Journal rankings · indicator year 2000
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Subfield ranking · 2000
Communication journal rankings 2000
28 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Communication has 28 ranked journals in 2000. The median journal has an OJR of 0.69, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.65. The top three are Communication Theory, Journal of Knowledge Management, and Political Communication.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2000. Journal access status and listed APC: source snapshot September 23, 2026.
Journals whose main subfield sits in this category and that published at least 30 citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 score is computed on.
The OpenJournalRank Indicator (OJR) is a free, publicly available metric of a journal’s field-normalized citation impact, computed from open OpenAlex citation data. It compares citations to a journal’s papers from the previous three years with the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and values can be compared across fields. It is computed with the NCI3 method.
The middle OJR among ranked journals in this category: half score higher, half lower. 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type.
The dot is this category, the solid tick is the median of all ranked journals and the dashed line is the world average.
Share of ranked journals in this category that are fully open access, so every paper is free to read. Hybrid journals, which sell subscriptions and open single papers for a fee, are not counted.
Median list price of the article processing charge, in US dollars, among ranked journals in this category that list a price above zero. Journals with a listed APC of $0 and journals with no known price are left out of this median. The At a glance table below gives a second median that includes the $0 prices.
Subfields of Social Sciences (22)
28 ranked journals
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Rank is the position by OJR within the list on screen; 1 is the highest. | OJR is field-normalized 3-year citation impact: 1.00 is the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so values compare across fields. The badge is the journal’s quartile in this list. | Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is not field-normalized, so compare it only between journals of the same field. ▲ or ▼ is the change from 1999. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 1997–1999, the window the 2000 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 1997–1999 papers that are free to read in any open-access form. The green OA tag next to a title marks a fully open-access journal. | List price of the article processing charge in US dollars. “$0 listed” means the listed price is zero; a dash means no price is listed. | The line is the journal’s OJR from 2000 to 2000. | Compare |
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1Communication TheoryWiley · United States | 4.30Q1 | 1.52no 1999 value | 58 | 0% | $4,235 | — | |
2Journal of Knowledge ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.57Q1 | 1.36no 1999 value | 77 | 0% | — | — | |
3Political CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.24Q1 | 0.73no 1999 value | 112 | 6% | — | — | |
4Journal of CommunicationOxford University Press · United States | 2.07Q1 | 0.65no 1999 value | 221 | 4% | $4,235 | — | |
5Annals of the International Communication AssociationTaylor & Francis | 1.90Q1 | 0.63no 1999 value | 35 | 0% | $3,368 | — | |
6Journal of Public Relations ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.86Q1 | 0.85no 1999 value | 37 | 0% | — | — | |
7Journal of Business CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.65Q1 | 0.47no 1999 value | 71 | 4% | — | — | |
8Harvard International Journal of Press/PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.34Q2 | 0.42no 1999 value | 137 | 1% | — | — | |
9Journalism & Mass Communication QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.33Q2 | 0.43no 1999 value | 272 | 2% | $3,900 | — | |
10Ecquid Novi African Journalism StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.88Q2 | 0.22no 1999 value | 45 | 0% | — | — | |
11Newspaper Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.84Q2 | 0.25no 1999 value | 78 | 0% | $3,200 | — | |
12Gazette (Leiden Netherlands)SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.83Q2 | 0.42no 1999 value | 91 | 3% | — | — | |
13Journal of International CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.81Q2 | 0.21no 1999 value | 41 | — | — | — | |
14Corporate Communications An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.70Q2 | 0.33no 1999 value | 71 | 3% | — | — | |
15Public Relations ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 0.68Q3 | 0.48no 1999 value | 296 | 0% | $4,310 | — | |
16Asian Journal of CommunicationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.54Q3 | 0.15no 1999 value | 49 | 0% | — | — | |
17Cross Cultural Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.51Q3 | 0.36no 1999 value | 36 | 7% | — | — | |
18Journal of Studies in International EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.20no 1999 value | 48 | 6% | $3,650 | — | |
19Media International AustraliaPublisher not listed | 0.45Q3 | 0.27no 1999 value | 182 | 5% | $3,650 | — | |
20Journal of Communication ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.44Q3 | 0.31no 1999 value | 104 | 3% | — | — | |
21CommunicationsDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 0.43Q3 | 0.10no 1999 value | 91 | 7% | $2,712 | — | |
22New Jersey Journal of CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.18no 1999 value | 50 | 0% | — | — | |
23Journal of Mass Media EthicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.36Q4 | 0.21no 1999 value | 63 | 4% | — | — | |
24CommunicatioRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.17Q4 | 0.10no 1999 value | 47 | 5% | — | — | |
25Journal of Radio StudiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.14Q4 | 0.20no 1999 value | 79 | 2% | — | — | |
26El Profesional de la InformacionOAEdiciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL · Spain | 0.06Q4 | 0.02no 1999 value | 117 | 100% | — | — | |
27Journal of Teaching in International BusinessTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.04Q4 | 0.20no 1999 value | 61 | 0% | — | — | |
28Communication & SocietyOAUniversity of Navarre · Spain | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no 1999 value | 80 | 100% | $301 | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Communication highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science588
- Education306
- Political Science and International Relations185
- Public Administration39
- Communication28
- Gender Studies28
- Linguistics and Language28
- Safety Research27
- Health26
- Law26
- Library and Information Sciences26
- Anthropology24
- Transportation22
- Urban Studies17
- Demography16
- Geography, Planning and Development12
- Cultural Studies7
- Development1
- Archeology0
- General Social Sciences0
- Human Factors and Ergonomics0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2000. Corpus-wide, 66.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
13 additional Communication journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 1997–1999, at least 80% of them with a subfield, and a positive world-average expectation. Ranks are within the whole category; filters hide rows without re-ranking. OJR excludes self-citations.
At a glance
Indicator year: 2000. Publication window: 1997–1999. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 28
- Window papers (baseline)
- 6,625 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Median OJR
- 0.692 Change unavailable from indicator year 1997
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 1997–1999 in all journals of the world-average baseline, including non-core journals, counted by each paper’s own subfield. They are not the papers of the ranked journals alone.
| Measure | Year series | 2000 | 2001 | 2002 | 2003 | 2004 | 2005 | 2006 | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 | 2024 | 2025 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ranked journals | 28 | 30 | 32 | 36 | 35 | 35 | 38 | 38 | 43 | 48 | 52 | 52 | 54 | 57 | 66 | 65 | 68 | 71 | 74 | 74 | 79 | 75 | 77 | 73 | 72 | 71 | |
| Window papers (baseline) | 6,625 | 7,353 | 8,060 | 9,040 | 9,893 | 11,132 | 12,598 | 14,308 | 16,130 | 18,165 | 20,333 | 22,525 | 25,150 | 27,541 | 29,419 | 31,115 | 32,404 | 33,284 | 33,565 | 34,506 | 36,327 | 39,973 | 43,466 | 44,324 | 43,348 | 42,854 | |
| Median OJR | 0.692 | 0.54 | 0.691 | 0.67 | 0.94 | 1.31 | 1.570 | 1.66 | 1.47 | 1.86 | 1.80 | 1.85 | 1.67 | 1.72 | 1.49 | 1.74 | 1.56 | 1.59 | 1.54 | 1.333 | 1.42 | 1.326 | 1.48 | 1.62 | 1.68 | 1.565 |
How to read these rankings
- OJR, the OpenJournalRank Indicator
- A field-normalized 3-year citation impact, computed from OpenAlex with the NCI3 method. It divides the citations a journal’s papers received by the world average for papers of the same subfield, year and type, so 1.00 is the world average and 2.00 means twice as many citations as expected. Because it is normalized, it can be compared across fields. Read the methodology
- Quartiles
- Q1 to Q4 split the ranked journals of the list you are viewing into four equal groups by OJR. A journal’s quartile depends on the list: the same journal can be Q1 in its subfield and Q2 among all journals.
- Impact factor (2-year)
- Citations per paper over a two-year window, counted from OpenAlex. It is easy to compare with familiar impact factors but is not field-normalized, so compare it only within a field. It is not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. Why it differs from the Journal Impact Factor
- Rank ranges
- Each rank in the latest year carries a likely range from 1,000 resamples of the journal’s papers. Where two journals’ ranges overlap, the data cannot tell them apart, so treat neighbouring ranks as ties.