Signs and Society

University of Chicago Press
University of Chicago Press
ISSN: 23264489, 23264497

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SCImago
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Impact factor
1.2
SJR
0.374
CiteScore
2.2
Categories
Cultural Studies
Linguistics and Language
Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Communication
Areas
Arts and Humanities
Social Sciences
Years of issue
2015-2023, 2025
journal names
Signs and Society
SIGNS SOC
Publications
229
Citations
1 741
h-index
18
Publications
95
Citations
1 300
Top-3 citing journals
Signs and Society
Signs and Society (122 citations)
American Anthropologist
American Anthropologist (68 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 countries
USA (13 publications)
China (2 publications)
Norway (2 publications)
USA (4 publications)
China (2 publications)
Belgium (1 publication)

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Citing journals

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Signs and Society
122 citations, 7.01%
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
88 citations, 5.05%
American Anthropologist
68 citations, 3.91%
Annual Review of Anthropology
45 citations, 2.58%
Current Anthropology
28 citations, 1.61%
Language in Society
26 citations, 1.49%
Semiotica
22 citations, 1.26%
Journal of Sociolinguistics
18 citations, 1.03%
American Ethnologist
17 citations, 0.98%
World Archaeology
15 citations, 0.86%
Language and Communication
14 citations, 0.8%
Sociolinguistic Studies
13 citations, 0.75%
Culture, Theory and Critique
11 citations, 0.63%
Journal of Cultural Economy
11 citations, 0.63%
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
10 citations, 0.57%
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
10 citations, 0.57%
Applied Linguistics Review
9 citations, 0.52%
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
9 citations, 0.52%
Gender and Language
8 citations, 0.46%
Discourse, Context and Media
8 citations, 0.46%
Comparative Studies in Society and History
7 citations, 0.4%
Multilingua
7 citations, 0.4%
Discourse Studies
7 citations, 0.4%
Anthropological Theory
6 citations, 0.34%
Social Semiotics
6 citations, 0.34%
Journal of Social Archaeology
6 citations, 0.34%
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
6 citations, 0.34%
Religions
6 citations, 0.34%
Chinese Semiotic Studies
6 citations, 0.34%
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
6 citations, 0.34%
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
6 citations, 0.34%
Journal of Material Culture
5 citations, 0.29%
Ethos
5 citations, 0.29%
Material Religion
5 citations, 0.29%
Journal of Pragmatics
5 citations, 0.29%
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
5 citations, 0.29%
SSRN Electronic Journal
5 citations, 0.29%
Economic Anthropology
5 citations, 0.29%
Linguistic Landscape An international journal
5 citations, 0.29%
Journal of Language and Politics
4 citations, 0.23%
DELTA Documentacao de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada
4 citations, 0.23%
Visual Anthropology Review
4 citations, 0.23%
History and Anthropology
4 citations, 0.23%
World Englishes
4 citations, 0.23%
International Journal of Multilingualism
4 citations, 0.23%
Public Culture
4 citations, 0.23%
Second International Handbook of Mathematics Education
4 citations, 0.23%
Language Culture and Society
4 citations, 0.23%
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
3 citations, 0.17%
Linguistics and Education
3 citations, 0.17%
Revista Brasileira de Linguistica Aplicada
3 citations, 0.17%
Frontiers in Psychology
3 citations, 0.17%
Philosophy and Technology
3 citations, 0.17%
Religion
3 citations, 0.17%
Zeitschrift fur Religionswissenschaft
3 citations, 0.17%
Nationalities Papers
3 citations, 0.17%
Economy and Society
3 citations, 0.17%
Australian Journal of Linguistics
3 citations, 0.17%
Science Technology and Human Values
3 citations, 0.17%
AI and Society
3 citations, 0.17%
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
3 citations, 0.17%
Journal of Anthropological Research
3 citations, 0.17%
Ethnography
3 citations, 0.17%
Discourse and Interaction
3 citations, 0.17%
Frontiers in Sociology
3 citations, 0.17%
Handbook of Pragmatics
3 citations, 0.17%
Ethnomusicology Forum
2 citations, 0.11%
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
2 citations, 0.11%
Organization
2 citations, 0.11%
Anthropology and Education Quarterly
2 citations, 0.11%
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
2 citations, 0.11%
Food, Culture and Society
2 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Language and Sexuality
2 citations, 0.11%
Language Policy
2 citations, 0.11%
Quaternary International
2 citations, 0.11%
Studies in Philosophy and Education
2 citations, 0.11%
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
2 citations, 0.11%
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
2 citations, 0.11%
Political Geography
2 citations, 0.11%
BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies
2 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
2 citations, 0.11%
Human Studies
2 citations, 0.11%
Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
2 citations, 0.11%
Atlantic Studies : Global Currents
2 citations, 0.11%
Applied Linguistics
2 citations, 0.11%
Journal of Business Ethics
2 citations, 0.11%
Nations and Nationalism
2 citations, 0.11%
Critical Inquiry
2 citations, 0.11%
Discourse and Society
2 citations, 0.11%
Social Analysis
2 citations, 0.11%
Media, Culture and Society
2 citations, 0.11%
Time and Mind
2 citations, 0.11%
Homme
2 citations, 0.11%
Ethnomusicology
2 citations, 0.11%
Nordic Journal of Linguistics
2 citations, 0.11%
Sustainability
2 citations, 0.11%
RAE Revista de Administracao de Empresas
2 citations, 0.11%
Ethnicities
2 citations, 0.11%
Cogent Arts and Humanities
2 citations, 0.11%
Journal of the American Academy of Religion
2 citations, 0.11%
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Wiley
275 citations, 15.8%
Cambridge University Press
195 citations, 11.2%
Taylor & Francis
188 citations, 10.8%
University of Chicago Press
158 citations, 9.08%
SAGE
89 citations, 5.11%
Springer Nature
88 citations, 5.05%
Elsevier
72 citations, 4.14%
Walter de Gruyter
68 citations, 3.91%
University of California Press
50 citations, 2.87%
Annual Reviews
46 citations, 2.64%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
36 citations, 2.07%
Oxford University Press
28 citations, 1.61%
Duke University Press
28 citations, 1.61%
Equinox Publishing
28 citations, 1.61%
Emerald
16 citations, 0.92%
MDPI
14 citations, 0.8%
SciELO
9 citations, 0.52%
OpenEdition
9 citations, 0.52%
IGI Global
8 citations, 0.46%
Frontiers Media S.A.
6 citations, 0.34%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
6 citations, 0.34%
Consortium Erudit
6 citations, 0.34%
Intellect
6 citations, 0.34%
Liverpool University Press
4 citations, 0.23%
Masaryk University Press
4 citations, 0.23%
University of Illinois Press
3 citations, 0.17%
University of Adelaide
3 citations, 0.17%
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
2 citations, 0.11%
Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administracao de Empresas de Sao Paulo
2 citations, 0.11%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
2 citations, 0.11%
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
2 citations, 0.11%
CAIRN
2 citations, 0.11%
AOSIS
2 citations, 0.11%
Berghahn Books
2 citations, 0.11%
Brill
1 citation, 0.06%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
1 citation, 0.06%
1 citation, 0.06%
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
1 citation, 0.06%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
1 citation, 0.06%
Associazone culturale Pragma
1 citation, 0.06%
1 citation, 0.06%
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
1 citation, 0.06%
Pensoft Publishers
1 citation, 0.06%
Cornell University Press
1 citation, 0.06%
Society for Music Theory
1 citation, 0.06%
1 citation, 0.06%
Goteborg University
1 citation, 0.06%
Center for the Study of the Presidency
1 citation, 0.06%
Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet, Goteborgs universitet
1 citation, 0.06%
IVI RAN
1 citation, 0.06%
Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
1 citation, 0.06%
1 citation, 0.06%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
1 citation, 0.06%
BMJ
1 citation, 0.06%
Akademiai Kiado
1 citation, 0.06%
The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
1 citation, 0.06%
Knowledge E DMCC
1 citation, 0.06%
Federal State University of Education
1 citation, 0.06%
Human Kinetics
1 citation, 0.06%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
1 citation, 0.06%
American Educational Research Association
1 citation, 0.06%
South Florida Publishing LLC
1 citation, 0.06%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
1 citation, 0.06%
Selcuk Universitesi Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi
1 citation, 0.06%
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University of Oslo
3 publications, 1.31%
University of Liège
1 publication, 0.44%
Beijing Foreign Studies University
1 publication, 0.44%
Soochow University (Suzhou)
1 publication, 0.44%
William Marsh Rice University
1 publication, 0.44%
Yale University
1 publication, 0.44%
Colorado State University
1 publication, 0.44%
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
1 publication, 0.44%
University of California, San Diego
1 publication, 0.44%
University of California, Davis
1 publication, 0.44%
University of Chicago
1 publication, 0.44%
Hainan University
1 publication, 0.44%
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
1 publication, 0.44%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1 publication, 0.44%
Wayne State University
1 publication, 0.44%
University of Michigan
1 publication, 0.44%
University of Vienna
1 publication, 0.44%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
1 publication, 0.44%
University of Pennsylvania
1 publication, 0.44%
University of Limerick
1 publication, 0.44%
Brandeis University
1 publication, 0.44%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
1 publication, 0.44%
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration
1 publication, 0.44%
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Publishing organizations in 5 years

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University of Liège
1 publication, 1.05%
Beijing Foreign Studies University
1 publication, 1.05%
Soochow University (Suzhou)
1 publication, 1.05%
University of Oslo
1 publication, 1.05%
William Marsh Rice University
1 publication, 1.05%
Colorado State University
1 publication, 1.05%
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
1 publication, 1.05%
Hainan University
1 publication, 1.05%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
1 publication, 1.05%
University of Vienna
1 publication, 1.05%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
1 publication, 1.05%
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration
1 publication, 1.05%
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USA, 13, 5.68%
USA
13 publications, 5.68%
China, 2, 0.87%
China
2 publications, 0.87%
Norway, 2, 0.87%
Norway
2 publications, 0.87%
Germany, 1, 0.44%
Germany
1 publication, 0.44%
Belgium, 1, 0.44%
Belgium
1 publication, 0.44%
Ireland, 1, 0.44%
Ireland
1 publication, 0.44%
Italy, 1, 0.44%
Italy
1 publication, 0.44%
Romania, 1, 0.44%
Romania
1 publication, 0.44%
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USA, 4, 4.21%
USA
4 publications, 4.21%
China, 2, 2.11%
China
2 publications, 2.11%
Belgium, 1, 1.05%
Belgium
1 publication, 1.05%
Italy, 1, 1.05%
Italy
1 publication, 1.05%
Romania, 1, 1.05%
Romania
1 publication, 1.05%
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