Scholarly Index

Linguistics and language evolution

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Linguistics and language evolution.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Robert Blust	99.93	8,410	214
2	Martín Haspelmath	99.81	14,994	258
3	Albrecht Goetze	99.74	2,992	205
4	Johanna Nichols	99.69	4,547	101
5	Colin Renfrew	99.69	13,714	277
6	Roland G. Kent	99.66	3,165	316
7	Bernard Comrie	99.58	9,272	330
8	J. Ν. Adams	99.57	3,088	85
9	Laurie Bauer	99.55	3,178	135
10	James W. Poultney	99.49	2,766	127
11	Halldór Ármann Sigurðsson	99.42	2,607	64
12	Michel Lejeune	99.41	1,512	399
13	Andrew George	99.38	1,435	225
14	Ernst Pulgram	99.37	3,920	93
15	William J. Rothwell	99.37	2,183	251
16	Frederik Kortlandt	99.36	1,152	187
17	E. H. Sturtevant	99.35	2,029	218
18	Robert A. Hall	99.35	4,694	323
19	Henry Μ. Hoenigswald	99.31	4,542	134
20	Jóhanna Barðdal	99.29	1,494	68
21	Joseph Salmons	99.28	2,890	114
22	Hans G. Güterbock	99.21	1,256	94
23	Edward J. Vajda	99.17	1,872	289
24	J. D. Hawkins	99.15	1,574	84
25	M. B. Emeneau	99.14	1,690	159
26	Yakov Malkiel	99.14	2,147	299
27	Stefán Einarsson	99.12	3,205	190
28	Edward Sapir	99.10	10,646	135
29	Derek Pearsall	99.09	2,156	145
30	John Steele	99.03	3,415	254
31	Carl D. Buck	99.01	1,403	75
32	Joshua Whatmough	99.00	1,101	293
33	Henning Andersen	99.00	3,488	96
34	J. Gonda	98.99	983	167
35	Silvia Luraghi	98.97	920	85
36	Lyle Campbell	98.93	4,801	120
37	Joseph F. Eska	98.90	2,051	115
38	Robert E. Coleman	98.88	1,274	99
39	W. Sidney Allen	98.86	1,517	67
40	Herbert Penzl	98.84	2,015	176
41	Peter Trudgill	98.81	7,146	134
42	Roger Lass	98.81	2,052	73
43	Horace G. Lunt	98.78	882	93
44	Jay H. Jasanoff	98.74	1,725	67
45	Brian D. Joseph	98.74	2,244	243
46	Martin Maiden	98.72	45,139	490
47	Theo Vennemann	98.71	1,325	50
48	Sherman M. Kuhn	98.69	955	41
49	Eric P. Hamp	98.69	755	394
50	Anatoly Liberman	98.69	789	553