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Sign Systems Studies is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.2), WoS AHCI, DOAJ. Published by University of Tartu Press.
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ISSN 1406-4243Verify ISSN ↗1736-7409Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Tartu Press
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| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 214 / 1137 | 81st | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 252 / 1221 | 79th | Q1 |
Not listed in: ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2012–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.2.
Sign Systems Studies is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 214 of 1137) and Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 252 of 1221), by CiteScore 2025.
Sign Systems Studies is indexed in the Arts & Humanities 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 2.2, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 81st percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.565, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 15.
Sign Systems Studies is published by University of Tartu Press. Its print ISSN is 1406-4243 and its online ISSN is 1736-7409.
Yes — indexed in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index.
Yes — it is an open-access journal, listed in DOAJ.
Sign Systems Studies has an h-index of 34 and a 2-year mean of 0.9 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.2, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #256 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Sign Systems Studies published 29 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2018 with 38. 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 92 research articles (2022–2026), authors are most often from Estonia (39.8%), Czechia (10.9%) and Italy (9.5%).
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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