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Chinese Semiotic Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 1), WoS ESCI. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
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ISSN 2198-9605Verify ISSN ↗2198-9613Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 374 / 1137 | 67th | Q2 |
| Communication | 337 / 541 | 37th | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2009–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 1.
Chinese Semiotic Studies is Q2 in Language and Linguistics (rank 374 of 1137) and Q3 in Communication (rank 337 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Chinese Semiotic Studies is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 1, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 67th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.225, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 13.
No article processing charge is recorded for it (source: OpenAlex). Confirm on the journal's own website, since some journals charge for extras such as colour figures.
Chinese Semiotic Studies is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 2198-9605 and its online ISSN is 2198-9613.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Chinese Semiotic Studies has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 1.12 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #210 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Chinese Semiotic Studies published 34 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2022 with 45. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 95 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from China (45%), Italy (8.2%) and United States (7.4%).
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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