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Rachel Giora 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 Rachel Giora sits on this spectrum.

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44 publications 570+

This scientist: 129 publications — 30th percentile

30% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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

Rachel Giora 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 Rachel Giora sits on this spectrum.

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This scientist: 46 D-Index — 55th percentile

55% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

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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

  • Understanding figurative and literal language: The graded salience hypothesis

    Rachel Giora

  • On irony and negation

    Rachel Giora

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

    Rachel Giora

  • Literal vs. figurative language: Different or equal?

    Rachel Giora

  • On understanding familiar and less-familiar figurative language☆

    Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein

  • Concepts and conceptual development

    Rachel Giora

  • Irony: Context and Salience

    Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein

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

    Rachel Giora;Eran Zaidel;Nachum Soroker;Gila Batori

  • Irony: Graded salience and indirect negation.

    Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein;Tamir Schwartz

  • On the cognitive aspects of the joke

    Rachel Giora

  • Weapons of Mass Distraction: Optimal Innovation and Pleasure Ratings

    Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein;Ann Kronrod;Idit Elnatan

  • On Negation as Mitigation: The Case of Negative Irony

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

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

    Rachel Giora

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

    Rachel Giora

  • Notes towards a Theory of Text Coherence

    Rachel Giora

  • Defaultness Reigns: The Case of Sarcasm

    Rachel Giora;Shir Givoni;Ofer Fein

  • Salience and Context Effects: Two Are Better Than One

    Orna Peleg;Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein

  • Expecting Irony: Context Versus Salience-Based Effects

    Rachel Giora;Ofer Fein;Dafna Laadan;Joe Wolfson

  • Is metaphor special

    Rachel Giora

  • Negation in Context: A Functional Approach to Suppression

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

Frequent Co-Authors

Patrick Hanks
Patrick Hanks University of Wolverhampton
Nachum Soroker
Nachum Soroker Tel Aviv University
Eran Zaidel
Eran Zaidel University of California, Los Angeles
Argyris Stringaris
Argyris Stringaris National Institutes of Health
Ruth Filik
Ruth Filik University of Nottingham
Nachshon Meiran
Nachshon Meiran Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Anthony S. David
Anthony S. David University College London
Michael Brammer
Michael Brammer King's College London
Uri Hasson
Uri Hasson Princeton University
Teun A. van Dijk
Teun A. van Dijk Pompeu Fabra University

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