The Communication Review
Last updated ISSN 1071-4421
The Communication Review is published by Routledge 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 The Communication Review concentrates on these topics, taken from its published record rather than from its own description:
- Media Studies and Communication
- Social Media and Politics
- Gender, Feminism, and Media
- Rhetoric and Communication Studies
- Cinema and Media Studies
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Digital Games and Media
- Public Relations and Crisis Communication
- Media Influence and Health
- Discourse Analysis in Language Studies
Key facts
| Publisher | Routledge |
|---|---|
| ISSN | 1071-4421, 1547-7487 |
| Subject area | Social Sciences |
| Access | Subscription |
| Article processing charge | Not published |
| Indexed in | Scopus |
| Articles published | 678 |
| Publishing since | 1995 |
| Journal website | www.tandfonline.com/toc/gcrv20/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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