Majid KhosraviNik

3.8k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.8k citations indexed

About

Majid KhosraviNik is a scholar working on Communication, Literature and Literary Theory and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Majid KhosraviNik has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.8k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Communication, 13 papers in Literature and Literary Theory and 7 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Majid KhosraviNik's work include Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (12 papers), Social Media and Politics (11 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 papers). Majid KhosraviNik is often cited by papers focused on Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (12 papers), Social Media and Politics (11 papers) and Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (5 papers). Majid KhosraviNik collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Spain and Kuwait. Majid KhosraviNik's co-authors include Ruth Wodak, Costas Gabrielatos, Paul Baker, Michał Krzyżanowski, Tony McEnery, Eleonora Esposito, Johann Wolfgang Unger, Darren Kelsey, Andrea Whittle and Frank Mueller and has published in prestigious journals such as Discourse & Society, World Englishes and International journal of communication.

In The Last Decade

Majid KhosraviNik

29 papers receiving 1.7k 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.

  1. A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press
    2008 921 citations Paul Baker, Costas Gabrielatos et al. Discourse & Society profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Majid KhosraviNik United Kingdom 16 687 685 572 380 278 29 1.8k
Costas Gabrielatos United Kingdom 12 668 1.0× 906 1.3× 490 0.9× 660 1.7× 321 1.2× 43 2.1k
Crispin Thurlow Switzerland 22 650 0.9× 540 0.8× 299 0.5× 717 1.9× 77 0.3× 62 2.2k
Paul Chilton United Kingdom 21 664 1.0× 1.1k 1.7× 382 0.7× 987 2.6× 155 0.6× 65 2.7k
Susan Bassnett United Kingdom 20 415 0.6× 528 0.8× 196 0.3× 1.5k 3.9× 213 0.8× 95 2.3k
Kira Hall United States 18 547 0.8× 889 1.3× 287 0.5× 1.4k 3.8× 118 0.4× 39 2.7k
Lawrence Venuti United States 20 857 1.2× 980 1.4× 305 0.5× 3.4k 9.0× 487 1.8× 65 4.9k
Mary Jane Curry United States 19 287 0.4× 1.0k 1.5× 103 0.2× 437 1.1× 97 0.3× 38 1.9k
Asif Agha United States 17 563 0.8× 879 1.3× 306 0.5× 1.7k 4.5× 79 0.3× 29 3.3k
Alexandra Jaffe United States 20 464 0.7× 583 0.9× 136 0.2× 843 2.2× 57 0.2× 53 2.0k
Brenda Danet Israel 16 306 0.4× 291 0.4× 241 0.4× 471 1.2× 96 0.3× 38 1.3k

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Esposito, Eleonora & Majid KhosraviNik. (2023). Discourse in the Digital Age. 1 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid. (2023). Social Media Critical Discourse Studies. WU Research. 2 indexed citations
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Unger, Johann Wolfgang, Ruth Wodak, & Majid KhosraviNik. (2021). Critical Discourse Studies and Social Media Data. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 8 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid, et al.. (2020). Social media and terrorism discourse: the Islamic State’s (IS) social media discursive content and practices. Critical Discourse Studies. 19(2). 124–143. 13 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid. (2020). Digital meaning-making across content and practice in social media critical discourse studies. Critical Discourse Studies. 19(2). 119–123. 19 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid & Eleonora Esposito. (2018). Online hate, digital discourse and critique: Exploring digitally-mediated discursive practices of gender-based hostility. Newcastle University ePrints (Newcastle Univesity). 14(1). 45–68. 85 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid. (2018). Social Media Techno-Discursive Design, Affective Communication and Contemporary Politics. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. 11(4). 427–442. 55 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid, et al.. (2017). Arabism and Anti-Persian Sentiments on Participatory Web Platforms: A Social Media Critical Discourse Study. International journal of communication. 11. 20. 14 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid. (2017). Right Wing Populism in the West: Social Media Discourse and Echo Chambers. Insight Turkey. 19(3). 53–68. 43 indexed citations
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Kelsey, Darren, Frank Mueller, Andrea Whittle, & Majid KhosraviNik. (2017). The Discourse of Financial Crisis and Austerity : critical analyses of business and economics across disciplines. 1 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid & Johann Wolfgang Unger. (2016). Critical Discourse Studies and Social Media: Power, Resistance and Critique in Changing Media Ecologies. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 57 indexed citations
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Kelsey, Darren, Frank Mueller, Andrea Whittle, & Majid KhosraviNik. (2015). Financial crisis and austerity: interdisciplinary concerns in critical discourse studies. Critical Discourse Studies. 13(1). 1–19. 27 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid. (2014). Critical Discourse Analysis, Power, and New Media Discourse. 10 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid. (2014). Macro and micro legitimation in discourse on Iran’s nuclear programme: The case of Iranian national newspaper Kayhan. Discourse & Society. 26(1). 52–73. 13 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid, et al.. (2014). Persian Nationalism, Identity and Anti-Arab Sentiments in Iranian Facebook Discourses. Journal of Language and Politics. 13(4). 755–780. 34 indexed citations
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Wodak, Ruth, et al.. (2013). Rightwing populism across Europe: politics and discourse. Northumbria Research Link (Northumbria University). 3 indexed citations
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Wodak, Ruth & Majid KhosraviNik. (2013). Dynamics of Discourse and Politics in Right-wing Populism in Europe and Beyond: An Introduction. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 15 indexed citations
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KhosraviNik, Majid, et al.. (2008). Papers from Lancaster University Postgraduate Conference in Linguistics & Language Teaching. 15 indexed citations

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