Britt Erman

2.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
16 papers, 996 citations indexed

About

Britt Erman is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Developmental and Educational Psychology and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Britt Erman has authored 16 papers receiving a total of 996 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Language and Linguistics, 7 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology and 5 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in Britt Erman's work include Second Language Acquisition and Learning (7 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 papers). Britt Erman is often cited by papers focused on Second Language Acquisition and Learning (7 papers), EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (5 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (4 papers). Britt Erman collaborates with scholars based in Sweden. Britt Erman's co-authors include Beatrice Warren, Annelie Ädel, Philip E. Shaw, Gunnel Melchers and Camilla Bardel and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Pragmatics, English for Specific Purposes and Language Variation and Change.

In The Last Decade

Britt Erman

13 papers receiving 817 citations

Hit Papers

The idiom principle and the open choice principle 2000 2026 2008 2017 2000 100 200 300 400 500
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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. The idiom principle and the open choice principle
    2000 515 citations Britt Erman, Beatrice Warren Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Britt Erman Sweden 7 666 535 384 311 195 16 996
Gaëtanelle Gilquin Belgium 18 776 1.2× 570 1.1× 391 1.0× 396 1.3× 260 1.3× 84 1.2k
June Eyckmans Belgium 20 927 1.4× 976 1.8× 340 0.9× 372 1.2× 263 1.3× 66 1.3k
Nadja Nesselhauf Germany 8 817 1.2× 830 1.6× 243 0.6× 534 1.7× 87 0.4× 12 1.1k
Beatrice Warren Sweden 7 472 0.7× 363 0.7× 154 0.4× 301 1.0× 158 0.8× 13 738
Philip Durrant United Kingdom 14 615 0.9× 919 1.7× 394 1.0× 584 1.9× 137 0.7× 32 1.2k
Richard Towell United Kingdom 10 535 0.8× 408 0.8× 225 0.6× 116 0.4× 154 0.8× 26 749
Rita Simpson‐Vlach United States 5 487 0.7× 641 1.2× 309 0.8× 407 1.3× 101 0.5× 5 837
Guy Aston Italy 10 446 0.7× 174 0.3× 200 0.5× 316 1.0× 106 0.5× 19 681
Rosamund Moon United Kingdom 9 475 0.7× 180 0.3× 132 0.3× 223 0.7× 264 1.4× 30 733
Håkan Ringbom Finland 9 561 0.8× 389 0.7× 301 0.8× 125 0.4× 126 0.6× 20 814

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Fields of papers citing papers by Britt Erman

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Britt Erman

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All Works

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Shaw, Philip E., et al.. (2015). From Clerks to Corpora: Essays on the English language yesterday and today. KTH Publication Database DiVA (KTH Royal Institute of Technology). 2 indexed citations
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Erman, Britt, et al.. (2014). Nativelike selection in long-residency L2 users. : A study of multiword structures in the speehc of L2 English, French and Spanish.. International Journal of Applied Linguistics.
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Erman, Britt, et al.. (2014). Nativelike expression in the speech of long‐residencyL2 users: A study of multiword structures inL2English,French andSpanish. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. 25(2). 160–182. 13 indexed citations
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Erman, Britt. (2014). There is no such thing as a free combination: a usage-based study of specific construals in adverb–adjective combinations. English Language and Linguistics. 18(1). 109–132. 4 indexed citations
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Erman, Britt, et al.. (2012). High-level requests: A study of long residency L2 users of English and French and native speakers. Journal of Pragmatics. 44(6-7). 756–775. 17 indexed citations
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Ädel, Annelie & Britt Erman. (2011). Recurrent word combinations in academic writing by native and non-native speakers of English: A lexical bundles approach. English for Specific Purposes. 31(2). 81–92. 228 indexed citations
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Erman, Britt. (2009). Frame-induced collocations in the writings of native speakers and firs-term university students of English. 23–37. 1 indexed citations
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Bardel, Camilla & Britt Erman. (2007). Language and Gender from Linguistic and Textual Perspectives. 2 indexed citations
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Erman, Britt. (2007). Cognitive processes as evidence of the idiom principle. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 12(1). 25–53. 41 indexed citations
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Erman, Britt, et al.. (2004). Second Language Acquisition and Usage. 2 indexed citations
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Erman, Britt. (2001). Pragmatic markers revisited with a focus on you know in adult and adolescent talk. Journal of Pragmatics. 33(9). 1337–1359. 130 indexed citations
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Erman, Britt & Beatrice Warren. (2000). The idiom principle and the open choice principle. Text - Interdisciplinary Journal for the Study of Discourse. 20(1). 515 indexed citations breakdown →
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Erman, Britt. (1992). Female and male usage of pragmatic expressions in same-sex and mixed-sex interaction. Language Variation and Change. 4(2). 217–234. 37 indexed citations

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