Michael Dunn

8.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
91 papers, 5.0k citations indexed

About

Michael Dunn is a scholar working on Cultural Studies, Linguistics and Language and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Dunn has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 5.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 26 papers in Cultural Studies, 25 papers in Linguistics and Language and 18 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Michael Dunn's work include Language and cultural evolution (26 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (23 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 papers). Michael Dunn is often cited by papers focused on Language and cultural evolution (26 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (23 papers) and Evolutionary Psychology and Human Behavior (8 papers). Michael Dunn collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United Kingdom and Germany. Michael Dunn's co-authors include Traute‐Heidi Anderson, K. H. Domsch, W. Gams, Stephen C. Levinson, Simon J. Greenhill, Russell D. Gray, Linda A. Scharschmidt, Ger P. Reesink, Angela Terrill and Remco Bouckaert and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Science and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

In The Last Decade

Michael Dunn

85 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

Compendium of Soil Fungi 1982 2026 1996 2011 1982 2012 2011 500 1000 1.5k 2.0k
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. Compendium of Soil Fungi
    1982 2.4k citations Michael Dunn et al. profile →
  2. Mapping the Origins and Expansion of the Indo-European Language Family
    2012 347 citations Michael Dunn et al. profile →
  3. Evolved structure of language shows lineage-specific trends in word-order universals
    2011 300 citations Michael Dunn, Stephen C. Levinson et al. profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Michael Dunn Netherlands 26 1.5k 1.0k 922 761 515 91 5.0k
E. S. Crelin United States 22 468 0.3× 267 0.3× 190 0.2× 973 1.3× 65 0.1× 61 2.9k
Murray P. Cox New Zealand 34 1.1k 0.8× 410 0.4× 116 0.1× 1.6k 2.1× 35 0.1× 144 4.6k
Susan M. Chambers Australia 32 1.6k 1.1× 700 0.7× 27 0.0× 452 0.6× 26 0.1× 82 4.0k
William R. Leonard United States 53 794 0.5× 242 0.2× 248 0.3× 571 0.8× 9 0.0× 266 9.5k
Michael Lewis United Kingdom 40 490 0.3× 934 0.9× 37 0.0× 1.8k 2.3× 20 0.0× 206 6.3k
Peter F. Stevens United States 33 2.0k 1.3× 198 0.2× 70 0.1× 1.8k 2.4× 11 0.0× 100 5.1k
David Comas Spain 49 237 0.2× 97 0.1× 108 0.1× 1.5k 2.0× 24 0.0× 178 7.0k
David W. Hall United States 28 604 0.4× 45 0.0× 110 0.1× 826 1.1× 54 0.1× 170 3.1k
Douglas Taylor United States 46 1.8k 1.2× 119 0.1× 28 0.0× 2.4k 3.1× 74 0.1× 134 6.4k
Sean Myles Canada 36 3.1k 2.0× 455 0.4× 128 0.1× 1.2k 1.6× 8 0.0× 61 5.5k

Countries citing papers authored by Michael Dunn

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Dunn

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Dunn

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

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Savulescu, Julian, Angela Ballantyne, Annette Braunack‐Mayer, et al.. (2025). Assessing Risk in Implementing New Artificial Intelligence Triage Tools—How Much Risk is Reasonable in an Already Risky World?. Asian Bioethics Review. 17(1). 187–205. 3 indexed citations
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Dunn, Michael, et al.. (2025). Towards Precision Geromedicine in Singapore. GeroScience. 47(5). 6399–6409. 1 indexed citations
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Dunn, Michael, et al.. (2023). Evolution and Spread of Politeness Systems inIndo‐European. Transactions of the Philological Society. 121(1). 152–167.
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Dunn, Michael, et al.. (2023). Death and Apocalypse in the Digital Megamachine. UEA Digital Repository (University of East Anglia). 1 indexed citations
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Dunn, Michael, et al.. (2023). Two measures are better than one: combining iconicity ratings and guessing experiments for a more nuanced picture of iconicity in the lexicon. Language and Cognition. 15(4). 716–739. 7 indexed citations
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Ramlall, Suvira, et al.. (2023). The role of ‘micro-decisions’ in involuntary admissions decision-making for inpatient psychiatric care in general hospitals in South Africa. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 87. 101869–101869. 2 indexed citations
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Dunn, Michael, Robert Forkel, Terhi Honkola, et al.. (2022). Uralic typology in the light of a new comprehensive dataset. University of Oulu Repository (University of Oulu). 1(1). 4–42. 3 indexed citations
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Levinson, Stephen C., et al.. (2018). Demonstratives in Cross-Linguistic Perspective. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 44 indexed citations
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Dunn, Michael, et al.. (2017). Dative sickness: A phylogenetic analysis of argument structure evolution in Germanic. Language. 93(1). e1–e22. 21 indexed citations
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Dunn, Michael, et al.. (2014). Jealousy-Induced Sex Differences in Eye Gaze Directed at Either Emotional- or Sexual Infidelity–Related Mobile Phone Messages. Cyberpsychology Behavior and Social Networking. 18(1). 37–40. 4 indexed citations
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Dunn, Michael, Nicole Kruspe, & Niclas Burenhult. (2013). Time and Place in the Prehistory of the Aslian Languages. Human Biology. 85(1-3). 383–400. 22 indexed citations
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Dunn, Michael, Nicole Kruspe, & Niclas Burenhult. (2013). Time and Place in the Prehistory of the Aslian Languages. Human Biology. 85(1-3). 383–399. 5 indexed citations
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Andrews, Erin E., et al.. (2013). Providing culturally competent supervision to trainees with disabilities in rehabilitation settings.. Rehabilitation Psychology. 58(3). 233–244. 25 indexed citations
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Reesink, Ger P. & Michael Dunn. (2012). Systematic typological comparison as a tool for investigating language history. Language documentation and conservation. 34–71. 4 indexed citations
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Bimbó, Katalin & Michael Dunn. (2010). Calculi for symmetric generalized galois logics. 36(1). 307–343. 1 indexed citations
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Reesink, Ger P., Ruth Singer, & Michael Dunn. (2009). Explaining the Linguistic Diversity of Sahul Using Population Models. PLoS Biology. 7(11). e1000241–e1000241. 55 indexed citations
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Dunn, Michael, et al.. (2009). Effect of manipulated prestige‐car ownership on both sex attractiveness ratings. British Journal of Psychology. 101(1). 69–80. 82 indexed citations
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Dunn, Michael. (2000). Chukchi Women's Language: A Historical-Comparative Perspective. Americanae (AECID Library). 7 indexed citations
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Marsen, Tobias A., Herbert Schramek, & Michael Dunn. (1994). Renal actions of endothelin: Linking cellular signaling pathways to kidney disease. Kidney International. 45(2). 336–344. 76 indexed citations
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Mené, Paolo, Hanna E. Abboud, & Michael Dunn. (1990). Regulation of human mesangial cell growth in culture by thromboxane A2 and prostacyclin. Kidney International. 38(2). 232–239. 59 indexed citations

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