Michael Silverstein

14.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
77 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

About

Michael Silverstein is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Michael Silverstein has authored 77 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 30 papers in Language and Linguistics, 25 papers in Linguistics and Language and 12 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Michael Silverstein's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (20 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (12 papers). Michael Silverstein is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (20 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (14 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (12 papers). Michael Silverstein collaborates with scholars based in United States and Sweden. Michael Silverstein's co-authors include Greg Urban, Jonathan Boyarin, Michael Lempert, Bruce Rigsby, Ellen Peters, Pär Bjälkebring, Brittany Shoots‐Reinhard, Robert A. Hall, David M. Markowitz and S. J. Tambiah and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Language and Modern Language Journal.

In The Last Decade

Michael Silverstein

72 papers receiving 4.4k citations

Hit Papers

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Peers

Michael Silverstein
Comparison fields: 5 of 139
  • Language and Linguistics 2.5k
  • Linguistics and Language 2.5k
  • Literature and Literary Theory 1.3k
  • Sociology and Political Science 923
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 644
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Countries citing papers authored by Michael Silverstein

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Fields of papers citing papers by Michael Silverstein

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michael Silverstein

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Michael Silverstein. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Michael Silverstein 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 Silverstein. Michael Silverstein 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
# Work Indexed citations
1 1
2 8
3 9
4 5
5 2
6 1
7 23
8 167
9 290
10 84
11 1
12 10
13 0
14 5
15 3
16 5
17 30
18 33
19 1
20 19

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