William Labov

About

William Labov is a scholar working on Linguistics and Language, Language and Linguistics and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, William Labov has authored 83 papers receiving a total of 13.0k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Linguistics and Language, 33 papers in Language and Linguistics and 26 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology. Recurrent topics in William Labov’s work include Linguistic Variation and Morphology (41 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (23 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (22 papers). William Labov is often cited by papers focused on Linguistic Variation and Morphology (41 papers), Phonetics and Phonology Research (23 papers) and Multilingual Education and Policy (22 papers). William Labov collaborates with scholars based in United States, United Kingdom and Canada. William Labov's co-authors include Robbins Burling, Harry J. Crockett, Régna Darnell, David Fanshel, Deborah Tannen, Doris R. Entwisle, Penelope Eckert, E. Judith Weiner, Glenn G. Gilbèrt and Charlotte Linde and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, American Sociological Review and Social Forces.

In The Last Decade

Co-authorship network of co-authors of William Labov

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of William Labov. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of William Labov 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 William Labov. William Labov is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

William Labov

80 papers receiving 10.2k citations

Fields of papers citing papers by William Labov

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Countries citing papers authored by William Labov

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