OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of Semiotica is 2. 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 2022-05-01 to 2026-05-01.)

Article	Citations
Deployment of gestures in the semiotic construction of scientific knowledge: a systemic functional approach to pedagogic semiosis	11
Tropes and play: a new account on embodied figures of thought	9
Conflicting modalities in feature film: from contrapuntal editing to internal diegetic sound	8
On the recognitions of asemic poetry as language	7
Ritualism and disempowerment of education: social semiotics of the educational experience of young Iranian girls	6
Semiotics of humor in Nigerian politics	6
Origins of money: a Motivation & Sedimentation Model (MSM) analysis	6
Exploring deceptions: cognitive strategies and dynamics in espionage	6
Gastrofonia: a new cultural horizon of music and food	6
Funktionskreis, Gestaltkreis, and Situationskreis in the context of integrated medicine	6
The lifeworld and the world of life: the concept of relevance and its foundation in organic nature	6
Fencing blindfolded: extending meaning through sound, floor, and blade	6
Les IA génératives visuelles entre perception d’archives et circuits de composition	5
Frontmatter	5
Typologie des implicites ethnosocioculturels en discours	5
Surinterprétation idiomatique en sémiotique de la traduction :De la part de la princesse mortede Kenizé Mourad et ses traductions turques	5
Off the pitch: semiotics of liminality between space and play	5
Intersemiotic projection and academic comics: towards a social semiotic framework of multimodal paratactic and hypotactic projection	4
Transhumanism: the friendly face of the overhuman and the comic book Superman	4
Behavioral capital: gaming and monetization in post-marxist perspective	4
Être et agir au nom de la foi: le mysticisme et la religion dans des discours de George W. Bush	4
Eco, Riffaterre, and a poem by Baudelaire	4
Analysis of the metaphorical meanings of symbols in Milan Kundera’s novels	4
The impatient gaze: on the phenomenon of scrolling in the age of boredom	4
Pour une reconnaissance des signes éthiques : les formes de l’ethos et ses implications sociologiques	4

Missed encounters: what may be relevant for an AI is not for a human being	4
Who’s to blame? Exploring collective emotions between shared guilt and anger: a semiotic study of digital narratives and social activism in the context of online gender-based violence	4
La « langue dessinée » : maximiser le potentiel des images dans l’acquisition du sens des mots	4
An allegory of Fama and Historia: rumor studies, collective memory, and semiotics	3
Performance as discourse: a multimodal perspective on meaning-making in theater	3
La marque comme service ayant une vision propre : une approche sémiotique des architectures de marques	3
Linguistic and cultural peculiarities of Turkish and Arabic speech etiquette in farewells and greetings	3
The six types of sign action	3
Complexity of nominal group adjectivization: a self-information approach	3
Mystique, spiritualité, et politiques écologiques: Une lecture de Face à Gaïa (Bruno Latour)	3
Victoria Welby’s semiotics, significs and gender: through a modernist lens	3
Masked Covid life: a socio-semiotic investigation	3
From Sprachtheorie to semantics and cybernetics: Karl Bühler’s “Pocketbook on practical semantics”	3
Lithosemiotics: a telluric semiosis for investigating inorganic life	3
Education physique, conduites motrices et sémiose : pour une éducation sémiotrice	3
Getting Fra Angelico’s splotch out: rehabilitating visual cognitive semiotics	3
La sémiotique en 2022 : le bilan de l’année	3
Du Flâneur au traceur: playful bodies in urban spaces	3
« Référence » et « référent », un essai de mise au point	3
Concept lattice formalisms of Hébert’s “semic analysis” and “analysis by classification”	3
Chemical formalisms: toward a semiotic typology	3
Bound by topos : civilizations and their semiotopes	3
A semiotic analysis of images of Saudi Women’s rights in caricatures in light of Saudi Women’s empowerment	3
Frontmatter	3
The semiotics of social-distance branding during the post-coronavirus crisis	3
Tomás Saraceno: semiotic regimes of posthuman temporalities	3
The three states of mediatization: the case of war mediatization	3
Aspects of AI semiotics: enunciation, agency, and creativity	3
Dazzling panda stardom: a critical discourse analysis of animal celebrity	2
Frontmatter	2
Language and radical anthropocentrism: the view from the supercategory	2
Mechanisms of homonym transformations: on Catholic variants of Stalinist discourse in Poland	2
Beyond “Made in China”: visual rhetoric and cultural functionality in translating the traditional Chinese totem Loong 龙	2
Frontmatter	2
The beheading of James Foley: a crossing of gazes between East and West	2
Historical narrative and enrichment of the meaningful horizon of cultural worlds	2
Signe, science et jeux sportif : esquisse de sémiotricité triadique	2
The Imam Reza holy shrine: meaning and ritual – some semiotic comments	2
A comparative study of multi-modal metaphors in food advertisements	2
Frontmatter	2
Representing youth as vulnerable social media users: a social semiotic analysis of the promotional materials from The Social Dilemma	2
Semiotics of artificial intelligence: enunciative praxis in image analysis and generation	2
A monument’s many faces: the meanings of the face in monuments and memorials	2
ChatGPT and the others: artificial intelligence, social actors, and political communication. A tentative sociosemiotic glance	2
Visual semiotics and digital game spaces: review of the semiotics of architecture in video games	2
Le parcours du mysticisme: des ardeurs affectives à l’état théopathique et l’action politique. Thérèse d’Avila et Jean de la Croix	2
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	2
Autocommunication in crib speech and private speech	2
Nuances de marque	2
Visible embodiment, simulated action: iconicity of the Taoist hand seals from a cognitive perspective	2

The challenge of dissecting the frog: cartoonists analyze their creative process	2
Can we really free ourselves from stereotypes? A semiotic point of view on clichés and disability studies	2
The rhetorical dimension of images: identity building and management on social networks	2
Advertising fragrance through visual and audible information: a multimodal metaphor analysis of perfume commercials	2
Redundancies of traffic signs: an exploratory study	2
Being is said in many ways	2
Tracing fashion transformations: a comprehensive visual analysis of fashion magazine covers	2
Societal stereotypes in representations of disability on postage stamps: a semiotic approach	2
Activist masks in the Latin American social protest	2
Visual frames in promotional video: a semiotic analysis of What is Peppa?	2