Humor: International Journal of Humor Research (print: , online: ) is a peer-reviewed

Peer review

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 academic journal

Academic journal

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 published by de Gruyter Mouton

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 on behalf of the International Society for Humor Studies. , its editor-in-chief is Salvatore Attardo

Salvatore Attardo

Salvatore Attardo is a full professor at Texas A & M University-Commerce and the editor-in-chief of Humor, the journal for the International Society of Humor Research. He studied at Purdue University under Victor Raskin and extended Raskin's script-based semantic theory of humor into the general...

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The journal publishes interdisciplinary articles related to humor research

Humor research

Humor research is a multidisciplinary field which enters the domains of psychology, philosophy, linguistics, sociology, history and literature. More recently, computational humor, a subdomain of the computer science and artificial intelligence emerged, which uses computers to model humor...

: theoretical papers, original research reports, scholarly debates, notes, and letters to editors. According to the Journal Citation Reports

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, its 2009 impact factor

Impact factor

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is 0.771.