Pragmatics and Cognition

Aims & Scope

Pragmatics & Cognition is an interdisciplinary journal seeking to bring together such disciplines as linguistics, semiotics, cognitive science, neuroscience, artificial intelligence, philosophy, ethology, and cognitive anthropology, among others.

The journal seeks to explore relations of all sorts between semiotic systems as used by humans, as well as animals and machines, in connection with mental activities: meaning in context and its cognitive and neurological substrates; condition of acquisition of communicative abilities, development of loss; modeling, simulation of formalization; shared or separate biological and neurological bases; social and cultural variation; historical development; etc.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	0.6
2024	0.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.255

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q2

h-index

Year	Value
2024	43

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	18369

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	37

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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 Arts and Humanities, Computer Science, Neuroscience and 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.

• Towards interactive robots in autism therapy

  Citation: 348

  Authors: Kerstin, Iain

• The enactive approach

  Citation: 201

  Authors: Tom, Ezequiel A.

• Activating, seeking, and creating common ground

  Citation: 173

  Authors: Istvan, Fenghui

• Pragmatics and Critical Discourse Analysis

  Citation: 173

  Authors: Ruth

• Speech-gesture mismatches: Evidence for one underlying representation of linguistic and nonlinguistic information

  Citation: 171

  Authors: Justine, David, Karl-Erik

• Distributed cognition, representation, and affordance

  Citation: 155

  Authors: Jiajie, Vimla L.

• Automatic facial expression interpretation

  Citation: 125

  Authors: Christine L., Diane J.

• Creative<i>thinging</i>

  Citation: 108

  Authors: Lambros

• What speakers do and what addressees look at

  Citation: 101

  Authors: Marianne, Kenneth

• Interjections, language, and the ‘showing/saying’ continuum

  Citation: 101

  Authors: Tim

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