Gunnar Fant

7.1k total citations · 1 hit paper
70 papers, 4.2k citations indexed

About

Gunnar Fant is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence and Signal Processing. According to data from OpenAlex, Gunnar Fant has authored 70 papers receiving a total of 4.2k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 43 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 42 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 18 papers in Signal Processing. Recurrent topics in Gunnar Fant's work include Phonetics and Phonology Research (42 papers), Speech Recognition and Synthesis (38 papers) and Speech and Audio Processing (17 papers). Gunnar Fant is often cited by papers focused on Phonetics and Phonology Research (42 papers), Speech Recognition and Synthesis (38 papers) and Speech and Audio Processing (17 papers). Gunnar Fant collaborates with scholars based in Sweden. Gunnar Fant's co-authors include Björn Lindblom, Sven Öhman, Anita Kruckenberg, T. Ananthapadmanabha, Lennart Nord, Johan Liljencrants, Gunnar Lidén, Louis-Jean Boë, Morris Halle and Roman Jakobson and has published in prestigious journals such as The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Acta Oto-Laryngologica and Journal of Phonetics.

In The Last Decade

Gunnar Fant

66 papers receiving 3.6k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Acoustic Theory of Speech Production

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Gunnar Fant Sweden	21	2.6k	2.1k	1.6k	1.0k	568	70	4.2k
Abeer Alwan United States	29	1.6k 0.6×	2.0k 1.0×	1.6k 1.0×	758 0.8×	330 0.6×	233	3.4k
Harry Hollien United States	36	1.9k 0.8×	1.4k 0.6×	656 0.4×	1.8k 1.8×	281 0.5×	146	3.6k
Dennis H. Klatt United States	27	4.9k 1.9×	3.6k 1.7×	2.0k 1.2×	1.0k 1.0×	1.4k 2.4×	74	7.5k
James Hillenbrand United States	26	3.6k 1.4×	2.0k 0.9×	1.3k 0.8×	1.8k 1.8×	1.1k 1.9×	63	4.9k
Kenneth N. Stevens United States	38	5.1k 2.0×	2.7k 1.3×	1.9k 1.2×	951 0.9×	1.6k 2.7×	122	7.3k
Thomas Baer United States	30	1.4k 0.5×	1.0k 0.5×	1.3k 0.8×	1.2k 1.2×	238 0.4×	117	4.1k
Björn Lindblom Sweden	31	4.1k 1.6×	1.9k 0.9×	1.0k 0.6×	417 0.4×	1.5k 2.7×	106	5.9k
Katherine S. Harris United States	26	2.4k 0.9×	879 0.4×	566 0.3×	444 0.4×	540 1.0×	92	3.5k
Joseph S. Perkell United States	38	4.1k 1.6×	1.8k 0.8×	962 0.6×	1.8k 1.8×	674 1.2×	121	5.5k
Gordon E. Peterson United States	14	2.9k 1.1×	1.7k 0.8×	1.3k 0.8×	351 0.3×	1.1k 2.0×	51	4.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Gunnar Fant

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Gunnar Fant

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Fant, Gunnar & Anita Kruckenberg. (2005). Covariation of subglottal pressure, F0 and intensity. 1061–1064. 3 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar. (2005). Speech Acoustics and Phonetics. DIAL (Catholic University of Leuven). 30 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar & Anita Kruckenberg. (2004). Prosody by rule in Swedish with language universal implications. 405–408. 1 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar, et al.. (2002). A new approach to intonation analysis and synthesis of Swedish. 283–286. 20 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar. (2001). T. Chiba and M. Kajiyama, Pioneers in Speech Acoustics( Sixtieth Anniversary of the Publication of The Vowel, Its Nature and Structure by Chiba and Kajiyama). 5(2). 4–5. 1 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar. (2000). Half a century in phonetics and speech research. The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 8. CD013077–CD013077. 3 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar, Anita Kruckenberg, & Johan Liljencrants. (2000). The Source-Filter Frame of Prominence. Phonetica. 57(2-4). 113–127. 21 indexed citations

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Liljencrants, Johan, Gunnar Fant, & Anita Kruckenberg. (2000). Subglottal pressure and prosody in Swedish. vol. 1, 1–4. 1 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar. (1997). The voice source in connected speech. Speech Communication. 22(2-3). 125–139. 87 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar. (1991). What can basic research contribute to speech synthesis?. Journal of Phonetics. 19(1). 75–90. 11 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar, et al.. (1990). A new algorithm for speech synthesis based on vocal tract modeling. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 88(S1). S150–S151. 3 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar. (1990). Speech research in perspective. Speech Communication. 9(3). 171–176. 1 indexed citations

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Boë, Louis-Jean, et al.. (1989). La parole et son traitement automatique. Masson eBooks. 68 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar. (1989). Quantal theory and features. Journal of Phonetics. 17(1-2). 79–86. 3 indexed citations

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Lindblom, Björn, Sven Öhman, & Gunnar Fant. (1980). Frontiers of Speech Communication Research. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 293 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar. (1976). Vocal-tract determinants of resonance frequencies and bandwidths. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 59(S1). S70–S70. 1 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar, et al.. (1972). International Symposium on Speech Communication Ability and Profound Deafness. 12 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar. (1971). Acoustic Theory of Speech Production. 2016 indexed citations breakdown →

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Fant, Gunnar. (1971). Acoustic Theory of Speech Production With Calculations based on X-Ray Studies of Russian Articulations. 488 indexed citations

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Fant, Gunnar. (1958). Modern instruments and methods for acoustic studies of speech. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 23 indexed citations

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