Bruce Rigsby

2.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
30 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Bruce Rigsby is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Anthropology and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Bruce Rigsby has authored 30 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 15 papers in Linguistics and Language, 7 papers in Anthropology and 6 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Bruce Rigsby's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (8 papers) and Australian Indigenous Culture and History (7 papers). Bruce Rigsby is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 papers), Multilingual Education and Policy (8 papers) and Australian Indigenous Culture and History (7 papers). Bruce Rigsby collaborates with scholars based in Australia, Canada and Germany. Bruce Rigsby's co-authors include Chris Hann, Michael D. Walsh, Colin Yallop, Nicolas Peterson, Julie Finlayson, Peter Sutton, Michael Silverstein, Jean‐Christophe Verstraete, John C. L. Ingram and Jing Li and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, American Anthropologist and Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

In The Last Decade

Bruce Rigsby

25 papers receiving 702 citations

Hit Papers

The Dyirbal language of North Queensland . By R. M. W. Di... 1978 2026 1994 2010 1978 100 200 300

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Bruce Rigsby Australia 11 363 294 206 189 130 30 1.0k
Alan Rumsey Australia 19 588 1.6× 419 1.4× 348 1.7× 251 1.3× 283 2.2× 58 1.5k
James F. Weiner Australia 17 424 1.2× 229 0.8× 372 1.8× 173 0.9× 351 2.7× 63 1.5k
Dennis Tedlock United States 15 196 0.5× 149 0.5× 265 1.3× 119 0.6× 200 1.5× 42 1.1k
Greg Urban United States 11 580 1.6× 489 1.7× 278 1.3× 149 0.8× 374 2.9× 24 1.6k
Francésca Merlan Australia 20 179 0.5× 169 0.6× 432 2.1× 90 0.5× 277 2.1× 72 1.2k
Harry Hoijer United States 18 323 0.9× 194 0.7× 98 0.5× 173 0.9× 131 1.0× 40 948
Richard J. Parmentier United States 14 161 0.4× 142 0.5× 378 1.8× 87 0.5× 410 3.2× 49 1.5k
Donald Brenneis United States 13 274 0.8× 178 0.6× 180 0.9× 104 0.6× 205 1.6× 31 820
Paul Kockelman United States 19 351 1.0× 167 0.6× 152 0.7× 202 1.1× 240 1.8× 52 1.0k
Aram A. Yengoyan United States 9 81 0.2× 45 0.2× 205 1.0× 64 0.3× 181 1.4× 42 630

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Fields of papers citing papers by Bruce Rigsby

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Bruce Rigsby

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Bruce Rigsby. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Bruce Rigsby based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Bruce Rigsby. Bruce Rigsby is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Hafner, Diane, et al.. (2007). Museums and Memory as Agents of Social Change. The International Journal of the Humanities Annual Review. 5(6). 87–94. 3 indexed citations
2.
Rigsby, Bruce. (2006). Custom and Tradition: Innovation and Invention. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 6. 113–138. 2 indexed citations
3.
Rigsby, Bruce & Nicolas Peterson. (2005). Donald Thomson: The Man and Scholar. 1 indexed citations
4.
Rigsby, Bruce. (2005). The Languages of Eastern Cape York Peninsula and Linguistic Anthropology. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 129–142. 4 indexed citations
5.
Rigsby, Bruce & Nicolas Peterson. (2005). Introduction [to Donald Thomson: the man and scholar]. ANU Open Research (Australian National University). 1 indexed citations
6.
Rigsby, Bruce, et al.. (2000). Customary Marine Tenure in Australia. Pacific Affairs. 73(1). 151–151.
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Rigsby, Bruce. (1999). Genealogies, kinship and local group composition: Old Yintjingga (Port Stewart) in the late 1920s. Queensland's institutional digital repository (The University of Queensland). 107–123. 1 indexed citations
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Rigsby, Bruce. (1999). Aboriginal people, spirituality and the traditional ownership of land. International Journal of Social Economics. 26(7/8/9). 963–976. 14 indexed citations
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Rigsby, Bruce. (1996). Aboriginal people, land tenure and national parks. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Queensland. 106. 11–15. 1 indexed citations
10.
Rigsby, Bruce, Michael D. Walsh, & Colin Yallop. (1995). Language and Culture in Aboriginal Australia.. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 1(1). 204–204. 100 indexed citations
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Rigsby, Bruce & John C. L. Ingram. (1990). Obstruent Voicing and Glottalic Obstruents in Gitksan. International Journal of American Linguistics. 56(2). 251–263. 5 indexed citations
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Rigsby, Bruce & Peter Sutton. (1980). Contributions to Australian linguistics. 2 indexed citations
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Rigsby, Bruce & Peter Sutton. (1980). Speech communities in aboriginal Australia. Anthropological Forum. 5(1). 8–23. 17 indexed citations
15.
Rigsby, Bruce. (1978). The Dyirbal language of North Queensland . By R. M. W. Dixon. (Cambridge studies in linguistics, 9.) Cambridge: University Press, 1972. Pp. xxiv, 420. $28.50. [Paperback edition, 1976; $8.95.].. Language. 54(1). 213–218. 360 indexed citations breakdown →
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Rigsby, Bruce. (1975). Nass-Gitksan: An Analytic Ergative Syntax. International Journal of American Linguistics. 41(4). 346–354. 3 indexed citations
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Rigsby, Bruce & Michael Silverstein. (1969). Nez Perce Vowels and Proto-Sahaptian Vowel Harmony. Language. 45(1). 45–45. 19 indexed citations
18.
Rigsby, Bruce. (1966). On Cayuse-Molala Relatability. International Journal of American Linguistics. 32(4). 369–378. 2 indexed citations
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Rigsby, Bruce. (1965). Continuity and Change in Sahaptian Vowel Systems. International Journal of American Linguistics. 31(4). 306–311. 7 indexed citations

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