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Romano, ManuelaCorresponding Author

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April 8, 2020
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‘Refugees are streaming into Europe’: An image-schema analysis of the Syrian Refugee crisis in the Spanish and British press

Publicated to:COMPLUTENSE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES. 27 (27): 39-57 - 2019-01-01 27(27), DOI: 10.5209/cjes.64561

Authors: Romano, Manuela

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Universidad Autónoma de Madrid - Author

Abstract

Este trabajo muestra cómo la prensa de dos países de acogida, España y Reino Unido, conceptualizan a los refugiados sirios a través del uso de una metáfora aparentemente neutra, ‘flujo de refugiados / (in)migrantes’ y ‘flow of refugees / (im)migrants’, en combinación con esquemas de imágenes muy específicos. El análisis, basado en El País y The Guardian durante los años más agudos de la crisis, 2015 y 2016, presenta un estudio cualitativo y contrastivo en castellano e inglés de todos los esquemas identificados (fuerza, camino, arriba-abajo, recipiente y equilibrio), además de un análisis cuantitativo basado en un corpus de noticias de ideología de centro-izquierda, intuitivamente considerada más pro inmigración. En definitiva, el estudio muestra cómo los esquemas de imágenes, estructuras pre conceptuales invisibles, son utilizadas como una poderosa arma ideológica que contribuyen a configurar la imagen de los refugiados como peligro ante la opinión pública.

Keywords

Ciencias humanasCiencias socialesFilología modernaFilologia, lingüística i sociolingüísticaFilologíasLanguage & linguisticsLingüísticaLinguisticsLiteraturaLiteratureRevistas de filología y linüística

Quality index

Bibliometric impact. Analysis of the contribution and dissemination channel

The work has been published in the journal COMPLUTENSE JOURNAL OF ENGLISH STUDIES due to its progression and the good impact it has achieved in recent years, according to the agency Dialnet (Dialnet Métricas). In the year of publication of the work, 2019, thus managing to position itself as a Q1 (Primer Cuartil).

Notably, the journal is positioned classified as A in other national agencies such as CIRC, classified as D by the agency AGUAR.

From a relative perspective, and based on the normalized impact indicator calculated from the Field Citation Ratio (FCR) of the Dimensions source, it yields a value of: 10.89, which indicates that, compared to works in the same discipline and in the same year of publication, it ranks as a work cited above average. (source consulted: Dimensions Jul 2025)

Specifically, and according to different indexing agencies, this work has accumulated citations as of 2025-07-19, the following number of citations:

  • WoS: 4

Impact and social visibility

From the perspective of influence or social adoption, and based on metrics associated with mentions and interactions provided by agencies specializing in calculating the so-called "Alternative or Social Metrics," we can highlight as of 2025-07-19:

  • The use, from an academic perspective evidenced by the Altmetric agency indicator referring to aggregations made by the personal bibliographic manager Mendeley, gives us a total of: 12.
  • The use of this contribution in bookmarks, code forks, additions to favorite lists for recurrent reading, as well as general views, indicates that someone is using the publication as a basis for their current work. This may be a notable indicator of future more formal and academic citations. This claim is supported by the result of the "Capture" indicator, which yields a total of: 13 (PlumX).

With a more dissemination-oriented intent and targeting more general audiences, we can observe other more global scores such as:

  • The Total Score from Altmetric: 5.

It is essential to present evidence supporting full alignment with institutional principles and guidelines on Open Science and the Conservation and Dissemination of Intellectual Heritage. A clear example of this is:

  • The work has been submitted to a journal whose editorial policy allows open Open Access publication.
Continuing with the social impact of the work, it is important to emphasize that, due to its content, it can be assigned to the area of interest of ODS 10 - Reduce inequality within and among countries, with a probability of 75% according to the mBERT algorithm developed by Aurora University.

Leadership analysis of institutional authors

There is a significant leadership presence as some of the institution’s authors appear as the first or last signer, detailed as follows: First Author (ROMANO MOZO, MANUELA) and Last Author (ROMANO MOZO, MANUELA).

the author responsible for correspondence tasks has been ROMANO MOZO, MANUELA.