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Semiotica is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.3), WoS AHCI/SSCI, DOAJ. Published by De Gruyter Mouton.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 0037-1998Verify ISSN ↗1613-3692Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 17 / 1186 | 98th | Q1 |
| Language and Linguistics | 211 / 1137 | 81st | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 246 / 1221 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1969–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.3.
Semiotica is Q1 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 17 of 1186), Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 211 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 246 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Semiotica is indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences 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 2.3, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 98th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.288, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 47.
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.
Semiotica is published by De Gruyter Mouton. Its print ISSN is 0037-1998 and its online ISSN is 1613-3692.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and Social Sciences Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Semiotica has an h-index of 78 and a 2-year mean of 1.25 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.3, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #26 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Semiotica published 65 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 147. 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 (2024–2026), authors are most often from China (16.3%), Italy (15.3%) and France (13.2%).
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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