OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Semiotica is 1. 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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)

Article	Citations
Gastrofonia: a new cultural horizon of music and food	8
The individual, kata and the arts: semiotic considerations on cultural identity	7
Stylistique et herméneutique des œuvres littéraires : pour une approche intégrative, via la notion de « stylisation »	6
An allegory of Fama and Historia: rumor studies, collective memory, and semiotics	6
Ritualism and disempowerment of education: social semiotics of the educational experience of young Iranian girls	5
Funktionskreis, Gestaltkreis, and Situationskreis in the context of integrated medicine	5
Knowledge in action: what the feet can learn to know	4
Vers une sémiotique sadienne	4
Practical Esotericism and Tikkun Olam: two modern renditions of a medieval mystical idea	4
The primordiality of representation	4
Models as signs of the imaginary: Peirce, Pierce, Langer, and the non-discursive sign	4
Semiotic approach of strategic narrative: the news discourse of Russia’s coronavirus aid to Italy	4
Speaking one’s mind: the sign as subject of interpretation in the manuscripts of Charles S. Peirce, between the theories of rhetoric and communication	4
Deployment of gestures in the semiotic construction of scientific knowledge: a systemic functional approach to pedagogic semiosis	4
The plastic of clothing and the construction of visual communication and interaction: a semiotic examination of the eighteenth-century French dress	4
Surviving a natural disaster as a semiotic reformation of the self and worldview	3
Cultivating critical language awareness: unraveling populism in Trump’s inaugural address	3
Conflicting modalities in feature film: from contrapuntal editing to internal diegetic sound	3
The “intentional function” in still and moving photographic images	3
Pre-structuralist semiology: materiality of language in Ferdinand de Saussure	3
Toward a Peircean logic of meditation	3
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On the recognitions of asemic poetry as language	3
Semiotics of humor in Nigerian politics	3
Semiology: in the light of Saussure’ words	3

Constructing cultural identities through new media: a multimodal appraisal analysis of Chinese web-based ink and wash cartoons	3
Crowning, rotating, and emanating hierophanies with elevatio aspect in wayside shrines	3
Kubrick’s audible bodies: unseen subjectivities in 2001 and The Shining	3
A. J. Greimas in the world: travels, translations, transmissions	3
Complexes, rule-following, and language games: Wittgenstein’s philosophical method and its relevance to semiotics	2
Eco, Riffaterre, and a poem by Baudelaire	2
Concept lattice formalisms of Hébert’s “semic analysis” and “analysis by classification”	2
The semiotic roots of worldviews: logic, epistemology, and contemporary comparisons	2
Exploring deceptions: cognitive strategies and dynamics in espionage	2
The grotesque as a literary issue	2
The lifeworld and the world of life: the concept of relevance and its foundation in organic nature	2
Studying values about childhood using networked photography on Instagram	2
L’intimocide: de la violence de masse à celle des camarades	2
Fencing blindfolded: extending meaning through sound, floor, and blade	2
Signe, science et jeux sportif : esquisse de sémiotricité triadique	2
Hotspots for textual dynamics: cultural semiotic approach to digital archives	2
The role of schemas and scripts in pictorial narration	2
Tropes and play: a new account on embodied figures of thought	2
Origins of money: a Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM) analysis	2
A study in scarlet: cultural memory of the tropes related to the color red, female countenance, and onstage makeup in the Sinophone world	2
“Real” and imaginary worlds in children’s fiction: The Velveteen Rabbit	2
Semiotricité et corps en jeu	2
Story versus discourse in film studies: a return to the theory of enunciation	2
A semiotic lifeworld. Semiotics and phenomenology: Peirce, Husserl, Heidegger, Deleuze, and Merleau-Ponty	2
Logonomic signs as three-phase constraints of multimodal social semiosis	2
Visual frames in promotional video: a semiotic analysis of What is Peppa?	2
Young parkour traceurs in Mexico City: a new way to meaning and identity in urban spaces	1
An important chapter in the history of semiotics: inference from signs in Philodemus’ De signis	1
The emergence of post-narrativity in the era of artificial intelligence: a non-anthropocentric perspective on the new ecology of narrative agency	1
Exploring socioaffective semiotricity: emotions and relational signs in traditional sporting games	1
To be is not to inhabit: Yuri M. Lotman’s Ulysses and his transhumanist context	1
Structural semiology, Peirce, and biolinguistics	1
Competition among visual, verbal, and auditory modalities: a socio-semiotic perspective	1
Off the pitch: semiotics of liminality between space and play	1
Peirce’s evolving interpretants	1
Assessing the subtitling of emotive reactions: a social semiotic approach	1
Cassirer’s path to the “symbolic animal”	1
The inhumanity of people living in Slovak Roma settlements: on the creation of the focal images	1
Derrida’s “chimerical experimental exercise”: an ecolinguistic dream of a more biocentric language	1
Missed encounters: what may be relevant for an AI is not for a human being	1
Typologie des implicites ethnosocioculturels en discours	1
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Peirce’s vocation for consciousness: an evolutionary account	1
Behavioral capital: gaming and monetization in post-marxist perspective	1
How binding and bonding communicate interpersonal meanings in a children’s museum to address Jordan’s energy and water challenges	1
Oblique semiotics: the semiotics of the mirror and specular reflections in Lotman and Eco	1
An experimental study on the effect of emotion lines in comics	1
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Dancing all the way to the stage by way of the stadium: on the iconicity and plasticity of actions	1
Défis sémiotiques de l’écriture du mort dans la littérature de la tombe	1

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Les IA génératives visuelles entre perception d’archives et circuits de composition	1
Pour une approche sémiotique de la traduction de la chanson: l’exemple de La chanson des vieux amants de Jacques Brel et de son adaptation turque Şarap Mevsimi	1
A genealogy of poetry	1
The semiotics of motion encoding in Early English: a cognitive semiotic analysis of phrasal verbs in Old and Middle English	1
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Being is said in many ways	1
A semiotic analysis of multiple systems of logic: using tagmemic theory to assess the usefulness and limitations of formal logics, and to produce a mathematical lattice model including multiple system	1
Semiotic analysis of symbolic logic using tagmemic theory: with implications for analytic philosophy	1
An edusemiotic approach to teaching intonation in the context of English language teacher education	1
Exploration des systèmes de signes dans quatre jeux sportifs : analyse comparative du football, du handball, de la balle assise et du jeu des trois camps	1
Peirce’s iconicity and his image-diagram-metaphor triad revisited: complements to Stjernfelt’s Sheets, Diagrams, and Realism	1
Autocommunication in crib speech and private speech	1
Civilized Global North versus rebellious Global South: a socio-semiotic analysis of media visual discourse	1
The visual gamut and syntactic abstraction	1
Semiotics East and West: an aesthetic-semiotic approach to translating the iconicity of classical Chinese poetry	1
Activist masks in the Latin American social protest	1
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Notes on two contemporary myths: free internet and user activity on digital social networking sites	1
Motorcycles, minarets, and mullahs: a multimodal critical discourse analysis on Pakistan’s journey to rebrand Islam	1
What do hashtags afford in digital fashion communication? An exploratory study on Gucci-related hashtags on Twitter and Instagram	1
The role of natural disasters in the semiotic transformations of culture: the case of the volcanic eruptions of Mt. Merapi, Indonesia	1
Review of A (bio)semiotic theory of translation: the emergence of social-cultural reality	1
Surinterprétation idiomatique en sémiotique de la traduction :De la part de la princesse mortede Kenizé Mourad et ses traductions turques	1
A comparative study of multi-modal metaphors in food advertisements	1
A bibliometric and visual analysis of social semiotics: development, hotspots, and trend directions	1