2026 Thomas A. Sebeok: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	51	2568	2343	1254	1131	478	11223

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Publications

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Social Sciences and Humanities

2568

2343

1254

1131

478

11223

Social Sciences and Humanities

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Citations

11223

World Ranking

2568

National Ranking

1254

Research.com Recognitions

1980 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1962 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1958 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Thomas A. Sebeok is affiliated with Indiana University in the United States. Their primary areas of research focus on Arts and Humanities, particularly in Language and Linguistics. Their work spans topics related to Historical Linguistics and Language Studies.

Sebeok's publication record includes several contributions to book literature published by Indiana University Press. This includes seven book publications released in 2021:

How Animals Communicate (2021), cited 719 times
A Sign is Just a Sign (2021), cited 118 times
Sight, Sound, and Sense (2021), cited 74 times
Portraits of Linguists: A Biographical Source Book for the History of Western Linguistics, 1746-1963, Volume 1 (2021), cited once
A Perfusion of Signs (2021), cited 41 times
Portraits of Linguists: A Biographical Source Book for the History of Western Linguistics, 1746-1963, Volume 2 (2021), not cited
Myth: A Symposium (2021), not cited

The array of topics covered in these titles suggests an extensive engagement with semiotics, communication studies, and the biographical histories of linguistics.

They have received recognition through notable fellowships, including:

Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1958 and again in 1980
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1962

These awards indicate professional acknowledgment within the scientific and linguistic communities over several decades.

Best Publications

Style in language

Thomas Albert Sebeok

1304
Citations
How Animals Communicate

Thomas Albert Sebeok

1113
Citations
Signs: An Introduction to Semiotics

Thomas Albert Sebeok

400
Citations
Nonverbal communication, interaction, and gesture : selections from Semiotica

Thomas Albert Sebeok;Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok;Adam Kendon

323
Citations
The Forms of Meaning: Modeling Systems Theory and Semiotic Analysis

Thomas Albert Sebeok;Marcel Danesi

313
Citations
Psycholinguistics: A survey of theory and research problems

Charles Egerton Osgood;Thomas A. Sebeok

308
Citations
Contributions to the doctrine of signs

Thomas Albert Sebeok

213
Citations
The frames of comic ‘freedom’

Umberto Eco

202
Citations
The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce

Umberto Eco;Thomas Albert Sebeok

195
Citations
Speaking of Apes

Thomas A. Sebeok;Jean Umiker-Sebeok

191
Citations
Perspectives in zoosemiotics

Thomas Albert Sebeok

189
Citations
Biosemiotics: Its roots, proliferation, and prospects

Thomas A. Sebeok

181
Citations
A sign is just a sign

Thomas Albert Sebeok

176
Citations
The semiotic web

Thomas Albert Sebeok;Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok

172
Citations
Encyclopedic dictionary of semiotics

Thomas Albert Sebeok;Paul Bouissac

158
Citations
Nonverbal Communication, Interaction, and Gesture

Adam Kendon;Thomas A. Sebeok;Jean Umiker-Sebeok

157
Citations
Animal Communication A communication network model for languages is applied to signaling behavior in animals

Thomas A. Sebeok

156
Citations
The play of musement

Thomas Albert Sebeok

145
Citations
THE CLICK LANGUAGES OF SOUTHERN AND EASTERN AFRICA

E. O. J. Westphal;Jack Berry;Thomas Albert Sebeok

141
Citations
Monastic Sign Languages

Donna Jean Umiker-Sebeok;Thomas Albert Sebeok

57
Citations
Psycholinguistics: A Survey of Theory and Research Problems

David L. Olmsted;Charles E. Osgood;Thomas A. Sebeok

5
Citations
Style in Language

Stanley Newman;Thomas A. Sebeok

1
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

John W. Berry Queen's University

Umberto Eco University of Bologna

Joseph H. Greenberg Stanford University

Charles E. Osgood University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Margaret Mead American Museum of Natural History

Charles S. Peirce Pennsylvania State University

Bernard Spolsky Bar-Ilan University

Roman Jakobson Harvard University

Dell Hymes University of Pennsylvania

Robert Blust University of Hawaii System

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