Journal of Communication
Last updated ISSN 0021-9916
Journal of Communication is published by Oxford University Press in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $4,235.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journal of Communication concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Media Studies and Communication
- Social Media and Politics
- Communication in Education and Healthcare
- Media Influence and Health
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Human auditory perception and evaluation
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Media, Communication, and Education
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Oxford University Press |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 0021-9916, 1460-2466 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $4,235 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 5,129 |
| Publishing since | 1951 |
| Journal website | academic.oup.com/joc |
Facts come from OpenAlex, DOAJ and Wikidata and may lag the journal’s own pages. Check the publisher’s site before submitting. Indexing shown here is what is recorded, not a complete picture — about a third of journals have no indexing recorded anywhere we can read, so “not recorded” does not mean a journal is absent from Scopus or Web of Science.
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