Social Semiotics

Aims & Scope

Social Semiotics is a peer reviewed journal that publishes high quality papers that deal with the study of semiotic resources and practices including words, images, behaviours, settings, sounds, design, etc., and the way these are connected to the organization of societies and everyday lives.

Articles must focus on a specific semiotic phenomenon and embody, in their argument and conclusion, a critique of the limitations on and variations in the ways in which semiotic resources/practices may perpetuate biases, imbalance or legitimize and maintain kinds of power interests.

Semiotic analysis in articles might draw on linguistic analysis, visual analysis, content analysis, ethnography, interviews, as well as production studies, and can be tied to political economy.

The journal especially welcomes papers that analyse everyday phenomena and the sociopolitical significance of representations.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.2
2024	1.60

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.537

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	45

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10818

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	346

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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.

• Theorising media as practice

  Citation: 422

  Authors: Nick

• Entrepreneurial Labor among Cultural Producers: “Cool” Jobs in “Hot” Industries

  Citation: 332

  Authors: Gina, Elizabeth, Sharon

• “When perhaps the real problem is money itself!”: the practical materiality of Bitcoin

  Citation: 292

  Authors: Bill, Taylor C., Lana

• Searchable talk: the linguistic functions of hashtags

  Citation: 275

  Authors: Michele

• Discursive shifts and the normalisation of racism: imaginaries of immigration, moral panics and the discourse of contemporary right-wing populism

  Citation: 181

  Authors: Michał

• “I feel your pain”: cosmopolitan charity and the public fashioning of the celebrity soul

  Citation: 117

  Authors: Jo

• Reframing Conflict in Translation

  Citation: 110

  Authors: Mona

• Normalization and the discursive construction of “new” norms and “new” normality: discourse in the paradoxes of populism and neoliberalism

  Citation: 99

  Authors: Michał

• Intersemiotic Texture: analyzing cohesive devices between language and images

  Citation: 97

  Authors: Yu, Kay L.

• (Un/Be)Coming Out? Rethinking Fat Politics

  Citation: 92

  Authors: Samantha

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