Chundra Cathcart

519 total citations · 1 hit paper
27 papers, 227 citations indexed

About

Chundra Cathcart is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Language and Linguistics and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Chundra Cathcart has authored 27 papers receiving a total of 227 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 11 papers in Cultural Studies, 11 papers in Language and Linguistics and 8 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Chundra Cathcart's work include Language and cultural evolution (11 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (6 papers). Chundra Cathcart is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (11 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (6 papers). Chundra Cathcart collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, United States and Sweden. Chundra Cathcart's co-authors include W.S.C. Chang, Andrew Garrett, David W. Hall, Erich R. Round, Niklas Johansson, Paul Widmer, Gerhard Jäger, Arthur Holmer, Balthasar Bickel and Simon W. Townsend and has published in prestigious journals such as Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, PLoS ONE and Language.

In The Last Decade

Chundra Cathcart

19 papers receiving 209 citations

Hit Papers

Ancestry-constrained phyl... 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 40 80 120
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. Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the indo-european steppe hypothesis
    2015 142 citations W.S.C. Chang, Chundra Cathcart et al. Language profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Chundra Cathcart Switzerland 5 154 93 85 74 30 27 227
Annemarie Verkerk Germany 10 167 1.1× 73 0.8× 83 1.0× 74 1.0× 85 2.8× 25 287
Yunfan Lai Germany 7 90 0.6× 120 1.3× 122 1.4× 47 0.6× 37 1.2× 25 258
Erich R. Round Australia 11 70 0.5× 100 1.1× 117 1.4× 63 0.9× 101 3.4× 36 262
Taraka Rama Germany 13 139 0.9× 48 0.5× 79 0.9× 280 3.8× 28 0.9× 44 394
Larry Trask 3 88 0.6× 95 1.0× 84 1.0× 42 0.6× 28 0.9× 5 201
Lev Michael United States 10 122 0.8× 194 2.1× 120 1.4× 43 0.6× 103 3.4× 33 306
Cristina Guardiano Italy 9 119 0.8× 146 1.6× 108 1.3× 87 1.2× 46 1.5× 43 290
Ann Taylor United Kingdom 8 124 0.8× 172 1.8× 142 1.7× 110 1.5× 33 1.1× 17 326
Ruth Singer Australia 8 59 0.4× 79 0.8× 128 1.5× 28 0.4× 33 1.1× 27 237
Uri Tadmor Germany 6 96 0.6× 205 2.2× 180 2.1× 59 0.8× 57 1.9× 15 336

Countries citing papers authored by Chundra Cathcart

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Fields of papers citing papers by Chundra Cathcart

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Chundra Cathcart. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Chundra Cathcart. The network helps show where Chundra Cathcart may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Chundra Cathcart

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Chundra Cathcart. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Chundra Cathcart 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 Chundra Cathcart. Chundra Cathcart 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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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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Cathcart, Chundra. (2024). Multiple evolutionary pressures shape identical consonant avoidance in the world’s languages. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 121(27). e2316677121–e2316677121. 1 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra, et al.. (2023). Short vs Long Stem Alternations in Romance Verbal Inflection: The S‐Morphome. Transactions of the Philological Society. 122(1). 49–78. 1 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra. (2022). Dialectal Layers in West Iranian: A Hierarchical Dirichlet Process Approach to Linguistic Relationships1. Transactions of the Philological Society. 120(1). 1–31.
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Cathcart, Chundra, et al.. (2021). Reconstructing the evolution of Indo-European grammar. Language. 4 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra, et al.. (2021). Development of Quantitative Indices and Machine Learning-Based Predictive Models for SEN Clogging. 1892–1901. 4 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra, et al.. (2021). Evolutionary dynamics of Indo-European alignment patterns. Diachronica. 38(3). 358–412. 1 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra & Taraka Rama. (2020). Disentangling dialects: a neural approach to Indo-Aryan historical phonology and subgrouping. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 620–630. 2 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra, et al.. (2020). Numeral classifiers and number marking in Indo-Iranian. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 11(2). 273–325. 8 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra. (2019). Gaussian Process Models of Sound Change in Indo-Aryan Dialectology. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 254–264. 2 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra, et al.. (2018). Areal pressure in grammatical evolution. Diachronica. 1–34. 16 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra, et al.. (2018). Diachronic Atlas of Comparative Linguistics (DiACL)—A database for ancient language typology. PLoS ONE. 13(10). e0205313–e0205313. 14 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra. (2018). Modeling linguistic evolution: a look under the hood. Linguistics Vanguard. 4(1). 8 indexed citations
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Chang, W.S.C., Chundra Cathcart, David W. Hall, & Andrew Garrett. (2015). Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supportsthe Indo-European steppe hypothesis: Supplementary materials. Language. 91(1). 4 indexed citations
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Chang, W.S.C., Chundra Cathcart, David W. Hall, & Andrew Garrett. (2015). Ancestry-constrained phylogenetic analysis supports the indo-european steppe hypothesis. Language. 91(1). 194–244. 142 indexed citations breakdown →
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Cathcart, Chundra. (2015). Degrees of Irregular Change. 5(2). 282–308. 1 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra, et al.. (2014). Proceedings of the 37th Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society: Special Session on Languages of the Caucasus. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society. 37(2). 2 indexed citations
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Lyon, Phil, et al.. (2014). Pills, Potions and Devices: Treatments for Hearing Loss Advertised in Mid-nineteenth Century British Newspapers. Social History of Medicine. 27(3). 530–556.
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Cathcart, Chundra. (2009). How a Man may Choose A Good Wife from a Bad and The Taming of the Shrew. Notes and Queries. 56(4). 612–615. 1 indexed citations
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Cathcart, Chundra. (2007). Guilpin, Shakespeare, and 'A Scourge of Wire'. Notes and Queries. 54(3). 307–310.

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