The European Journal of Humour Research

Current Issue

Vol. 13 No. 3 (2025)
Published 7 October 2025

The EJHR (ISSN 2307-700X) is an open-access, academic journal published by Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies and endorsed by The International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). The EJHR publishes full research articles, shorter commentaries, which discuss ground-breaking or controversial areas, research notes, which provide details on the research project rationale, methodology and outcomes, as well as book reviews. The journal has a special focus on supporting PhD students and early career researchers by providing them with a forum within which to disseminate their work alongside established scholars and practitioners.

The EJHR welcomes submissions that combine research and relevant applications as well as empirical studies detailing their usefulness to the study of humour. All contributions received (apart from book reviews) undergo a double-blind, peer-review process. In addition to established scholars within humor research, we invite those as yet unfamiliar with (or wary of) humor research to enter the discussion, especially based on less known or less covered material. The elaboration of joint methodological frameworks is strongly encouraged. For further details or inquiries you may contact the Editors.

No charges are applied either for submitting, reviewing or processing articles for publication.       

The journal is now listed in important international indexing bases including, Web of Science (Emerging Sources Citation Index),  Scopus and Scimago ranking :

 

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This publication is supported by the CEES and ELM Scholarly Press.

 

Announcements

Interesting Scillit data on the EJHR journal

Browse and enjoy some statistics on our journal in the decade from 2014-2024.


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3 March 2024

EJHR has joined the Reviewer Credit system

We are pleased to announce that the European Journal of Humour Research  is now registered with ReviewerCredits, the system for supporting and appreciating journal reviewers for their work. 


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16 February 2022

Most read and cited papers 2013-2024

Here is the updated list of papers published in EJHR in the years 2013-2024  that received most views. Below is also the list of most cited papers . Congratulations to the Authors.

 


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9 March 2021

Articles

Stanislav Govorov, Vladimir Solondaev, Alyona Ivanova
1-19
Perception of depressive and suicide memes with different types of punchlines by persons with low or high suicide risk
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Andrew R. Olah, Conor J. O'Dea, Donald A. Saucier
20-42
“Yo mama so fat we had to run TWO studies”: appreciation of mother jokes as a function of masculine honour beliefs and joke characteristics
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Christopher T. Burris, Emily Burns, Kristina Garth
43-59
Rage beneath the machine: implicit hostility and sadistic motivation in pranking contexts
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Jesse W. C. Yip
60-75
Humour and code switching: a morphosyntactic analysis of the Cantonese stand-up comedy in Hong Kong
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Anna T. Litovkina
76-92
“The best things in life are fee.” Some aspects of punning in Anglo-American anti-proverbs
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Cássia Frankenthal Quinlan
93-111
"I have to quit comedy": the Female Trickster’s humour in trauma renegotiation
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Célia Schneebeli
112-130
Humour appreciation in the subreddit r/wheredidthesodago: testing three hypotheses
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Pratibha Rani, Sudarshan Yadav
131-158
A whimsical wisdom: exploring consumption of online political satire and its impact on political engagement of youth in India
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Moshe Machlev
159-188
“I did not actually hear George Washington say that”: the use of humour in the State of The Union Address
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George Boakye-Yiadom
189-212
Political cartoon as a tool for criticism: the case of Dr. Bawumia’s steer metaphor
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Aleksandar Takovski, Nenad Markovikj
213-234
2 Laugh or not 2 love: disparagement humour and Macedonian humour ideologies
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Longinus Avoaja
235-247
Ideological constructs through nominal choice in Nigerian stand-up comedy
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Mohammed Farghal, Saja Ymak
248-271
Subtitling humour genres and translation strategies: Egyptian movies as an example - RETRACTED
Miglė Eleonora Černikovaitė, Lina Bivainienė, Žaneta Karazijienė
272-287
Expectations vs. reality: unpacking the power of humour in Vilnius's city branding
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Riki Nasrullah, Hishamudin Isam, Arditya Prayogi, Andik Yuliyanto, Sarmini
288-307
Laughing matters: how humour affects pragmatic competence in Indonesian second language learners
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