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D-Index
78
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31675
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1549
National Ranking
925

Raymond W. Gibbs publication distribution in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Psychology in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Raymond W. Gibbs sits on this spectrum.

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31 publications 705+

This scientist: 236 publications — 78th percentile

78% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 705 publications or more.

Raymond W. Gibbs D-index placement in Psychology in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Psychology scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Raymond W. Gibbs sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 144+

This scientist: 78 D-Index — 87th percentile

87% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 144 D-Index or more.

Overview

Raymond W. Gibbs is affiliated with the University of California, Santa Cruz in the United States. Their research spans the fields of Psychology and Arts and Humanities, with a strong focus on subfields such as Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Social Psychology, Language and Linguistics, Philosophy, and Literature and Literary Theory.

The primary topics covered in their work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition; Action Observation and Synchronization; Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies; Categorization, perception, and language; Humor Studies and Applications; and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies.

Frequent coauthors in their research include:

  • Herbert L. Colston
  • Carina Rasse
  • Josie Helen Siman
  • Lacey Okonski
  • Elaine Chen

Their publications appear regularly in various venues, with notable frequent appearances in:

  • Language and Cognition
  • Journal of Literary Semantics
  • Metaphor and Symbol
  • Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
  • Frontiers in Psychology

Some recent papers authored or coauthored by Raymond W. Gibbs include:

  • "Figurative language communicates directly because it precisely demonstrates what we mean." (2021), published in Canadian Journal of Experimental Psychology/Revue canadienne de psychologie expérimentale
  • "Pragmatics Always Matters: An Expanded Vision of Experimental Pragmatics" (2020), published in Frontiers in Psychology
  • "How We Resist Metaphors" (2021), published in Language and Cognition
  • "Metaphorical thinking in our literary experiences of J.D. Salinger's "The Catcher in the Rye"" (2021), published in Journal of Literary Semantics
  • "How metaphors shape the particularities of illness and healing experiences" (2020), published in Transcultural Psychiatry

Best Publications

  • The Poetics of Mind: Figurative Thought, Language, and Understanding

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • MIP: A method for identifying metaphorically used words in discourse

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

  • Embodiment and Cognitive Science

    Raymond W. Jr Gibbs

  • Intentions in Communication

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Philip R. Cohen;Jerry Morgan;Martha E. Pollack

  • The Cambridge handbook of metaphor and thought.

    Raymond W. Jr. Gibbs

  • Blending and Metaphor

    Joseph E. Grady;Todd Oakley;G. Steen;R. Gibbs

  • Metaphor is grounded in embodied experience

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Paula Lenz Costa Lima;Edson Francozo

  • On the psycholinguistics of sarcasm

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • How to kick the bucket and not decompose: Analyzability and idiom processing

    Raymond W Gibbs;Nandini P Nayak;Cooper Cutting

  • Metaphor in cognitive linguistics : selected papers from the fifth International Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Amsterdam, July, 1997

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Gerard Steen

  • Metaphor Interpretation as Embodied Simulation

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • Evaluating Conceptual Metaphor Theory

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • Spilling the beans on understanding and memory for idioms in conversation.

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • Metaphor in Idiom Comprehension

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Josephine M. Bogdanovich;Jeffrey R. Sykes;Dale J. Barr

  • Irony in Talk Among Friends

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • Literal Meaning and Psychological Theory

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • A new look at literal meaning in understanding what is said and implicated

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • Interpreting Figurative Meaning

    Raymond W. Gibbs Jr.;Herbert L. Colston

  • Idioms and mental imagery: the metaphorical motivation for idiomatic meaning.

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Jennifer E. O'Brien

  • Intentions in the Experience of Meaning

    Raymond W. Gibbs

  • The cognitive psychological reality of image schemas and their transformations

    Raymond W. Gibbs;Herbert L. Colston

Frequent Co-Authors

Guy C. Van Orden
Guy C. Van Orden University of Cincinnati
Gerard J. Steen
Gerard J. Steen University of Amsterdam
Gregory A. Bryant
Gregory A. Bryant University of California, Los Angeles
Teenie Matlock
Teenie Matlock University of California, Merced
Lynne Cameron
Lynne Cameron The Open University
Zoltán Kövecses
Zoltán Kövecses Eötvös Loránd University
Susan Goldin-Meadow
Susan Goldin-Meadow University of Chicago
Elena Semino
Elena Semino Lancaster University
Richard J. Gerrig
Richard J. Gerrig Stony Brook University
Alan Cienki
Alan Cienki Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

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