This page gathers the publicly available bibliometric records of the Deaf researchers documented on this site. It draws on three databases — Google Scholar, Scopus and OpenAlex — and reports the h-index each one assigns to the same person. The three often disagree, and that disagreement is itself informative: it measures database coverage as much as it measures scholarship.
The table is ordered so that sustained research careers are visible and recognised. That recognition is deliberate. But an ordered table is not a measure of worth, and a researcher's absence from it says something about the databases, not about the researcher.
- Work published in a signed language — including peer-reviewed video articles, which now carry DOIs but remain largely unindexed.
- Corpora, dictionaries, curricula, terminology standards and datasets.
- Teaching, doctoral supervision, and the building of academic pathways where none existed.
- Testimony, policy work and service to Deaf organisations and federations.
- Research published in national and regional systems — CiNii, J-STAGE and KAKEN in Japan, KCI in Korea, CNKI in China, Lattes and SciELO in Latin America, AJOL in Africa — which the three databases used here cover unevenly or not at all.
Why a researcher may appear lower in this table, or in the second list — none of these factors diminishes the value of their work
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Researchers indexed in Google Scholar, Scopus or OpenAlex
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Sources
- All three values — Scholar, Scopus and OpenAlex — are recorded manually from each researcher's profile page on this site, and carry the update date shown there. None are retrieved live.
- A value of n/d means the figure could not be established with confidence, not that the researcher has no scholarly output. This is common where a researcher's works exist in a database but are not linked to their author record — for instance where publishers did not include an ORCID iD in the metadata they supplied, which disproportionately affects scholars publishing in smaller presses, in the humanities, and outside English-language circuits.
- A value of 0 is not the same as n/d. It means the database holds an author record for that researcher, but no work in it has yet been cited — typically an early-career researcher, or one whose recent output has not yet accumulated citations. Such researchers appear in the first table, because they are indexed; their h-index simply has not risen yet.
Reference h-index
The highest of the three available values, with its source named in the badge beside it (GS Sc OA). No formula, no weighting, no composite figure. The rule is simply: where databases disagree, the lower value usually reflects absence from that database rather than lesser impact, so the highest value is reported and its origin disclosed. Every figure on this page can be verified by following the link in its cell.
This is the value used to order the table by default. It is a sorting key, not a verdict.
h per year
Reference h-index / (current year − year of doctorate). A variant of Hirsch's m-quotient. Because the h-index only ever rises, it partly measures how long someone has been publishing; dividing by career length makes early-career researchers legible alongside senior ones. Two caveats, stated plainly: the year of the doctorate is an approximation of the start of a publishing career, not the year of first publication; and the figure remains uncomparable across disciplines. Shown as n/d where no thesis year is documented.
Known limits of this page
- h-index values are not comparable between disciplines. A figure in aquatic ecotoxicology and one in sign language linguistics describe different citation cultures, not different levels of achievement.
- All three databases under-represent non-English scholarship and the Global South, OpenAlex least of all — which is why it was added.
- Inclusion on this site depends on a person's Deaf identity being publicly self-declared or documented. Many Deaf academics are therefore missing, and their absence is a limit of this site, not of their careers.
This page follows the spirit of the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA) and the Leiden Manifesto: metrics here support visibility, never evaluation. To request a correction or removal, see the Editorial and Data Policy.
Researchers not indexed in these databases
These researchers have no author record in Google Scholar, Scopus or OpenAlex. In most cases this reflects where their work is published and indexed, not how much of it exists or how influential it is. Their profiles are listed below with the academic identifiers that are available.
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Note: in alphabetical order by name. No position numbers are assigned in this table.
