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Southern Semiotic Review is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 0.3). Published by Playscript.
Checked against the index lists dated .
ISSN 2202-2775Verify ISSN ↗2202-2783Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Playscript
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Literature and Literary Theory | 486 / 1186 | 58th | Q2 |
| Philosophy | 558 / 891 | 37th | Q3 |
| Language and Linguistics | 782 / 1137 | 31st | Q3 |
| Linguistics and Language | 884 / 1221 | 27th | Q3 |
Not listed in: Web of Science, DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (subscription), ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2020–present, best quartile Q2, CiteScore 0.3.
Southern Semiotic Review is Q2 in Literature and Literary Theory (rank 486 of 1186), Q3 in Philosophy (rank 558 of 891) and Q3 in Language and Linguistics (rank 782 of 1137), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Southern Semiotic Review 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 Q2, 58th percentile. Any "impact factor" quoted elsewhere is not the Clarivate metric. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.147, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 2.
Southern Semiotic Review is published by Playscript. Its print ISSN is 2202-2775 and its online ISSN is 2202-2783.
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.
Southern Semiotic Review has an h-index of 4 and a 2-year mean of 0.1 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 0.3, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #454 of 1,079 Scopus journals in Literature and Literary Theory.
Southern Semiotic Review published 27 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 15 research articles (2025–2026), authors are most often from Indonesia (20%), Australia (13.3%) and Russia (10%).
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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