Laurence Urdang

1.5k total citations · 1 hit paper
34 papers, 861 citations indexed

About

Laurence Urdang is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Sociology and Political Science and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Laurence Urdang has authored 34 papers receiving a total of 861 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Language and Linguistics, 2 papers in Sociology and Political Science and 2 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Laurence Urdang's work include Lexicography and Language Studies (13 papers), Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (4 papers) and linguistics and terminology studies (4 papers). Laurence Urdang is often cited by papers focused on Lexicography and Language Studies (13 papers), Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity (4 papers) and linguistics and terminology studies (4 papers). Laurence Urdang collaborates with scholars based in . Laurence Urdang's co-authors include Jess M. Stein, Ladislav Zgusta, Stuart Berg Flexner, Longman, Michael Swan, Fred W. Householder and Sol Saporta and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Language and American Speech.

In The Last Decade

Laurence Urdang

27 papers receiving 559 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

The Random House dictionary of the English language

1967 483 citations Laurence Urdang, Jess M. Stein Random House eBooks profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Laurence Urdang	8	286	137	121	90	72	34	861
Philip B. Gove United States	7	136 0.5×	62 0.5×	119 1.0×	60 0.7×	64 0.9×	22	809
Jess M. Stein	5	103 0.4×	50 0.4×	117 1.0×	68 0.8×	84 1.2×	7	708
John Price‐Wilkin United States	6	81 0.3×	46 0.3×	101 0.8×	57 0.6×	57 0.8×	9	570
Michael B. Smith United Kingdom	17	103 0.4×	65 0.5×	207 1.7×	126 1.4×	58 0.8×	59	943
Alex Henry Brunei	12	273 1.0×	64 0.5×	116 1.0×	68 0.8×	18 0.3×	20	685
Brian Richardson United States	17	89 0.3×	66 0.5×	219 1.8×	215 2.4×	85 1.2×	102	1.2k
Carl F. Graumann Germany	12	86 0.3×	25 0.2×	164 1.4×	85 0.9×	154 2.1×	32	555
Jennifer Green Australia	14	74 0.3×	44 0.3×	99 0.8×	106 1.2×	50 0.7×	67	622
Philip K. Bock United States	11	133 0.5×	14 0.1×	153 1.3×	80 0.9×	157 2.2×	31	665
Gavin Brookes United Kingdom	16	110 0.4×	92 0.7×	147 1.2×	78 0.9×	71 1.0×	65	669

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Laurence Urdang

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All Works

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Urdang, Laurence, et al.. (1998). Suffixes and Other Word-Final Elements of English. 6 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence. (1990). On observing World English. English Today. 6(1). 11–17. 1 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence. (1987). Names and nicknames of places and things. 1 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence. (1987). Names & nicknames of places & things. 1 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence & Longman. (1986). Longman synonym dictionary. Longman eBooks. 3 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence. (1984). A Lexicographer's Adventures in Computing. Dictionaries. 6(1). 150–165. 10 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence, et al.. (1983). Mosby's medical & nursing dictionary. 6 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence, et al.. (1983). Literary, rhetorical, and linguistics terms index. Medical Entomology and Zoology.

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Urdang, Laurence. (1981). The Timetables of American History. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence, et al.. (1980). A dictionary of synonyms and antonyms. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 1 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence, et al.. (1980). The Pan Dictionary of Synonyms and Antonyms. 3 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence, et al.. (1979). Twentieth century American nicknames. 2 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence. (1979). Meaning. ITL Review of Applied Linguistics. 45-46. 47–52. 2 indexed citations

14.

Urdang, Laurence. (1977). Dictionary of Advertising Terms. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 3 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence & Ladislav Zgusta. (1975). Manual of Lexicography. Language. 51(1). 220–220. 167 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence. (1973). TECHNOLOGICAL POTENTIALS. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 211(1). 282–286. 1 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence & Stuart Berg Flexner. (1972). The Random House college dictionary. Random House eBooks. 100 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence & Jess M. Stein. (1967). The Random House dictionary of the English language. Random House eBooks. 483 indexed citations breakdown →

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Urdang, Laurence. (1966). The systems designs and devices used to process the random house dictionary of the english language. Computers and the Humanities. 1(2). 31–33. 14 indexed citations

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Urdang, Laurence, Fred W. Householder, & Sol Saporta. (1963). Problems in Lexicography: Report of the Conference on Lexicography Held at Indiana University November 11-12, 1960. Language. 39(3). 586–586. 7 indexed citations

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