Journal rankings · indicator year 2003
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Subfield ranking · 2003
Communication journal rankings 2003
36 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Communication has 36 ranked journals in 2003. The median journal has an OJR of 0.67, below the world average of 1.00, down 0.03 on 2002; Q1 starts at OJR 1.52. The top three are Political Communication, Journal of Knowledge Management, and Journal of Communication.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2003. 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 2000–2002, the window the 2003 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)
36 ranked journals
Filters
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 2002. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2000–2002, the window the 2003 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2000–2002 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 2003. | Compare |
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1Political CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 5.61Q1 | 1.20 0.01 up from 2002 | 90 | 4% | — | ||
2Journal of Knowledge ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.27Q1 | 2.80 0.19 up from 2002 | 106 | 2% | — | ||
3Journal of CommunicationOxford University Press · United States | 2.34Q1 | 0.72 0.21 down from 2002 | 254 | 4% | $4,235 | ||
4Communication TheoryWiley · United States | 2.31Q1 | 1.02 0.49 up from 2002 | 121 | 6% | $4,235 | ||
5Journal of Business CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.20Q1 | 1.24 0.05 up from 2002 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
6Journalism & Mass Communication QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.18Q1 | 0.50 0.18 down from 2002 | 262 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
7Journal of Public Relations ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.00Q1 | 0.96 0.59 down from 2002 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
8JournalismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.77Q1 | 0.61 0.30 up from 2002 | 62 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
9Corporate Communications An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.52Q1 | 0.69 0.17 up from 2002 | 101 | 3% | — | ||
10International Journal of Cross Cultural ManagementSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.29Q2 | 0.75 0.21 down from 2002 | 51 | 5% | $3,650 | ||
11e-Service JournalIndiana University Press · United States | 1.27Q2 | 0.48 0.14 down from 2002 | 48 | 3% | — | ||
12Annals of the International Communication AssociationTaylor & Francis | 1.19Q2 | 0.64 0.03 up from 2002 | 55 | 0% | $3,368 | ||
13Public Relations ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 0.99Q2 | 0.61 0.14 up from 2002 | 146 | 4% | $4,310 | ||
14Harvard International Journal of Press/PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.97Q2 | 0.28 0.04 down from 2002 | 216 | 0% | — | ||
15Gazette (Leiden Netherlands)SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.95Q2 | 0.45 0.16 up from 2002 | 90 | 6% | — | ||
16Journal of Political MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.88Q2 | 0.28no 2002 value | 39 | 0% | — | — | |
17Journalism StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.80Q2 | 0.19 0.07 down from 2002 | 154 | 2% | — | ||
18Cross Cultural Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.71Q2 | 0.35 0.27 down from 2002 | 48 | 10% | — | ||
19CommunicationsDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 0.63Q3 | 0.31 0.18 up from 2002 | 70 | 22% | $2,712 | ||
20Asian Journal of CommunicationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.62Q3 | 0.19no change | 45 | 0% | — | ||
21Australian journal of communicationAustralia | 0.59Q3 | 0.21 0.01 down from 2002 | 32 | 0% | — | ||
22CommunicatioRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.58Q3 | 0.25 0.11 up from 2002 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
23Newspaper Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.56Q3 | 0.27 0.05 down from 2002 | 105 | 5% | $3,200 | ||
24Journal of Mass Media EthicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.54Q3 | 0.24 0.16 up from 2002 | 71 | 6% | — | ||
25Media International AustraliaPublisher not listed | 0.52Q3 | 0.16 0.06 up from 2002 | 204 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
26Journal of Communication ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.37Q3 | 0.27 0.06 up from 2002 | 89 | 3% | — | ||
27Journal of Radio StudiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.33Q3 | 0.28 0.20 up from 2002 | 76 | 0% | — | ||
28Journal of Studies in International EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.32Q4 | 0.08 0.33 down from 2002 | 67 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
29Journal of Teaching in International BusinessTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.24Q4 | 0.40 0.12 up from 2002 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
30New Jersey Journal of CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.23Q4 | 0.24 0.21 up from 2002 | 41 | 0% | — | ||
31Nordicom review/NORDICOM reviewOADe Gruyter Open · Sweden | 0.19Q4 | 0.12 0.16 down from 2002 | 76 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of International CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.12Q4 | 0.05 0.01 up from 2002 | 161 | 0% | — | ||
33El Profesional de la InformacionOAEdiciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL · Spain | 0.10Q4 | 0.02 0.06 down from 2002 | 289 | 100% | — | ||
34Ecquid Novi African Journalism StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.05Q4 | 0.09 0.09 up from 2002 | 58 | 0% | — | ||
35Communication & SocietyOAUniversity of Navarre · Spain | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 112 | 100% | $301 | ||
35Comunicação e SociedadeOAUniversity of Minho · Portugal | 0.00Q4 | 0.00no change | 102 | — | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Communication highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science679
- Education348
- Political Science and International Relations211
- Public Administration46
- Communication36
- Gender Studies36
- Health32
- Safety Research31
- Library and Information Sciences30
- Linguistics and Language30
- Anthropology29
- Law24
- Transportation23
- Demography22
- Urban Studies18
- Geography, Planning and Development16
- Cultural Studies6
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2003. Corpus-wide, 70.2% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
17 additional Communication journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2000–2002, 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: 2003. Publication window: 2000–2002. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 36
- Window papers (baseline)
- 9,040 +36.5% from indicator year 2000
- Median OJR
- 0.67 -3.7% from indicator year 2000
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2000–2002 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.