Biosemiotics

Journal Title：Biosemiotics

Biosemiotics is dedicated to building a bridge between biology, philosophy, linguistics, and the communication sciences. Biosemiotic research is concerned with the study of signs and meaning in living organisms and systems. Its main challenge is to naturalize biological meaning and information by building on the belief that signs are fundamental, constitutive components of the living world.

Biosemiotics has triggered rethinking of fundamental assumptions in both biology and semiotics. In this view, biology should recognize the semiotic nature of life and reshape its theories and methodology accordingly while semiotics and the humanities should acknowledge the existence of signs beyond the human realm. Biosemiotics is at the cutting edge of research on the fundamentals of life. By challenging traditional assumptions on the nature of life and suggesting alternative perspectives, it opens up exciting new research paths.

生物符号学致力于在生物学、哲学、语言学和传播科学之间架起一座桥梁。生物符号学研究涉及对生物体和系统中的符号和意义的研究。它的主要挑战是建立在符号是生物世界的基本组成部分这一信念的基础上，将生物学意义和信息自然化。

生物符号学引发了对生物学和符号学基本假设的重新思考。从这个角度来看，生物学应该认识到生命的符号性质，并相应地重塑其理论和方法，而符号学和人文学科应该承认人类领域之外的符号的存在。生物符号学处于生命基础研究的前沿。通过挑战对生命本质的传统假设并提出替代观点，它开辟了令人兴奋的新研究道路。

Biosemiotics创刊于2008年，由Springer Netherlands出版商出版，收稿方向涵盖HISTORY & PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE全领域，此刊是中等级别的SCI期刊，所以过审相对来讲不是特别难，但是该刊专业认可度不错，仍然是一本值得选择的SCI期刊 。平均审稿速度 12周，或约稿 ，影响因子指数2.1，该期刊近期没有被列入国际期刊预警名单，广大学者值得一试。