Journal rankings · indicator year 2011
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Subfield ranking · 2011
Communication journal rankings 2011
52 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Communication has 52 ranked journals in 2011. The median OJR rose 0.05 on 2010 to 1.85, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.96. The top three are Journal of Communication, Communication Theory, and Journal of Information Technology & Politics.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2011. 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 2008–2010, the window the 2011 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)
52 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 2010. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2008–2010, the window the 2011 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2008–2010 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 2002 to 2011. | Compare |
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1Journal of CommunicationOxford University Press · United States | 6.69Q1 | 3.87 1.45 up from 2010 | 161 | 7% | $4,235 | ||
2Communication TheoryWiley · United States | 6.08Q1 | 2.74 0.18 up from 2010 | 67 | 4% | $4,235 | ||
3Journal of Information Technology & PoliticsRoutledge · United States | 5.38Q1 | 3.75 2.07 up from 2010 | 83 | 14% | — | ||
4Journal of Knowledge ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 5.36Q1 | 3.51 0.83 up from 2010 | 205 | 5% | — | ||
5Political CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.77Q1 | 2.39 0.02 up from 2010 | 71 | 5% | — | ||
6European Journal of CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.60Q1 | 1.86 0.12 down from 2010 | 72 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
7The International Journal of Press/PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.56Q1 | 1.68 0.01 up from 2010 | 105 | 0% | $3,900 | ||
8Journal of Studies in International EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.20Q1 | 2.03 0.67 up from 2010 | 82 | 3% | $3,650 | ||
9Journal of Public Relations ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.59Q1 | 2.59 1.04 up from 2010 | 64 | 0% | — | ||
10International Journal of Cross Cultural ManagementSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.46Q1 | 2.54 0.15 down from 2010 | 54 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
11Journal of Business CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.34Q1 | 1.38 0.12 down from 2010 | 73 | 5% | — | ||
12Discourse & CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.12Q1 | 1.60 0.83 up from 2010 | 57 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
13Corporate Communications An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.96Q1 | 2.16 1.14 up from 2010 | 94 | 11% | — | ||
14Public Relations ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 2.53Q2 | 2.10 0.70 up from 2010 | 269 | 6% | $4,310 | ||
15Journalism PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.52Q2 | 1.28 0.24 down from 2010 | 117 | 9% | — | ||
16Annals of the International Communication AssociationTaylor & Francis | 2.45Q2 | 1.67 0.22 up from 2010 | 33 | 6% | $3,368 | ||
17Cross Cultural Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.34Q2 | 1.46 0.08 up from 2010 | 78 | 5% | — | ||
18Journalism StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.33Q2 | 0.92 0.35 down from 2010 | 203 | 6% | — | ||
19Knowledge Management Research & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.32Q2 | 1.51 0.19 up from 2010 | 107 | 22% | — | ||
20International Communication GazetteSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.29Q2 | 1.13 0.26 up from 2010 | 108 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
21CommunicationsDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 2.15Q2 | 0.91 0.17 up from 2010 | 68 | 33% | $2,712 | ||
22Journal of Communication ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.09Q2 | 1.11 0.12 down from 2010 | 80 | 12% | — | ||
23Nordicom review/NORDICOM reviewOADe Gruyter Open · Sweden | 2.07Q2 | 0.57 0.33 down from 2010 | 82 | 100% | — | ||
24Asian Journal of CommunicationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 2.01Q2 | 0.80 0.10 down from 2010 | 80 | 2% | — | ||
25JournalismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.97Q2 | 1.31 0.21 up from 2010 | 144 | 12% | $3,900 | ||
26Journal of International and Intercultural CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.86Q2 | 1.00 0.09 up from 2010 | 51 | 29% | — | ||
27International Journal of Knowledge ManagementOAIGI Global · United States | 1.85Q3 | 1.34 0.62 up from 2010 | 64 | 4% | — | ||
28Journalism & Mass Communication QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.71Q3 | 0.80 0.16 up from 2010 | 224 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
29Global Media and CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.52Q3 | 0.59 0.08 up from 2010 | 69 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
30Media International AustraliaPublisher not listed | 1.46Q3 | 0.32 0.06 down from 2010 | 187 | 13% | $3,650 | ||
31International Journal of Strategic CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.32Q3 | 1.09 0.21 up from 2010 | 45 | 12% | — | ||
32Media War & ConflictSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.29Q3 | 0.47 0.25 down from 2010 | 62 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
33Journal of Political MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.19Q3 | 0.68 0.26 up from 2010 | 59 | 8% | — | ||
34Journal of Deliberative DemocracyOAUnited Kingdom | 1.17Q3 | 0.55 0.45 down from 2010 | 45 | 100% | — | ||
35Journal of Mass Media EthicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.05Q3 | 0.66 0.22 up from 2010 | 91 | 5% | — | ||
36Newspaper Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.03Q3 | 0.50 0.08 down from 2010 | 94 | 6% | $3,200 | ||
37Comunicação e SociedadeOAUniversity of Minho · Portugal | 1.02Q3 | 0.43 0.29 up from 2010 | 89 | 100% | — | ||
38Journal of Teaching in International BusinessTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.98Q3 | 1.42 0.02 down from 2010 | 46 | 4% | — | ||
39Ecquid Novi African Journalism StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.83Q3 | 0.30 0.07 down from 2010 | 67 | 0% | — | ||
40International Journal of Knowledge Management StudiesInderscience Publishers · United Kingdom | 0.82Q4 | 0.70 0.33 up from 2010 | 57 | 0% | — | ||
41CommunicatioRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.81Q4 | 0.60 0.13 up from 2010 | 58 | 4% | — | ||
42Radio Journal International Studies in Broadcast & Audio MediaIntellect · United Kingdom | 0.65Q4 | 0.36 0.11 up from 2010 | 37 | 5% | — | ||
| 0.53Q4 | 0.17 0.06 up from 2010 | 51 | 100% | — | |||
44Journal of Radio & Audio MediaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.52Q4 | 0.41 0.24 up from 2010 | 53 | 3% | — | ||
45El Profesional de la InformacionOAEdiciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL · Spain | 0.52Q4 | 0.43 0.10 down from 2010 | 275 | 100% | — | ||
46Observatorio (OBS*)OAOberCom (Observatorio da Comunicação) · Portugal | 0.50Q4 | 0.20 0.02 down from 2010 | 119 | 100% | — | ||
47Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.42Q4 | 0.07 0.15 down from 2010 | 55 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
48Journal of Intercultural Communication ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 0.34Q4 | 0.31 0.31 down from 2010 | 40 | 6% | — | ||
49Journal of Intercultural CommunicationOAPublisher not listed | 0.30Q4 | 0.16 0.01 down from 2010 | 67 | 100% | — | ||
50Electronic NewsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.29Q4 | 0.26 0.02 down from 2010 | 58 | 4% | $3,650 |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Communication highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,005
- Education521
- Political Science and International Relations279
- Gender Studies56
- Communication52
- Public Administration48
- Safety Research44
- Transportation41
- Health40
- Law39
- Library and Information Sciences39
- Linguistics and Language38
- Anthropology34
- Urban Studies33
- Demography31
- Geography, Planning and Development20
- Cultural Studies9
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2011. Corpus-wide, 75.1% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
22 additional Communication journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2008–2010, 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: 2011. Publication window: 2008–2010. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 52
- Window papers (baseline)
- 22,525 +39.6% from indicator year 2008
- Median OJR
- 1.85 +25.6% from indicator year 2008
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2008–2010 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 |
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| 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.