Jeff MacSwan

3.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
35 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

Jeff MacSwan is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Jeff MacSwan has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Linguistics and Language, 15 papers in Language and Linguistics and 14 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Jeff MacSwan's work include Multilingual Education and Policy (24 papers), Second Language Learning and Teaching (14 papers) and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (9 papers). Jeff MacSwan is often cited by papers focused on Multilingual Education and Policy (24 papers), Second Language Learning and Teaching (14 papers) and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (9 papers). Jeff MacSwan collaborates with scholars based in United States, Japan and Israel. Jeff MacSwan's co-authors include Kellie Rolstad, Kate Mahoney, Lisa Pray, Marilyn S. Thompson, Gene V. Glass, Elly van Gelderen, Jerome Alan Cohen, Enlli Thomas, Kristen E. DiCerbo and Tetsuya Sano and has published in prestigious journals such as Frontiers in Psychology, American Educational Research Journal and Teachers College Record The Voice of Scholarship in Education.

In The Last Decade

Jeff MacSwan

34 papers receiving 1.3k citations

Hit Papers

A Multilingual Perspective on Translanguaging 2017 2026 2020 2023 2017 100 200 300
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. A Multilingual Perspective on Translanguaging
    2017 318 citations Jeff MacSwan American Educational Research Journal profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Jeff MacSwan United States 18 1.0k 792 604 422 232 35 1.4k
Cem Alptekin Türkiye 14 688 0.7× 1.3k 1.7× 1.0k 1.7× 465 1.1× 305 1.3× 26 1.8k
Kim Potowski United States 15 743 0.7× 720 0.9× 437 0.7× 224 0.5× 104 0.4× 40 1.0k
Mila Schwartz Israel 20 697 0.7× 424 0.5× 324 0.5× 585 1.4× 370 1.6× 68 1.3k
Ulrike Jessner Austria 14 883 0.9× 1.4k 1.7× 1.0k 1.7× 655 1.6× 121 0.5× 36 1.9k
Elizabeth Lanza Norway 14 847 0.8× 580 0.7× 234 0.4× 424 1.0× 87 0.4× 27 1.1k
Rosamond Mitchell United Kingdom 21 418 0.4× 1.2k 1.5× 806 1.3× 671 1.6× 293 1.3× 67 1.6k
Donna Christian United States 19 1.2k 1.2× 888 1.1× 822 1.4× 468 1.1× 651 2.8× 60 1.8k
Robert Bayley United States 22 1.1k 1.0× 1.1k 1.4× 314 0.5× 496 1.2× 126 0.5× 69 1.7k
Birgit Harley Canada 17 516 0.5× 1.4k 1.8× 919 1.5× 902 2.1× 251 1.1× 38 1.8k
Joy Kreeft Peyton United States 15 484 0.5× 567 0.7× 459 0.8× 312 0.7× 406 1.8× 71 1.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Jeff MacSwan

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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MacSwan, Jeff & Kellie Rolstad. (2024). (Un)grounded language ideologies: A brief history of translanguaging theory. International Journal of Bilingualism. 28(4). 719–743. 17 indexed citations
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Mahoney, Kate, et al.. (2022). Castañeda’s third prong redux : the achievement of Arizona’s english language learners after proposition 203. International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism. 25(9). 3199–3213. 2 indexed citations
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MacSwan, Jeff. (2018). A reply to Malik. Lingua. 217. 101–108. 1 indexed citations
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MacSwan, Jeff. (2018). Academic English as standard language ideology: A renewed research agenda for asset-based language education. Language Teaching Research. 24(1). 28–36. 63 indexed citations
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MacSwan, Jeff. (2017). A Multilingual Perspective on Translanguaging. American Educational Research Journal. 54(1). 167–201. 318 indexed citations breakdown →
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MacSwan, Jeff, et al.. (2017). Three Theories of the Effects of Language Education Programs: An Empirical Evaluation of Bilingual and English-Only Policies. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics. 37. 218–240. 30 indexed citations
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Rolstad, Kellie, Jeff MacSwan, & Natalia Salas. (2015). Bilingual Learners and the Purposes of Language Assessment. 207–224. 1 indexed citations
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Rolstad, Kellie & Jeff MacSwan. (2014). The facilitation effect and language thresholds. Frontiers in Psychology. 5. 1197–1197. 8 indexed citations
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MacSwan, Jeff. (2014). A Minimalist Approach to Intrasentential Code Switching. 98 indexed citations
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MacSwan, Jeff, et al.. (2010). Naturalistic and Elicited Data in Grammatical Studies of Codeswitching. Studies in Hispanic and Lusophone Linguistics. 3(2). 521–532. 13 indexed citations
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MacSwan, Jeff. (2005). Précis of a 'Minimalist approach to intrasentential code switching': 2397. The Italian Journal of Linguistics. 17(1). 55–92. 3 indexed citations
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Spotti, Massimiliano, et al.. (2005). Bilingual Identities in Question : Social Identity Construction in a Dutch Islamic Primary Classroom. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 2165–2179. 1 indexed citations
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MacSwan, Jeff & Kellie Rolstad. (2005). Modularity and the Facilitation Effect: Psychological Mechanisms of Transfer in Bilingual Students. Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences. 27(2). 224–243. 36 indexed citations
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MacSwan, Jeff & Lisa Pray. (2005). Learning English Bilingually: Age of Onset of Exposure and Rate of Acquisition Among English Language Learners in a Bilingual Education Program. Bilingual Research Journal. 29(3). 653–678. 53 indexed citations
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Curtiss, Susan, et al.. (2004). GCS: A grammatical coding system for natural language data. Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers. 36(3). 459–480. 5 indexed citations
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Mahoney, Kate, et al.. (2004). The Condition of English Language Learners in Arizona: 2004. 16 indexed citations
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Thompson, Marilyn S., Kristen E. DiCerbo, Kate Mahoney, & Jeff MacSwan. (2002). Exito en California? A Critique of Language Program Evaluations.. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 10(7). 2 indexed citations
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MacSwan, Jeff, Kellie Rolstad, & Gene V. Glass. (2002). Do Some School-Age Children Have No Language? Some Problems of Construct Validity in the Pre-LAS Español. Bilingual Research Journal. 26(2). 395–420. 41 indexed citations
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Thompson, Marilyn S., Kristen E. DiCerbo, Kate Mahoney, & Jeff MacSwan. (2002). ¿Exito en California? A Validity Critique of Language Program Evaluations and Analysis of English Learner Test Scores. Education Policy Analysis Archives. 10. 7–7. 30 indexed citations
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MacSwan, Jeff, et al.. (2000). Toward a New View of Low-Achieving Bilinguals: A Study of Linguistic Competence in Designated "Semilinguals". 25(3). 238. 17 indexed citations

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