2026 Rachel Giora: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	46	3556	3274	18	15	129	11267

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World Ranking

Current World Ranking

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Social Sciences and Humanities

3556

3274

129

11267

Social Sciences and Humanities

D-Index

Citations

11267

World Ranking

3556

National Ranking

Overview

Rachel Giora is affiliated with Tel Aviv University in Israel. Their research primarily spans the fields of Psychology, Arts and Humanities, and Computer Science, with a focus on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Artificial Intelligence, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy, and Developmental and Educational Psychology.

The main topics of Rachel Giora's work include:

Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
Linguistics and Discourse Analysis
Natural Language Processing Techniques
Linguistics and Terminology Studies
Second Language Acquisition and Learning
Categorization, Perception, and Language
Syntax, Semantics, Linguistic Variation

Their publications appear in various academic venues such as:

Journal of Pragmatics
Metaphor and Symbol
Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
Cognitive Linguistic Studies

The recent papers by Rachel Giora include:

"Whether Verbal or Visual, Affirmative or Negative, Tautologies are Not Tautologies," 2020, Metaphor and Symbol
"The defaultness hypothesis," 2021, Cognitive Linguistic Studies
"Default sarcastic interpretations of attenuated and intensified similes," 2020, Journal of Pragmatics (authored by Efrat Levant; related through collaboration)
"Marking multiple meanings: Salience and context effects," 2021, Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale (authored by Shir Givoni; related through collaboration)

The frequent collaborators of Rachel Giora include:

Ofer Fein
Shir Givoni
Dafna Bergerbest
Efrat Levant
Vered Heruti

Best Publications

On Our Mind: Salience, Context, and Figurative Language

Rachel Giora

1843
Citations
Understanding figurative and literal language: The graded salience hypothesis

Rachel Giora

1430
Citations
On irony and negation

Rachel Giora

630
Citations
On the priority of salient meanings: Studies of literal and figurative language

Rachel Giora

529
Citations
Literal vs. figurative language: Different or equal?

Rachel Giora

443
Citations
On understanding familiar and less-familiar figurative language☆

Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein

337
Citations
Concepts and conceptual development

Rachel Giora

317
Citations
Irony: Context and Salience

Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein

286
Citations
Differential Effects of Right- and Left-Hemisphere Damage on Understanding Sarcasm and Metaphor

Rachel Giora;Eran Zaidel;Nachum Soroker;Gila Batori

285
Citations
Irony: Graded salience and indirect negation.

Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein;Tamir Schwartz

276
Citations
On the cognitive aspects of the joke

Rachel Giora

272
Citations
Weapons of Mass Distraction: Optimal Innovation and Pleasure Ratings

Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein;Ann Kronrod;Idit Elnatan

257
Citations
On Negation as Mitigation: The Case of Negative Irony

Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein;Jonathan Ganzi;Natalie Alkeslassy Levi

204
Citations
Discourse coherence and theory of relevance: Stumbling blocks in search of a unified theory

Rachel Giora

190
Citations
Anything negatives can do affirmatives can do just as well, except for some metaphors

Rachel Giora

171
Citations
Notes towards a Theory of Text Coherence

Rachel Giora

166
Citations
Defaultness Reigns: The Case of Sarcasm

Rachel Giora;Shir Givoni;Ofer Fein

144
Citations
Salience and Context Effects: Two Are Better Than One

Orna Peleg;Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein

141
Citations
Expecting Irony: Context Versus Salience-Based Effects

Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein;Dafna Laadan;Joe Wolfson

127
Citations
Is metaphor special

Rachel Giora

126
Citations
Negation in Context: A Functional Approach to Suppression

Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein;Keren Aschkenazi;Inbar Alkabets-Zlozover

121
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Nachum Soroker Tel Aviv University

Eran Zaidel University of California, Los Angeles

Ruth Filik University of Nottingham

Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health

Nachshon Meiran Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Anthony S. David University College London

Michael Brammer King's College London

Uri Hasson Princeton University

Teun A. van Dijk Pompeu Fabra University

George Lakoff University of California, Berkeley

External Links

Personal website of Rachel Giora

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