Adesina B. Sunday

University of Ibadan

Publishing since 2010, latest 2026

Literature and Literary Theory
Communication
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Language and Linguistics
Artificial Intelligence
Education

Publications: 232010–2026
Citations: 70to those papers
h-index: 5i10-index 2
Field-weighted impact: 0.991.00 is the world average
World top 10%: 17%4 of 23 scored papers
Open access: 48%11 papers free to read

1 other work — a preprint, a dataset or the like — is listed but not counted.

By year

Papers, and the citations to them

Publications, left axisCitations to that year’s papers, right axis2026 still in progress

Publications

23 in all

Ethnic Voices in the Tweets on #IgboMustGo Protests in Nigeria
2026Book chapterSenior author0 citations10.4018/979-8-3373-5581-8.ch011
Linguistic Choices as Conveyors of Social Activism in the Tweets of Nigerian #EndBadGovernance Protesters
2026Howard Journal of CommunicationsJournalFirst author

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Citations received each year

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What they work on

From the classification of each paper

Subfields

Literature and Literary Theory1148%
Communication730%
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology626%
Language and Linguistics626%
Artificial Intelligence313%
Education313%
Social Psychology313%
Sociology and Political Science313%
Cognitive Neuroscience29%
Developmental and Educational Psychology29%

Life Sciences
Physical Sciences
Social Sciences

Topics most written on

Discourse Analysis in Language Studies9
Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies6
Swearing, Euphemism, Multilingualism4
Hate Speech and Cyberbullying Detection3
Humor Studies and Applications3
Language, Metaphor, and Cognition3
Phonetics and Phonology Research3
African Education and Politics2
Crime, Deviance, and Social Control2
Digital Communication and Language2
Diverse Musicological Studies2
Media Studies and Communication2

Who they write with

Their most frequent co-authors, and the papers those co-authors share

Where their co-authors are

4% of their papers have a co-author abroad

papers co-written1111111Home

Most frequent partner countries

Canada1

Papers with at least one author in that country.

Institutions written with most

McPherson UniversityNG4 papers
Bow Valley CollegeCA1 paper
Pan-Atlantic UniversityNG1 paper
Augustine University, IlaraNG1 paper
Lagos State UniversityNG1 paper
University of NigeriaNG1 paper

Where they publish

European Journal of Humour Research2
Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures/Studies in African Languages and Cultures2
African Identities1
Communicatio1
Discourse & Communication1
DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)1

Development goals addressed

From each paper’s title and abstract

4Quality education6
5Gender equality4
10Reduced inequalities3
16Peace, justice and strong institutions3

Most cited

Playing with culture: Nigerian stand-up comedians joking with cultural beliefs and representations
Humor - International Journal of Humor Research10
201815 citations
A pragmatic analysis of humour strategies and functions in 'Jenifa's Diary' and 'Professor JohnBull'
European Journal of Humour Research4
202111 citationsOpen access · Diamond
Critical sociocognitive analysis of hate speech in the 2015 Nigerian presidential election campaigns

“WE WILL TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY FROM BAD GOVERNANCE”: A CORPUS-ASSISTED CRITICAL DISCOURSE STUDY OF CAMPAIGN TWEETS IN THE 2023 NIGERIAN PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION

2026Филолог – часопис за језик књижевност и културуJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.21618/fil2633576e

Discourse Representation of Self and Other in the 2020 Trump-Biden Presidential Debates

2026Journal of English and Applied LinguisticsJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.59588/2961-3094.1229

Joking with social realities

2026European Journal of Humour ResearchJournalOpen accessSenior author0 citations10.7592/ejhr.2026.14.2.1030

Pragmatic strategies in the crime narratives of accused rapists in Agodi Custodial Centre, Ibadan, Oyo State, Nigeria

2024Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures/Studies in African Languages and CulturesJournalOpen access1 citation10.32690/salc58.1

Social Cognition and Advertisement in Yusuf Olatunji’s Music

2022Pop music, culture and identityBook chapterFirst authorCorresponding2 citations10.1007/978-3-030-97884-6_6

Discourse strategies of handling denials in police – suspect interaction in Ibadan, Nigeria

2021Studies of the Department of African Languages and Cultures/Studies in African Languages and CulturesJournalOpen accessFirst author5 citations10.32690/salc55.4

‘Na Wa o for African Men’: Pragmatic acting in Sir Shina Peters’ Shinamania

2021Legon Journal of the HumanitiesJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding3 citations10.4314/ljh.v31i2.5

Acquisition of complex coda and sonority among selected bilingual Nigerian children

2020DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals)JournalOpen accessSenior author1 citation

Playing with culture: Nigerian stand-up comedians joking with cultural beliefs and representations

2018Humor - International Journal of Humor ResearchJournalFirst authorCorresponding15 citations10.1515/humor-2017-0085

Relevance-Based Analysis of Aphasic Speech

2013Studies in literature and languageJournalOpen accessSenior author1 citation

The Segmentals of Bilingual Nigerian Adult Broca’s Aphasics

2013International Journal of Applied Linguistics & English LiteratureJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding1 citation10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.2n.3p.83

SEGMENTAL PHONOLOGY OF BILINGUAL NIGERIAN ADULT WERNICKE’S APHASICS

2013World Journal of English LanguageJournalOpen accessFirst authorCorresponding0 citations10.5430/wjel.v3n1p50

Howard Journal of Communications

Humor - International Journal of Humor Research1

How it can be read

48% free to read

Diamond 7 · 30%Free to read and to publish
Hybrid 1 · 4%Open in a subscription journal
Bronze 1 · 4%Free to read, no open licence
Green 2 · 9%A copy in a repository
Closed 12 · 52%Behind a paywall

Pragmatics and Society