International Journal for the Semiotics of Law

Aims & Scope

We publish original and high quality papers that should ideally critique, apply or otherwise engage with semiotics or related theory and models of analyses, or with rhetoric, history of political and legal discourses, philosophy of language, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, deconstruction and all types of semiotics analyses including visual semiotics.

We also welcome submissions, which reflect on legal philosophy or legal theory, hermeneutics, the relation between psychoanalysis and language, the intersection between law and literature, as well as the relation between law and aesthetics.

We encourage researchers to submit proposals for Special Issues so as to promote their research projects.

Submissions should be sent to the EIC.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.9

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.326

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	21

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• The War on Terrorism: When the Exception Becomes the Rule

  Citation: 70

  Authors: Rens

• Politicizing the Pandemic: A Schemata Analysis of COVID-19 News in Two Selected Newspapers

  Citation: 62

  Authors: Ali Haif

• Quality Assurance in Legal Translation: Evaluating Process, Competence and Product in the Pursuit of Adequacy

  Citation: 39

  Authors: Fernando

• Safeguarding Cultural Heritage in the Digital Era – A Critical Challenge

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Anne, Marie-Sophie

• “This Argument Fails for Two Reasons…”: A Linguistic Analysis of Judicial Evaluation Strategies in US Supreme Court Judgments

  Citation: 31

  Authors: Davide

• Law and Conversational Implicatures

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Francesca

• Fighting the Fake: A Forensic Linguistic Analysis to Fake News Detection

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Rui

• The rules of the road, a universal visual semiotics

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Anne

• Rise of Conspiracy Theories in the Pandemic Times

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Elżbieta, Mariusz

• Presenting the evidence: Constructions of reality in court

  Citation: 29

  Authors: Yon, Rhondda

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