Journal rankings · indicator year 2013
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Subfield ranking · 2013
Communication journal rankings 2013
57 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Communication has 57 ranked journals in 2013. The median OJR rose 0.06 on 2012 to 1.72, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 3.03. The top three are Journal of Communication, Journal of Knowledge Management, and Communication Theory.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2013. 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 2010–2012, the window the 2013 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)
57 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 2012. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2010–2012, the window the 2013 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2010–2012 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 2004 to 2013. | Compare |
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1Journal of CommunicationOxford University Press · United States | 7.56Q1 | 4.39 0.98 up from 2012 | 214 | 16% | $4,235 | ||
2Journal of Knowledge ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.31Q1 | 4.32 0.16 up from 2012 | 180 | 11% | — | ||
3Communication TheoryWiley · United States | 5.88Q1 | 2.13 0.96 down from 2012 | 65 | 10% | $4,235 | ||
4Journal of Studies in International EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.48Q1 | 2.46 0.48 up from 2012 | 69 | 10% | $3,650 | ||
5The International Journal of Press/PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.02Q1 | 3.81 1.34 up from 2012 | 82 | 22% | $3,900 | ||
6Political CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.66Q1 | 2.98 0.55 up from 2012 | 69 | 8% | — | ||
7Journal of Information Technology & PoliticsRoutledge · United States | 4.07Q1 | 1.64 1.30 down from 2012 | 83 | 11% | — | ||
8Journal of Business CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 3.98Q1 | 2.00 0.09 up from 2012 | 61 | 0% | — | ||
9European Journal of CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 2.10 0.64 up from 2012 | 97 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
10JournalismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.65Q1 | 2.53 0.92 up from 2012 | 203 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
11Journalism PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.60Q1 | 1.81 0.26 up from 2012 | 153 | 9% | — | ||
12Corporate Communications An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.37Q1 | 2.05 0.23 up from 2012 | 90 | 15% | — | ||
13Journal of Public Relations ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 3.36Q1 | 1.84 0.88 down from 2012 | 62 | 3% | — | ||
14Public Relations ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.11Q1 | 2.21 0.68 up from 2012 | 287 | 13% | $4,310 | ||
15Journalism StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.03Q1 | 1.59 0.22 down from 2012 | 189 | 17% | — | ||
16Cross Cultural Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.95Q2 | 2.31 0.13 up from 2012 | 94 | 5% | — | ||
17Discourse & CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.95Q2 | 1.26 0.06 down from 2012 | 57 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
18International Communication GazetteSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.74Q2 | 1.82 0.83 up from 2012 | 123 | 11% | $3,650 | ||
19Journal of Communication ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.73Q2 | 2.21 0.55 up from 2012 | 76 | 17% | — | ||
20International Journal of Cross Cultural ManagementSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.70Q2 | 1.88 0.40 up from 2012 | 59 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
21Journal of Political MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.46Q2 | 1.61 0.32 up from 2012 | 55 | 41% | — | ||
22International Journal of Strategic CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.02Q2 | 1.37 0.33 up from 2012 | 49 | 17% | — | ||
23CommunicationsDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 2.02Q2 | 1.20 0.32 up from 2012 | 62 | 40% | $2,712 | ||
24Knowledge Management Research & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.85Q2 | 1.39 0.18 down from 2012 | 128 | 25% | — | ||
25Asian Journal of CommunicationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.85Q2 | 0.87 0.02 down from 2012 | 126 | 7% | — | ||
26Media War & ConflictSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.83Q2 | 0.85 0.13 up from 2012 | 63 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
27Journalism & Mass Communication QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 1.77Q2 | 0.85 0.13 up from 2012 | 218 | 2% | $3,900 | ||
28Journal of International StudentsOAEditors of the journals · United States | 1.73Q2 | 0.93 0.97 down from 2012 | 46 | 100% | — | ||
29Global Media and CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.72Q2 | 1.14 0.25 up from 2012 | 81 | 9% | $3,650 | ||
30Journal of International and Intercultural CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.66Q3 | 1.00 0.44 down from 2012 | 61 | 7% | — | ||
31Journal of Deliberative DemocracyOAUnited Kingdom | 1.39Q3 | 1.16 0.33 up from 2012 | 56 | 100% | — | ||
32Journal of Teaching in International BusinessTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.32Q3 | 1.12 0.24 down from 2012 | 59 | 5% | — | ||
33Ecquid Novi African Journalism StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.18Q3 | 0.67 0.03 up from 2012 | 84 | 11% | — | ||
34Journal of Intercultural Communication ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.11Q3 | 0.88 0.09 down from 2012 | 55 | 14% | — | ||
35Newspaper Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 1.03Q3 | 0.63 0.25 up from 2012 | 101 | 7% | $3,200 | ||
36International Journal of Knowledge ManagementOAIGI Global · United States | 1.03Q3 | 1.03 0.11 up from 2012 | 55 | 0% | — | ||
37Media International AustraliaPublisher not listed | 1.01Q3 | 0.58 0.05 up from 2012 | 185 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
38Journal of Mass Media EthicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.96Q3 | 0.44 0.07 up from 2012 | 92 | 6% | — | ||
39Nordicom review/NORDICOM reviewOADe Gruyter Open · Sweden | 0.94Q3 | 0.47 0.50 down from 2012 | 63 | 100% | — | ||
40El Profesional de la InformacionOAEdiciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL · Spain | 0.83Q3 | 0.76 0.13 up from 2012 | 272 | 100% | — | ||
41Electronic NewsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.81Q3 | 0.63 0.40 up from 2012 | 57 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
42Radio Journal International Studies in Broadcast & Audio MediaIntellect · United Kingdom | 0.80Q3 | 0.42 0.07 up from 2012 | 31 | 7% | — | ||
43Comunicação e SociedadeOAUniversity of Minho · Portugal | 0.80Q3 | 0.11 0.26 down from 2012 | 144 | 100% | — | ||
44CommunicatioRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.70Q4 | 0.40 0.03 down from 2012 | 76 | 13% | — | ||
45Critical Studies in Television The International Journal of Television StudiesSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 0.60Q4 | 0.12 0.04 down from 2012 | 70 | 6% | $3,650 | ||
46International Journal of E-PoliticsIGI Global · United States | 0.59Q4 | 0.33 0.22 down from 2012 | 59 | 0% | — | ||
47Journal of Radio & Audio MediaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.48Q4 | 0.30no change | 70 | 9% | — | ||
48Revista ICONO14OAIcono 14 · Spain | 0.41Q4 | 0.22 0.12 up from 2012 | 330 | 100% | — | ||
49Journal of Intercultural CommunicationOAPublisher not listed | 0.37Q4 | 0.24 0.02 up from 2012 | 62 | 100% | — | ||
50Australian journal of communicationAustralia | 0.37Q4 | 0.19 0.14 up from 2012 | 36 | 0% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Communication highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,090
- Education598
- Political Science and International Relations287
- Communication57
- Gender Studies55
- Safety Research51
- Public Administration49
- Health47
- Transportation42
- Library and Information Sciences41
- Law40
- Linguistics and Language40
- Urban Studies39
- Anthropology37
- Demography34
- Geography, Planning and Development25
- Cultural Studies10
- Development3
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2013. Corpus-wide, 76.9% 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 2010–2012, 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: 2013. Publication window: 2010–2012. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 57
- Window papers (baseline)
- 27,541 +35.4% from indicator year 2010
- Median OJR
- 1.72 -4.1% from indicator year 2010
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2010–2012 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.