Morris Swadesh

130 total papers · 3.1k total citations
50 papers, 815 citations indexed

About

Morris Swadesh is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Cultural Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Morris Swadesh has authored 50 papers receiving a total of 815 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Language and Linguistics, 12 papers in Linguistics and Language and 7 papers in Cultural Studies. Recurrent topics in Morris Swadesh's work include Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (13 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (12 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (10 papers). Morris Swadesh is often cited by papers focused on Historical Linguistics and Language Studies (13 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (12 papers) and Linguistics and language evolution (10 papers). Morris Swadesh collaborates with scholars based in United States and Mexico. Morris Swadesh's co-authors include Edward Sapir, Joseph Greenberg, Melville Jacobs, Douglas Taylor, Eric P. Hamp, Homer Aschmann, André Martinet, John Lötz and Paul L. Garvin and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Language and American Anthropologist.

In The Last Decade

Morris Swadesh

43 papers receiving 580 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 benchmark for papers published in the same subfield and year, or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

  1. Towards Greater Accuracy in Lexicostatistic Dating
    1955 314 citations Morris Swadesh International Journal of American Linguistics profile →

Author Peers

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Author Last Decade Papers Cites
Morris Swadesh 371 297 265 176 121 50 815
Merritt Ruhlen 260 0.7× 159 0.5× 266 1.0× 100 0.6× 149 1.2× 26 1.0k
Isidore Dyen 237 0.6× 325 1.1× 184 0.7× 91 0.5× 119 1.0× 39 812
Ellen Woolford 558 1.5× 224 0.8× 67 0.3× 197 1.1× 160 1.3× 27 910
Harry Hoijer 325 0.9× 197 0.7× 86 0.3× 80 0.5× 175 1.4× 41 950
S. Α. Wurm 352 0.9× 442 1.5× 106 0.4× 41 0.2× 148 1.2× 69 891
Harald Hammarström 232 0.6× 224 0.8× 331 1.2× 341 1.9× 293 2.4× 60 934
Patrick McConvell 240 0.6× 337 1.1× 179 0.7× 37 0.2× 128 1.1× 51 800
Jane Simpson 320 0.9× 339 1.1× 63 0.2× 87 0.5× 147 1.2× 61 751
George van Driem 378 1.0× 298 1.0× 71 0.3× 66 0.4× 89 0.7× 79 888
Anthony P. Grant 433 1.2× 335 1.1× 59 0.2× 125 0.7× 124 1.0× 47 776

Countries citing papers authored by Morris Swadesh

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Fields of papers citing papers by Morris Swadesh

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Morris Swadesh

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

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