Semiotica

Semiotica is published by Walter de Gruyter and is in Zone 4 of Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Language, Metaphor, and Cognition, Linguistics and Discourse Analysis and Semiotics and Representation Studies, together about 32.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Language and Linguistics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal Open AccessThe current volume of Semiotica is open access via Subscribe to Open (S2O). All accepted articles will be published under a Creative Commons license at no cost to authors. Learn more about De Gruyter Brill’s Subscribe to Open program.ObjectiveSemiotica is published in six annual issues, in two languages (English and French). From time to time, Special Issues, devoted to topics of particular interest, are assembled by Guest Editors. The publishers of Semiotica offer an annual prize, the Mouton d'Or, to the author of the best article each year. The article is selected by an independent international jury.TopicsWe welcome papers reporti ng results of research in a ll branches of semiotic studies.Article formatsResearch articles, in-depth reviews, guest editorials, reportsAnnouncement: Winner of the Mouton d'Or Award 2025 Title: The role of sentiment, aesthetic behavior, and narrative semiosis in the identification of selfhood from Peirce’s semiotic perspective.Author: Yunhee LeeVol. 2025, no. 266, pp. 55-73. The committee has selected Yunhee Lee’s paper in recognition of its theoretical originality, methodological rigor, and interdisciplinary contribution to contemporary semiotic stud ies. The paper offers a sophisticated and innovative exploration of agency as a biosemiotic construct, productively extending Peirce’s semiotic framework into the domain of film and narrative studies. Lee introduces a non-traditional yet compelling approach by applying Peircean semiotics to narrative-based theories, thereby enriching existing accounts of enunciation and selfhood. The focus on the self as a semiotic agent in the highly technologized world provides a robust conceptual foundation for rethinking narrative communication in the 21st century through a Peircean lens. One of the paper’s key strengths lies in its treatment of selfhood as both the subject of experiential sign activity and as a storytelling agent in narrative communication. By bridging phenomenological and analytic philosophical perspectives, the author develops a nuanced account of the self as semiotic agency, grounded in Peirce’s categories and attentive to the dynamic interplay between self-control and self-consciousness. This converg ence of perspectives significantly enhances the theoretical viability of the paper’s claims, showing strong pertinence to questions of narrative capacity, aesthetics, values, and ethics. The paper’s analysis of the science fiction film Jung_E s

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Impact

Impact factor

1.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher)

1.4Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher)

0.8Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

2.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher)

2.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.29LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

0.87LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

78OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

777OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.25OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

35.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

71.52%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

57LetPub · 2026-09-13

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Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 15 weeksDOAJ · 2026-10-25

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Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

Walter de Gruyter

ISSN

0037-1998

Electronic ISSN

1613-3692

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