Signs and Society

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

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SCImago
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WOS
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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
243
Citations
1 924
h-index
20
Publications
109
Citations
1 479
Top-3 citing journals
Signs and Society
Signs and Society (132 citations)
American Anthropologist
American Anthropologist (68 citations)
Top-3 organizations
Top-3 countries
USA (20 publications)
Norway (3 publications)
China (2 publications)
USA (11 publications)
China (2 publications)
Luxembourg (2 publications)

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Citing journals

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Signs and Society
132 citations, 6.86%
Journal of Linguistic Anthropology
95 citations, 4.94%
American Anthropologist
68 citations, 3.53%
Annual Review of Anthropology
56 citations, 2.91%
Current Anthropology
29 citations, 1.51%
Language in Society
26 citations, 1.35%
Semiotica
22 citations, 1.14%
Journal of Sociolinguistics
20 citations, 1.04%
American Ethnologist
18 citations, 0.94%
Varieties of English Around the World
16 citations, 0.83%
World Archaeology
15 citations, 0.78%
Language and Communication
15 citations, 0.78%
Journal of Cultural Economy
14 citations, 0.73%
Sociolinguistic Studies
13 citations, 0.68%
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory
13 citations, 0.68%
Culture, Theory and Critique
11 citations, 0.57%
International Journal of the Sociology of Language
11 citations, 0.57%
Applied Linguistics Review
9 citations, 0.47%
Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development
9 citations, 0.47%
Discourse, Context and Media
9 citations, 0.47%
Gender and Language
8 citations, 0.42%
Comparative Studies in Society and History
7 citations, 0.36%
Religions
7 citations, 0.36%
Multilingua
7 citations, 0.36%
Discourse Studies
7 citations, 0.36%
Journal of Pragmatics
7 citations, 0.36%
Chinese Semiotic Studies
7 citations, 0.36%
Anthropological Theory
6 citations, 0.31%
Social Semiotics
6 citations, 0.31%
Journal of Social Archaeology
6 citations, 0.31%
Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology
6 citations, 0.31%
AI and Society
6 citations, 0.31%
Phenomenology and the Cognitive Sciences
6 citations, 0.31%
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
6 citations, 0.31%
Economic Anthropology
6 citations, 0.31%
Journal of Material Culture
5 citations, 0.26%
Ethos
5 citations, 0.26%
Material Religion
5 citations, 0.26%
Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture
5 citations, 0.26%
SSRN Electronic Journal
5 citations, 0.26%
Language Culture and Society
5 citations, 0.26%
Linguistic Landscape An international journal
5 citations, 0.26%
Journal of Language and Politics
4 citations, 0.21%
DELTA Documentacao de Estudos em Linguistica Teorica e Aplicada
4 citations, 0.21%
Visual Anthropology Review
4 citations, 0.21%
History and Anthropology
4 citations, 0.21%
Applied Linguistics
4 citations, 0.21%
World Englishes
4 citations, 0.21%
International Journal of Multilingualism
4 citations, 0.21%
Latin American Antiquity
4 citations, 0.21%
Public Culture
4 citations, 0.21%
Cognitive Semiotics
4 citations, 0.21%
Second International Handbook of Mathematics Education
4 citations, 0.21%
Journal of Illustration
4 citations, 0.21%
Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
3 citations, 0.16%
Linguistics and Education
3 citations, 0.16%
Revista Brasileira de Linguistica Aplicada
3 citations, 0.16%
Frontiers in Psychology
3 citations, 0.16%
Philosophy and Technology
3 citations, 0.16%
Food, Culture and Society
3 citations, 0.16%
Religion
3 citations, 0.16%
Biosemiotics
3 citations, 0.16%
Zeitschrift fur Religionswissenschaft
3 citations, 0.16%
Nationalities Papers
3 citations, 0.16%
Economy and Society
3 citations, 0.16%
Australian Journal of Linguistics
3 citations, 0.16%
Science Technology and Human Values
3 citations, 0.16%
Cambridge Archaeological Journal
3 citations, 0.16%
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
3 citations, 0.16%
Journal of Anthropological Research
3 citations, 0.16%
Ethnography
3 citations, 0.16%
Discourse and Interaction
3 citations, 0.16%
Frontiers in Sociology
3 citations, 0.16%
Language and Semiotic Studies
3 citations, 0.16%
Handbook of Pragmatics
3 citations, 0.16%
Ethnomusicology Forum
2 citations, 0.1%
International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism
2 citations, 0.1%
Organization
2 citations, 0.1%
Anthropology and Education Quarterly
2 citations, 0.1%
The Australian Journal of Anthropology
2 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Language and Sexuality
2 citations, 0.1%
Language Policy
2 citations, 0.1%
Quaternary International
2 citations, 0.1%
Asian Ethnicity
2 citations, 0.1%
Studies in Philosophy and Education
2 citations, 0.1%
Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry
2 citations, 0.1%
Annals of the American Association of Geographers
2 citations, 0.1%
Pragmatics and Society
2 citations, 0.1%
Political Geography
2 citations, 0.1%
BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies
2 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
2 citations, 0.1%
Human Studies
2 citations, 0.1%
Pragmatics and Beyond New Series
2 citations, 0.1%
Atlantic Studies : Global Currents
2 citations, 0.1%
Journal of Business Ethics
2 citations, 0.1%
Nations and Nationalism
2 citations, 0.1%
Critical Inquiry
2 citations, 0.1%
Discourse and Society
2 citations, 0.1%
Social Analysis
2 citations, 0.1%
Media, Culture and Society
2 citations, 0.1%
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Wiley
291 citations, 15.12%
Cambridge University Press
214 citations, 11.12%
Taylor & Francis
204 citations, 10.6%
University of Chicago Press
167 citations, 8.68%
Springer Nature
99 citations, 5.15%
SAGE
92 citations, 4.78%
Elsevier
88 citations, 4.57%
Walter de Gruyter
84 citations, 4.37%
University of California Press
72 citations, 3.74%
John Benjamins Publishing Company
57 citations, 2.96%
Annual Reviews
56 citations, 2.91%
Duke University Press
45 citations, 2.34%
Oxford University Press
37 citations, 1.92%
Equinox Publishing
28 citations, 1.46%
Emerald
19 citations, 0.99%
MDPI
17 citations, 0.88%
Intellect
11 citations, 0.57%
SciELO
9 citations, 0.47%
OpenEdition
9 citations, 0.47%
IGI Global
8 citations, 0.42%
Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
7 citations, 0.36%
Frontiers Media S.A.
6 citations, 0.31%
Consortium Erudit
6 citations, 0.31%
Liverpool University Press
5 citations, 0.26%
Masaryk University Press
4 citations, 0.21%
University of Illinois Press
3 citations, 0.16%
University of Adelaide
3 citations, 0.16%
Berghahn Books
3 citations, 0.16%
Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro
2 citations, 0.1%
Fundacao Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administracao de Empresas de Sao Paulo
2 citations, 0.1%
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
2 citations, 0.1%
Social Science Electronic Publishing
2 citations, 0.1%
Centre for Evaluation in Education and Science (CEON/CEES)
2 citations, 0.1%
CAIRN
2 citations, 0.1%
AOSIS
2 citations, 0.1%
Brill
1 citation, 0.05%
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)
1 citation, 0.05%
Mary Ann Liebert
1 citation, 0.05%
1 citation, 0.05%
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul
1 citation, 0.05%
Public Library of Science (PLoS)
1 citation, 0.05%
Associazone culturale Pragma
1 citation, 0.05%
1 citation, 0.05%
Vilnius Gediminas Technical University
1 citation, 0.05%
Pensoft Publishers
1 citation, 0.05%
L'Harmattan
1 citation, 0.05%
Cornell University Press
1 citation, 0.05%
Society for Music Theory
1 citation, 0.05%
Goteborg University
1 citation, 0.05%
Center for the Study of the Presidency
1 citation, 0.05%
Svenska Arkeologiska Samfundet, Goteborgs universitet
1 citation, 0.05%
IVI RAN
1 citation, 0.05%
Museu Paraense Emilio Goeldi
1 citation, 0.05%
Montana State University
1 citation, 0.05%
BMJ
1 citation, 0.05%
Akademiai Kiado
1 citation, 0.05%
National Research University Higher School of Economics (HSE)
1 citation, 0.05%
The Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
1 citation, 0.05%
Knowledge E DMCC
1 citation, 0.05%
Federal State University of Education
1 citation, 0.05%
Human Kinetics
1 citation, 0.05%
University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress)
1 citation, 0.05%
American Educational Research Association
1 citation, 0.05%
South Florida Publishing LLC
1 citation, 0.05%
The Pennsylvania State University Press
1 citation, 0.05%
Selcuk Universitesi Edebiyat Fakultesi Dergisi
1 citation, 0.05%
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University of Oslo
3 publications, 1.23%
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3 publications, 1.23%
University of Pennsylvania
3 publications, 1.23%
University of Bologna
2 publications, 0.82%
William Marsh Rice University
2 publications, 0.82%
University of Chicago
2 publications, 0.82%
University of Luxembourg
2 publications, 0.82%
University of Michigan
2 publications, 0.82%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2 publications, 0.82%
Binghamton University
2 publications, 0.82%
University of Liège
1 publication, 0.41%
Radboud University Nijmegen
1 publication, 0.41%
Bina Nusantara University
1 publication, 0.41%
Beijing Foreign Studies University
1 publication, 0.41%
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
1 publication, 0.41%
Soochow University (Suzhou)
1 publication, 0.41%
King's College London
1 publication, 0.41%
University of Southern California
1 publication, 0.41%
Drexel University
1 publication, 0.41%
Yale University
1 publication, 0.41%
University of Queensland
1 publication, 0.41%
Colorado State University
1 publication, 0.41%
New York University
1 publication, 0.41%
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
1 publication, 0.41%
University of California, San Diego
1 publication, 0.41%
University of California, Davis
1 publication, 0.41%
University of California, Santa Barbara
1 publication, 0.41%
University of Notre Dame
1 publication, 0.41%
Hainan University
1 publication, 0.41%
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
1 publication, 0.41%
Wayne State University
1 publication, 0.41%
Simon Fraser University
1 publication, 0.41%
Brown University
1 publication, 0.41%
University of Vienna
1 publication, 0.41%
Temple University
1 publication, 0.41%
University of Tennessee
1 publication, 0.41%
University of Limerick
1 publication, 0.41%
Rennes 2 University
1 publication, 0.41%
Brandeis University
1 publication, 0.41%
University of Massachusetts Amherst
1 publication, 0.41%
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration
1 publication, 0.41%
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Publishing organizations in 5 years

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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
3 publications, 2.75%
University of Bologna
2 publications, 1.83%
William Marsh Rice University
2 publications, 1.83%
University of Luxembourg
2 publications, 1.83%
University of Wisconsin–Madison
2 publications, 1.83%
University of Pennsylvania
2 publications, 1.83%
Binghamton University
2 publications, 1.83%
University of Liège
1 publication, 0.92%
Radboud University Nijmegen
1 publication, 0.92%
Bina Nusantara University
1 publication, 0.92%
Beijing Foreign Studies University
1 publication, 0.92%
University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland
1 publication, 0.92%
Soochow University (Suzhou)
1 publication, 0.92%
University of Oslo
1 publication, 0.92%
King's College London
1 publication, 0.92%
University of Southern California
1 publication, 0.92%
Drexel University
1 publication, 0.92%
University of Queensland
1 publication, 0.92%
Colorado State University
1 publication, 0.92%
New York University
1 publication, 0.92%
Hankuk University of Foreign Studies
1 publication, 0.92%
University of California, Santa Barbara
1 publication, 0.92%
University of Chicago
1 publication, 0.92%
University of Notre Dame
1 publication, 0.92%
Hainan University
1 publication, 0.92%
University of Michigan
1 publication, 0.92%
Simon Fraser University
1 publication, 0.92%
Brown University
1 publication, 0.92%
University of Vienna
1 publication, 0.92%
Temple University
1 publication, 0.92%
University of Tennessee
1 publication, 0.92%
Rennes 2 University
1 publication, 0.92%
National University of Political Studies and Public Administration
1 publication, 0.92%
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USA, 20, 8.23%
USA
20 publications, 8.23%
Norway, 3, 1.23%
Norway
3 publications, 1.23%
China, 2, 0.82%
China
2 publications, 0.82%
Luxembourg, 2, 0.82%
Luxembourg
2 publications, 0.82%
Germany, 1, 0.41%
Germany
1 publication, 0.41%
Belgium, 1, 0.41%
Belgium
1 publication, 0.41%
United Kingdom, 1, 0.41%
United Kingdom
1 publication, 0.41%
Ireland, 1, 0.41%
Ireland
1 publication, 0.41%
Italy, 1, 0.41%
Italy
1 publication, 0.41%
Romania, 1, 0.41%
Romania
1 publication, 0.41%
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Publishing countries in 5 years

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USA, 11, 10.09%
USA
11 publications, 10.09%
China, 2, 1.83%
China
2 publications, 1.83%
Luxembourg, 2, 1.83%
Luxembourg
2 publications, 1.83%
Belgium, 1, 0.92%
Belgium
1 publication, 0.92%
United Kingdom, 1, 0.92%
United Kingdom
1 publication, 0.92%
Norway, 1, 0.92%
Norway
1 publication, 0.92%
Romania, 1, 0.92%
Romania
1 publication, 0.92%
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