John McH. Sinclair

7.9k total citations · 4 hit papers
35 papers, 3.8k citations indexed

About

John McH. Sinclair is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, John McH. Sinclair has authored 35 papers receiving a total of 3.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 17 papers in Language and Linguistics, 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 5 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in John McH. Sinclair's work include Lexicography and Language Studies (9 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (5 papers). John McH. Sinclair is often cited by papers focused on Lexicography and Language Studies (9 papers), Natural Language Processing Techniques (8 papers) and Second Language Acquisition and Learning (5 papers). John McH. Sinclair collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Czechia and Hong Kong. John McH. Sinclair's co-authors include Terence Odlin, Malcolm Coulthard, Diane Larsen‐Freeman, W.H. Stimson, Ramesh Krishnamurthy, Susan Jones, Anna Mauranen, Steven Jones, Chris Greaves and Winnie Cheng and has published in prestigious journals such as FEBS Letters, Modern Language Journal and TESOL Quarterly.

In The Last Decade

John McH. Sinclair

33 papers receiving 2.9k citations

Hit Papers

Corpus, Concordance, Collocation 1977 2026 1993 2009 1994 1977 1977 2004 500 1000 1.5k
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. Corpus, Concordance, Collocation
    1994 1.5k citations Terence Odlin, John McH. Sinclair Modern Language Journal profile →
  2. Towards an analysis of discourse
    1977 773 citations John McH. Sinclair, Malcolm Coulthard Modern Language Journal profile →
  3. Towards an Analysis of Discourse
    1977 614 citations Diane Larsen‐Freeman, John McH. Sinclair et al. Modern Language Journal profile →
  4. Trust the Text
    2004 320 citations John McH. Sinclair profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
John McH. Sinclair United Kingdom 15 2.5k 1.2k 1.2k 1.1k 639 35 3.8k
Susan Hunston United Kingdom 22 2.2k 0.9× 1.4k 1.2× 1.7k 1.4× 1.1k 1.0× 747 1.2× 49 3.9k
Wolfgang U. Dressler Austria 24 2.1k 0.8× 830 0.7× 620 0.5× 689 0.6× 965 1.5× 155 3.6k
Ruqaiya Hasan Australia 19 2.2k 0.9× 818 0.7× 2.2k 1.8× 563 0.5× 818 1.3× 44 4.3k
Sidney Greenbaum United Kingdom 21 3.6k 1.5× 909 0.7× 1.2k 1.0× 1.5k 1.4× 1.2k 1.9× 51 5.4k
Mark O. James 2 1.5k 0.6× 650 0.5× 2.2k 1.8× 378 0.4× 508 0.8× 4 3.3k
Thomas N. Huckin United States 15 1.3k 0.5× 1.1k 0.9× 1.1k 0.9× 418 0.4× 300 0.5× 32 2.6k
Elaine Tarone United States 35 3.5k 1.4× 1.6k 1.3× 2.2k 1.8× 434 0.4× 710 1.1× 85 4.7k
Jan Svartvik Sweden 14 3.4k 1.4× 847 0.7× 1.1k 0.9× 1.5k 1.4× 1.3k 2.0× 28 5.1k
Sauli Takala Finland 9 2.1k 0.8× 1.0k 0.9× 1.8k 1.5× 457 0.4× 282 0.4× 25 3.7k
George Yule United States 24 1.5k 0.6× 546 0.4× 799 0.7× 314 0.3× 674 1.1× 73 2.4k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Sinclair, John McH.. (2013). Priorities in discourse analysis. 85–94. 7 indexed citations
2.
Sinclair, John McH.. (2008). The phrase, the whole phrase and nothing but the phrase. John Benjamins Publishing Company eBooks. 407–410. 24 indexed citations
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Cheng, Winnie, Chris Greaves, John McH. Sinclair, & Martin Warren. (2008). Uncovering the Extent of the Phraseological Tendency: Towards a Systematic Analysis of Concgrams. Applied Linguistics. 30(2). 236–252. 56 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH.. (2007). Preface. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 12(2). 155–157. 3 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH.. (2006). Collins Cobuild phrasal verbs dictionary. 1 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH.. (2005). Language as a string of beads. 163–168. 1 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH.. (2004). Trust the Text. 320 indexed citations breakdown →
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Spellman, Greg, et al.. (2002). Examining Home Learning Environments. Planet. 5(1). 23–25. 2 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH.. (2001). Review of Biber, Johansson, Leech, Conrad & Finegan (1999): The Longman Grammar of Spoken and Written English. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 6(2). 339–359. 11 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH.. (1999). The computer, the corpus and the theory of language. OpenstarTs (Univeristy of Trieste https://www.units.it/). 4 indexed citations
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Odlin, Terence & John McH. Sinclair. (1994). Corpus, Concordance, Collocation. Modern Language Journal. 78(3). 407–407. 1506 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sinclair, John McH., et al.. (1994). 'I Bet He Drinks Carling Black Label': A Riposte to Owen on Corpus Grammar. Applied Linguistics. 15(2). 190–200. 14 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH., et al.. (1990). Progress in English computational lexicography. World Englishes. 9(1). 21–36. 3 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH.. (1987). Looking up : an account of the COBUILD Project in lexical computing and the development of the Collins COBUILD English Language Dictionary. 152 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH.. (1987). THE DICTIONARY OF THE FUTURE. Library Review. 36(4). 268–278. 15 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH. & Malcolm Coulthard. (1977). Towards an analysis of discourse. Modern Language Journal. 61. 7–40. 773 indexed citations breakdown →
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Larsen‐Freeman, Diane, et al.. (1977). Towards an Analysis of Discourse. Modern Language Journal. 61(5/6). 296–296. 614 indexed citations breakdown →
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Sinclair, John McH., et al.. (1977). Towards an Analysis of Discourse: The English Used by Teachers and Pupils. TESOL Quarterly. 11(2). 203–203. 23 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH. & C. B. Williams. (1977). Style and Vocabulary: Numerical Studies. The Yearbook of English Studies. 7. 182–182. 12 indexed citations
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Sinclair, John McH.. (1972). A course in spoken English : grammar. Oxford University Press eBooks. 19 indexed citations

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