Albert Valdman

2.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
99 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Albert Valdman is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Albert Valdman has authored 99 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 45 papers in Linguistics and Language, 41 papers in Language and Linguistics and 17 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Albert Valdman's work include Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (26 papers), Second Language Learning and Teaching (17 papers) and Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (16 papers). Albert Valdman is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic and Sociocultural Studies (26 papers), Second Language Learning and Teaching (17 papers) and Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (16 papers). Albert Valdman collaborates with scholars based in United States and France. Albert Valdman's co-authors include Robert B. Page, Mary R. Miller, Pierre Delattre, Charles R. Foster, Philip Baker, Robert A. Fischer, Julie Auger, Wm. Flint Smith, Dell Hymes and Pierre Guiraud and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Language and Modern Language Journal.

In The Last Decade

Albert Valdman

82 papers receiving 823 citations

Hit Papers

Dictionary of Jamaican English 1968 2026 1987 2006 1968 50 100 150
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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Dictionary of Jamaican English
    1968 180 citations Albert Valdman et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Albert Valdman United States 15 633 617 206 183 136 99 1.1k
Ernst Pulgram United States 14 640 1.0× 871 1.4× 335 1.6× 162 0.9× 134 1.0× 63 1.4k
John Algeo United States 13 444 0.7× 678 1.1× 265 1.3× 191 1.0× 160 1.2× 83 1.2k
Mark Sebba United Kingdom 18 768 1.2× 748 1.2× 162 0.8× 68 0.4× 230 1.7× 53 1.2k
Bernd Kortmann Germany 17 587 0.9× 855 1.4× 391 1.9× 126 0.7× 159 1.2× 50 1.3k
Michel DeGraff United States 11 427 0.7× 403 0.7× 118 0.6× 157 0.9× 64 0.5× 29 691
Nikolaus P. Himmelmann Germany 17 591 0.9× 800 1.3× 304 1.5× 73 0.4× 66 0.5× 59 1.2k
John H. McWhorter United States 14 457 0.7× 506 0.8× 155 0.8× 84 0.5× 51 0.4× 28 970
Peter Collins Australia 19 544 0.9× 690 1.1× 213 1.0× 123 0.7× 234 1.7× 75 1.3k
W. P. Lehmann United States 11 433 0.7× 843 1.4× 264 1.3× 70 0.4× 173 1.3× 46 1.3k
William J. Samarin Canada 15 298 0.5× 317 0.5× 181 0.9× 65 0.4× 36 0.3× 78 693

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Fields of papers citing papers by Albert Valdman

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Albert Valdman

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Valdman, Albert. (2019). Comment gérer la variation dans l'enseignement du français langue étrangère aux États-Unis. IUScholarWorks (Indiana University). 2 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert & Kevin J. Rottet. (2010). Dictionary of Louisiana Frenchas spoken in Cajun, Creole, andAmerican Indian communities. Project Muse (Johns Hopkins University). 1 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert. (2004). Réflexions sur l’histoire de l’AILA. AILA Review. 17. 2–5. 3 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert. (2000). La Langue des faubourgs et des banlieues: de l'argot au fran ais populaire. ˜The œFrench review. 73(6). 4 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert. (1989). The Problem of the Target Model in Proficiency-Oriented Foreign Language Instruction.. 1(1). 33–51. 5 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert. (1988). Diglossia and language conflict in Haiti. International Journal of the Sociology of Language. 1988(71). 67–80. 13 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert. (1982). Francais standard et francais populaire: Sociolectes ou Fictions (Standard French and Popular French: Sociolects or Fictions)?.. ˜The œFrench review. 56(2). 3 indexed citations
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Hartford, Beverly S., Albert Valdman, & Charles R. Foster. (1982). Issues in International Bilingual Education. 16 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert, et al.. (1979). Le Français hors de France. H. Champion eBooks. 13 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert, et al.. (1979). Testing Communicative Ability.. ˜The œFrench review. 52(4). 3 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert. (1979). La diglossie français-créole dans l'univers plantocratique. Persée (Ministère de lEnseignement supérieur et de la Recherche). 1 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert. (1978). Le créole : structure, statut et origine. 8(1). 23 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert. (1978). La créolisation dans les parlers franco-créoles. Langue française. 37(1). 40–59. 3 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert, et al.. (1976). Identité culturelle et francophonie dans les Amériques, 1 : [actes du] colloque tenu à l'Université d'Indiana, Bloomington, du 28 au 30 mars 1974. Presses de l'Université Laval eBooks. 1 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert. (1975). Creole et francais en Haiti (Creole and French in Haiti).. ˜The œFrench review. 1 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert. (1970). Competing Models of Linguistic Analysis: French Adjective Inflection. ˜The œFrench review. 2 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert & Pierre Guiraud. (1968). Le francais populaire. Language. 44(1). 123–123. 11 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert. (1966). Trends in Language Teaching. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 87 indexed citations
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Valdman, Albert, et al.. (1963). Structural Drill and the Language Laboratory: Report of the Third Language Laboratory Conference Held at Indiana University, March 29-31, 1962.. International Journal of American Linguistics. 29(2). 1 indexed citations

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