Matthias Urban

1.6k total citations
39 papers, 313 citations indexed

About

Matthias Urban is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Matthias Urban has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 313 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Language and Linguistics, 18 papers in Linguistics and Language and 17 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Matthias Urban's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (18 papers), Language and cultural evolution (16 papers) and Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (12 papers). Matthias Urban is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (18 papers), Language and cultural evolution (16 papers) and Spanish Linguistics and Language Studies (12 papers). Matthias Urban collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and France. Matthias Urban's co-authors include Steven Moran, Oleg Belyaev, Viveka Velupillai, Søren Wichmann, Johann‐Mattis List, Chiara Barbieri, Eric W. Holman, Dik Bakker, Pamela Brown and Harald Hammarström and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, PLoS ONE and Scientific Reports.

In The Last Decade

Matthias Urban

33 papers receiving 283 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Matthias Urban Germany 10 119 114 97 90 48 39 313
Willem F. H. Adelaar Netherlands 8 235 2.0× 96 0.8× 167 1.7× 64 0.7× 43 0.9× 28 365
Patience Epps United States 14 300 2.5× 163 1.4× 185 1.9× 130 1.4× 43 0.9× 43 549
Paul Heggarty Germany 14 137 1.2× 190 1.7× 152 1.6× 52 0.6× 55 1.1× 29 436
Nora C. England United States 9 292 2.5× 63 0.6× 234 2.4× 103 1.1× 56 1.2× 25 469
Robert Mailhammer Australia 7 124 1.0× 88 0.8× 118 1.2× 55 0.6× 76 1.6× 36 308
Charles Andrew Hofling United States 9 131 1.1× 26 0.2× 62 0.6× 46 0.5× 21 0.4× 23 250
Larry Trask 3 95 0.8× 88 0.8× 84 0.9× 28 0.3× 42 0.9× 5 201
Lev Michael United States 10 194 1.6× 122 1.1× 120 1.2× 103 1.1× 43 0.9× 33 306
Thomas C. Smith-Stark 5 183 1.5× 27 0.2× 83 0.9× 87 1.0× 43 0.9× 14 259
Bethwyn Evans Australia 6 154 1.3× 98 0.9× 158 1.6× 71 0.8× 38 0.8× 11 312

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Fields of papers citing papers by Matthias Urban

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Matthias Urban

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Matthias Urban. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Matthias Urban 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 Matthias Urban. Matthias Urban is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

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Urban, Matthias, et al.. (2025). Gradient in grammatical structure of indigenous languages reflects pathway of human expansion in the Americas. Scientific Reports. 15(1). 14365–14365.
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Urban, Matthias, et al.. (2024). Spatial effects with missing data. Open Linguistics. 10(1).
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Urban, Matthias. (2023). Foggy connections, cloudy frontiers: On the (non-)adaptation of lexical structures. Frontiers in Psychology. 14. 2 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias. (2021). Cholón and the linguistic prehistory of Northern Peru: triangulating toponymy, substrate lexis, and areal typology. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 17(1). 6 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias & Steven Moran. (2021). Altitude and the distributional typology of language structure: Ejectives and beyond. PLoS ONE. 16(2). e0245522–e0245522. 14 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias. (2021). Mochica pronouns: their internal reconstruction and significance for worldwide patterns of paradigmatic resemblances in pronominal shapes. International Journal of American Linguistics. 87(2). 279–296. 1 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias. (2021). Linguistic and cultural divisions in pre-Hispanic Northern Peru. Language Sciences. 85. 101354–101354. 6 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias & Chiara Barbieri. (2020). North and South in the ancient Central Andes: Contextualizing the archaeological record with evidence from linguistics and molecular anthropology. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology. 60. 101233–101233. 13 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias. (2020). Mountain linguistics. Language and Linguistics Compass. 14(9). 10 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias. (2018). The Lexical Legacy of Substrate Languages: A Test Case From The Southern Ecuadorian Highlands. Transactions of the Philological Society. 116(3). 435–459. 5 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias. (2015). Notas sobre el sistema de numeración de las lenguas Timote-Cuicas*. Actualidad Contable FACES. 33(90). 53–69. 2 indexed citations
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Holman, Eric W., Cecil H. Brown, Søren Wichmann, et al.. (2011). Automated Dating of the World’s Language Families Based on Lexical Similarity. Current Anthropology. 52(6). 841–875. 96 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias. (2010). ‘Sun’ = ‘Eye of the Day’: A Linguistic Pattern of Southeast Asia and Oceania. Oceanic Linguistics. 49(2). 568–579. 7 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias. (2010). Terms for the Unique Beginner: Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspectives. Journal of Ethnobiology. 30(2). 203–230. 2 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias. (2009). ‘Sun’ and ‘Moon’ in the Circum-Pacific Language Area. Anthropological linguistics. 51(3-4). 328–346. 4 indexed citations
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Urban, Matthias. (2001). Shouting and screaming: manner and noise verbs in communication. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 16(1). 77–94. 14 indexed citations

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