World Englishes

1.5k papers and 23.5k indexed citations

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The 1.5k papers published in World Englishes in the last decades have received a total of 23.5k indexed citations. Papers published in World Englishes usually cover Linguistics and Language (1.1k papers), Language and Linguistics (1.0k papers) and Literature and Literary Theory (578 papers) specifically the topics of Multilingual Education and Policy (959 papers), Linguistic Variation and Morphology (595 papers) and Second Language Learning and Teaching (435 papers). The most active scholars publishing in World Englishes are Braj Β. Kachru, Kingsley Bolton, Aya Matsuda, Jennifer Jenkins, Barbara Seidlhofer, Ryūko Kubota, Vijay K. Bhatia, Margie Berns, Tej K. Bhatia and Cecil L. Nelson.

In The Last Decade

World Englishes

1.3k papers receiving 19.1k citations

Peers

World Englishes
Comparison fields: 5 of 158
  • Language and Linguistics 15.9k
  • Linguistics and Language 14.4k
  • Literature and Literary Theory 10.3k
  • Experimental and Cognitive Psychology 2.8k
  • Education 1.9k
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Countries where authors publish in World Englishes

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This map shows the geographic impact of research published in World Englishes. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by papers published in World Englishes with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites World Englishes more than expected).

Fields of papers published in World Englishes

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers published in World Englishes. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in World Englishes.

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

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