The 2022 Stanford list of the World’s Top 2% Scientists has just been released. It includes 335 linguists. So, I’ve done some quick number crunching to see who they are and where they are based. My reflections are available in this Twitter thread:
Each year Elsevier publishes the @Stanford list of the “World’s Top 2% Scientists" – this year's list just dropped and it includes 335 #linguists – want to know who they are? And what's good and bad about the list?
Quick 🧵on citation #metrics
1/10https://t.co/e3YyYA8nOq pic.twitter.com/JboVvkHfkW— Language on the Move (@Lg_on_the_Move) October 16, 2022
The dataset
A couple of people have asked me where they can find the full list of the 335 most-cited linguists. So, I am making it available for download here. I extracted this table from the Ioannidis (2022) dataset based on the “subfield-1” code for “languages and linguistics”. That means, linguists who primarily publish in another discipline (e.g., psychology) are not included here.
Reference
Ioannidis, John P.A. (2022), “September 2022 data-update for “Updated science-wide author databases of standardized citation indicators””, Mendeley Data, V4, doi: 10.17632/btchxktzyw.4
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