Paul Bouissac

490 total citations
39 papers, 187 citations indexed

About

Paul Bouissac is a scholar working on Literature and Literary Theory, Cultural Studies and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Paul Bouissac has authored 39 papers receiving a total of 187 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 8 papers in Literature and Literary Theory, 5 papers in Cultural Studies and 5 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Paul Bouissac's work include Semiotics and Representation Studies (6 papers), Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 papers). Paul Bouissac is often cited by papers focused on Semiotics and Representation Studies (6 papers), Linguistics and Discourse Analysis (4 papers) and Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (4 papers). Paul Bouissac collaborates with scholars based in Canada, United States and Netherlands. Paul Bouissac's co-authors include Michael Herzfeld, Thomas A. Sebeok, Roland Posner and Per Aage Brandt and has published in prestigious journals such as Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Behavioral and Brain Sciences and The Quarterly Review of Biology.

In The Last Decade

Paul Bouissac

32 papers receiving 133 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Paul Bouissac Canada 8 38 36 34 30 27 39 187
Patrizia Violi Italy 7 25 0.7× 78 2.2× 59 1.7× 18 0.6× 14 0.5× 34 186
S Christian 3 30 0.8× 28 0.8× 12 0.4× 30 1.0× 8 0.3× 4 195
Harris M. Berger United States 10 38 1.0× 136 3.8× 31 0.9× 19 0.6× 66 2.4× 19 428
Teresa Bridgeman United Kingdom 4 100 2.6× 58 1.6× 14 0.4× 40 1.3× 11 0.4× 10 231
Nina Sun Eidsheim United States 8 31 0.8× 42 1.2× 12 0.4× 29 1.0× 34 1.3× 16 312
P. N. Humble United Kingdom 4 38 1.0× 45 1.3× 14 0.4× 45 1.5× 9 0.3× 6 252
Gary Tomlinson South Korea 12 52 1.4× 46 1.3× 26 0.8× 32 1.1× 36 1.3× 38 449
Ю. М. Лотман 10 82 2.2× 86 2.4× 20 0.6× 38 1.3× 36 1.3× 49 366
John Keats United States 10 112 2.9× 46 1.3× 18 0.5× 23 0.8× 23 0.9× 67 303
Donald Wesling United States 6 69 1.8× 40 1.1× 16 0.5× 25 0.8× 5 0.2× 22 169

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Fields of papers citing papers by Paul Bouissac

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Paul Bouissac

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Bouissac, Paul. (2010). Semiotics at the Circus. 4 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (2007). Semiotics as the science of memory. Sign Systems Studies. 35(1/2). 71–88. 8 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (2006). Hoarding behavior: A better evolutionary account of money psychology?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 29(2). 181–182. 5 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (2006). Gesture in evolutionary perspective. Gesture. 6(2). 189–204. 2 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (2004). How plausible is the motherese hypothesis?. Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 27(4). 506–507. 4 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (2000). Can Semiotics Progress?. The American Journal of Semiotics. 15(1). 7–26. 2 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1993). Ecology of Semiotic Space. The American Journal of Semiotics. 10(3). 145–165. 2 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1992). The Construction of Ignorance and the Evolution of Knowldege. University of Toronto Quarterly. 61(4). 460–472. 4 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1991). From calculus to language: The case of circus equine displays. Semiotica. 85(3-4). 1 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1991). Introduction: The circus — a semiotic spectroscopy. Semiotica. 85(3-4). 2 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1989). What is a human? Ecological semiotics and the new animism. Semiotica. 77. 5 indexed citations
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Sebeok, Thomas A., Paul Bouissac, Michael Herzfeld, & Roland Posner. (1986). Iconicity : essays on the nature of culture : Festschrift for Thomas A. Sebeok on his 65th birthday. 15 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1979). René Char, the Myth and the Poem by James R. Lawler (review). University of Toronto Quarterly. 48(4). 429–431.
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Bouissac, Paul. (1979). Semiotics and Surrealism. Semiotica. 25(1-2). 2 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1976). Circus performances as texts: A matter of poetic competence. Poetics. 5(2). 101–118. 5 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1973). La mesure des gestes. 10 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1972). Clown Performances as Metasemiotic Texts.. Language Sciences. 1 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1971). Pour une sémiotique du cirque. Semiotica. 3(2). 93–120. 1 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1971). Le statut sémiotique de l’affiche de cirque. Semiotica. 3(4). 353–364. 1 indexed citations
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Bouissac, Paul. (1968). Volumes sonores et volumes gestuels dans un numéro d'acrobatie (pour une expression mathématique des gestes). Langages. 3(10). 128–131. 1 indexed citations

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