Peter Wignell

1.9k total citations · 1 hit paper
33 papers, 973 citations indexed

About

Peter Wignell is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Language and Linguistics and Sociology and Political Science. According to data from OpenAlex, Peter Wignell has authored 33 papers receiving a total of 973 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 8 papers in Language and Linguistics and 6 papers in Sociology and Political Science. Recurrent topics in Peter Wignell's work include Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (13 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 papers) and Second Language Learning and Teaching (6 papers). Peter Wignell is often cited by papers focused on Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (13 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (6 papers) and Second Language Learning and Teaching (6 papers). Peter Wignell collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United Kingdom and Spain. Peter Wignell's co-authors include Sabine Tan, Kay L. O’Halloran, James R. Martin, Suzanne Eggins, Rebecca Lange, Almudena Fernández Fontecha, Dezheng Feng, Kevin Chai, Andrew Vande Moere and Duc-Son Pham and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, ReCALL and Linguistics and Education.

In The Last Decade

Peter Wignell

32 papers receiving 838 citations

Hit Papers

Making Sense of Functional Grammar 2015 2026 2018 2022 2015 50 100 150 200 250
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. Making Sense of Functional Grammar
    2015 286 citations Peter Wignell 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
Peter Wignell Australia 17 350 271 270 232 205 33 973
Reima Al-Jarf Saudi Arabia 20 214 0.6× 263 1.0× 608 2.3× 615 2.7× 228 1.1× 206 1.6k
Deborah Healey Australia 7 375 1.1× 246 0.9× 552 2.0× 483 2.1× 116 0.6× 34 1.2k
Lara Lomicka United States 19 313 0.9× 255 0.9× 562 2.1× 555 2.4× 184 0.9× 30 1.3k
Stephen Bax United Kingdom 15 541 1.5× 202 0.7× 627 2.3× 447 1.9× 73 0.4× 29 1.2k
Jeong‐Bae Son Australia 18 258 0.7× 292 1.1× 334 1.2× 614 2.6× 69 0.3× 62 1.1k
María José Luzón Spain 16 388 1.1× 85 0.3× 169 0.6× 77 0.3× 116 0.6× 39 640
Regine Hampel United Kingdom 18 577 1.6× 211 0.8× 710 2.6× 607 2.6× 64 0.3× 33 1.3k
Esmat Babaii Iran 14 345 1.0× 70 0.3× 315 1.2× 278 1.2× 47 0.2× 61 789
Ann Hewings United Kingdom 13 456 1.3× 60 0.2× 310 1.1× 241 1.0× 43 0.2× 29 752
Gulbahar H. Beckett United States 17 338 1.0× 80 0.3× 292 1.1× 330 1.4× 95 0.5× 43 794

Countries citing papers authored by Peter Wignell

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Fields of papers citing papers by Peter Wignell

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Peter Wignell

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Peter Wignell. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Peter Wignell 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 Peter Wignell. Peter Wignell 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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Tan, Sabine, et al.. (2020). Addressing international students on Australian and Chinese university webpages: A comparative study. Discourse Context & Media. 36. 100403–100403. 14 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter, Sabine Tan, Kay L. O’Halloran, & Kevin Chai. (2020). The Twittering Presidents. Journal of Language and Politics. 20(2). 197–225. 6 indexed citations
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Tan, Sabine, et al.. (2020). Analysing student engagement with 360-degree videos through multimodal data analytics and user annotations. Technology Pedagogy and Education. 29(5). 593–612. 17 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter, Kay L. O’Halloran, Sabine Tan, Rebecca Lange, & Kevin Chai. (2018). Image and text relations in ISIS materials and the new relations established through recontextualisation in online media. Discourse & Communication. 12(5). 535–559. 10 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter, Kevin Chai, Sabine Tan, Kay L. O’Halloran, & Rebecca Lange. (2018). Natural Language Understanding and Multimodal Discourse Analysis for Interpreting Extremist Communications and the Re-Use of These Materials Online. Terrorism and Political Violence. 33(1). 71–95. 12 indexed citations
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O’Halloran, Kay L., Peter Wignell, & Sabine Tan. (2018). ‘Doing critical discourse studies with multimodality: from metafunctions to materiality’ by Per Ledin and David Machin. Critical Discourse Studies. 16(5). 514–521. 10 indexed citations
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O’Halloran, Kay L., Sabine Tan, & Peter Wignell. (2017). Inter-semiotic Translation as Resemiotization: A Multimodal Perspective. eSpace (Curtin University). 7. 199–229. 3 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter, Sabine Tan, Kay L. O’Halloran, & Rebecca Lange. (2017). A Mixed Methods Empirical Examination of Changes in Emphasis and Style in the Extremist Magazines Dabiq and Rumiyah. eSpace (Curtin University). 11(2). 2–20. 50 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter, Sabine Tan, & Kay L. O’Halloran. (2017). Under the shade of AK47s: a multimodal approach to violent extremist recruitment strategies for foreign fighters. Critical Studies on Terrorism. 10(3). 429–452. 21 indexed citations
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O’Halloran, Kay L., et al.. (2017). A linguistic analysis of the sample numeracy skills test items for pre-service teachers issued by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). The Australian Educational Researcher. 44(3). 233–253. 5 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter, et al.. (2016). International student transitioning experiences: Student voice. ePublications@SCU (Southern Cross University). 10(1). 9 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter, Sabine Tan, & Kay L. O’Halloran. (2016). Violent extremism and iconisation: commanding good and forbidding evil?. Critical Discourse Studies. 14(1). 1–22. 23 indexed citations
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Tan, Sabine, Peter Wignell, & Kay L. O’Halloran. (2016). From book to stage to screen: semiotic transformations of Gothic horror genre conventions. Social Semiotics. 26(4). 404–423. 4 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter, et al.. (2015). Making Sense of Functional Grammar. 286 indexed citations breakdown →
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Wignell, Peter. (2011). Picture books for young children of different ages: the changing relationships between images and words. ePublications@SCU (Southern Cross University). 202–219. 4 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter. (2007). On the Discourse of Social Science. CDU eSpace Institutional Repository (Charles Darwin University). 28 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter. (1999). Double power : English literacy and indigenous education. 32 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter, et al.. (1995). Making sense of functional grammar : an introductory workbook. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 77 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter. (1994). Genre across the curriculum. Linguistics and Education. 6(4). 355–372. 24 indexed citations
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Wignell, Peter, James R. Martin, & Suzanne Eggins. (1989). The discourse of geography: Ordering and explaining the experiential world. Linguistics and Education. 1(4). 359–391. 94 indexed citations

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