Signs and Society

Aims & Scope

Signs and Society is an open access, multidisciplinary journal in the humanities and social sciences focusing on the study of sign process (or semiosis) in the realms of social action, cognition, and cultural form.

Taking as its broad mission the study of “signs and society,” the journal publishes articles that analyze sign processes in some specifiable or generalizable social circumstance, historical period, or textual artifact.

Focusing directly on semiosis in its multiple dimensions, the journal aims to promote collaborative translation across analytical categories and technical vocabularies already established in distinct disciplinary traditions and to uncover unanticipated parallels in the ways semiosis is manifest in diverse empirical domains.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.2
2024	1.00

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.374

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	15

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	14459

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	59

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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 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.

• On Semiotic Ideology

  Citation: 178

  Authors: Webb

• Citation and Citationality

  Citation: 78

  Authors: Constantine V.

• Registers in Circulation: The Social Organization of Interdiscursivity

  Citation: 75

  Authors: Susan

• Twitter, Trump, and the Base: A Shift to a New Form of Presidential Talk?

  Citation: 59

  Authors: Galen, Steve

• Indexicality’s Ambivalent Ground

  Citation: 53

  Authors: Constantine V.

• Discourse and the No-thing-ness of Culture

  Citation: 50

  Authors: Michael

• Qualia and Ontology: Language, Semiotics, and Materiality; an Introduction

  Citation: 45

  Authors: Lily

• Tropes of Slang

  Citation: 40

  Authors: Asif

• The Nation Brand Regime: Nation Branding and the Semiotic Regimentation of Public Communication in Contemporary Macedonia

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Andrew

• Ontology of Fake: Discerning the Philippine Elite

  Citation: 32

  Authors: Angela

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