Wilbert Spooren

2.8k total citations
60 papers, 1.3k citations indexed

About

Wilbert Spooren is a scholar working on Language and Linguistics, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Literature and Literary Theory. According to data from OpenAlex, Wilbert Spooren has authored 60 papers receiving a total of 1.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 19 papers in Language and Linguistics, 16 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 12 papers in Literature and Literary Theory. Recurrent topics in Wilbert Spooren's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (15 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (13 papers) and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (10 papers). Wilbert Spooren is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (15 papers), Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies (13 papers) and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies (10 papers). Wilbert Spooren collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and China. Wilbert Spooren's co-authors include Ted Sanders, L.G.M. Noordman, Liesbeth Degand, José Sanders, Yves Bestgen, Gerard J. Steen, L. Lagerwerf, Ans van Kemenade, Arie Verhagen and Joost Schilperoord and has published in prestigious journals such as SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología, Journal of Pragmatics and Educational Psychology.

In The Last Decade

Wilbert Spooren

52 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Wilbert Spooren Netherlands 15 606 456 412 313 259 60 1.3k
L.G.M. Noordman Netherlands 16 541 0.9× 567 1.2× 565 1.4× 237 0.8× 485 1.9× 33 1.5k
Liesbeth Degand Belgium 18 747 1.2× 433 0.9× 396 1.0× 294 0.9× 194 0.7× 116 1.2k
István Kecskés United States 22 1.1k 1.8× 705 1.5× 165 0.4× 494 1.6× 306 1.2× 60 1.5k
Gisela Redeker Netherlands 15 410 0.7× 331 0.7× 248 0.6× 222 0.7× 188 0.7× 50 923
Barbara A. Fox United States 24 1.4k 2.3× 804 1.8× 310 0.8× 490 1.6× 275 1.1× 59 1.8k
Richard Xiao United Kingdom 15 820 1.4× 220 0.5× 505 1.2× 351 1.1× 343 1.3× 39 1.3k
Andrea Tyler United States 21 1.1k 1.9× 741 1.6× 231 0.6× 390 1.2× 803 3.1× 39 1.9k
Diane Blakemore United Kingdom 17 1.0k 1.7× 645 1.4× 213 0.5× 390 1.2× 104 0.4× 31 1.3k
Robyn Carston United Kingdom 22 1.3k 2.2× 1.4k 3.1× 317 0.8× 289 0.9× 187 0.7× 48 2.1k
Jan Nuyts Belgium 14 1.0k 1.7× 529 1.2× 252 0.6× 251 0.8× 90 0.3× 66 1.3k

Countries citing papers authored by Wilbert Spooren

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Fields of papers citing papers by Wilbert Spooren

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Wilbert Spooren

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Wilbert Spooren. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Wilbert Spooren 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 Wilbert Spooren. Wilbert Spooren 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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Spooren, Wilbert, Antal van den Bosch, Christian Burgers, et al.. (2024). Taming our Wild Data. SHILAP Revista de lepidopterología. 13. 1 indexed citations
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Visch, Valentijn, et al.. (2024). Erasing stigmas through storytelling: why interactive storytelling environments could reduce health-related stigmas. PubMed. 8(1). 46–77. 3 indexed citations
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Spooren, Wilbert, et al.. (2023). How technology shapes advice: professional–parent interaction in a digital pediatric treatment. Frontiers in Communication. 8. 1 indexed citations
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Spooren, Wilbert, et al.. (2023). Discourse culture(s) of journalism: Newswriting in Dutch and Iranian handbooks. Journalism. 25(3). 650–672. 1 indexed citations
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Spooren, Wilbert, et al.. (2021). Framing similar issues differently: a cross-cultural discourse analysis of news images. Social Semiotics. 33(3). 515–538. 9 indexed citations
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Spooren, Wilbert, et al.. (2021). Do Spanish causal connectives vary in subjectivity? What crowdsourcing data reveal about native speakers’ preferences. Text and Talk. 41(2). 211–237. 3 indexed citations
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Spooren, Wilbert, et al.. (2020). Relationships between Dutch Youths’ Social Media Use and School Writing. Computers & composition. 56. 102574–102574. 11 indexed citations
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Sanders, Ted, et al.. (2020). How subjective are Mandarin reason connectives?. Language and Linguistics 語言暨語言學. 22(1). 166–211. 3 indexed citations
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Sanders, José, et al.. (2018). Motives for Health Information Behavior: Patterns More Refined Than Traditional Dichotomies. A Study Among Women in a Cervix Treatment Process. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 22(2). 126–141. 6 indexed citations
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Spooren, Wilbert, et al.. (2017). Culture and discourse structure: A comparative study of Dutch and Iranian news texts. Discourse & Communication. 12(1). 58–79. 8 indexed citations
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Spooren, Wilbert. (2016). Hoe transparant kunnen we zijn?. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 38(2). 189–192.
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Kemenade, Ans van & Wilbert Spooren. (2013). The impact of computer-mediated communication on literacy. 2 indexed citations
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Degand, Liesbeth, Wilbert Spooren, & Yves Bestgen. (2004). On the use of automatic tools for large scale semantic analyses of causal connectives. 25–32. 4 indexed citations
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Steen, Gerard J., L. Lagerwerf, Wilbert Spooren, & Liesbeth Degand. (2003). Conversationalization in discourse: Stylistic changes in editorials of The Times between 1950 and 2000. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 4 indexed citations
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Spooren, Wilbert. (2001). Boekbespreking [Review of: L. Lagerwerf (1998) Causal connectives have presuppositions: Effects on coherence and discourse structure]. Journal of Pragmatics. 137–141. 1 indexed citations
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Spooren, Wilbert, et al.. (1998). Discourse markers and coherence relations. Special issue. Journal of Pragmatics.
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Spooren, Wilbert, et al.. (1998). Discourse markers and coherence relations. Journal of Pragmatics. 30(2).
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Spooren, Wilbert. (1998). Structuring texts: Text linguistics. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 193–216. 3 indexed citations
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Spooren, Wilbert, et al.. (1997). Discourse markers and text representation. Special issue. Discourse Processes. 1 indexed citations
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Sanders, José & Wilbert Spooren. (1996). Subjectivity and certainty in epistemic modality: A study of Dutch epistemic modifiers. Cognitive Linguistics. 7(3). 241–264. 30 indexed citations

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