2026 Umberto Eco: Social Sciences and Humanities Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Social Sciences and Humanities	72	675	4	407	26180

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Social Sciences and Humanities

675

407

26180

Research.com Recognitions

2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award
2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Umberto Eco was affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy during their academic career. Their research contributions were published in various scholarly venues, focusing on subjects related to communication and rhetoric.

Their recent papers included the following:

The Dog Schema, 2021, Rivista di estetica
Hard and Soft Communication, 2021, Observatorio (OBS*)
Comunicação: Hard e soft, 2021, Observatorio (OBS*)
Geheimsprache, 2023, Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik Online

Frequent collaborators with Umberto Eco comprised:

Maurizio Ferraris
Diego Marconi
Andrea Katzenberger

Their work appeared most often in the following publication venues:

Observatorio (OBS*)
Rivista di estetica
Historisches Wörterbuch der Rhetorik Online

Best Publications

A Theory of Semiotics

Umberto Eco

2985
Citations
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts

Umberto Eco

1243
Citations
Semiotics and the philosophy of language

Umberto Eco

1006
Citations
Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture

I︠u︡. M. Lotman;Ann Shukman;Umberto Eco

916
Citations
Lector in fabula

Umberto Eco

748
Citations
The Open Work

Umberto Eco

744
Citations
Travels in Hyperreality

Sharon Lebell;Umberto Eco

639
Citations
A Theory of Semiotics

Giulio Lepschy;Umberto Eco

631
Citations
The Limits of Interpretation

Umberto Eco

561
Citations
The Search for the Perfect Language

Umberto Eco

551
Citations
Interpretation and overinterpretation

Umberto Eco;Jonathan Culler;Richard Rorty;Christine Brooke-Rose

453
Citations
Trattato di semiotica generale

Umberto Eco

390
Citations
Tratado de Semiótica General

Umberto Eco

359
Citations
Six Walks in the Fictional Woods

Umberto Eco

306
Citations
Kant and the platypus : essays on language and cognition

Umberto Eco;Alastair McEwen

306
Citations
Apocalípticos e integrados

Umberto Eco;Andrés Boglar

270
Citations
Mouse or Rat?: Translation as Negotiation

Umberto Eco

257
Citations
Travels in hyperreality : essays

Umberto Eco

214
Citations
Art and beauty in the Middle Ages

Umberto Eco

205
Citations
The Sign of Three: Dupin, Holmes, Peirce

Umberto Eco;Thomas Albert Sebeok

195
Citations
Lector in fabula : la cooperazione interpretativa nei testi narrativi

Umberto Eco

176
Citations
Semiotics and the Philosophy of Language

P. Swiggers;Umberto Eco

146
Citations
The Limits of Interpretation

Roland A. Champagne;Umberto Eco

137
Citations
The Role of the Reader: Explorations in the Semiotics of Texts

Roland A . Champagne;Umberto Eco

88
Citations
A Theory of Semiotics

Alan Sondheim;Umberto Eco

0
Citations
The Subject of Semiotics

Umberto Eco

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonathan Culler Cornell University

Richard Rorty Stanford University

Thomas A. Sebeok Indiana University

Roland Barthes Université Paris Cité

James D. Watson Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

Susumu Tonegawa MIT

Klaus Eichmann Max Planck Society

Melvin Cohn Salk Institute for Biological Studies

Philippa Marrack National Jewish Health

Leroy Hood University of Washington

External Links

Wikipedia of Umberto Eco Personal website of Umberto Eco

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