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International Journal for the Semiotics of Law is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.8), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V..
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ISSN 0952-8059Verify ISSN ↗1572-8722Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media B.V.
Cost to publish: About US$3,090 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 167 / 1137 | 85th | Q1 |
| Law | 246 / 1162 | 78th | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2004–present (also 1988–2002), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.8.
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 167 of 1137) and Q1 in Law (rank 246 of 1162), by CiteScore 2025.
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 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 2.8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 85th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.319, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 24.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$3,090 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law is published by Springer Science and Business Media B.V. Its print ISSN is 0952-8059 and its online ISSN is 1572-8722.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law has an h-index of 32 and a 2-year mean of 1.39 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #152 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
International Journal for the Semiotics of Law published 166 papers in 2025. 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 97 research articles (2026), authors are most often from Poland (13.9%), Italy (12.1%) and United Kingdom (8.5%).
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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