Douglas Biber

51.6k total citations · 14 hit papers
179 papers, 21.0k citations indexed

About

Douglas Biber is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Douglas Biber has authored 179 papers receiving a total of 21.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 82 papers in Language and Linguistics, 71 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 66 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Douglas Biber's work include Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (61 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (56 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (52 papers). Douglas Biber is often cited by papers focused on Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (61 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (56 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (52 papers). Douglas Biber collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and China. Douglas Biber's co-authors include Susan Conrad, Edward Finegan, Geoffrey Leech, Bethany Gray, Randi Reppen, Stig Johansson, Jesse Egbert, Shelley Staples, Federica Barbieri and Kornwipa Poonpon and has published in prestigious journals such as Language, Modern Language Journal and TESOL Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

Douglas Biber

172 papers receiving 17.6k citations

Hit Papers

5 papers align trajectories

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.

Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English

2000 3.7k citations Douglas Biber, Stig Johansson et al. profile →
Variation across Speech and Writing

1988 2.3k citations Douglas Biber Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
Strategies of discourse comprehension . By Teun A. van Dijk and Walter Kintsch. New York: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 418. $38.50.

1986 977 citations Douglas Biber Language profile →
Register, Genre, and Style

2009 752 citations Douglas Biber et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
If you look at ...: Lexical Bundles in University Teaching and Textbooks

2004 742 citations Douglas Biber profile →
Corpus linguistics : investigating language structure and use

2006 722 citations Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen et al. profile →
Corpus Linguistics

1998 553 citations Douglas Biber, Randi Reppen et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →
Language : Contexts and consequences. By Howard Giles and Nikolas Coupland. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1991. Pp. xvi, 244. Paper $21.00.

1993 520 citations Douglas Biber Language profile →
Styles of stance in English: Lexical and grammatical marking of evidentiality and affect

1989 519 citations Douglas Biber et al. profile →
University Language: A corpus-based study of spoken and written registers

2006 476 citations Douglas Biber profile →
Representativeness in Corpus Design

1993 462 citations Douglas Biber profile →
Should We Use Characteristics of Conversation to Measure Grammatical Complexity in L2 Writing Development?

2011 460 citations Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray et al. profile →
Challenging stereotypes about academic writing: Complexity, elaboration, explicitness

2010 322 citations Douglas Biber, Bethany Gray profile →
Register, Genre, and Style

2019 191 citations Douglas Biber et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Douglas Biber United States	59	11.2k	9.6k	6.6k	6.2k	3.6k	179	21.0k
Geoffrey Leech United Kingdom	43	9.6k 0.9×	4.7k 0.5×	2.8k 0.4×	3.9k 0.6×	3.6k 1.0×	116	15.0k
Ken Hyland United Kingdom	73	10.4k 0.9×	15.6k 1.6×	6.1k 0.9×	2.5k 0.4×	3.9k 1.1×	231	22.8k
Μ. Α. Κ. Halliday Australia	34	8.4k 0.8×	7.4k 0.8×	2.6k 0.4×	2.2k 0.4×	4.0k 1.1×	90	17.0k
Emanuel A. Schegloff United States	46	22.8k 2.0×	9.7k 1.0×	2.9k 0.4×	3.6k 0.6×	10.6k 3.0×	70	30.3k
Harvey Sacks United States	15	15.5k 1.4×	6.4k 0.7×	2.3k 0.4×	2.7k 0.4×	7.0k 2.0×	20	22.1k
Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen Hong Kong	27	6.3k 0.6×	6.6k 0.7×	1.7k 0.3×	1.7k 0.3×	2.8k 0.8×	100	12.9k
Penelope Brown Netherlands	25	10.6k 1.0×	5.0k 0.5×	1.5k 0.2×	1.5k 0.2×	4.7k 1.3×	70	16.6k
Charles Goodwin United States	35	8.1k 0.7×	3.5k 0.4×	2.6k 0.4×	965 0.2×	4.6k 1.3×	63	14.3k
Stephen Krashen United States	44	13.7k 1.2×	8.7k 0.9×	9.9k 1.5×	1.6k 0.3×	1.5k 0.4×	215	20.5k
Rod Ellis New Zealand	67	19.7k 1.8×	12.9k 1.4×	12.9k 2.0×	1.6k 0.3×	1.6k 0.5×	173	24.2k

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Biber, Douglas, Bethany Gray, Tove Larsson, & Shelley Staples. (2024). Grammatical Analysis Is Required to Describe Grammatical (and “Syntactic”) Complexity: A Commentary on “Complexity and Difficulty in Second Language Acquisition: A Theoretical and Methodological Overview”. Language Learning. 75(2). 575–581. 1 indexed citations

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

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

Laippala, Veronika, et al.. (2022). Register identification from the unrestricted open Web using the Corpus of Online Registers of English. Language Resources and Evaluation. 57(3). 1045–1079. 3 indexed citations

Biber, Douglas, et al.. (2015). The Cambridge Handbook of English Corpus Linguistics. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 80 indexed citations

Aarts, Bas, Mark Davies, Nicholas Smith, et al.. (2013). The Verb Phrase in English. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 27 indexed citations

Biber, Douglas, Ulla Connor, & Thomas A. Upton. (2007). Discourse on the Move. 293 indexed citations

Biber, Douglas. (2006). University Language. 369 indexed citations

Biber, Douglas. (1993). Language : Contexts and consequences. By Howard Giles and Nikolas Coupland. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole, 1991. Pp. xvi, 244. Paper $21.00.. Language. 69(4). 856–857. 520 indexed citations breakdown →

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Biber, Douglas. (1993). Using register-diversified corpora for general language studies. Computational Linguistics. 19(2). 219–241. 122 indexed citations

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Biber, Douglas. (1993). Co-occurrence patterns among collocations: a tool for corpus-based lexical knowledge acquisition. Computational Linguistics. 19(3). 531–538. 35 indexed citations

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Biber, Douglas. (1991). Status and function of languages and language varieties, Ed . by Ulrich Ammon. Berlin & New York: Walter de Gruyter, 1989. Pp. x, 665. DM 276.00.. Language. 67(2). 388–389. 3 indexed citations

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Biber, Douglas. (1991). Hellenistic and Roman Greece as a sociolinguistic area . By Vit Bubenik. Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 1989. Pp. xv, 331.. Language. 67(2). 391–392.

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Biber, Douglas. (1991). Frequency analysis of English vocabulary and grammar (based on the LOB corpus). Vol. 2 : Tag combinations and word combinations. By Stig Johansson and Knut Hofland. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989. Pp. v, 380. Cloth $79.00.. Language. 67(2). 406–407. 83 indexed citations

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Biber, Douglas. (1989). Somali-English dictionary. By Virginia Luling. Wheaton, MD: Dunwoody Press, 1987. Pp. vii, 605. $29.95. - The syntax of focus and topic in Somali. By John Ibrahim Saeed. Hamburg: Helmet Buske, 1984. - Somali reference grammar. By John Ibrahim Saeed. Wheaton, MD: Dunwoody Press, 1987. Pp. xiv, 275.. Language. 65(3). 628–632. 6 indexed citations

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Biber, Douglas. (1986). Strategies of discourse comprehension . By Teun A. van Dijk and Walter Kintsch. New York: Academic Press, 1983. Pp. xi, 418. $38.50.. Language. 62(3). 664–668. 977 indexed citations breakdown →

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Biber, Douglas. (1985). Early reading acquisition: Six psycholinguistic case studies. By Fernando Miño-Garcés. Washington, DC: Georgetown University Press, 1981. Pp. vii, 81.. Language. 61(1). 239–239. 1 indexed citations

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Biber, Douglas. (1985). On the surface of discourse. By Michael Hoey. London & Boston: Allen & Unwin, 1983. Pp. xiv, 219. Cloth $28.50, paper $10.95.. Language. 61(3). 734–735. 222 indexed citations

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Biber, Douglas. (1984). Central Somali: A grammatical outline. By John I. Saeed. (Afroasiatic linguistics, 8:2.) Malibu: Undena, 1982. Pp. 43.. Language. 60(4). 993–993. 8 indexed citations

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Biber, Douglas. (1983). The historical reconstruction of Southern Cushitic phonology and vocabulary . By Christopher Ehret. (Kölner Beiträge zur Afrikanistik, 5.) Berlin: Reimer, 1980. Pp. 407.. Language. 58(4). 949–950. 41 indexed citations

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