Geneva Smitherman

5.0k total citations · 1 hit paper
59 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Geneva Smitherman is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Education. According to data from OpenAlex, Geneva Smitherman has authored 59 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 25 papers in Linguistics and Language, 8 papers in Language and Linguistics and 7 papers in Education. Recurrent topics in Geneva Smitherman's work include Multilingual Education and Policy (25 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 papers) and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 papers). Geneva Smitherman is often cited by papers focused on Multilingual Education and Policy (25 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (8 papers) and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (4 papers). Geneva Smitherman collaborates with scholars based in United States. Geneva Smitherman's co-authors include Russell Rickford, John R. Rickford, Arthur K. Spears, Arnetha F. Ball, Sinfree Makoni, John P. Hutchison, Anne Haas Dyson, Michael Eric Dyson, H. Samy Alim and Helen Fox and has published in prestigious journals such as Harvard Educational Review, Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education and College Composition and Communication.

In The Last Decade

Geneva Smitherman

54 papers receiving 1.8k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America

1977 666 citations Geneva Smitherman Medical Entomology and Zoology profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Geneva Smitherman United States	20	1.3k	884	757	703	575	59	2.5k
H. Samy Alim United States	20	1.2k 0.9×	878 1.0×	613 0.8×	1.0k 1.5×	1.3k 2.2×	38	3.0k
Ben Rampton United Kingdom	26	2.4k 1.8×	1.4k 1.6×	2.1k 2.7×	482 0.7×	391 0.7×	83	3.4k
Anne Haas Dyson United States	35	694 0.5×	1.7k 1.9×	618 0.8×	671 1.0×	2.2k 3.8×	118	3.5k
Nancy C. Dorian United States	20	2.0k 1.5×	1.1k 1.2×	1.5k 2.0×	443 0.6×	589 1.0×	60	3.5k
Ana María Villegas United States	22	722 0.5×	670 0.8×	540 0.7×	1.4k 2.0×	3.4k 6.0×	38	4.2k
Clifford Hill United States	9	411 0.3×	877 1.0×	384 0.5×	434 0.6×	1.0k 1.8×	33	2.0k
Arnetha F. Ball United States	20	586 0.4×	446 0.5×	359 0.5×	564 0.8×	971 1.7×	42	1.7k
Asif Agha United States	17	1.9k 1.5×	879 1.0×	1.7k 2.3×	563 0.8×	97 0.2×	29	3.3k
Judith T. Irvine United States	18	1.4k 1.0×	646 0.7×	1.3k 1.7×	390 0.6×	73 0.1×	40	2.5k
Joan M. Fayer Puerto Rico	13	988 0.7×	487 0.6×	899 1.2×	175 0.2×	277 0.5×	27	1.7k

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All Works

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Smitherman, Geneva. (2021). Word from the Mother. 6 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (2017). Black Idiom. African American Review. 50(4). 499–505. 5 indexed citations

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Dyson, Anne Haas & Geneva Smitherman. (2009). The Right (Write) Start: African American Language and the Discourse of Sounding Right. Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education. 111(4). 973–998. 50 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (2006). Word from the Mother: Language and African Americans. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 90 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (2006). Word from the Mother. 96 indexed citations

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Kirkland, David, et al.. (2004). From “The Lower Economic”: Three Young Brothas and an Old School Womanist Respond to Dr. Bill Cosby. The Black Scholar. 34(4). 10–15. 2 indexed citations

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Hutchison, John P., Sinfree Makoni, Geneva Smitherman, Arnetha F. Ball, & Arthur K. Spears. (2003). Black Linguistics: Language, Society, and Politics in Africa and the Americas. The International Journal of African Historical Studies. 36(3). 667–667. 205 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (2000). TALKIN THAT TALK. 153 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1999). CCCC’s Role in the Struggle for Language Rights. College Composition and Communication. 50(3). 349–376. 5 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1995). African American women speak out on Anita Hill-Clarence Thomas. 31 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1995). "Students' Right to Their Own Language": A Retrospective. The English Journal. 84(1). 21–21. 31 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1991). "What Is Africa to Me?": Language, Ideology, and African American. American Speech. 66(2). 115–115. 32 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1979). Toward Educational Linguistics for the First World. College English. 41(2). 202–211. 1 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1977). Talkin and Testifyin: The Language of Black America. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 666 indexed citations breakdown →

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1974). Response to Hunt, Meyers, et al.. College English. 35(6). 729–729. 2 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1974). Soul'n Style. The English Journal. 63(4). 16–16. 7 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1973). “God Don’t Never Change”: Black English from a Black Perspective. College English. 34(6). 828–833. 1 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1972). English Teacher, why you be doing the thangs you don’t do?. The English Journal. 61(1). 59–65. 1 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1971). Black Idiom. 5(3). 88–88. 1 indexed citations

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Smitherman, Geneva. (1969). A Comparison of the Oral and Written Styles of a Group of Inner-City Black Students.. Deep Blue (University of Michigan). 4 indexed citations

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