Balthasar Bickel

7.7k total citations
93 papers, 1.6k citations indexed

About

Balthasar Bickel is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Cultural Studies and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Balthasar Bickel has authored 93 papers receiving a total of 1.6k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 56 papers in Language and Linguistics, 36 papers in Cultural Studies and 30 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Balthasar Bickel's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (43 papers), Language and cultural evolution (36 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (25 papers). Balthasar Bickel is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (43 papers), Language and cultural evolution (36 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (25 papers). Balthasar Bickel collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Germany and United States. Balthasar Bickel's co-authors include Sabine Stoll, Simon W. Townsend, Ina Bornkessel‐Schlesewsky, Yogendra Prasad Yadava, Klaus Zuberbühler, Alena Witzlack-Makarevich, Kristine A. Hildebrandt, Martin Gaenszle, Damián E. Blasí and René Schiering and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología.

In The Last Decade

Balthasar Bickel

83 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Balthasar Bickel Switzerland 21 840 545 471 450 350 93 1.6k
Dan Dediu Netherlands 21 326 0.4× 478 0.9× 323 0.7× 671 1.5× 205 0.6× 78 1.5k
Damián E. Blasí United States 17 257 0.3× 705 1.3× 233 0.5× 495 1.1× 243 0.7× 43 1.6k
Søren Wichmann Germany 26 520 0.6× 467 0.9× 594 1.3× 906 2.0× 491 1.4× 125 2.1k
James R. Hurford United Kingdom 16 509 0.6× 443 0.8× 157 0.3× 595 1.3× 258 0.7× 46 1.3k
Ian Maddieson United States 20 566 0.7× 1.4k 2.5× 949 2.0× 275 0.6× 642 1.8× 90 1.8k
Derek Bickerton United States 19 1.4k 1.7× 715 1.3× 894 1.9× 1.0k 2.3× 324 0.9× 87 2.9k
Johanna Nichols United States 21 1.2k 1.5× 440 0.8× 816 1.7× 533 1.2× 354 1.0× 80 2.0k
Philippe Schlenker France 29 1.3k 1.6× 1.0k 1.9× 88 0.2× 175 0.4× 638 1.8× 97 2.4k
Johann‐Mattis List Germany 24 467 0.6× 304 0.6× 427 0.9× 903 2.0× 775 2.2× 113 1.7k
Louis-Jean Boë France 22 164 0.2× 1.0k 1.9× 344 0.7× 224 0.5× 496 1.4× 80 1.6k

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Fields of papers citing papers by Balthasar Bickel

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Balthasar Bickel

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Chousou‐Polydouri, Natalia, et al.. (2025). Curating global datasets of structural linguistic features for independence. Scientific Data. 12(1). 106–106. 1 indexed citations
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Ioannidis, Alexander, et al.. (2024). Deep history of cultural and linguistic evolution among Central African hunter-gatherers. Nature Human Behaviour. 8(7). 1263–1275. 7 indexed citations
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Burkart, Judith M., et al.. (2024). Beyond bigrams: call sequencing in the common marmoset ( Callithrix jacchus ) vocal system. Royal Society Open Science. 11(11). 240218–240218. 4 indexed citations
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Furrer, Reinhard, et al.. (2024). densify: An R package to reduce empty cells in dataframes of typological linguistic data. The Journal of Open Source Software. 9(101). 7024–7024. 1 indexed citations
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Wilson, Vanessa, Sebastian Sauppe, Moritz M. Daum, et al.. (2024). Humans and great apes visually track event roles in similar ways. PLoS Biology. 22(11). e3002857–e3002857.
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Wilson, Vanessa, et al.. (2024). A universal preference for animate agents in hominids. iScience. 27(6). 109996–109996. 5 indexed citations
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Chousou‐Polydouri, Natalia, et al.. (2023). Multi-variate coding for possession: methodology and preliminary results. Linguistics. 61(6). 1365–1402.
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Mansfield, John, et al.. (2023). Naturalness is gradient in morphological paradigms: Evidence from positional splits. Glossa a journal of general linguistics. 8(1).
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Wilson, Vanessa, Klaus Zuberbühler, & Balthasar Bickel. (2022). The evolutionary origins of syntax: Event cognition in nonhuman primates. Science Advances. 8(25). eabn8464–eabn8464. 28 indexed citations
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Zuberbühler, Klaus & Balthasar Bickel. (2022). Transition to language: From agent perception to event representation. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews Cognitive Science. 13(6). e1594–e1594. 6 indexed citations
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Barbieri, Chiara, Damián E. Blasí, Alexandros G. Sotiropoulos, et al.. (2022). A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 119(47). e2122084119–e2122084119. 14 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2021). Can Bayesian phylogeography reconstruct migrations and expansions in linguistic evolution?. Royal Society Open Science. 8(1). 201079–201079. 9 indexed citations
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Ranacher, Peter, et al.. (2021). Contact-tracing in cultural evolution: a Bayesian mixture model to detect geographic areas of language contact. Journal of The Royal Society Interface. 18(181). 20201031–20201031. 19 indexed citations
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Strunk, Jan, Frank Seifart, Swintha Danielsen, et al.. (2020). Determinants of phonetic word duration in ten language documentation corpora: Word frequency, complexity, position, and part of speech. Leiden Repository (Leiden University). 4 indexed citations
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Nichols, Johanna, et al.. (2017). NP Recursion Over Time: Evidence from Indo-European. Language. 93(4). 799–826. 17 indexed citations
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Bickel, Balthasar. (2000). Person and evidence in Himalayan languages. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 6 indexed citations
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Bickel, Balthasar. (2000). On the syntax of agreement in Tibeto-Burman. Studies in Language. 24(3). 583–610. 13 indexed citations
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Bickel, Balthasar & Martin Gaenszle. (1999). Himalayan space: cultural horizons and practices. 9 indexed citations
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Nuyts, Jan, Eric Pederson, Stephen C. Levinson, et al.. (1997). Language and Conceptualization. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 92 indexed citations
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Bickel, Balthasar. (1995). Relatives à antécédent interne, nominalisation et focalisation. Bulletin de la Société de Linguistique de Paris. 90(1). 391–427. 9 indexed citations

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