	1986	3,012
5	Agreeing and disagreeing with assessments: some features of preferred/dispreferred turn shapes Anita M. Pomerantz · Cambridge University Press eBooks Book chapter	4 Apr 1985	2,904

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Where is Phonetics and Phonology Research research done?

The largest centres of Phonetics and Phonology Research research in 2022-now are Paris (France), Beijing (China), Tokyo (Japan) and London (United Kingdom). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Bloomington.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 ParisFrance 141 works
2 BeijingChina 108 works
3 TokyoJapan 87 works
4 LondonUnited Kingdom 66 works
5 New YorkUnited States 65 works
6 SeoulSouth Korea 65 works
7 ShanghaiChina 59 works
8 Los AngelesUnited States 57 works
9 Hong KongChina 57 works
10 São PauloBrazil 54 works

Where it is the local speciality

BloomingtonUS · 40.0 works15×

← less than its size predicts1×more →

Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Phonetics and Phonology Research than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Phonetics and Phonology Research?

Among universities, judged by research, University of Iowa, University of Edinburgh and University of Toronto 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	University of IowaUnited States	72.9	26.4%	9.5×	25	+94.9%
2	University of EdinburghUnited Kingdom	65.9	15.5%	6.6×	31	+11.3%
3	University of TorontoCanada	65.8	15.8%	3.9×	42	-4.3%
4	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	65.8	14.1%	5.5×	34	+17.8%
5	Northern Arizona UniversityUnited States	62.5	27.2%	23.4×	12	+117.8%
6	University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignUnited States	61.8	18.5%	5.1×	24	+24.1%
7	Indiana UniversityUnited States	61.4	12.8%	8.2×	42	-16.0%
8	Boston UniversityUnited States	60.4	35.0%	5.1×	13	-35.2%
9	Northwestern UniversityUnited States	59.8	36.2%	3.2×	14	-19.7%
10	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	58.6	19.1%	3.5×	30	-26.9%
11	University of Hong KongChina	58.5	20.1%	4.0×	20	+3.5%
12	University of British ColumbiaCanada	57.4	11.0%	4.5×	29	-7.4%
13	University of YorkUnited Kingdom	57.2	15.2%	9.0×	16	+48.6%
14	Yale UniversityUnited States	56.9	15.4%	4.7×	27	-19.4%
15	Universitat de BarcelonaSpain	55.7	18.2%	4.6×	19	+129.2%
16	New York UniversityUnited States	55.6	14.9%	4.7×	29	-10.2%
17	University of ZurichSwitzerland	55.1	7.7%	5.8×	22	+24.1%
18	Ghent UniversityBelgium	54.3	17.7%	4.4×	18	+3.5%
19	University of GroningenNetherlands	54.0	13.5%	4.7×	17	+53.3%
20	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	53.9	17.2%	7.1×	23	-20.9%
21	Macquarie UniversityAustralia	53.1	18.3%	7.3×	14	+6.9%
22	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	52.1	13.5%	5.0×	20	+1.5%
23	University of UtahUnited States	52.1	8.9%	4.8×	18	+53.0%
24	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	51.6	12.2%	2.5×	19	+31.6%
25	University of CologneGermany	51.1	23.7%	6.1×	14	-27.8%
26	National Taiwan Normal UniversityTaiwan	51.0	18.4%	20.0×	12	+65.7%
27	University of Maryland, College ParkUnited States	50.7	14.3%	6.5×	20	-8.1%
28	University of MichiganUnited States	50.5	22.6%	1.6×	14	+26.9%
29	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	50.4	11.7%	3.8×	24	-16.8%
30	McGill UniversityCanada	50.0	10.6%	4.2×	22	-20.1%
31	University of Hawaiʻi at MānoaUnited States	49.9	19.9%	8.4×	10	+57.4%
32	Michigan State UniversityUnited States	49.8	16.4%	4.4×	17	+1.2%
33	University of MinnesotaUnited States	49.8	13.7%	3.8×	15	+24.8%
34	University of OttawaCanada	49.0	3.1%	5.9×	21	+193.7%
35	University of KansasUnited States	49.0	10.6%	6.8×	18	+3.7%
36	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States	48.9	13.3%	4.6×	24	-15.0%
37	University of California, DavisUnited States	48.8	18.2%	3.1×	13	+17.9%
38	Universitat Autònoma de BarcelonaSpain	48.2	8.5%	4.8×	17	+45.1%
39	University of WashingtonUnited States	48.0	19.2%	2.5×	15	-0.4%
40	Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States	48.0	19.5%	5.7×	13	-6.8%
41	Lancaster UniversityUnited Kingdom	48.0	26.8%	5.9×	8	+0.2%
42	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	47.6	15.5%	3.9×	18	-15.8%
43	University of California San DiegoUnited States	46.2	16.5%	2.7×	14	-11.8%
44	Western Sydney UniversityAustralia	46.2	20.8%	7.7×	12	-19.0%
45	The Ohio State UniversityUnited States	43.4	9.0%	4.4×	29	-26.7%
46	Education University of Hong KongChina	43.1	14.2%	12.2×	10	+9.0%
47	National University of SingaporeSingapore	42.3	14.9%	1.5×	9	+33.4%
48	University of California, Santa CruzUnited States	42.1	13.6%	10.9×	11	-34.3%
49	King Saud UniversitySaudi Arabia	41.9	10.5%	2.5×	13	+19.9%
50	University of RochesterUnited States	40.6	20.6%	3.6×	9	-6.2%
51	Beijing Language and Culture UniversityChina	37.6	6.2%	24.1×	15	+51.3%
52	University of OregonUnited States	37.1	8.5%	18.9×	14	-41.4%
53	University of KonstanzGermany	37.0	11.3%	15.6×	11	-26.1%
54	Harvard UniversityUnited States	36.2	23.3%	0.5×	9	-30.0%
55	Universitas Islam Negeri Sumatera UtaraIndonesia	34.5	1.2%	4.8×	26	-
56	Université Paris 8France	33.3	1.9%	18.4×	12	+51.2%
57	Shanghai International Studies UniversityChina	32.1	11.1%	16.1×	8	+74.4%
58	Université Toulouse - Jean JaurèsFrance	31.4	6.8%	11.5×	9	+405.0%
59	Islamic UniversityBangladesh	31.0	3.4%	11.3×	10	-
60	KU LeuvenBelgium	26.6	12.7%	1.6×	8	-21.5%

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 Phonetics and Phonology Research, country by country

Is Phonetics and Phonology Research research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 5% higher than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2025. The fastest-growing topics are Phonetics and Phonology Research.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Phonetics and Phonology Research as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.025% in 2024.

Fractional works of Phonetics and Phonology Research 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 Phonetics and Phonology Research research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Phonetics and Phonology Research research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Phonetics and Phonology Research?

What are the most cited papers in Phonetics and Phonology Research?

Where is Phonetics and Phonology Research research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Phonetics and Phonology Research?

Is Phonetics and Phonology Research 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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