Bethany Gray

5.0k total citations · 2 hit papers
34 papers, 2.1k citations indexed

About

Bethany Gray is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bethany Gray has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 2.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 19 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 16 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Bethany Gray's work include Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (22 papers), Second Language Acquisition and Learning (19 papers) and Text Readability and Simplification (8 papers). Bethany Gray is often cited by papers focused on Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (22 papers), Second Language Acquisition and Learning (19 papers) and Text Readability and Simplification (8 papers). Bethany Gray collaborates with scholars based in United States, Thailand and Australia. Bethany Gray's co-authors include Douglas Biber, Kornwipa Poonpon, Shelley Staples, Jesse Egbert, Viviana Cortes, Giuliana Diani, Karin Aijmer, Neal R. Norrick, Alan Partington and Martin Weißer and has published in prestigious journals such as TESOL Quarterly, Language Learning and Applied Linguistics.

In The Last Decade

Bethany Gray

32 papers receiving 2.0k citations

Hit Papers

Should We Use Characteristics of Conversation to Measure ... 2010 2026 2015 2020 2011 2010 100 200 300 400
What are hit papers?

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. Should We Use Characteristics of Conversation to Measure Grammatical Complexity in L2 Writing Development?
    2011 460 citations Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray et al. TESOL Quarterly profile →
  2. Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness
    2010 322 citations Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray Journal of English for Academic Purposes profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bethany Gray United States 19 1.3k 1.2k 945 792 389 34 2.1k
Alex Housen Belgium 20 863 0.7× 1.4k 1.2× 1.3k 1.4× 572 0.7× 292 0.8× 73 2.1k
Hilary Nesi United Kingdom 23 844 0.7× 715 0.6× 997 1.1× 515 0.7× 307 0.8× 88 1.7k
Marjolijn Verspoor Netherlands 22 796 0.6× 1.4k 1.2× 1.5k 1.6× 602 0.8× 262 0.7× 89 2.7k
Ute Römer United States 23 650 0.5× 943 0.8× 813 0.9× 574 0.7× 129 0.3× 48 1.4k
Folkert Kuiken Netherlands 21 1.1k 0.9× 1.6k 1.3× 1.7k 1.8× 383 0.5× 665 1.7× 69 2.4k
Eli Hinkel United States 23 1.3k 1.1× 899 0.8× 1.5k 1.6× 171 0.2× 484 1.2× 71 2.2k
Kees de Glopper Netherlands 24 454 0.4× 1.4k 1.2× 826 0.9× 303 0.4× 822 2.1× 90 2.1k
Charlene Polio United States 19 1.4k 1.1× 1.2k 1.0× 1.7k 1.8× 298 0.4× 699 1.8× 35 2.4k
James Milton United Kingdom 20 445 0.4× 1.2k 1.0× 953 1.0× 576 0.7× 210 0.5× 58 1.6k
Marjorie Bingham Wesche Canada 20 958 0.8× 1.7k 1.4× 1.7k 1.8× 495 0.6× 414 1.1× 43 2.6k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Egbert, Jesse, Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray, & Tove Larsson. (2025). Achieving stability in corpus-based analysis of word types. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 30(2). 150–170.
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Biber, Douglas, Tove Larsson, Gregory R. Hancock, et al.. (2024). Comparing theory-based models of grammatical complexity in student writing. 11(1). 145–177. 2 indexed citations
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Larsson, Tove, Tony Berber Sardinha, Bethany Gray, & Douglas Biber. (2023). Exploring early L2 writing development through the lens of grammatical complexity. 3(3). 100077–100077. 5 indexed citations
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Staples, Shelley, Bethany Gray, Douglas Biber, & Jesse Egbert. (2022). Writing Trajectories of Grammatical Complexity at the University: Comparing L1 and L2 English Writers in BAWE. Applied Linguistics. 44(1). 46–71. 11 indexed citations
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Gray, Bethany & Jesse Egbert. (2021). Register in L1 and L2 language development. 3(2). 177–179. 1 indexed citations
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Gray, Bethany, et al.. (2019). The Longitudinal Development of Grammatical Complexity at the Phrasal and Clausal Levels in Spoken and Written Responses to the TOEFL iBT® Test. ETS Research Report Series. 2019(1). 1–51. 8 indexed citations
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Gray, Bethany, et al.. (2019). Linguistic Perspectives on Register. Annual Review of Linguistics. 6(1). 435–455. 22 indexed citations
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Biber, Douglas & Bethany Gray. (2016). Grammatical Complexity in Academic English: Linguistic Change in Writing. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 125 indexed citations
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Biber, Douglas, Bethany Gray, & Shelley Staples. (2016). Contrasting the Grammatical Complexities of Conversation and Academic Writing: Implications for EAP Writing Development and Teaching. 2(1). 1–18. 10 indexed citations
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Biber, Douglas & Bethany Gray. (2015). Grammatical Complexity in Academic English. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 5 indexed citations
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Gray, Bethany. (2015). Linguistic Variation in Research Articles. 75 indexed citations
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Gray, Bethany. (2015). On the complexity of academic writing: Disciplinary variation and structural complexity. 49–78. 9 indexed citations
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Aijmer, Karin, Christoph Rühlemann, Thomas Kohnen, et al.. (2014). Corpus Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 62 indexed citations
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Biber, Douglas & Bethany Gray. (2013). Discourse Characteristics of Writing and Speaking Task Types on the "TOEFL iBT"® Test: A Lexico-Grammatical Analysis. "TOEFL iBT"® Research Report. TOEFL iBT-19. Research Report. RR-13-04.. ETS Research Report Series. 11 indexed citations
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Biber, Douglas & Bethany Gray. (2013). Being Specific about Historical Change. Journal of English Linguistics. 41(2). 104–134. 71 indexed citations
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Gray, Bethany & Douglas Biber. (2013). Lexical frames in academic prose and conversation. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 18(1). 109–136. 64 indexed citations
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Gray, Bethany. (2013). More than discipline: uncovering multi-dimensional patterns of variation in academic research articles. Corpora. 8(2). 153–181. 49 indexed citations
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Biber, Douglas, Bethany Gray, & Kornwipa Poonpon. (2011). Should We Use Characteristics of Conversation to Measure Grammatical Complexity in L2 Writing Development?. TESOL Quarterly. 45(1). 5–35. 460 indexed citations breakdown →
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Biber, Douglas & Bethany Gray. (2010). Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness. Journal of English for Academic Purposes. 9(1). 2–20. 322 indexed citations breakdown →

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