Michiel de Vaan

1.3k total citations · 1 hit paper
28 papers, 605 citations indexed

About

Michiel de Vaan is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Archeology and Linguistics and Language. According to data from OpenAlex, Michiel de Vaan has authored 28 papers receiving a total of 605 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 21 papers in Language and Linguistics, 4 papers in Archeology and 3 papers in Linguistics and Language. Recurrent topics in Michiel de Vaan's work include Linguistics and language evolution (19 papers), Linguistics and Cultural Studies (8 papers) and Lexicography and Language Studies (7 papers). Michiel de Vaan is often cited by papers focused on Linguistics and language evolution (19 papers), Linguistics and Cultural Studies (8 papers) and Lexicography and Language Studies (7 papers). Michiel de Vaan collaborates with scholars based in Switzerland, Netherlands and United States. Michiel de Vaan's co-authors include Michael Sigl, Vladimir S. Myglan, Ulf Büntgen, Jürg Luterbacher, Alexander V. Kirdyanov, Jan Esper, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, Jed O. Kaplan, Nicola Di Cosmo and Michael McCormick and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature Geoscience, Lingua and Mountain Research and Development.

In The Last Decade

Michiel de Vaan

21 papers receiving 561 citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD

2016 526 citations Ulf Büntgen, Vladimir S. Myglan et al. Nature Geoscience profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Michiel de Vaan Switzerland	5	370	185	122	109	57	28	605
Martha J. Macri United States	8	222 0.6×	298 1.6×	52 0.4×	34 0.3×	67 1.2×	21	592
Orri Vésteinsson Iceland	16	455 1.2×	413 2.2×	47 0.4×	79 0.7×	139 2.4×	37	860
Jörg Linstädter Germany	18	375 1.0×	496 2.7×	48 0.4×	373 3.4×	109 1.9×	39	1.0k
Carol B. Griggs United States	13	281 0.8×	227 1.2×	157 1.3×	156 1.4×	44 0.8×	24	514
Owen K. Mason United States	17	409 1.1×	476 2.6×	25 0.2×	81 0.7×	144 2.5×	48	907
Éric Huysecom Switzerland	19	266 0.7×	292 1.6×	24 0.2×	150 1.4×	28 0.5×	80	885
Jette Arneborg Denmark	15	307 0.8×	524 2.8×	33 0.3×	121 1.1×	214 3.8×	30	894
Robert Vernet France	10	123 0.3×	68 0.4×	33 0.3×	41 0.4×	33 0.6×	26	311
Harvey Weiss Türkiye	5	207 0.6×	207 1.1×	16 0.1×	118 1.1×	45 0.8×	5	363
Emmanuel Gandouin France	15	327 0.9×	160 0.9×	31 0.3×	70 0.6×	162 2.8×	34	493

Countries citing papers authored by Michiel de Vaan

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Michiel de Vaan

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

All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

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Vaan, Michiel de. (2024). The accusative singular of demonstratives and interrogatives in Albanian. 12(1). 225–253.

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Vaan, Michiel de. (2022). From inflexion to derivation: The PIE word for 'salt'. XVIII(1). 412–425. 2 indexed citations

3.

Vaan, Michiel de. (2018). Inflected and uninflected possessives and Lithuanian kienõ. Baltistica. 52(1). 65–72.

4.

Vaan, Michiel de. (2017). Schrijnens Handleiding honderd jaar. IRIS.

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Vaan, Michiel de. (2017). The Dawn of Dutch. Directory of Open access Books (OAPEN Foundation). 5 indexed citations

6.

Vaan, Michiel de, et al.. (2017). Frisian through the ages: Festschrift für Rolf H. Bremmer Jr. 1 indexed citations

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Büntgen, Ulf, Vladimir S. Myglan, Fredrik Charpentier Ljungqvist, et al.. (2016). Cooling and societal change during the Late Antique Little Ice Age from 536 to around 660 AD. Nature Geoscience. 9(3). 231–236. 526 indexed citations breakdown →

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Vaan, Michiel de & Guus Kroonen. (2016). Traces of Suffix Ablaut in Germanic wō-stems. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik. 76(3). 309–322. 1 indexed citations

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Vaan, Michiel de, et al.. (2014). Introduction to Avestan. 2 indexed citations

10.

Vaan, Michiel de. (2013). Reduplicated demonstratives in ancient Indo‐European languages. Transactions of the Philological Society. 113(1). 38–52. 2 indexed citations

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Vaan, Michiel de. (2012). The Metathesis of Suffixal -sl- to -ls- in West Germanic. NOWELE North-Western European Language Evolution. 64-65. 91–103. 2 indexed citations

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Vaan, Michiel de. (2012). Verkleinde familienamen in Noord-Limburg: Kleuskens, Litjens en hun voorgangers. 14. 5–24. 2 indexed citations

13.

Vaan, Michiel de. (2011). Etymologie en dialectgeografie van koorts. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 120(3). 45–79. 2 indexed citations

14.

Vaan, Michiel de. (2009). The derivational history of Greek ? ððïò and ? ððåýò. 37(1). 198–213. 1 indexed citations

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Vaan, Michiel de, et al.. (2005). The reflex of intervocalic *b in Avestan. 665–679.

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Vaan, Michiel de. (2003). Latin au- "away", an allomorph of ab-. 141–147.

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Vaan, Michiel de. (2003). The Avestan Vowels. 13 indexed citations

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Vaan, Michiel de. (2001). Proceedings of the Eleventh Annual UCLA Indo-European Conference; Los Angeles June 4-5, 1999.. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik. 55(1). 281–286. 2 indexed citations

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Vaan, Michiel de. (2000). The Indo-Iranian animal suffix *-Āćá. Indo-Iranian Journal. 43(3). 279–293. 3 indexed citations

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Vaan, Michiel de. (2000). RECONSIDERING DUTCH RUPS, GERMAN RAUPE ‘CATERPILLAR’. Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik. 54(1). 151–174. 1 indexed citations

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