Nicholas Smith

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
29 papers, 1.0k citations indexed

About

Nicholas Smith is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Linguistics and Language and Artificial Intelligence. According to data from OpenAlex, Nicholas Smith has authored 29 papers receiving a total of 1.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 14 papers in Language and Linguistics, 11 papers in Linguistics and Language and 9 papers in Artificial Intelligence. Recurrent topics in Nicholas Smith's work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 papers), Lexicography and Language Studies (7 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 papers). Nicholas Smith is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (11 papers), Lexicography and Language Studies (7 papers) and Natural Language Processing Techniques (7 papers). Nicholas Smith collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, United States and Switzerland. Nicholas Smith's co-authors include Marianne Hundt, Geoffrey Leech, Christian Mair, Emil Alexov, Shawn Witham, Paul Rayson, Marharyta Petukh, Lin Li, Chuan Li and Jie Zhang and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Bioinformatics and Computer.

In The Last Decade

Nicholas Smith

28 papers receiving 941 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.

  1. Change in Contemporary English
    2009 234 citations Geoffrey Leech, Marianne Hundt et al. Cambridge University Press eBooks profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Nicholas Smith United Kingdom 13 460 373 254 177 127 29 1.0k
Maciej Baranowski United Kingdom 13 168 0.4× 295 0.8× 240 0.9× 24 0.1× 29 0.2× 26 609
Steven Gross United States 18 249 0.5× 121 0.3× 106 0.4× 90 0.5× 28 0.2× 51 1.5k
Peter Newmark United Kingdom 15 1.7k 3.8× 63 0.2× 238 0.9× 546 3.1× 252 2.0× 161 2.5k
Christian Mair Germany 20 993 2.2× 860 2.3× 38 0.1× 216 1.2× 276 2.2× 57 1.5k
Mike Baynham United Kingdom 17 430 0.9× 394 1.1× 160 0.6× 18 0.1× 484 3.8× 53 1.2k
Nayana Prabhu Singapore 23 961 2.1× 203 0.5× 781 3.1× 50 0.3× 805 6.3× 45 2.8k
Rolf H. Bremmer Netherlands 15 186 0.4× 84 0.2× 99 0.4× 21 0.1× 20 0.2× 66 1.0k
David M. Carter United States 16 64 0.1× 78 0.2× 393 1.5× 232 1.3× 3 0.0× 34 1.4k
Robert L. Cooper United States 9 83 0.2× 121 0.3× 13 0.1× 14 0.1× 64 0.5× 16 425

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Fields of papers citing papers by Nicholas Smith

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Nicholas Smith

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Carlos, William, et al.. (2024). Diagnostic impacts on management of soft tissue injuries associated with tibial plateau fractures: A narrative review. Injury. 55(6). 111546–111546. 2 indexed citations
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Smith, Nicholas. (2020). Conversationalization and democratization in a radio chat show: a grammar-led investigation. Language Sciences. 79. 101269–101269. 6 indexed citations
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Smith, Nicholas & Cathy Waters. (2019). Variation and change in a specialized register. International Journal of Corpus Linguistics. 24(2). 169–201. 3 indexed citations
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Smith, Nicholas & Cathy Waters. (2018). From broadcast archive to language corpus: Designing and investigating a sociohistorical corpus fromDesert Island Discs. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 42(1). 167–190. 3 indexed citations
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Smith, Nicholas, et al.. (2014). ProBLM Web Server: Protein and Membrane Placement and Orientation Package. Computational and Mathematical Methods in Medicine. 2014. 1–7. 16 indexed citations
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Aarts, Bas, Mark Davies, Nicholas Smith, et al.. (2013). The Verb Phrase in English. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 27 indexed citations
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Smith, Nicholas, et al.. (2012). Protein Nano-Object Integrator (ProNOI) for generating atomic style objects for molecular modeling. BMC Structural Biology. 12(1). 31–31. 4 indexed citations
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Li, Lin, Chuan Li, Jie Zhang, et al.. (2012). DelPhi: a comprehensive suite for DelPhi software and associated resources. PubMed. 5(1). 9–9. 284 indexed citations
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Broccias, Cristiano & Nicholas Smith. (2010). Same time, across time: simultaneity clauses from Late Modern to Present-Day English. English Language and Linguistics. 14(3). 347–371. 2 indexed citations
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Hundt, Marianne & Nicholas Smith. (2009). The present perfect in British and American English: Has there been any change, recently?. Zurich Open Repository and Archive (University of Zurich). 33. 45–63. 28 indexed citations
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Smith, Nicholas, et al.. (2008). Philosophy Through Science Fiction: A Coursebook with Readings. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 2 indexed citations
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Rayson, Paul, Dawn Archer, Alistair Baron, & Nicholas Smith. (2008). Travelling through time with corpus annotation software. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 5 indexed citations
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Rayson, Paul, Dawn Archer, Alistair Baron, Jonathan Culpeper, & Nicholas Smith. (2007). Tagging the Bard: Evaluating the accuracy of a modern POS tagger on Early Modern English corpora. 8(346). 1353–5. 44 indexed citations
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Smith, Nicholas, Sabine Hoffmann, & Paul Rayson. (2007). Corpus Tools and Methods, Today and Tomorrow: Incorporating Linguists' Manual Annotations. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 23(2). 163–180. 16 indexed citations
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Rayson, Paul, Dawn Archer, Alistair Baron, & Nicholas Smith. (2007). Tagging Historical Corpora - the problem of spelling variation. DROPS (Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz Center for Informatics). 0. 11 indexed citations
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Leech, Geoffrey & Nicholas Smith. (2005). Extending the possibilities of corpus-based research on English in the twentieth century: a prequel to LOB and FLOB.. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 19 indexed citations
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Rayson, Paul, Dawn Archer, & Nicholas Smith. (2005). VARD versus WORD: A comparison of the UCREL variant detector and modern spellcheckers on English historical corpora. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 29 indexed citations
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Smith, Nicholas. (2002). Consuming Anxieties: Consumer Protest, Gender, and British Slavery, 1713–1833. Notes and Queries. 49(2). 303–304. 1 indexed citations
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Smith, Nicholas & Tony McEnery. (1998). Issues in Transcribing a Corpus of Children's Hanwritten Projects. Literary and Linguistic Computing. 13(4). 217–225. 7 indexed citations
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Rayson, Paul, et al.. (1996). Template analysis: bridging the gap between grammar and the lexicon. Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University). 5 indexed citations

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