Google scholar: 1660 citations; i10-index now 48

According to my Google Scholar profile my research has to date attracted a total of 1.660 citations (+13 since July 31st). This includes 96 citations so far in 2026 (+11 since July 31st). My h-index remains 22 while my i10-index is now 48 (+1 since July 31st).

My 48th text to reach 10 citations appears to be "Introduction to the Special Issue Semiotics of Perception Being in the World of the Living—Semiotic Perspectives", co-written with Kati Lindström (2010). 

"Semiotics of hybrid natures" conference: Extended deadline; title of plenary talks

The abstract deadline for the conference "Semiotics of hybrid natures: Anthropogenic ecosystems, multimodalities, transformed umwelts" (Tartu, Estonia 8-10 November 2018) has been extended to June 10th.

Titles of plenary talks are now announced:

• Nathalie Blanc  (CNRS / Université Paris Diderot -Paris 7, France) – “At the crossroads of senses and meaning, socio-environmental communities”
• Morten Tønnessen (University of Stavanger, Norway) – “Current human ecology in light of Umwelt theory”
• Kati Lindström (KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden) – “Generating value in protection policies: Challenge of the Anthropocene entanglements”

Festschrift to Kalevi Kull now freely available online

Semiotics in the wild: Festschrift in honor of Kalevi Kull on the occasion of his 60th birthday (edited by Timo Maran, Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus and myself, Tartu university Press 2012) is now available in full text online, through Timo Maran´s Academia.edu profile.

"The future Umwelten of wolves, sheep and people in Scandinavia" scheduled for presentation August 20th

My paper "The future Umwelten of wolves, sheep and people in Scandinavia" has been scheduled for presentation Thursday August 20th at 14.00-14.30 during the 9th conference of Nordic Association for Semiotic Studies (Tartu, Estonia, 17-20 August 2015) - see preliminary program. My paper will be part of the session "Knowledge and environment in move", chaired by Kati Lindström.

"Kalevi Kull and the rewilding of biosemiotics" available online

The introduction chapter to Semiotics in the Wild: Essays in Honour of Kalevi Kull on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday (eds. Timo Maran, Kati Lindström, Riin Magnus and myself, 2012), entitled "Kalevi Kull and the rewilding of biosemiotics: Introduction", is freely available online at the webpage of the publisher, Tartu University Press, along with the book's front matter and Table of contents.

Dissertationes Semioticae 15

Kati Lindström, with whom I guest-edited the special issue of Biosemiotics "Semiotics of Perception" (Biosemiotics 3.3, December 2010), has recently (March 29th) defended her doctoral degree. Her dissertation, the 15th in the series Dissertationes Semioticae, is entitled Delineating Landscape Semiotics: Towards the Semiotic Study of Landscape Processes and includes the article "Autocommunication and Perceptual Markers in Landscape: Japanese Examples", which was published in our special issue.