Editing Sign Systems Studies (section)

{{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
| CODEN =
| ISSN = 1406-4243
| eISSN =
}}
'''''Sign Systems Studies''''' is a [[Peer review|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.<ref>''Semiotica'' 158(1/4): 25 (2006).</ref> It was initially published in [[Russian language|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]],<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.pdcnet.org/signsystems/toc |title=Sign Systems Studies online|accessdate=18 August 2012}}</ref> indexed by [[Web of Science|WoS]] and [[Scopus]], and starting 2012 also on an [[open access]] platform.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.sss.ut.ee/index.php/sss |title=Sign Systems Studies|accessdate=18 September 2014}}</ref>

The vol. 50(4) published the complete list of contributions (1964–2022).<ref>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.</ref>

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