José Sanders

2.6k total citations · 1 hit paper
63 papers, 1.4k citations indexed

About

José Sanders is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and Communication. According to data from OpenAlex, José Sanders has authored 63 papers receiving a total of 1.4k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 32 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 22 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology and 15 papers in Communication. Recurrent topics in José Sanders's work include Media Influence and Health (21 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (21 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (15 papers). José Sanders is often cited by papers focused on Media Influence and Health (21 papers), Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (21 papers) and Media Studies and Communication (15 papers). José Sanders collaborates with scholars based in Netherlands, United States and Russia. José Sanders's co-authors include Hans Hoeken, Anneke de Graaf, Kobie van Krieken, Johannes W. J. Beentjes, A.M.J. van Hoof, Wilbert Spooren, Irene Costera Meijer, Eve Sweetser, Ted Sanders and Gisela Redeker and has published in prestigious journals such as PLoS ONE, Social Science & Medicine and International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

In The Last Decade

José Sanders

61 papers receiving 1.4k citations

Hit Papers

Identification as a Mechanism of Narrative Persuasion 2011 2026 2016 2021 2011 100 200 300
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.

  1. Identification as a Mechanism of Narrative Persuasion
    2011 326 citations Hans Hoeken, José Sanders et al. profile →

Peers

José Sanders
Helena Bilandzić Germany
John A. Banas United States
Justine Coupland United Kingdom
Anne Bartsch Germany
Johannes W. J. Beentjes Netherlands
Glenn G. Sparks United States
Andrew S. Rancer United States
Raymond W. Preiss United States
Dale Hample United States
Gerd Antos Germany
Helena Bilandzić Germany
José Sanders
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Countries citing papers authored by José Sanders

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Fields of papers citing papers by José Sanders

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of José Sanders

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of José Sanders. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of José Sanders based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with José Sanders. José Sanders is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Krieken, Kobie van, et al.. (2023). Engagement with narrative characters: the role of social-cognitive abilities and linguistic viewpoint. Discourse Processes. 60(6). 411–439. 1 indexed citations
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Krieken, Kobie van, et al.. (2023). Perspective-taking and intersubjectivity in oral narratives of people with a schizophrenia diagnosis: a cognitive linguistic viewpoint analysis. Cognitive Linguistics. 34(2). 197–229. 1 indexed citations
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Sanders, José & Jacqueline Evers-Vermeul. (2022). Coherence in translation. Journal of Historical Pragmatics. 23(2). 204–244.
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Wijngaarden, Els van & José Sanders. (2022). ‘I want to die on my own terms’: Dominant interpretative repertoires of ‘a good death’ in old age in Dutch newspapers. Social Science & Medicine. 311. 115361–115361. 8 indexed citations
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Vandeberg, Lisa, Corine S. Meppelink, José Sanders, & Marieke L. Fransen. (2022). Facts Tell, Stories Sell? Assessing the Availability Heuristic and Resistance as Cognitive Mechanisms Underlying the Persuasive Effects of Vaccination Narratives. Frontiers in Psychology. 13. 837346–837346. 4 indexed citations
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Scherer‐Rath, Michael, José Sanders, Mirjam A. G. Sprangers, et al.. (2021). Narrative recognition and identification: a qualitative pilot study into reading literary texts with advanced cancer patients. Journal of Cancer Survivorship. 16(3). 531–541. 7 indexed citations
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Krieken, Kobie van, José Sanders, & Eve Sweetser. (2019). Linguistic and cognitive representation of time and viewpoint in narrative discourse. Cognitive Linguistics. 30(2). 243–251. 9 indexed citations
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Heerdink, Eibert R., et al.. (2019). Associations Between Characteristics of Web-Based Diabetes News and Readers’ Sentiments: Observational Study in the Netherlands. Journal of Medical Internet Research. 21(11). e14554–e14554. 2 indexed citations
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Krieken, Kobie van, et al.. (2019). Deictic Navigation Network: Linguistic Viewpoint Disturbances in Schizophrenia. Frontiers in Psychology. 10. 1616–1616. 7 indexed citations
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Hoeken, Hans, et al.. (2018). The argument from example in health communication. Data Archiving and Networked Services (DANS). 7(3). 249–265. 5 indexed citations
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Sanders, José, et al.. (2018). Motives for Health Information Behavior: Patterns More Refined Than Traditional Dichotomies. A Study Among Women in a Cervix Treatment Process. Journal of Consumer Health on the Internet. 22(2). 126–141. 6 indexed citations
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Sanders, José, et al.. (2018). Clinical evidence vs preliminary speculation in newspaper coverage of diabetes innovations: a quantitative analysis. Public Health. 160. 49–51. 4 indexed citations
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Sanders, José & Kobie van Krieken. (2018). Exploring Narrative Structure and Hero Enactment in Brand Stories. Frontiers in Psychology. 9. 1645–1645. 35 indexed citations
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Sanders, José. (2018). Sharing special birth stories. An explorative study of online childbirth narratives.. Women and Birth. 32(6). e560–e566. 16 indexed citations
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Hoeken, Hans, et al.. (2017). Risk Versus Planning Health Narratives Targeting Dutch Truck Drivers: Obtaining Impact Via Different Routes?. Utrecht University Repository (Utrecht University). 5 indexed citations
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Hoeken, Hans, et al.. (2017). Health Communication| Risk Versus Planning Health Narratives Targeting Dutch Truck Drivers: Obtaining Impact Via Different Routes?. International journal of communication. 11. 20. 1 indexed citations
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Krieken, Kobie van & José Sanders. (2017). Health Communication| Engaging Doctors and Depressed Patients: Effects of Referential Viewpoint and Role Similarity in Health Narratives. International journal of communication. 11. 19. 1 indexed citations
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Krieken, Kobie van, Hans Hoeken, & José Sanders. (2017). Evoking and Measuring Identification with Narrative Characters – A Linguistic Cues Framework. Frontiers in Psychology. 8. 1190–1190. 61 indexed citations
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Krieken, Kobie van, José Sanders, & Hans Hoeken. (2014). Viewpoint representation in journalistic crime narratives: An analysis of grammatical roles and referential expressions. Journal of Pragmatics. 88. 220–230. 22 indexed citations
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Meijer, Irene Costera, et al.. (2013). “It really is a Craft”: Repertoires in Journalistic Frontrunners’ Talk on Audience Participation. VU Research Portal. 19(2). 31–54. 6 indexed citations

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