J. R. Martin, language and linguistics

[Extract] By any measure, J. R. Martin is a major figure in linguistics. A brief look at Martin’s impact quickly shows this. If quantitative measures are anything to go by, at the time of writing, his Google Scholar citation count is 46,579 with an h-index of 85, which puts him eighth in the world in terms of citations for the tag ‘Linguistics’ and third in the world for ‘Literacy’, with a number of those above him no longer active (or alive) . This numerical impact is accompanied by the fifty-six and growing PhD students he has supervised (plus innumerable Masters and undergraduate honours students) , his forty-odd authored and edited books (or more, depending on when you are reading this) , his eight volumes of collected works, plus the twenty-odd books of school-teaching materials he has co-produced, and the roughly 250 journal articles, book...