Cognitive Semantics

Aims & Scope

A peer-reviewed international journal, Cognitive Semantics takes the relationship between meaning and mind as its central concern.

It welcomes submission of unpublished research from all theoretical orientations in linguistics.

It is also intended to be a forum for scholars in related fields – such as psychology, anthropology, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, philosophy, and education – to disseminate their work studying the many and varied aspects of human cognition.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1
2024	0.50

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	13852

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.397

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	9

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Properties of Main Verbs

  Citation: 28

  Authors: Leonard

• Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2015

  Citation: 24

  Authors: Laura A.

• Unraveling Irony: from Linguistics to Literary Criticism and Back

  Citation: 21

  Authors: Francisco José Ruiz, Inés

• Constructions as Triads of Form, Function, and Agency: An Agentive Cognitive Construction Grammar Study of English Modals

  Citation: 17

  Authors: Sergio

• Overhauling Collostructional Analysis: Towards More Descriptive Simplicity and More Explanatory Adequacy

  Citation: 15

  Authors: Stefan Th.

• Satellite- vs. Verb-Framing Underpredicts Nonverbal Motion Categorization: Insights from a Large Language Sample and Simulations

  Citation: 14

  Authors: Guillermo, Sonja, Bhuvana, Iraide, Sotaro, Anetta, Friederike, Tatiana, Ilona, T., Juergen

• Counting Metaphors: What Does this Reveal about Language and Thought?

  Citation: 12

  Authors: Raymond W.

• Genuine Explanation and the Strong Minimalist Thesis

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Noam

• Procedure for Identifying Metaphorical Scenes (pims): A Cognitive Linguistics Approach to Bridge Theory and Practice

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Marlene Johansson, Lacey

• A Radical Embodied Characterization of German Modal Constructions

  Citation: 11

  Authors: Sergio

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