2026 Elena Semino: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	42	4604	4256	777	720	154	12299

Elena Semino publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elena Semino sits on this spectrum.

44 publications 570+

This scientist: 154 publications — 44th percentile

44% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

Elena Semino D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Elena Semino sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 42 D-Index — 42nd percentile

42% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom
Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences, United Kingdom

Overview

Elena Semino is affiliated with Lancaster University in the United Kingdom. Their academic work spans multiple fields including Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Social Sciences, with publication counts of 25, 25, and 18 respectively. Within these broader fields, Semino's research particularly focuses on subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics, General Health Professions, Social Psychology, and Health.

The main topics addressed in their research include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition; Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies; Vaccine Coverage and Hesitancy; Humor Studies and Applications; Discourse Analysis in Language Studies; Misinformation and Its Impacts; and Interpreting and Communication in Healthcare.

Semino's notable recent papers include:

"Not Soldiers but Fire-fighters" - Metaphors and Covid-19 (2020), published in Health Communication
Shameless normalisation of impoliteness: Berlusconi's and Trump's press conferences (2020), published in Discourse & Society
The #ReframeCovid initiative (2021), published in Metaphor and the Social World
Acting like a Hedgehog in Times of Pandemic: Metaphorical Creativity in the #reframecovid Collection (2022), published in Metaphor and Symbol
'Am I being unreasonable to vaccinate my kids against my ex's wishes?' - A corpus linguistic exploration of conflict in vaccination discussions on Mumsnet Talk's AIBU forum (2022), published in Discourse Context & Media

Frequent co-authors in their research include:

Zsófia Demjén
Luke Collins
Tara Coltman-Patel
William Dance
Claire Hardaker

Common publication venues for Semino's work include:

Health Communication
Discourse & Society
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Metaphor and the Social World
Metaphor and Symbol

In addition to journal articles, Semino has contributed to academic books published by:

UCL Press, including Encountering Pain: Hearing, seeing, speaking (2021)
Cambridge University Press, with a forthcoming title Applying Corpus Linguistics to Illness and Healthcare scheduled for 2025

They have been recognized as a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in the United Kingdom.

Best Publications

MIP: A method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse

G.J. Steen;L.J. Cameron;A.J. Cienki;P. Crisp

1922
Citations
Metaphor in discourse

Elena Semino

1667
Citations
Corpus Stylistics: Speech, Writing and Thought Presentation in a Corpus of English Writing

Elena Semino;Michael H. Short

732
Citations
Cognitive stylistics:language and cognition in text analysis.

Elena Semino;Jonathan Culpeper

624
Citations
Language and world creation in poems and other texts

Elena Semino

593
Citations
Metaphor in literature

Elena Semino;Gerard Steen

356
Citations
An integrated approach to metaphor and framing in cognition, discourse and practice, with an application to metaphors for cancer

Elena Semino;Zsofia Demjen;Jane Elizabeth Demmen

352
Citations
"Not Soldiers but Fire-fighters" - Metaphors and Covid-19.

Elena Semino

350
Citations
The online use of Violence and Journey metaphors by patients with cancer, as compared with health professionals : a mixed methods study

Elena Semino;Zsófia Demjén;Jane Demmen;Veronika Koller

339
Citations
Politics is Football: Metaphor in the Discourse of Silvio Berlusconi in Italy:

Elena Semino;Michela Masci

318
Citations
Figurative Language, Genre and Register

Alice Deignan;Jeannette Littlemore;Elena Semino

269
Citations
Methodological problems in the analysis of metaphors in a corpus of conversations about cancer

Elena Semino;John Heywood;Mick Short

249
Citations
The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language

Elena Semino;Zsófia Demjén

235
Citations
Descriptions of Pain, Metaphor, and Embodied Simulation

Elena Semino

217
Citations
A cognitive stylistic approach to mind style in narrative fiction

Elena Semino

212
Citations
Metaphor, Cancer and the End of Life: A Corpus-Based Study

Elena Semino;Zsofia Demjen;Andrew Hardie;Sheila Alison Payne

208
Citations
A sturdy baby or a derailing train? Metaphorical representations of the euro in British and Italian newspapers.

Elena Semino

191
Citations
Metaphor, Genre, and Recontextualization

Elena Semino;Alice Deignan;Jeannette Littlemore

166
Citations
Metaphor and mind style in Ken Kesey’s One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.

Elena Semino;Kate Swindlehurst

163
Citations
A computer-assisted study of the use of Violence metaphors for cancer and end of life by patients, family carers and health professionals

Jane Elizabeth Demmen;Elena Semino;Zsofia Demjen;Veronika Koller

162
Citations
Revisiting the notion of faithfulness in discourse presentation using a corpus approach

Mick Short;Elena Semino;Martin Wynne

123
Citations
Using a corpus to test a model of speech and thought presentation

Elena Semino;Mick Short;Jonathan Culpeper

110
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Paul Rayson Lancaster University

Sheila Payne Lancaster University

Veronika Koller Lancaster University

Jonathan Culpeper Lancaster University

Gerard J. Steen University of Amsterdam

Jeannette Littlemore University of Birmingham

Lynne Cameron The Open University

Raymond W. Gibbs University of California, Santa Cruz

Filippo Varese University of Manchester

Zoltán Kövecses Eötvös Loránd University

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