Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
Last updated ISSN 1077-6990
Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly is published by SAGE Publishing in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. The article processing charge is $3,900.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Media Studies and Communication
- Social Media and Politics
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Media Influence and Politics
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Media Influence and Health
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Race, History, and American Society
Key facts
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1077-6990, 2161-430X |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | $3,900 |
| Indexed in | Web of Science — Social Sciences Citation Index · Scopus |
| Articles published | 3,592 |
| Publishing since | 1948 |
| Journal website | jmq.sagepub.com/ |
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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