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Punctum International Journal of Semiotics is Scopus-indexed (Q3, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Hellenic Semiotic Society.
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ISSN 2459-2943Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Hellenic Semiotic Society
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 776 / 1137 | 31st | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 879 / 1221 | 28th | Q3 |
| Communication | 474 / 541 | 12th | Q4 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2019–2025, best quartile Q3, CiteScore 0.3.
Punctum International Journal of Semiotics is Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 776 of 1137), Q3 in Linguistics and Language (rank 879 of 1221) and Q4 in Communication (rank 474 of 541), by CiteScore 2025.
Punctum International 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 0.3, quartile Q3, 31st percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.128, quartile Q3, with an H-index of 6.
Punctum International Journal of Semiotics is published by Hellenic Semiotic Society. Its ISSN is 2459-2943.
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.
Punctum International Journal of Semiotics has an h-index of 9 and a 2-year mean of 0.33 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q3. On 2-year citations it ranks #451 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Punctum International Journal of Semiotics published 18 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2021 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 36 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Greece (20.8%), France (16.7%) and Italy (16.7%).
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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