Gesture
Journal metrics
Impact Factor: 0.7 (5-year: 1.1)Journal Citation Indicator: 0.61
CiteScore: 2.4
SNIP: 1.256 SJR: 0.394
This journal is peer reviewed and indexed in: ANVUR Riviste scientifiche (ANVUR ) ; Abstracts in Anthropology ; CNKI Scholar ; Cultures, Langues, Textes (CLT ) ; Dimensions ; ERIH PLUS ; Glottolog ; IBR/IBZ ; Journal Citation Reports/Social Sciences ; Linguistics Abstracts Online ; Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA ) ; MLA International Bibliography ; PsycINFO ; Scopus ; Social Scisearch ; WoS Arts & Humanities Citation Index ; WoS Social Sciences Citation Index
Gesture publishes articles reporting original research, as well as survey and review articles, on all aspects of gesture. The journal aims to stimulate and facilitate scholarly communication between the different disciplines within which work on gesture is conducted. For this reason papers written in the spirit of cooperation between disciplines are especially encouraged.
Topics may include, but are by no means limited to: the relationship between gesture and speech; the role gesture may play in communication in all the circumstances of social interaction, including conversations, the work-place or instructional settings; gesture and cognition; the development of gesture in children; the place of gesture in first and second language acquisition; the processes by which spontaneously created gestures may become transformed into codified forms; the documentation and discussion of vocabularies of ‘quotable’ or ‘emblematic’ gestures; the relationship between gesture and sign; studies of gesture systems or sign languages such as those that have developed in factories, religious communities or in tribal societies; the role of gesture in ritual interactions of all kinds, such as greetings, religious, civic or legal rituals; gestures compared cross-culturally; gestures in primate social interaction; biological studies of gesture, including discussions of the place of gesture in language origins theory; gesture in multimodal human-machine interaction; historical studies of gesture; and studies in the history of gesture studies, including discussions of gesture in the theatre or as a part of rhetoric.
Gesture provides a platform where contributions to this topic may be found from such disciplines as linguistics, archaeology, anthropology, biology, communication studies, neurology, ethology, theatre studies, literature and the visual arts, cognitive psychology and computer engineering.
Gesture publishes its articles Online First.
Gesture is accompanied by a book series, Gesture Studies. A lot of information on the field of gesture studies can be found on the website of the International Society for Gesture Studies.
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Issues
Online-first articlesVolume 23 (2024)
Volume 22 (2023)
Volume 21 (2022)
Volume 20 (2021)
Volume 19 (2020)
Volume 18 (2019)
Volume 17 (2018)
Volume 16 (2017)
Volume 15 (2016)
Volume 14 (2014)
Volume 13 (2013)
Volume 12 (2012)
Volume 11 (2011)
Volume 10 (2010)
Volume 9 (2009)
Volume 8 (2008)
Volume 7 (2007)
Volume 6 (2006)
Volume 5 (2005)
Volume 4 (2004)
Volume 3 (2003)
Volume 2 (2002)
Volume 1 (2001)
Editorial info
Subscription Info
General information about our electronic journals.
Subscription rates
All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
| Online-only | Print + online | ||
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| Volume 25 (2026): 2 issues; ca. 250 pp. | EUR | EUR | |
| Volume 24 (2025): 2 issues; ca. 250 pp. | EUR | EUR |
Individuals may apply for a special online-only subscription rate of EUR
Private subscriptions are for personal use only, and must be pre-paid and ordered directly from the publisher.
Available back-volumes
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| Complete backset (Vols. 1‒23; 2001‒2024) | 63 issues; 9,150 pp. | EUR 7,036.00 | EUR 7,583.00 |
| Volume 23 (2024) | 3 issues; 375 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 22 (2023) | 3 issues; 375 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volumes 20‒21 (2021‒2022) | 3 issues; avg. 375 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 19 (2020) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 18 (2019) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 17 (2018) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 16 (2017) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 15 (2016) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 14 (2014) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volume 13 (2013) | 3 issues; 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volumes 7‒12 (2007‒2012) | 3 issues; avg. 450 pp. | EUR | EUR |
| Volumes 1‒6 (2001‒2006) | 2 issues; avg. 300 pp. | EUR | EUR |
Author info
Gesture offers online submission .
Before submitting, please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors .
Please note that accepted authors are expected to provide editable manuscripts (e.g. as Word .docx or an Open Office / Libre Office equivalent) for the copy-editing stage.
If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors via e-mail: Ruth Breckinridge Church, b-church1neiu.edu
Ethics
John Benjamins journals are committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and to supporting ethical research practices.
Authors and reviewers are kindly requested to read this Ethics Statement.
Please also note the guidance on (the declaration of) the use of Artificial Intelligence.
Rights and Permissions
Authors must ensure that they have permission to use any third-party material in their contribution; the permission should include perpetual (not time-limited) world-wide distribution in print and electronic format.
For information on authors' rights, please consult the rights information page.
Open Access
Articles accepted for this journal can be made Open Access through payment of an Article Publication Charge (APC) of EUR 1800 (excl. tax). To arrange this, please contact openaccessbenjamins.nl as soon as your paper has been accepted for publication. More information can be found on the publisher's Open Access Policy page.
Corresponding authors from institutions with which John Benjamins has a Read & Publish arrangement can publish Open Access without paying a fee. Please consult this list of institutions for up-to-date information on which articles qualify.
For information about permission to post a version of your article online or in an institutional repository ('green' open access or self-archiving), please consult the rights information page.
If the article is not (to be made) Open Access, there is no fee for the author to publish in this journal.
Archiving
John Benjamins Publishing Company has an agreement in place with Portico for the archiving of all its online journals and e-books.