D-Index & Metrics Best Publications

Lera Boroditsky

University of California, San Diego
United States

D-Index & Metrics D-index (Discipline H-index) only includes papers and citation values for an examined discipline in contrast to General H-index which accounts for publications across all disciplines.

Discipline name Citations Publications World Ranking National Ranking

Psychology D-index 36 Citations 15,601 92 World Ranking 6622 National Ranking 3698

Overview

What is she best known for?

The fields of study she is best known for:

Artificial intelligence
Cognitive science
Perception

Lera Boroditsky mainly focuses on Metaphor, Space, Linguistic relativity, Cognitive psychology and Affect. Her biological study spans a wide range of topics, including ESPACE, Naturalism and Mandarin Chinese. Her Mandarin Chinese course of study focuses on Multilingualism and First language.

Her Space study incorporates themes from Fictive motion and Cognitive science. Her Cognitive psychology research incorporates themes from Construct and Mental representation. In her study, Perception is inextricably linked to Categorization, which falls within the broad field of Affect.

Her most cited work include:

Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors. (962 citations)
Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers' Conceptions of Time (898 citations)
Time in the mind: Using space to think about time (665 citations)

What are the main themes of her work throughout her whole career to date?

The scientist’s investigation covers issues in Cognitive psychology, Perception, Metaphor, Space and Social psychology. Her studies in Cognitive psychology integrate themes in fields like Mental representation, Communication, Categorization, Reading and Construct. The various areas that she examines in her Metaphor study include Language and thought, Chemistry, Cognitive science, Framing and Mandarin Chinese.

Her studies examine the connections between Cognitive science and genetics, as well as such issues in Fictive motion, with regards to Experiential knowledge. The concepts of her Space study are interwoven with issues in Spatialization, Artificial intelligence, Embodied cognition and Representation. In her work, Semantics is strongly intertwined with Psycholinguistics, which is a subfield of Social psychology.

She most often published in these fields:

Cognitive psychology (44.21%)
Perception (24.21%)
Metaphor (23.16%)

What were the highlights of her more recent work (between 2015-2020)?

Metaphor (23.16%)
Cognitive psychology (44.21%)
Timeline (3.16%)

In recent papers she was focusing on the following fields of study:

Her scientific interests lie mostly in Metaphor, Cognitive psychology, Timeline, Framing and Space. As part of her studies on Metaphor, she frequently links adjacent subjects like Social psychology. Her Cognitive psychology study combines topics in areas such as Visual modality and Perception.

Her research in Framing intersects with topics in Analogy, Mindset and Language and thought. Her Space research is multidisciplinary, relying on both Repertoire, Representation and Reading. In her research, Categorization is intimately related to Set, which falls under the overarching field of Cognitive science.

Between 2015 and 2020, her most popular works were:

How Linguistic Metaphor Scaffolds Reasoning (73 citations)
Emotional Implications of Metaphor: Consequences of Metaphor Framing for Mindset about Cancer (19 citations)
New Space-Time Metaphors Foster New Nonlinguistic Representations. (14 citations)

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Best Publications

Does Language Shape Thought?: Mandarin and English Speakers' Conceptions of Time

Lera Boroditsky.
Cognitive Psychology (2001)

2113 Citations

Metaphoric structuring: understanding time through spatial metaphors.

Lera Boroditsky.
Cognition (2000)

2099 Citations

Time in the mind: Using space to think about time

Daniel Casasanto;Daniel Casasanto;Lera Boroditsky.
Cognition (2008)

1307 Citations

The Roles of Body and Mind in Abstract Thought

Lera Boroditsky;Michael Ramscar.
Psychological Science (2002)

1095 Citations

Metaphors We Think With: The Role of Metaphor in Reasoning

Paul H. Thibodeau;Lera Boroditsky.
PLOS ONE (2011)

1025 Citations

Russian blues reveal effects of language on color discrimination

Jonathan Winawer;Nathan Witthoft;Nathan Witthoft;Michael C. Frank;Lisa Wu.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2007)

1018 Citations

Individuation, relativity and early word learning

Dedre Gentner;Lera Boroditsky.
(2001)

891 Citations

How language shapes thought.

Lera Boroditsky.
Scientific American (2011)

543 Citations

As time goes by: Evidence for two systems in processing space → time metaphors

Dedre Gentner;Mutsumi Imai;Lera Boroditsky.
Language and Cognitive Processes (2002)

473 Citations

Remembrances of Times East Absolute Spatial Representations of Time in an Australian Aboriginal Community

Lera Boroditsky;Alice Gaby.
Psychological Science (2010)