Thomas A. Sebeok publications per year

The chart shows the history of publications by Thomas A. Sebeok between 1950 and 2024, highlighting the no. of papers published in each year and offering an overview of the publication velocity of this scholar. Thomas A. Sebeok published across 75 years, from 1950 to 2024, averaging 6.7 papers a year. Output peaked at 59 publications in 1998. 1 of the 506 publications appeared in the last two years.

No. of publications

10 20 30 40 50

1950 2024

506 publications in total across all disciplines

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Thomas A. Sebeok: publications per year, 1950 to 2024
Year	Publications
1950	8
1951	5
1952	2
1953	3
1954	6
1955	3
1956	1
1957	3
1958	5
1959	3
1960	1
1961	5
1962	6
1963	6
1964	4
1965	6
1966	3
1967	1
1968	8
1969	7
1970	2
1971	26
1972	4
1973	6
1974	11
1975	5
1976	40
1977	6
1978	8
1979	9
1980	6
1981	9
1982	5
1983	5
1984	9
1985	3
1986	19
1987	11
1988	3
1989	3
1990	1
1991	6
1992	2
1993	0
1994	4
1995	5
1996	48
1997	6
1998	59
1999	3
2000	9
2001	3
2002	0
2003	41
2004	18
2005	0
2006	0
2007	1
2008	0
2009	0
2010	0
2011	14
2012	1
2013	1
2014	1
2015	1
2016	1
2017	0
2018	0
2019	0
2020	1
2021	3
2022	0
2023	0
2024	1
Total	506

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Thomas A. Sebeok publication distribution in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas A. Sebeok sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300 400

44–53 publications 570+

This scientist: 478 publications — 98th percentile

98% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 570 publications or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by publication count, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
Publications	Scientists	This scientist
44–53	28
54–63	61
64–73	161
74–83	225
84–93	301
94–103	390
104–113	406
114–123	474
124–133	453
134–143	434
144–153	407
154–163	411
164–173	391
174–183	313
184–193	319
194–203	304
204–213	285
214–223	246
224–233	213
234–243	170
244–253	167
254–263	162
264–273	138
274–283	138
284–293	113
294–303	106
304–313	95
314–323	101
324–333	81
334–343	69
344–353	56
354–363	36
364–373	42
374–383	41
384–393	44
394–403	27
404–413	30
414–423	20
424–433	29
434–443	29
444–453	25
454–463	19
464–473	21
474–483	11	478
484–493	17
494–503	7
504–513	6
514–523	12
524–533	10
534–543	7
544–553	6
554–563	12
564–569	8
570+	100

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Thomas A. Sebeok D-index placement in Social Sciences and Humanities in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Thomas A. Sebeok sits on this spectrum.

No. of scientists

100 200 300

30 D-Index 100+

This scientist: 51 D-Index — 68th percentile

68% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 100 D-Index or more.

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Number of Social Sciences and Humanities scientists by D-index, Research.com 2026 ranking edition. Based on 7,777 ranked scientists.
D-Index	Scientists	This scientist
30	177
31	210
32	222
33	188
34	181
35	243
36	261
37	272
38	278
39	300
40	297
41	308
42	313
43	300
44	269
45	260
46	228
47	251
48	203
49	186
50	187
51	166	51
52	138
53	141
54	131
55	137
56	109
57	129
58	95
59	105
60	106
61	86
62	94
63	77
64	79
65	59
66	68
67	51
68	49
69	40
70	43
71	40
72	50
73	46
74	43
75	45
76	45
77	30
78	25
79	31
80	29
81	18
82	21
83	26
84	15
85	15
86	19
87	19
88	12
89	7
90	19
91	20
92	13
93	9
94	13
95	8
96	7
97	6
98	6
99	6
100+	97

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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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