Scholarly Index

Historical Linguistics and Language Studies

Lifetime World Top1000 Scholar ranking for Historical Linguistics and Language Studies.

World rank	Scholar	Impact score	Total citations	Total publications
1	Noam Chomsky	99.94	50,971	613
2	Martín Haspelmath	99.84	14,994	258
3	Joseph Greenberg	99.79	14,085	312
4	Robert A. Hall	99.74	4,694	323
5	Lyle Campbell	99.74	4,801	120
6	Frederick J. Newmeyer	99.69	5,317	114
7	William Croft	99.62	9,097	121
8	Ronald W. Langacker	99.62	13,066	120
9	Georges Kleiber	99.59	2,251	182
10	John E. Joseph	99.56	3,049	282
11	Roland G. Kent	99.46	3,165	316
12	Zdeněk Salzmann	99.41	7,843	193
13	Bernard Comrie	99.39	9,272	330
14	Gijsbert Rutten	99.39	1,603	147
15	Mary R. Haas	99.39	2,996	137
16	Maj‐Britt Mosegaard Hansen	99.31	1,381	155
17	Jean-Claude Anscombre	99.31	2,504	151
18	Morris Swadesh	99.31	2,601	89
19	Brian D. Joseph	99.30	2,244	243
20	Yakov Malkiel	99.20	2,147	299
21	Denis Creissels	99.16	2,233	123
22	James D. McCawley	99.13	3,075	86
23	Peter Koch	99.08	3,615	181
24	Eînar Haugen	99.07	5,391	168
25	Donna Jo Napoli	99.05	4,731	180
26	John Collins	99.04	1,858	103
27	Alain Rabatel	99.01	1,506	297
28	Edward Sapir	99.00	10,646	135
29	Dwight Bolinger	99.00	6,287	192
30	John M. Lipski	99.00	5,800	303
31	Maurice Gross	98.98	1,736	79
32	Rodolfo Cerrón-Palomino	98.98	1,147	97
33	Ignacio Bosque	98.98	7,640	162
34	Peter Lauwers	98.97	14,657	193
35	Wolfgang U. Dressler	98.95	5,125	226
36	Richard Hudson	98.93	5,311	249
37	Marianne Mithun	98.90	5,156	97
38	Robert Lew	98.90	20,267	305
39	Sven Tarp	98.90	1,568	184
40	Werner Abraham	98.88	1,559	208
41	Guglielmo Cinque	98.86	4,411	81
42	Pierre Swiggers	98.85	1,246	641
43	François Récanati	98.83	3,523	133
44	Oswald Ducrot	98.78	2,776	79
45	E.F.K. Koerner	98.77	917	190
46	Steven N. Dworkin	98.77	1,082	105
47	M. B. Emeneau	98.74	1,690	159
48	Julia S. Falk	98.67	1,599	59
49	Marie-Anne Paveau	98.63	1,017	254
50	Wendy Ayres‐Bennett	98.60	789	128