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Public Journal of Semiotics is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 1.9). Published by Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature.
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ISSN 1918-9907Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Linguistics and Language | 284 / 1221 | 76th | Q1 |
| Anthropology | 137 / 536 | 74th | Q2 |
| Communication | 236 / 541 | 56th | Q2 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2021–present (also 2019), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 1.9.
Public Journal of Semiotics is Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 284 of 1221), Q2 in Anthropology (rank 137 of 536) and Q2 in Communication (rank 236 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Public Journal of Semiotics is not in the Web of Science Core Collection (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI), so Clarivate publishes no Journal Impact Factor for it. Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1, 76th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.175, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 6.
Public Journal of Semiotics is published by Lund University, Centre for Languages and Literature. Its ISSN is 1918-9907.
No — it is not currently in the Web of Science core collections (SCIE, SSCI, AHCI or ESCI).
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Public Journal of Semiotics has an h-index of 16 and a 2-year mean of 0.47 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 1.9, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #467 of 1,134 Scopus journals in Linguistics and Language.
Public Journal of Semiotics published 7 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 27 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from Sweden (14.8%), United States (13%) and Saudi Arabia (9.3%).
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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