Sign Systems Studies

{{Short description|Academic journal on semiotics}}

{{Infobox journal

| title = Sign Systems Studies

| cover = Sss33.1.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| formernames = Trudy po Znakovym Sistemam

| editor = Ott Puumeister, Kalevi Kull, Ene-Reet Soovik, Timo Maran, Silvi Salupere, Mihhail Lotman, Peeter Torop

| discipline = Semiotics

| language = English (Estonian and any other language for abstracts)

| abbreviation = Sign Syst. Stud.

| publisher = University of Tartu Press

| country = Estonia

| frequency = Quarterly

| history = 1964–present

| website = http://www.ut.ee/SOSE/sss/index.htm

| link3 = http://www.sss.ut.ee/index.php/sss

| link3-name = Open access (starting 2012)

| link2 = http://www.pdcnet.org/signsystems/toc

| link2-name = Online access

| OCLC = 41123942

| JSTOR =

| LCCN = sn99034172

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| ISSN = 1406-4243

| eISSN =

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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.Semiotica 158(1/4): 25 (2006). 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,{{cite web|url=http://www.pdcnet.org/signsystems/toc |title=Sign Systems Studies online|accessdate=18 August 2012}} indexed by WoS and Scopus, and starting 2012 also on an open access platform.{{cite web|url=http://www.sss.ut.ee/index.php/sss |title=Sign Systems Studies|accessdate=18 September 2014}}

The vol. 50(4) published the complete list of contributions (1964–2022).Kull, Kalevi; Puumeister, Ott 2022. [https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/sss/article/view/SSS.2022.50.4.09 Fifty volumes of Sign Systems Studies]. Sign Systems Studies 50(4): 546–598.

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