Sam Glucksberg

12.4k total citations · 1 hit paper
91 papers, 6.5k citations indexed

About

Sam Glucksberg is a scholar working on Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Language and Linguistics and Developmental and Educational Psychology. According to data from OpenAlex, Sam Glucksberg has authored 91 papers receiving a total of 6.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 48 papers in Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, 23 papers in Language and Linguistics and 23 papers in Developmental and Educational Psychology. Recurrent topics in Sam Glucksberg's work include Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (43 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (16 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (15 papers). Sam Glucksberg is often cited by papers focused on Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (43 papers), Child and Animal Learning Development (16 papers) and Categorization, perception, and language (15 papers). Sam Glucksberg collaborates with scholars based in United States, Italy and Netherlands. Sam Glucksberg's co-authors include Boaz Keysar, Michael McCloskey, Robert M. Krauss, Roger J. Kreuz, Matthew S. McGlone, Mary B. Brown, Catrinel Haught, Robert W. Weisberg, Joseph H. Danks and Uri Hasson and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Psychological Review and Child Development.

In The Last Decade

Sam Glucksberg

89 papers receiving 5.4k citations

Hit Papers

Understanding metaphorical comparisons: Beyond similarity. 1990 2026 2002 2014 1990 100 200 300 400
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. Understanding metaphorical comparisons: Beyond similarity.
    1990 473 citations Sam Glucksberg, Boaz Keysar Psychological Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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

Name h Career Trend Papers Cites
Sam Glucksberg United States 42 4.3k 1.6k 1.6k 1.6k 1.4k 91 6.5k
Rachel Giora Israel 30 3.4k 0.8× 1.3k 0.8× 844 0.5× 1.2k 0.7× 1.1k 0.8× 82 4.5k
Deirdre Wilson United Kingdom 33 4.3k 1.0× 4.4k 2.7× 1.8k 1.1× 1.3k 0.8× 1.4k 1.0× 70 9.8k
Paul Kay United States 41 5.3k 1.2× 2.5k 1.5× 686 0.4× 2.2k 1.4× 1.1k 0.8× 100 8.6k
Richard J. Gerrig United States 39 2.6k 0.6× 1.5k 0.9× 2.3k 1.4× 836 0.5× 1.3k 0.9× 93 6.5k
Lera Boroditsky United States 29 4.7k 1.1× 1.1k 0.7× 1.1k 0.6× 1.9k 1.1× 1.3k 0.9× 69 6.9k
Boaz Keysar United States 42 3.2k 0.7× 1.5k 0.9× 1.9k 1.2× 2.2k 1.3× 2.4k 1.7× 74 7.3k
Terence Odlin United States 15 2.5k 0.6× 3.7k 2.2× 2.0k 1.2× 560 0.3× 584 0.4× 32 7.1k
Ronald W. Langacker United States 31 5.0k 1.2× 6.5k 3.9× 1.3k 0.8× 441 0.3× 565 0.4× 120 9.2k
Raymond W. Gibbs United States 55 9.1k 2.1× 4.5k 2.7× 2.1k 1.3× 3.1k 1.9× 1.5k 1.1× 188 12.9k
Roman Jakobson United States 31 2.3k 0.5× 2.0k 1.2× 952 0.6× 273 0.2× 503 0.4× 176 5.7k

Countries citing papers authored by Sam Glucksberg

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Fields of papers citing papers by Sam Glucksberg

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Sam Glucksberg

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All Works

20 of 20 papers shown
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Prasada, Sandeep, Sangeet Khemlani, Sarah‐Jane Leslie, & Sam Glucksberg. (2013). Conceptual distinctions amongst generics. Cognition. 126(3). 405–422. 45 indexed citations
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Rubio‐Fernández, Paula & Sam Glucksberg. (2011). Reasoning about other people's beliefs: Bilinguals have an advantage.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 38(1). 211–217. 83 indexed citations
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Glucksberg, Sam, Sangeet Khemlani, Sarah‐Jane Leslie, & Sandeep Prasada. (2009). Conceptual and linguistic distinctions between singular and plural generics. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 31(31). 7 indexed citations
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Khemlani, Sangeet, Sarah‐Jane Leslie, & Sam Glucksberg. (2009). Generics, Prevalence, and Default Inferences. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society. 31(31). 25 indexed citations
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Khemlani, Sangeet, Sarah‐Jane Leslie, & Sam Glucksberg. (2008). Syllogistic reasoning with generic premises: The generic overgeneralization effect. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 30(30). 4 indexed citations
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Gibbs, Raymond W., John A. Barnden, George Lakoff, et al.. (2008). The Cambridge Handbook of Metaphor and Thought. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 462 indexed citations
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Khemlani, Sangeet, Sarah‐Jane Leslie, Sam Glucksberg, & Paula Rubio‐Fernández. (2007). Do ducks lay eggs? How people interpret generic assertions. eScholarship (California Digital Library). 29(29). 16 indexed citations
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Glucksberg, Sam & Catrinel Haught. (2006). Can Florida Become Like the Next Florida?. Psychological Science. 17(11). 935–938. 33 indexed citations
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Glucksberg, Sam. (2003). The psycholinguistics of metaphor. Trends in Cognitive Sciences. 7(2). 92–96. 279 indexed citations
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Newsome, Mary R. & Sam Glucksberg. (2002). Older Adults Filter Irrelevant Information During Metaphor Comprehension. Experimental Aging Research. 28(3). 253–267. 25 indexed citations
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Estes, Zachary & Sam Glucksberg. (2000). Interactive property attribution in concept combination. Memory & Cognition. 28(1). 28–34. 58 indexed citations
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Glucksberg, Sam & Zachary Estes. (2000). Feature accessibility in conceptual combination: Effects of context-induced relevance. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review. 7(3). 510–515. 24 indexed citations
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Glucksberg, Sam, et al.. (1995). How about another piece of pie: The allusional pretense theory of discourse irony.. Journal of Experimental Psychology General. 124(1). 3–21. 210 indexed citations
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Glucksberg, Sam, et al.. (1993). Conceptual metaphors are not automatically accessed during idiom comprehension. Memory & Cognition. 21(5). 711–719. 82 indexed citations
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Glucksberg, Sam, Boaz Keysar, & Matthew S. McGlone. (1992). Metaphor understanding and accessing conceptual schema: Reply to Gibbs (1992).. Psychological Review. 99(3). 578–581. 15 indexed citations
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Glucksberg, Sam, et al.. (1986). Context can constrain lexical access: Implications for models of language comprehension.. Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition. 12(3). 323–335. 102 indexed citations
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McCloskey, Michael & Sam Glucksberg. (1978). Natural categories: Well defined or fuzzy sets?. Memory & Cognition. 6(4). 462–472. 286 indexed citations
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Glucksberg, Sam, et al.. (1976). Words in Utterance Contexts: Young Children Do Not Confuse the Meanings of "Same" and "Different". Child Development. 47(3). 737–737. 8 indexed citations
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Wright, Patricia & Sam Glucksberg. (1976). Choice of Definite versus Indefinite Article as a Function of Sentence Voice and Reversibility. Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology. 28(4). 561–570. 5 indexed citations
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Krauss, Robert M. & Sam Glucksberg. (1969). The Development of Communication: Competence as a Function of Age. Child Development. 40(1). 255–255. 146 indexed citations

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