Keith Allan

8.2k total citations · 1 hit paper
106 papers, 3.5k citations indexed

About

Keith Allan is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, Keith Allan has authored 106 papers receiving a total of 3.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 42 papers in Language and Linguistics, 27 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 12 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in Keith Allan's work include Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (23 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (17 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (16 papers). Keith Allan is often cited by papers focused on Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation (23 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (17 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (16 papers). Keith Allan collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and United States. Keith Allan's co-authors include Kate Burridge, Kathryn Burridge, Graham Devereux, Joanne Crawford, Geraldine McNeill, Philip C Hannaford, Siladitya Bhattacharya, Edwin Amalraj Raja, Rebecca M. Reynolds and Jane E. Norman and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine and BMJ.

In The Last Decade

Keith Allan

94 papers receiving 3.0k citations

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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.

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Keith Allan Australia	27	1.4k	815	629	449	369	106	3.5k
Daniel Jones Canada	18	251 0.2×	396 0.5×	19 0.0×	179 0.4×	89 0.2×	64	1.2k
Ralph H. Johnson United Kingdom	33	66 0.0×	228 0.3×	45 0.1×	240 0.5×	230 0.6×	173	3.6k
Toni Rietveld Netherlands	19	196 0.1×	483 0.6×	18 0.0×	235 0.5×	17 0.0×	67	1.4k
Joseph M. Wisenbaker United States	21	37 0.0×	168 0.2×	22 0.0×	51 0.1×	104 0.3×	44	2.0k
Karim Sadeghi Iran	20	504 0.4×	102 0.1×	28 0.0×	78 0.2×	26 0.1×	147	1.6k
Michael Schneider United States	31	156 0.1×	60 0.1×	84 0.1×	21 0.0×	84 0.2×	124	3.1k
Ingvar Lundberg Sweden	34	121 0.1×	376 0.5×	40 0.1×	86 0.2×	51 0.1×	103	4.2k
Rusan Chen United States	29	42 0.0×	106 0.1×	14 0.0×	68 0.2×	375 1.0×	54	3.7k
Glenda Andrews Australia	24	32 0.0×	650 0.8×	12 0.0×	228 0.5×	33 0.1×	66	2.7k

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Allan, Keith. (2023). The Pleasure and Pain in Taboo Exploitation. Languages. 8(3). 208–208. 3 indexed citations

Allan, Keith. (2019). Semantics and pragmatics: a historical review to the end of the twentieth century. Argumentum. 15. 81–116. 1 indexed citations

Allan, Keith, et al.. (2012). The Cambridge Handbook of Pragmatics. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 125 indexed citations

Allan, Keith. (1999). Color and cognition in Mesoamerica: Constructing categories as vantages. By Robert E. MacLaury, Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Pp. xxvii, 616.. Language. 75(1). 143–147. 2 indexed citations

Allan, Keith. (1987). Topic continuity in discourse: A quantitative cross-language study. Edited by Talmy Givón. (Typological studies in language, 3.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1983. Pp. 492. Cloth $50.00, paper $30.00.. Language. 63(1). 160–164. 177 indexed citations

Allan, Keith. (1987). Structured meanings: The semantics of propositional attitudes. By Max J. Cresswell Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. 1985. Pp x, 202.. Language. 63(1). 195–196. 1 indexed citations

Allan, Keith. (1987). Noun classes and categorization: Proceedings of a symposium on categorization and noun classification, Eugene, Oregon, October 1983. Edited by Colette Craig. (Typological studies in language, 7). Amsterdam & Philadelphia: Benjamins, 1986. Pp. vii, 481.. Language. 63(4). 887–891. 20 indexed citations

Allan, Keith. (1986). Coherence and composition: A symposium . Ed. by Nils Erik Enkvist. (Publications of the Research Institute of the Åbo Akademi Foundation, 101.) Åbo, Finland: Åbo Akademi, 1985. Pp. 134.. Language. 62(3). 734–734. 12 indexed citations

Allan, Keith. (1986). Prolegomena to inferential discourse processing . By Roger G. van de Velde (Pragmatics & beyond, 5:2.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia, Benjamins: 1984. Pp. viii, 100. $20.00.. Language. 62(3). 733–734. 3 indexed citations

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Allan, Keith. (1986). Adjectives and comparison in English: A semantic study . By Jan Rusiecki. (Longman linguistics library, 31.) London & New York: Longman, 1985. Pp. xiv, 206.. Language. 62(3). 716–716. 19 indexed citations

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Allan, Keith. (1986). Beyond the sentence: Discourse and sentential form . Ed. by Jessica R. Wirth Ann Arbor: Karoma, 1985. Pp. viii, 114. $10.50.. Language. 62(3). 732–733. 9 indexed citations

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Allan, Keith. (1986). Hearers, Overhearers, and Clark & Carlson's Informative Analysis. Language. 62(3). 509–517. 1 indexed citations

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Allan, Keith. (1985). Where have all the adjectives gone? and other essays in semantics and syntax. By Robert M. W. Dixon Berlin: Mouton, 1982. Pp. xiv, 256. DM 68.00.. Language. 61(2). 461–462. 179 indexed citations

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Allan, Keith. (1983). Language and other abstract objects . By Jerrold J. Katz. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Littlefield, 1981. Pp. viii, 251. Cloth $25.00, paper $9.95.. Language. 59(3). 678–683. 19 indexed citations

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Allan, Keith. (1981). Semantics from different points of view. Edited by Rainer Bäuerle, Urs Egli, and Arnim von Stechow. (Springer series in language and communication, 6.) Berlin & New York: Springer, 1979. Pp. 419. $26.00.. Language. 57(1). 253–254. 3 indexed citations

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Allan, Keith. (1981). Semantics: A bibliography, 1965–1978. By W. Terrence Gordon. Metuchen, NJ: Scarecrow Press, 1980. Pp. xiv, 307. $16.50.. Language. 57(1). 254–255. 1 indexed citations

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Allan, Keith. (1981). The semantics of English aspectual complementation . By Alice F. Freed (Synthese language library, 8.) Dordrecht: Reidel, 1979. Pp. x, 172. Cloth f 50.00, paper f 20.00.. Language. 57(2). 497–498. 26 indexed citations

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Allan, Keith. (1980). Mass terms: Some philosophical problems. Ed. by Francis J. Pelletier. (Synthese language library, 6.) Dordrecht: Reidel, 1979. Pp. xiii, 303. f 80.00.. Language. 56(2). 476–476. 58 indexed citations

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Allan, Keith. (1980). Nouns and countability. Language. 56(3). 541–567. 130 indexed citations

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Allan, Keith. (1977). Classifiers. Language. 53(2). 285–311. 28 indexed citations

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