Sign Systems Studies

Sign Systems Studies is a peer-reviewed academic journal on semiotics edited at the Department of Semiotics of the University of Tartu and published by the University of Tartu Press. It is the oldest periodical in the field.^[1] It was initially published in Russian and since 1998 in English with Russian and Estonian language abstracts. The journal was established by Juri Lotman as Trudy po Znakovym Sistemam in 1964. Since 1998 it has been edited by Kalevi Kull, Mihhail Lotman, and Peeter Torop. Since 2022, Ott Puumeister leads the editorial team. The journal is available online from the Philosophy Documentation Center,^[2] indexed by WoS and Scopus, and starting 2012 also on an open access platform.^[3]

Sign Systems Studies

Discipline	Semiotics
Language	English (Estonian and any other language for abstracts)
Edited by	Ott Puumeister, Kalevi Kull, Ene-Reet Soovik, Timo Maran, Silvi Salupere, Mihhail Lotman, Peeter Torop
Publication details
Former name(s)	Trudy po Znakovym Sistemam
History	1964–present
Publisher	University of Tartu Press (Estonia)
Frequency	Quarterly
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Sign Syst. Stud.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	1406-4243
LCCN	sn99034172
OCLC no.	41123942
Links
Journal homepage Online access Open access (starting 2012)

The vol. 50(4) published the complete list of contributions (1964–2022).^[4]

Since the vol. 50(2/3) the articles are supplied by an abstract in freely chosen language (in addition to English and Estonian abstracts).

See also

• Biosemiotics (journal)
• Copenhagen–Tartu school of biosemiotics
• Semiotica
• Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School