HUMOR
International Journal of Humor Research
Editor-in-Chief: Ford, Thomas E.
4 Issues per year
IMPACT FACTOR 2016: 0.655
5-year IMPACT FACTOR: 0.718
CiteScore 2016: 0.94
SCImago Journal Rank (SJR) 2015: 0.507
Source Normalized Impact per Paper (SNIP) 2015: 0.535
- Online
- ISSN
- 1613-3722
Overview
- International and interdisciplinary scholarly debate on humor and related phenomena such as laughter, mirth, comedy
- Innovative and interdisciplinary studies in the field of humor research
- Multifaceted approach to the role of humor as an important and universal human faculty
- Innovative approaches and measurements in the study of humor
- Studies on humor, comedy, laughter from a wide range of countries and cultures
- Reviews of recent books on humor
HUMOR is the official journal of the International Society of Humor Studies (ISHS). For further information, please see the web site: www.humorstudies.org.
Aims and Scope
Objective
HUMOR was established as an international interdisciplinary forum for the publication of high-quality research papers on humor as an important and universal human faculty. Humor research draws upon a wide range of academic disciplines including anthropology, biology, cultural studies, computer science, education, communication, film and media studies, gender studies, history, linguistics, literature, mathematics, health and medicine, philosophy, political science, psychology, and sociology. At the same time, humor research often sheds light on the basic concepts, ideas, and methods of many of these disciplines.
Topics
- interdisciplinary humor research
- humor theory
- empirical studies in humor, laughter, comedy and related fields from around the world
- humor research methodologies and measurements of sense of humor
- scholarly debates on the social functions of humor
Article formats
Research articles, Short notes, Book reviews, Debates
Details
- DE GRUYTER MOUTON
- Language:
- English
- Type of Publication:
- Journal
- Readership:
- Researchers, students and practitioners with an interest in the scholarly study of humor and related phenomena
Submission of Manuscripts
Instructions for Authors
Submission
You can easily submit your manuscript online. Simply go to...
http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/humor
...and you will be guided through the whole peer-reviewing and publishing process.
- Rapid online ahead-of-print publication with short turnaround times
- High quality manuscript processing
- Optional open access publication
- Accepted papers will be published online first as DOI-citable, forward-linked articles for quickest possible visibility for the scientific community
- Every article easily discoverable because of SEO and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
- Convenient citation tracking via e-mail alert
- Secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico
- Professional sales and marketing support
- Submission of your paper via our submission management tool
- Peer review process (you will be guided through every step)
- Decision on your paper (14 weeks from submission to first decision)
- If accepted: you have the option to publish it open access
- Please see the De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet for further information regarding the proper formatting of your manuscript
- Manuscripts must be written in clear and concise English
- Before submitting your article please have a look at our Information for Authors, Publication Ethics Statement and our copyright agreement
- Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it open access
- Our repository policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract
- If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ page for authors
We look forward to receiving your manuscript!
Hybrid Open Access
For complete details on hybrid open access publishing at De Gruyter please see: https://www.degruyter.com/page/560
Effective 1st January 2016, authors from an institution affiliated with either the Association of Dutch Universities (VSNU), the Consortium of Swiss Academic Libraries or some UK libraries participating in the Jisc Collections SMP may publish primary research and review articles open access in any of De Gruyter's OnlineOpen journals at a discount of 90% of the APC price. For more information and to confirm whether your institution is eligible please see the following:
The Netherlands: https://www.degruyter.com/page/1461
The UK: https://www.degruyter.com/page/1462
Switzerland: https://www.degruyter.com/page/1463
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History
Humor was founded in 1988 and the first Editor-in-chief was Victor Raskin.
Other publications in the field
Humor Research [HR]
http://www.degruyter.com/view/serial/16087
Membership Prices
Individual members of the International Society for Humor Studies
(ISHS) receive the journal as part of their membership. For
subscription details, please contact:
Executive secretary, ISHS
Martin D. Lampert
Holy Names University, USA
e-mail: ishs@hnu.edu
Abstracting & Indexing
HUMOR is covered by the following services:
- Baidu Scholar
- Cabell's Directory
- Celdes
- Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) - Arts & Humanities Citation Index
- Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) - Current Contents/Arts & Humanities
- Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) - Current Contents/Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) - Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences Edition
- Clarivate Analytics (formerly Thomson Reuters) - Social Sciences Citation Index
- CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure)
- CNPIEC
- De Gruyter - IBR (International Bibliography of Reviews of Scholarly Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
- De Gruyter - IBZ (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature in the Humanities and Social Sciences)
- EBSCO (relevant databases)
- EBSCO Discovery Service
- Elsevier - EMCare
- Elsevier - SCOPUS
- ERIH PLUS (European Reference Index for the Humanities and Social Sciences)
- Gale/Cengage
- Genamics JournalSeek
- Google Scholar
- J-Gate
- JournalGuide
- JournalTOCs
- KESLI-NDSL (Korean National Discovery for Science Leaders)
- Linguistic Bibliography Online
- Linguistics Abstracts Online
- Microsoft Academic
- MLA International Bibliography
- Naviga (Softweco)
- Primo Central (ExLibris)
- ProQuest (relevant databases)
- PsycINFO
- ReadCube
- ResearchGate
- SCImago (SJR)
- Sherpa/RoMEO
- Summon (Serials Solutions/ProQuest)
- TDNet
- Translation Studies Bibliography
- UB Frankfurt - BDSL Bibliographie der deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft
- UB Frankfurt - BLL Bibliographie Linguistischer Literatur
- UB Frankfurt - OLC Linguistik
- Ulrich's Periodicals Directory/ulrichsweb
- WanFang Data
- WorldCat (OCLC)
Editorial Information
Editor-in-Chief
Thomas E. Ford
Psychology Department
Western Carolina University
USA
e-mail: humorjournal@gmail.com
Editors-at-Large
Salvatore Attardo
Texas A&M University - Commerce, USA
Giselinde Kuipers
University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
Victor Raskin
Purdue University, USA
Book Review Editors
Moira Marsh
Indiana University Bloomington, USA
e-mail: molsmith@indiana.edu
John Parkin
University of Bristol, UK
e-mail: j.parkin@bristol.ac.uk
Larry Ventis
College of William and Mary, USA
e-mail: wlvent@wm.edu
Editorial Assistant
Christopher Breeden
Western Carolina University, USA
ISHS Executive Secretary
Martin D. Lampert (Holy Names University, USA)
Editorial Board
Salvatore Attardo (Texas A&M University, USA)
Delia Chiaro (University of Bologna, Italy)
Wladyslaw Chlopicki (Jagiellonian University, Poland)
Christie Davies (University of Reading, UK)
Jessica Milner Davis (University of Sidney, Australia)
Christian Hempelmann (Texas A&M University, USA)
Giselinde Kuipers (University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands)
Paul Lewis (Boston College, USA)
Sharon Lockyer (Brunel University, UK)
Rod Martin (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Lawrence E. Mintz (University of Maryland, USA)
John Morreall (College of William and Mary, USA)
Alleen P. Nilsen (Arizona State University, USA)
Don L. F. Nilsen (Arizona State University, USA)
Neal R. Norrick (Saarland University, Germany)
Elliott Oring (California State University, USA)
Victor Raskin (Purdue University, USA)
Willibald Ruch (University of Zurich, Switzerland)
Limor Shifman (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel)
Consulting Editors
Goh Abe (Tokushima Bunri University, Japan)
Sammy Basu (Willamette University, USA)
Nancy Bell (Washington State University, USA)
Hugo Carretero Dios (University of Granada, Spain)
Gill Greengross (Aberystwyth University, Wales)
Holger Kersten (Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany)
Nick Kuiper (University of Western Ontario, Canada)
Liisi Laineste (Estonian Literary Museum, Estonia)
Tracey Platt (University of Wolverhampton, UK)
Graeme Ritchie (University of Aberdeen, UK)
Julia Taylor (Purdue University, USA)
Villy Tsakona (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece)
Larry Ventis (College of William and Mary, USA)
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