Journal rankings · indicator year 2006
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Subfield ranking · 2006
Communication journal rankings 2006
38 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Communication has 38 ranked journals in 2006. The median OJR rose 0.27 on 2005 to 1.57, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.31. The top three are Journal of Knowledge Management, Political Communication, and Journal of Studies in International Education.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2006. 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 2003–2005, the window the 2006 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)
38 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 2005. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2003–2005, the window the 2006 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2003–2005 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 2006. | Compare |
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1Journal of Knowledge ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 4.88Q1 | 2.45 0.25 up from 2005 | 169 | 6% | — | ||
2Political CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.89Q1 | 1.23 0.71 down from 2005 | 101 | 1% | — | ||
3Journal of Studies in International EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.02Q1 | 1.21 0.59 up from 2005 | 63 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
4Journal of CommunicationOxford University Press · United States | 2.83Q1 | 1.38 0.18 down from 2005 | 274 | 6% | $4,235 | ||
5Communication TheoryWiley · United States | 2.78Q1 | 1.28no change | 128 | 10% | $4,235 | ||
6Annals of the International Communication AssociationTaylor & Francis | 2.66Q1 | 1.29 0.46 up from 2005 | 36 | 8% | $3,368 | ||
7Knowledge Management Research & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.49Q1 | 1.15 0.42 down from 2005 | 66 | 20% | — | ||
8International Journal of Cross Cultural ManagementSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.36Q1 | 1.47 0.47 up from 2005 | 57 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
9Journal of Public Relations ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.35Q1 | 1.25 0.35 down from 2005 | 51 | 0% | — | ||
10Journalism & Mass Communication QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.31Q1 | 0.89 0.01 down from 2005 | 263 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
11Gazette (Leiden Netherlands)SAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.21Q2 | 0.74 0.12 down from 2005 | 103 | — | — | ||
12Harvard International Journal of Press/PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.18Q2 | 0.80 0.32 down from 2005 | 92 | 4% | — | ||
13Journal of Communication ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.11Q2 | 1.30 0.98 up from 2005 | 72 | 11% | — | ||
14JournalismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.08Q2 | 1.15 0.01 up from 2005 | 76 | 6% | $3,900 | ||
15e-Service JournalIndiana University Press · United States | 1.86Q2 | 0.67 0.23 down from 2005 | 67 | 6% | — | ||
16Journal of Business CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.85Q2 | 0.95 0.05 up from 2005 | 70 | 3% | — | ||
17Journalism StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.62Q2 | 0.81 0.23 down from 2005 | 112 | 10% | — | ||
18Newspaper Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.62Q2 | 0.55 0.22 down from 2005 | 119 | 8% | $3,200 | ||
19Public Relations ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 1.58Q2 | 0.75 0.04 down from 2005 | 192 | 2% | $4,310 | ||
20Cross Cultural Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.56Q3 | 0.73 0.03 down from 2005 | 66 | 4% | — | ||
21Corporate Communications An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.36Q3 | 0.85 0.20 up from 2005 | 85 | 6% | — | ||
22Asian Journal of CommunicationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.93Q3 | 0.69 0.51 up from 2005 | 48 | 10% | — | ||
23Journal of Political MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.88Q3 | 0.33 0.06 down from 2005 | 78 | 0% | — | ||
24CommunicationsDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 0.82Q3 | 0.51 0.16 up from 2005 | 74 | 19% | $2,712 | ||
25Global Media and CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.63Q3 | 0.29no 2005 value | 34 | 5% | $3,650 | — | |
26Media International AustraliaPublisher not listed | 0.57Q3 | 0.23 0.07 down from 2005 | 161 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
27Radio Journal International Studies in Broadcast & Audio MediaIntellect · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.17 0.05 up from 2005 | 37 | 0% | — | ||
28CommunicatioRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.46Q3 | 0.03 0.41 down from 2005 | 52 | 7% | — | ||
29Journal of Mass Media EthicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.45Q3 | 0.35 0.09 up from 2005 | 84 | 6% | — | ||
30Journal of Radio StudiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.40Q4 | 0.14 0.22 down from 2005 | 66 | 4% | — | ||
31Nordicom review/NORDICOM reviewOADe Gruyter Open · Sweden | 0.38Q4 | 0.08 0.30 down from 2005 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Teaching in International BusinessTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.26Q4 | 0.45 0.18 up from 2005 | 48 | 4% | — | ||
33Comunicação e SociedadeOAUniversity of Minho · Portugal | 0.26Q4 | 0.09 0.12 down from 2005 | 79 | 100% | — | ||
34El Profesional de la InformacionOAEdiciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL · Spain | 0.25Q4 | 0.24 0.18 up from 2005 | 248 | 100% | — | ||
35Journal of Intercultural CommunicationOAPublisher not listed | 0.17Q4 | 0.15 0.02 down from 2005 | 31 | 100% | — | ||
36Ecquid Novi African Journalism StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.11Q4 | 0.08 0.13 down from 2005 | 160 | 0% | — | ||
37Journal of International CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.07Q4 | 0.03 0.02 up from 2005 | 206 | 0% | — | ||
38Communication & SocietyOAUniversity of Navarre · Spain | 0.03Q4 | 0.00no change | 109 | 100% | $301 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Communication highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science776
- Education409
- Political Science and International Relations243
- Public Administration45
- Gender Studies44
- Communication38
- Health34
- Safety Research34
- Linguistics and Language31
- Library and Information Sciences30
- Anthropology29
- Demography27
- Transportation27
- Law25
- Urban Studies22
- Geography, Planning and Development17
- Cultural Studies8
- Development2
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2006. Corpus-wide, 71.3% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
18 additional Communication journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2003–2005, 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: 2006. Publication window: 2003–2005. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 38
- Window papers (baseline)
- 12,598 +39.4% from indicator year 2003
- Median OJR
- 1.570 +135.7% from indicator year 2003
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2003–2005 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.