Table 3.

Co-citations of the co-citers and co-citing references.

	Authors	No. of co-citations	Total links
1	Lakoff and Johnson (1980)	50	132
2	Semino (2021)	31	122
3	Flusberg et al. (2018)	25	111
4	Wallis and Nerlich (2005)	26	101
5	Wicke and Bolognesi (2020)	21	99
6	Crisp (2008)	13	85
7	Thibodeau and Boroditsky (2011)	11	75
8	Lu and Chiang (2007)	17	74
9	Hendricks et al. (2018)	12	74
10	Sontag (1979)	18	67
11	Semino et al. (2018)	11	64
12	Sontag (1989)	18	63
13	Proctor and Larson (2005)	13	62
14	Sabucedo et al. (2020)	12	59
15	Semino et al. (2017)	11	59
16	Kalinec-Craig et al. (2020)	14	57
17	Lakoff (1993)	11	28