The American Journal of Semiotics
Last updated ISSN 0277-7126
The American Journal of Semiotics is published by Philosophy Documentation Center in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in The American Journal of Semiotics concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Legal case studies and regulations
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies
- Pragmatism in Philosophy and Education
- Media, Communication, and Education
- Language, Metaphor, and Cognition
- Italian Literature and Culture
- Semiotics and Representation Studies
- Digital Humanities and Scholarship
- Narrative Theory and Analysis
Key facts
| Publisher | Philosophy Documentation Center |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0277-7126, 2153-2990 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Arts & Humanities Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 991 |
| Publishing since | 1981 |
| Journal website | www.pdcnet.org/ajs |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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