Journal rankings · indicator year 2009
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Subfield ranking · 2009
Communication journal rankings 2009
48 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Communication has 48 ranked journals in 2009. The median OJR rose 0.39 on 2008 to 1.86, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.89. The top three are Journal of Studies in International Education, Journal of Communication, and Communication Theory.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2009. 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 2006–2008, the window the 2009 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)
48 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 2008. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2006–2008, the window the 2009 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2006–2008 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 2009. | Compare |
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1Journal of Studies in International EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.89Q1 | 2.93 1.49 up from 2008 | 90 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
2Journal of CommunicationOxford University Press · United States | 4.80Q1 | 1.98 0.87 down from 2008 | 204 | 10% | $4,235 | ||
3Communication TheoryWiley · United States | 4.57Q1 | 1.55 0.45 down from 2008 | 100 | 4% | $4,235 | ||
4Journal of Knowledge ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.96Q1 | 2.23 0.26 up from 2008 | 208 | 11% | — | ||
5Discourse & CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 1.41 0.12 down from 2008 | 39 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
6The International Journal of Press/PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.55Q1 | 1.18no 2008 value | 45 | 3% | $3,900 | ||
7Journalism PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.51Q1 | 1.85 1.25 up from 2008 | 62 | 6% | — | ||
8Harvard International Journal of Press/PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.40Q1 | 1.84no change | 56 | — | — | ||
9Journal of Public Relations ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.39Q1 | 1.89 0.28 down from 2008 | 59 | 4% | — | ||
10Political CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.10Q1 | 1.57 0.66 up from 2008 | 93 | 5% | — | ||
11JournalismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.07Q1 | 1.22 0.10 up from 2008 | 97 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
12Annals of the International Communication AssociationTaylor & Francis | 2.89Q1 | 1.95 0.71 up from 2008 | 30 | 8% | $3,368 | ||
13Journalism StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.84Q2 | 1.04 0.09 down from 2008 | 186 | 11% | — | ||
14International Journal of Cross Cultural ManagementSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.76Q2 | 2.03 0.81 up from 2008 | 53 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
15Journal of Business CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 2.67Q2 | 1.85 0.80 up from 2008 | 69 | 4% | — | ||
16Journal of Information Technology & PoliticsRoutledge · United States | 2.66Q2 | 1.07 0.73 up from 2008 | 45 | 4% | — | ||
17Knowledge Management Research & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.38Q2 | 1.61 0.15 up from 2008 | 112 | 17% | — | ||
18International Journal of Knowledge ManagementOAIGI Global · United States | 2.09Q2 | 1.21 0.34 up from 2008 | 72 | 4% | — | ||
19International Communication GazetteSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.05Q2 | 0.88 0.12 down from 2008 | 98 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
20Journalism & Mass Communication QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.04Q2 | 0.72 0.18 down from 2008 | 257 | 4% | $3,900 | ||
21Corporate Communications An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.97Q2 | 1.24 0.02 down from 2008 | 90 | 3% | — | ||
22Journal of Deliberative DemocracyOAUnited Kingdom | 1.96Q2 | 1.16 0.40 up from 2008 | 43 | 100% | — | ||
23Cross Cultural Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.94Q2 | 1.23 0.34 up from 2008 | 77 | 0% | — | ||
24Public Relations ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 1.94Q2 | 1.09 0.09 up from 2008 | 279 | 7% | $4,310 | ||
25CommunicationsDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 1.79Q3 | 0.82 0.09 up from 2008 | 79 | 31% | $2,712 | ||
26e-Service JournalIndiana University Press · United States | 1.71Q3 | 1.82 0.82 up from 2008 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
27Journal of Communication ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 1.49Q3 | 0.88 0.12 up from 2008 | 84 | 4% | — | ||
28Journal of Political MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.34Q3 | 0.70 0.02 up from 2008 | 49 | 12% | — | ||
29Nordicom review/NORDICOM reviewOADe Gruyter Open · Sweden | 1.24Q3 | 0.63 0.19 up from 2008 | 92 | 100% | — | ||
30Journal of Mass Media EthicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.19Q3 | 0.74 0.25 up from 2008 | 88 | 3% | — | ||
31Journal of Intercultural Communication ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.17Q3 | 1.00no change | 44 | 0% | — | ||
32Global Media and CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.13Q3 | 0.51 0.02 up from 2008 | 81 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
33Newspaper Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.03Q3 | 0.39 0.07 down from 2008 | 87 | 7% | $3,200 | ||
34Asian Journal of CommunicationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.00Q3 | 0.61 0.04 down from 2008 | 76 | 9% | — | ||
35Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.96Q3 | 0.28 0.14 up from 2008 | 57 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
36International Journal of Knowledge Management StudiesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.75Q3 | 0.30 0.31 down from 2008 | 59 | 12% | — | ||
37Media International AustraliaPublisher not listed | 0.52Q4 | 0.28 0.10 up from 2008 | 205 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
38El Profesional de la InformacionOAEdiciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL · Spain | 0.51Q4 | 0.28 0.04 down from 2008 | 261 | 100% | — | ||
39Ecquid Novi African Journalism StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.48Q4 | 0.16 0.03 up from 2008 | 80 | 2% | — | ||
40Electronic NewsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.47Q4 | 0.19 0.25 down from 2008 | 47 | 0% | $3,650 | ||
41Journal of Teaching in International BusinessTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.44Q4 | 0.57 0.40 up from 2008 | 48 | 5% | — | ||
42Observatorio (OBS*)OAOberCom (Observatorio da Comunicação) · Portugal | 0.41Q4 | 0.18 0.13 up from 2008 | 57 | 100% | — | ||
43Journal of Radio StudiesTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.32Q4 | 0.33 0.22 down from 2008 | 40 | — | — | ||
44CommunicatioRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.26Q4 | 0.18 0.10 up from 2008 | 52 | 6% | — | ||
45Journal of Intercultural CommunicationOAPublisher not listed | 0.21Q4 | 0.09 0.22 down from 2008 | 59 | 100% | — | ||
46Comunicação e SociedadeOAUniversity of Minho · Portugal | 0.12Q4 | 0.08 0.08 down from 2008 | 81 | 100% | — | ||
47Journal of International CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.06Q4 | 0.03 0.02 up from 2008 | 499 | 0% | — | ||
48Communication & SocietyOAUniversity of Navarre · Spain | 0.04Q4 | 0.02 0.02 up from 2008 | 78 | 100% | $301 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Communication highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science899
- Education464
- Political Science and International Relations260
- Gender Studies50
- Communication48
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Health36
- Library and Information Sciences36
- Anthropology35
- Law34
- Transportation33
- Demography29
- Urban Studies28
- Geography, Planning and Development18
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences3
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2009. Corpus-wide, 71.4% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
21 additional Communication journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2006–2008, 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: 2009. Publication window: 2006–2008. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 48
- Window papers (baseline)
- 18,165 +44.2% from indicator year 2006
- Median OJR
- 1.86 +18.5% from indicator year 2006
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2006–2008 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.