Asifa Majid

15.4k total citations · 2 hit papers
174 papers, 7.9k citations indexed

About

Asifa Majid is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Sensory Systems and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Asifa Majid has authored 174 papers receiving a total of 7.9k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 115 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 46 papers in Sensory Systems and 29 papers in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Asifa Majid's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (78 papers), Categorization, perception, and language (74 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (55 papers). Asifa Majid is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (78 papers), Categorization, perception, and language (74 papers) and Multisensory perception and integration (55 papers). Asifa Majid collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, Germany and United Kingdom. Asifa Majid's co-authors include Stephen C. Levinson, Melissa Bowerman, Niclas Burenhult, Laura J. Speed, Martin J. Pickering, Ilja Croijmans, Miriam van Staden, Sotaro Kita, Daniel B. M. Haun and Ewelina Wnuk and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Journal of Neuroscience and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Asifa Majid

166 papers receiving 7.6k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

WEIRD languages have misled us, too [Comment on Henrich et al.]

2010 3.2k citations Asifa Majid et al. profile →
Over-reliance on English hinders cognitive science

2022 151 citations Asifa Majid et al. Trends in Cognitive Sciences profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Asifa Majid Netherlands	38	3.7k	2.3k	1.5k	1.3k	1.1k	174	7.9k
Gün R. Semin Netherlands	44	2.2k 0.6×	4.1k 1.8×	1.7k 1.1×	3.1k 2.3×	713 0.7×	193	8.3k
Maciej Karwowski Poland	45	3.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	1.2k 0.8×	475 0.4×	544 0.5×	177	6.2k
Piotr Winkielman United States	42	4.2k 1.1×	4.9k 2.1×	6.3k 4.1×	1.8k 1.4×	748 0.7×	116	11.8k
Tanya L. Chartrand United States	38	3.5k 0.9×	6.7k 2.9×	4.1k 2.6×	4.2k 3.1×	255 0.2×	80	13.2k
Ursula Heß Germany	52	3.8k 1.0×	4.3k 1.8×	4.5k 2.9×	1.6k 1.2×	433 0.4×	187	8.9k
Brian P. Meier United States	36	2.2k 0.6×	2.6k 1.1×	1.2k 0.7×	988 0.7×	289 0.3×	94	5.0k
Kaiping Peng China	36	2.2k 0.6×	6.3k 2.7×	1.8k 1.1×	3.9k 2.9×	137 0.1×	201	10.6k
Karl Grammer Austria	42	3.8k 1.0×	1.4k 0.6×	1.5k 1.0×	825 0.6×	876 0.8×	95	6.5k
Stanley Schachter United States	36	2.0k 0.5×	3.7k 1.6×	2.0k 1.3×	2.5k 1.9×	213 0.2×	68	10.7k
Keith Oatley Canada	38	2.1k 0.6×	2.9k 1.2×	1.7k 1.1×	1.5k 1.2×	67 0.1×	151	7.8k

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Ghai, Sakshi, Rémi Thériault, Patrick S. Forscher, et al.. (2025). A manifesto for a globally diverse, equitable, and inclusive open science. Communications Psychology. 3(1). 16–16. 5 indexed citations

Bratman, Gregory N., Gretchen C. Daily, Richard L. Doty, et al.. (2024). Nature and human well-being: The olfactory pathway. Science Advances. 10(20). eadn3028–eadn3028. 30 indexed citations

Majid, Asifa, et al.. (2024). Sensory, motor, and emotion associations for landscape concepts differ across neighbouring speech communities. Landscape Research. 49(5). 704–721. 1 indexed citations

Majid, Asifa. (2023). Establishing psychological universals. Nature Reviews Psychology. 2(4). 199–200. 19 indexed citations

Mamus, Ezgi, Laura J. Speed, Lilia Rissman, Asifa Majid, & Aslı Özyürek. (2023). Lack of Visual Experience Affects Multimodal Language Production: Evidence From Congenitally Blind and Sighted People. Cognitive Science. 47(1). e13228–e13228. 6 indexed citations

Arshamian, Artin, Richard C. Gerkin, Nicole Kruspe, et al.. (2022). The perception of odor pleasantness is shared across cultures. Current Biology. 32(9). 2061–2066.e3. 53 indexed citations

Arshamian, Artin, Tina Sundelin, Ewelina Wnuk, et al.. (2021). Human sickness detection is not dependent on cultural experience. Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 288(1954). 20210922–20210922. 9 indexed citations

Hout, Roeland van, et al.. (2021). Patterns of semantic variation differ across body parts: evidence from the Japonic languages. Cognitive Linguistics. 32(3). 455–486. 7 indexed citations

Hout, Roeland van, et al.. (2021). Stability and change in the colour lexicon of the Japonic languages. Studies in Language. 46(2). 323–351. 3 indexed citations

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Majid, Asifa. (2021). Olfactory Language Requires an Integrative and Interdisciplinary Approach. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 25(6). 421–422. 8 indexed citations

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Majid, Asifa. (2020). Human Olfaction at the Intersection of Language, Culture, and Biology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 25(2). 111–123. 64 indexed citations

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Croijmans, Ilja, Artin Arshamian, Laura J. Speed, & Asifa Majid. (2020). Wine experts’ recognition of wine odors is not verbally mediated.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 150(3). 545–559. 18 indexed citations

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Arshamian, Artin, et al.. (2020). Limitations in odour simulation may originate from differential sensory embodiment. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences. 375(1800). 20190273–20190273. 19 indexed citations

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Majid, Asifa, et al.. (2019). The geographical configuration of a language area influences linguistic diversity. PLoS ONE. 14(6). e0217363–e0217363. 18 indexed citations

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Croijmans, Ilja, Iris Hendrickx, Els Lefever, Asifa Majid, & Antal van den Bosch. (2019). Uncovering the language of wine experts. Natural Language Engineering. 26(5). 511–530. 27 indexed citations

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Speed, Laura J. & Asifa Majid. (2018). Music and odor in harmony: A case of music-odor synaesthesia. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 2527–2532. 1 indexed citations

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Arshamian, Artin, Behzad Iravani, Asifa Majid, & Johan N. Lundström. (2018). Respiration Modulates Olfactory Memory Consolidation in Humans. Journal of Neuroscience. 38(48). 10286–10294. 85 indexed citations

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Speed, Laura J., Jidong Chen, Falk Huettig, & Asifa Majid. (2016). Do classifier categories affect or reflect object concepts. MPG.PuRe (Max Planck Society). 2267–2272. 3 indexed citations

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Majid, Asifa. (2014). Comparing Lexicons Cross-linguistically. Oxford University Press eBooks. 19 indexed citations

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Wnuk, Ewelina & Asifa Majid. (2014). Revisiting the limits of language: The odor lexicon of Maniq. Cognition. 131(1). 125–138. 92 indexed citations

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