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Signs is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 2.6), ABS / AJG 2, WoS SSCI. Published by University of Chicago Press.
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ISSN 0097-9740Verify ISSN ↗1545-6943Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) | 151 / 692 | 78th | Q1 |
| Gender Studies | 66 / 233 | 71st | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1998–present (also 1996, 1993, 1991, 1989, 1985–1987, 1979), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 2.6.
Signs is Q1 in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) (rank 151 of 692) and Q2 in Gender Studies (rank 66 of 233), by CiteScore 2025.
Signs is indexed in the 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 2.6, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 78th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.806, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 96.
Signs is published by University of Chicago Press. Its print ISSN is 0097-9740 and its online ISSN is 1545-6943.
Yes — indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index.
It is graded 2 in the Chartered Association of Business Schools (ABS) Academic Journal Guide (AJG) 2024, in the Ethics, Corporate Social Responsibility and Management field, unchanged from 2021.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Signs has an h-index of 162 and a 2-year mean of 0.74 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.6, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #195 of 610 Scopus journals in Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous).
Signs published 91 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2017 with 92. 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 86 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from United States (65.2%), United Kingdom (21.3%) and Australia (1.7%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
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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