OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Metaphor and Symbol is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-02-01 to 2025-02-01.)

Article	Citations
The Influence of Speaker Pitch on Inferring Semantic Valence	19
Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): The Case of Spatial and Abstract Relations	17
Different Metaphorical Orientations of Time Succession between Traditional Chinese Medicine and Western Medicine	16
Metaphor Production by Patients with Schizophrenia – A Case Analysis	15
The Storm Sank My Boat and My Dreams: The Zeugma as a Breach of Iconicity	14
The Influence of Metaphorical Framing on Emotions and Reasoning About the COVID-19 Pandemic	11
The Ups and Downs of Black and White: Do Sensorimotor Metaphors Reflect an Evolved Perceptual Interface?	9
Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience	9
A metaphor is not like a simile: reading-time evidence for distinct interpretations for negated tropes	8
Early Birds Can Fly: Awakening the Literal Meaning of Conventional Metaphors Further Downstream	7
Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection	7
Corpus-Based Metaphorical Framing Analysis: WAR Metaphors in Hong Kong Public Discourse	7
The Embodiment of Power as Forward/Backward Movement in Chinese and English Speakers	7
Metaphor signalling constructions in discourse related to the experience of depersonalization/derealization	7
Back to the Poem: A Call for A Special Issue on the Poetics of Metaphor	6
On Poetry and the Science(s) of Meaning	6
‘Just Like Pandemic Prevention’: The Semiotic Flow That Interweaves Multimodality, Metaphor, and Narrativity	5
Overall Inhibitory Control Modulated the Comprehension of Chinese Ideographic Idioms Where the Minor Glyph Message Pertains	4
Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition	4
Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences	4
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory	4
God is Not Always Bright: Explicit and Implicit Associations between Brightness/Darkness and God in Bai People	4
Individual Differences in Verbal Irony Use: A Systematic Review of Quantitative Psycholinguistic Studies	4
Scientists, Poets and Iconic Realities: A Cognitive Theory of Aesthetics	4
Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids	4

Code Red for Humanity: Multimodal Metaphor and Metonymy in Noncommercial Advertisements on Environmental Awareness and Activism