Joël Sherzer

4.7k total citations · 1 hit paper
55 papers, 1.9k citations indexed

About

Joël Sherzer is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Joël Sherzer has authored 55 papers receiving a total of 1.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 24 papers in Language and Linguistics, 10 papers in Linguistics and Language and 7 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Joël Sherzer's work include Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (10 papers), Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (7 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 papers). Joël Sherzer is often cited by papers focused on Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (10 papers), Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (7 papers) and Linguistic Variation and Morphology (6 papers). Joël Sherzer collaborates with scholars based in United States, Colombia and India. Joël Sherzer's co-authors include Richard Bauman, Greg Urban, Andrew Wiget, Greg Urban, Laura Rival, Anthony C. Woodbury, Lev Michael, John Tutino, Michael Foster and Elizabeth Tonkin and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Language and Annual Review of Anthropology.

In The Last Decade

Joël Sherzer

52 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking 1989 2026 2001 2013 1989 200 400 600
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. Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking
    1989 731 citations Richard Bauman, Joël Sherzer Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Joël Sherzer United States 20 989 580 477 473 235 55 1.9k
Régna Darnell Canada 19 910 0.9× 758 1.3× 290 0.6× 378 0.8× 404 1.7× 104 2.2k
William F. Hanks United States 19 693 0.7× 394 0.7× 338 0.7× 356 0.8× 262 1.1× 42 1.6k
Judith T. Irvine United States 18 1.3k 1.3× 1.4k 2.4× 646 1.4× 308 0.7× 390 1.7× 40 2.5k
Greg Urban United States 11 580 0.6× 489 0.8× 427 0.9× 149 0.3× 374 1.6× 24 1.6k
Alan Rumsey Australia 19 588 0.6× 419 0.7× 106 0.2× 251 0.5× 283 1.2× 58 1.5k
Barbara Johnstone United States 26 1.4k 1.4× 1.4k 2.4× 552 1.2× 395 0.8× 222 0.9× 96 2.2k
Joseph Bosco Hong Kong 5 923 0.9× 502 0.9× 505 1.1× 256 0.5× 304 1.3× 8 1.6k
Paul V. Kroskrity United States 13 854 0.9× 1.1k 2.0× 488 1.0× 110 0.2× 291 1.2× 51 1.7k
Esther N. Goody United Kingdom 13 626 0.6× 158 0.3× 305 0.6× 339 0.7× 471 2.0× 23 1.6k
Nancy C. Dorian United States 20 1.5k 1.5× 2.0k 3.5× 1.1k 2.3× 256 0.5× 443 1.9× 60 3.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Joël Sherzer

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Fields of papers citing papers by Joël Sherzer

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Joël Sherzer

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Joël Sherzer. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Joël Sherzer 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 Joël Sherzer. Joël Sherzer 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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Sherzer, Joël. (2014). Kuna stories, myths, chants, and songs. From the gathering house to the internet. Americanae (AECID Library). 1 indexed citations
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Sherzer, Joël, et al.. (2013). The Archive of the Indigenous Languages of Latin America: An Overview. Oral tradition. 28(2). 5 indexed citations
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Sherzer, Joël. (2012). Langage et culture : une approche centrée sur le discours. Langage et société. n° 139(1). 21–45. 3 indexed citations
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Sherzer, Joël. (2000). Una aproximación a la lengua y a la cultura centrada en el discurso. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 1 indexed citations
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Sherzer, Joël, et al.. (2000). Translating native Latin American verbal art : ethnopoetics and ethnography of speaking. 14 indexed citations
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Sherzer, Joël. (1999). Ceremonial dialogic greetings among the Kuna Indians of Panama. Journal of Pragmatics. 31(4). 453–470. 7 indexed citations
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Sherzer, Joël, et al.. (1998). Una guía general para el estudio etnográfico del habla. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 135–148.
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Rival, Laura, Greg Urban, & Joël Sherzer. (1992). Nationstates and Indians in Latin America.. Man. 27(3). 688–688. 96 indexed citations
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Bauman, Richard & Joël Sherzer. (1989). Explorations in the Ethnography of Speaking. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 731 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sherzer, Joël, et al.. (1988). The Linguistic Anthropology of Native South America. Annual Review of Anthropology. 17(1). 283–307. 16 indexed citations
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Philips, Susan U., Elinor Ochs, Joël Sherzer, et al.. (1987). Language, Gender, and Sex in Comparative Perspective. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 123 indexed citations
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Sherzer, Joël & Greg Urban. (1986). Native South American Discourse. 68 indexed citations
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Wiget, Andrew & Joël Sherzer. (1984). Kuna Ways of Speaking: An Ethnographic Perspective. Journal of American Folklore. 97(386). 468–468. 83 indexed citations
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Sherzer, Joël. (1974). Semantic Systems, Discourse Structure, and the Ecology of Language. Working Papers in Sociolinguistics, No. 17.. 1 indexed citations
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Sherzer, Joël. (1970). Talking Backwards in Cuna: The Sociological Reality of Phonological Descriptions. Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. 26(4). 343–353. 31 indexed citations
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Sherzer, Joël. (1970). La parole chez les Abipone. Pour une ethnographie de la parole. L Homme. 10(1). 40–76. 4 indexed citations

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