Leaderboards/Gender Studies in Language

Gender Studies in Language

Last updated July 7, 2026

Rising Stars

New and hot

Rising Stars Researchers

1
Leyla Tielemans
Université Libre de Bruxelles
2
Veronico N. Tarrayo
University of Santo Tomas
3
M. Asher Lawson
INSEAD
4
Anjali Adukia
University of Chicago
5
Sayeed Naqibullah Orfan
Takhar University
6
Darío Luis Banegas
University of Edinburgh
7
Dewi Puspitasari
Universitas Pekalongan
8
Kennedy Casey
Princeton University
9
Francisco J. Rodríguez-Sanchez
Tuxtla Gutierrez Institute of Technology
10
André Kött
Ghent University

Rising Stars Papers

1
“I’ve just lived inside a tumble dryer”: a narrative of emotion labour, (de)motivation, and agency in the life of a language teacher
IRAL - International Review of Applied Linguistics in Language Teaching|2024
10 cit.
2
Enhancing pre-service teachers’ projective agency for diverse and multilingual classrooms through a course on curriculum development
International Multilingual Research Journal|2024
9 cit.
3
Teacher language awareness in CLIL teacher education in Argentina, Colombia, and Ecuador: a multiple case study
Language Awareness|2024
9 cit.
4
The violence of literature review and the imperative to ask new questions
Applied Linguistics Review|2024
8 cit.
5
‘Becoming and being online EFL teachers’: Teachers' professional identity in online pedagogy
Heliyon|2024
7 cit.
6
Student-teachers’ understanding of language teaching through the CLIL Language Triptych
Learning and Instruction|2024
7 cit.
7
Economic segregation is associated with reduced concerns about economic inequality
Nature Communications|2024
6 cit.
8
Practitioner research in education: A call for a reality check
International Journal of Research & Method in Education|2024
6 cit.
9
Faculty research productivity at select higher education institutions in Afghanistan
Cogent Education|2024
6 cit.
10
Intersectionality in language teacher education: a systematic literature review
Language Culture and Curriculum|2025
5 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

1
Helena Mihaljević
HTW Berlin - University of Applied Sciences
2
Vilhjalmsdottir Holmfridur
Unknown
3
Livia Dewaele
RAND Europe
4
Yuzuko Nagashima
Yokohama City University
5
Sandra Chapman-Osterkatz
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
6
Job Schepens
Radboud University Nijmegen
7
Natalia Lemmerth
University of Mannheim
8
Pattamawan Jimarkon Zilli
Thammasat University
9
Céline Pozniak
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
10
Aisulu Badanova
Nazarbayev University

Emerging Leaders Papers

1
Linguistic dissimilarity increases age-related decline in adult language learning
Studies in Second Language Acquisition|2022
23 cit.
2
More or less discrimination? Practical feasibility of fairness auditing of technologies for personnel selection
AI & Society|2023
16 cit.
3
Phonetic differences between affirmative and feedback head nods in German Sign Language (DGS): A pose estimation study
PLoS ONE|2024
11 cit.
4
Towards gender-inclusive job postings: A data-driven comparison of augmented writing technologies
PLoS ONE|2022
9 cit.
5
Contextual dilution in French gender inclusive writing: An experimental investigation
Journal of French Language Studies|2023
7 cit.
6
StreetSurfaceVis: a dataset of crowdsourced street-level imagery annotated by road surface type and quality
Scientific Data|2025
7 cit.
7
Reconsidering utility: unveiling the limitations of synthetic mobility data generation algorithms in real-life scenarios
Unknown Journal|2023
6 cit.
8
Feminist Pedagogy in the <scp>EFL</scp> Classroom in Japan: Evaluating a One‐Shot Intervention Approach
TESOL Quarterly|2023
3 cit.
9
Mathematics publications and authors’ gender: Learning from the Gender Gap in Science project
European Mathematical Society Magazine|2022
2 cit.
10
Policymaking to support resilience in democratic countries: an examination of Sweden, Israel, and Australia
European Journal of Futures Research|2022
2 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

1
John M. Swales
University of Michigan
2
Huntington F. Willard
Geisinger Medical Center
3
Ruth Wodak
Lancaster University
4
David C. Page
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
5
David C. Page
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
6
Vijay K. Bhatia
City University of Hong Kong
7
Sohaila Rastan
Sholokhov Moscow State University for Humanities
8
Rebecca S. Bigler
The University of Texas at Austin
9
Sabine Sczesny
University of Bern
10
Janet Holmes
Victoria University of Wellington

Current Senior Leaders Papers

1
Genre Analysis: English in Academic and Research Settings
Modern Language Journal|1992
4.7k cit.
2
The male-specific region of the human Y chromosome is a mosaic of discrete sequence classes
Nature|2003
2.2k cit.
3
X-inactivation profile reveals extensive variability in X-linked gene expression in females
Nature|2005
2.1k cit.
4
A useful methodological synergy? Combining critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics to examine discourses of refugees and asylum seekers in the UK press
Discourse & Society|2008
1.9k cit.
5
A gene from the region of the human X inactivation centre is expressed exclusively from the inactive X chromosome
Nature|1991
1.5k cit.
6
Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings
Modern Language Journal|1995
1.4k cit.
7
The human XIST gene: Analysis of a 17 kb inactive X-specific RNA that contains conserved repeats and is highly localized within the nucleus
Cell|1992
1.3k cit.
8
Critical discourse analysis: history, agenda, theory, and methodology.
Lancaster EPrints (Lancaster University)|2009
1.3k cit.
9
Diverse spermatogenic defects in humans caused by Y chromosome deletions encompassing a novel RNA–binding protein gene
Nature Genetics|1995
1.2k cit.
10
Legitimizing Immigration Control: A Discourse-Historical Analysis
Discourse Studies|1999
1.1k cit.

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