
Ken has published 35 books and over 290 journal articles and book chapters. Many articles have appeared in the top international SCCI journals. He has over 96,000 citations on Google Scholar and over 400,000 ‘reads’ on ResearchGate, and in the top 0.5% of scholars in ResarchGate and Academia.com.
Ken was listed in the Stanford University and Elsevier Top 2% of Scientists in the World for 2022, 2023, and 2024, based on Scopus data. There he was ranked number one in the field of Language and Linguistics, according to six Scopus indicators: citations, H-index, HM factor, career influence, and annual influence. Ken is also ranked as the number one scholar in linguistics among the Highly Ranked Scholars of 2024 by ScholarGPS. Additionally, Research.com ranks him as the 116th most influential scholar globally in the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences.
He has presented papers at over 300 international conferences, over 180 as a plenary or keynote speaker, and obtained research funding of £220, 000 including Hong Kong CERG and GRF awards. A collection of his work was published as The Essential Hyland in 2018 by Bloomsbury.