Popular Communication
Last updated ISSN 1540-5702
Popular Communication is published by Taylor & Francis in social sciences. It is a subscription journal. Its article processing charge is not published.
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What it publishes
Recent work in Popular Communication concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Media Studies and Communication
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Digital Games and Media
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Social Media and Politics
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Music History and Culture
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1540-5702, 1540-5710 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 668 |
| Publishing since | 2003 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/hppc20/current |
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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