The journal Sign Systems Studies was established in 1964 by Juri Lotman (initially as Труды по знаковым системам - Σημειωτικη) , and is thus the oldest international semiotic periodical. Originally (until 1992) a Russian-language series, it is now published in English, and has become a central institution in the semiotics of culture.
Starting from 1998, Sign Systems Studies is published as an international peer-reviewed journal on the semiotics of culture and nature. Issued regularly, one volume per year, it is indexed in major scientific databases. Since 2001, each volume includes two issues.

Editors:
      Peeter Torop,     Mihhail Lotman,     Kalevi Kull

Editorial board:

       Myrdene Anderson (Purdue, USA)
       Paul Cobley (London, UK)
       John Deely (Houston, USA)
       Umberto Eco (Bologna, Italy)
       Vyacheslav V. Ivanov (LA, USA,
                         and Moscow, Russia)
       Gunther Kress (London, UK)
       Julia Kristeva (Paris, France)

Jesper Hoffmeyer (Copenhagen, Denmark)
Roland Posner (Berlin, Germany)
Alexander Piatigorsky (London, UK)
Eero Tarasti (Helsinki, Finland)
Winfried Nöth (Kassel, Germany,
                       and Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Boris Uspenskij (Napoli, Italy)
Frederik Stjernfelt (Aarhus, Denmark)

Published by Tartu University Press

ISSN 1406-4243