Journal rankings · indicator year 2004
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Subfield ranking · 2004
Communication journal rankings 2004
35 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Communication has 35 ranked journals in 2004. The median OJR rose 0.27 on 2003 to 0.94, below the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 1.78. The top three are Journal of Knowledge Management, Political Communication, and Journalism.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2004. 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 2001–2003, the window the 2004 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)
35 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 2003. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2001–2003, the window the 2004 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2001–2003 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 2004. | Compare |
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1Journal of Knowledge ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.22Q1 | 1.79 1.01 down from 2003 | 125 | 5% | — | ||
2Political CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.73Q1 | 0.96 0.24 down from 2003 | 82 | 0% | — | ||
3JournalismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 0.51 0.10 down from 2003 | 67 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
4Journal of Public Relations ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.97Q1 | 1.00 0.04 up from 2003 | 36 | 0% | — | ||
5Communication TheoryWiley · United States | 2.44Q1 | 1.31 0.29 up from 2003 | 137 | 0% | $4,235 | ||
6Journal of CommunicationOxford University Press · United States | 2.17Q1 | 0.99 0.26 up from 2003 | 279 | 1% | $4,235 | ||
7Journalism StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.08Q1 | 0.85 0.65 up from 2003 | 147 | 4% | — | ||
8Journalism & Mass Communication QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.02Q1 | 0.68 0.17 up from 2003 | 258 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
9Public Relations ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 1.78Q1 | 1.13 0.52 up from 2003 | 126 | 1% | $4,310 | ||
10Corporate Communications An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.74Q2 | 0.65 0.03 down from 2003 | 100 | 0% | — | ||
11Journal of Business CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.68Q2 | 1.16 0.09 down from 2003 | 53 | 3% | — | ||
12Harvard International Journal of Press/PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.67Q2 | 0.41 0.13 up from 2003 | 175 | 0% | — | ||
13Annals of the International Communication AssociationTaylor & Francis | 1.45Q2 | 0.50 0.14 down from 2003 | 56 | 0% | $3,368 | ||
14Gazette (Leiden Netherlands)SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.36Q2 | 0.43 0.02 down from 2003 | 95 | 0% | — | ||
15e-Service JournalIndiana University Press · United States | 1.22Q2 | 0.58 0.10 up from 2003 | 82 | 0% | — | ||
16Newspaper Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.17Q2 | 0.47 0.20 up from 2003 | 126 | 6% | $3,200 | ||
17Cross Cultural Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.97Q2 | 0.50 0.15 up from 2003 | 55 | 9% | — | ||
18Journal of Studies in International EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.94Q2 | 0.30 0.22 up from 2003 | 76 | 4% | $3,650 | ||
19International Journal of Cross Cultural ManagementSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.86Q3 | 0.51 0.23 down from 2003 | 70 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
20Media International AustraliaPublisher not listed | 0.85Q3 | 0.42 0.26 up from 2003 | 181 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
21Journal of Mass Media EthicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.85Q3 | 0.16 0.08 down from 2003 | 76 | 3% | — | ||
22Journal of Political MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.77Q3 | 0.32 0.04 up from 2003 | 78 | 0% | — | ||
23Journal of Teaching in International BusinessTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.69Q3 | 0.11 0.29 down from 2003 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
24Journal of Communication ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 0.67Q3 | 0.32 0.05 up from 2003 | 89 | 4% | — | ||
25CommunicatioRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.61Q3 | 0.42 0.17 up from 2003 | 48 | 0% | — | ||
26Asian Journal of CommunicationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.55Q3 | 0.26 0.07 up from 2003 | 44 | 0% | — | ||
27CommunicationsDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 0.47Q3 | 0.24 0.07 down from 2003 | 76 | 21% | $2,712 | ||
28Ecquid Novi African Journalism StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.42Q4 | 0.15 0.06 up from 2003 | 67 | 2% | — | ||
29Journal of Radio StudiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.42Q4 | 0.17 0.11 down from 2003 | 63 | 8% | — | ||
30New Jersey Journal of CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.37Q4 | 0.22 0.02 down from 2003 | 40 | — | — | ||
31Nordicom review/NORDICOM reviewOADe Gruyter Open · Sweden | 0.24Q4 | 0.09 0.03 down from 2003 | 64 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of International CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.09Q4 | 0.05no change | 244 | 0% | — | ||
33El Profesional de la InformacionOAEdiciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL · Spain | 0.07Q4 | 0.04 0.02 up from 2003 | 303 | 100% | — | ||
34Comunicação e SociedadeOAUniversity of Minho · Portugal | 0.05Q4 | 0.04 0.04 up from 2003 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
35Communication & SocietyOAUniversity of Navarre · Spain | 0.05Q4 | 0.00no change | 105 | 100% | $301 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Communication highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science716
- Education363
- Political Science and International Relations222
- Public Administration46
- Gender Studies36
- Communication35
- Safety Research33
- Health32
- Library and Information Sciences32
- Linguistics and Language32
- Anthropology30
- Law26
- Demography24
- Transportation24
- Urban Studies19
- Geography, Planning and Development15
- Cultural Studies8
- Development2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics2
- General Social Sciences1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2004. Corpus-wide, 69.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
20 additional Communication journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2001–2003, 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: 2004. Publication window: 2001–2003. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 35
- Window papers (baseline)
- 9,893 +34.5% from indicator year 2001
- Median OJR
- 0.94 +72.7% from indicator year 2001
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2001–2003 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.