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 2021-05-01 to 2025-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Metaphor Production by Patients with Schizophrenia – A Case Analysis	24
Slowing Metaphor Down: Elaborating Deliberate Metaphor Theory	22
Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection	19
Scientists, Poets and Iconic Realities: A Cognitive Theory of Aesthetics	16
God is Not Always Bright: Explicit and Implicit Associations between Brightness/Darkness and God in Bai People	14
Killer, Thief or Companion? A Corpus-Based Study of Dementia Metaphors in UK Tabloids	14
Why Poetry?: Semiotic Scaffolding & the Poetic Architecture of Cognition	13
Source Domain Associations as Conceptual Assemblages in Trauma Talk – an Association Rule Mining Approach	11
‘The Genome Is the Brain of the Cell!’ How Japanese English Learners Mediate Understanding of Academic Content through Metaphor	10
Why is Semantic Change Asymmetric? The Role of Concreteness and Word Frequency and Metaphor and Metonymy	10
Metaphor in the Academic Mentoring of International Undergraduate Students: The Erasmus Experience	9
Processing Incongruity for Mental Events in Comics: Contours of Character Inferences	9
Poet and Psychologist: A Conversation	9
Assessing Attitudes Indirectly Through Conceptual Metaphors of Size and Distance in an Interactive Software	8
Color Metaphor Mappings for Love Concepts: Empirical Evidence from Chinese Speakers	8
For Better, for Worse, for Richer, for Poorer, in Sickness and in Health: A Cognitive-Linguistic Approach to Merism	8
Is That a Genuine Smile? Emoji-Based Sarcasm Interpretation Across the Lifespan	7
Review of the Book:	6
Water Metaphors and Evaluation of Syrian Migration: The Flow of Refugees in the Spanish Press	6
The Roles of Manual and non-manual Cues in Recognizing Irony in Italian Sign Language	6
A Cognitive Investigation into the Love-life Relationship Expressed in Poetry	5
Multimodal Metaphoric Creativity, Framing, and Recontextualization in Education Discourse: University Advertisements in South Korea	4
Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (PIMS): The Case of Spatial and Abstract Relations	4
Metaphorical Humor in Satirical News Shows: A Content Analysis	4
Figurative Language and Sensory Perception: Corpus-Based Computer-Assisted Study of the Nature and Motivation of Synesthetic Metaphors in Olive Oil Tasting Notes	4

On Poetry and the Science(s) of Meaning	4
Cognitive Factors Related to Metaphor Goodness in Poetic and Non-literary Metaphor	4