Journal rankings · indicator year 2014
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Subfield ranking · 2014
Communication journal rankings 2014
66 ranked journals · Subfield in Social Sciences
Communication has 66 ranked journals in 2014. The median OJR fell 0.24 on 2013 to 1.49, above the world average of 1.00; Q1 starts at OJR 2.84. The top three are Communication Theory, Journal of Communication, and Journal of Knowledge Management.
Ranks and citation indicators: 2014. 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 2011–2013, the window the 2014 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)
66 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 2013. This is OpenJournalRank’s own count, not Clarivate’s Journal Impact Factor. | Citable documents (articles, reviews and conference papers) published in 2011–2013, the window the 2014 OJR is computed on. A journal needs at least 30 to be ranked. | Share of the journal’s 2011–2013 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 2005 to 2014. | Compare |
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1Communication TheoryWiley · United States | 8.03Q1 | 4.51 2.38 up from 2013 | 71 | 10% | $4,235 | ||
2Journal of CommunicationOxford University Press · United States | 7.83Q1 | 5.97 1.58 up from 2013 | 231 | 13% | $4,235 | ||
3Journal of Knowledge ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 6.99Q1 | 4.62 0.30 up from 2013 | 176 | 12% | — | ||
4Digital JournalismTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 5.85Q1 | 4.19 0.63 up from 2013 | 42 | 18% | — | ||
5The International Journal of Press/PoliticsSAGE Publishing · United States | 5.48Q1 | 2.67 1.14 down from 2013 | 75 | 13% | $3,900 | ||
6Journal of Studies in International EducationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.96Q1 | 1.78 0.68 down from 2013 | 85 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
7Political CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 4.63Q1 | 1.84 1.13 down from 2013 | 80 | 5% | — | ||
8JournalismSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 4.39Q1 | 2.22 0.32 down from 2013 | 240 | 15% | $3,900 | ||
9Journal of Business CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United States | 4.11Q1 | 4.22 2.22 up from 2013 | 39 | — | — | ||
10European Journal of CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 3.90Q1 | 1.91 0.19 down from 2013 | 150 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
11Journalism StudiesRoutledge · United Kingdom | 3.48Q1 | 2.27 0.67 up from 2013 | 176 | 15% | — | ||
12Journalism PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 3.38Q1 | 2.56 0.75 up from 2013 | 168 | 15% | — | ||
13Journal of Information Technology & PoliticsRoutledge · United States | 3.19Q1 | 2.51 0.86 up from 2013 | 85 | 27% | — | ||
14Corporate Communications An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.19Q1 | 2.12 0.07 up from 2013 | 86 | 13% | — | ||
15Journal of Communication ManagementEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 3.10Q1 | 1.48 0.73 down from 2013 | 71 | 15% | — | ||
16Public Relations ReviewElsevier BV · United States | 3.04Q1 | 2.12 0.09 down from 2013 | 347 | 13% | $4,310 | ||
17International Communication GazetteSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.84Q1 | 1.74 0.08 down from 2013 | 135 | 15% | $3,650 | ||
18International Journal of Cross Cultural ManagementSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.70Q2 | 1.30 0.57 down from 2013 | 63 | 18% | $3,650 | ||
19Journal of Public Relations ResearchTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.57Q2 | 2.00 0.16 up from 2013 | 67 | 10% | — | ||
20Discourse & CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.53Q2 | 1.22 0.03 down from 2013 | 69 | 7% | $3,650 | ||
21Cross Cultural Management An International JournalEmerald Publishing Limited · United Kingdom | 2.50Q2 | 1.47 0.84 down from 2013 | 99 | 7% | — | ||
22Public Relations InquirySAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 2.42Q2 | 2.03 0.14 down from 2013 | 36 | 17% | $3,650 | ||
23International Journal of Strategic CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.28Q2 | 1.69 0.32 up from 2013 | 55 | 7% | — | ||
24Journal of Deliberative DemocracyOAUnited Kingdom | 2.21Q2 | 1.53 0.37 up from 2013 | 68 | 100% | — | ||
25Annals of the International Communication AssociationTaylor & Francis | 2.18Q2 | 1.78 0.85 up from 2013 | 39 | 0% | $3,368 | ||
26Journal of Political MarketingTaylor & Francis · United States | 2.05Q2 | 0.89 0.71 down from 2013 | 56 | 14% | — | ||
27Journal of International and Intercultural CommunicationTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 2.04Q2 | 1.10 0.10 up from 2013 | 57 | 4% | — | ||
28Journalism & Mass Communication QuarterlySAGE Publishing · United States | 2.00Q2 | 1.22 0.37 up from 2013 | 216 | 5% | $3,900 | ||
29Electronic Journal of Knowledge ManagementOAAcademic Conferences and Publishing International · United Kingdom | 1.76Q2 | 0.80 1.20 down from 2013 | 30 | 100% | — | ||
30CommunicationsDe Gruyter Mouton · Germany | 1.68Q2 | 0.79 0.41 down from 2013 | 63 | 21% | $2,712 | ||
31Journal of Intercultural Communication ResearchTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.58Q2 | 0.90 0.02 up from 2013 | 55 | 10% | — | ||
32Global Media and CommunicationSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.51Q2 | 0.32 0.81 down from 2013 | 62 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
33Knowledge Management Research & PracticeTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.50Q2 | 1.03 0.36 down from 2013 | 161 | 11% | — | ||
34Asian Journal of CommunicationRoutledge · United Kingdom | 1.48Q3 | 0.73 0.14 down from 2013 | 122 | 11% | — | ||
35Ecquid Novi African Journalism StudiesTaylor & Francis · United Kingdom | 1.44Q3 | 0.60 0.07 down from 2013 | 106 | 15% | — | ||
36Media International AustraliaPublisher not listed | 1.37Q3 | 0.89 0.31 up from 2013 | 183 | 8% | $3,650 | ||
37Media War & ConflictSAGE Publishing · United Kingdom | 1.35Q3 | 0.79 0.06 down from 2013 | 59 | 14% | $3,650 | ||
38e-Service JournalIndiana University Press · United States | 1.32Q3 | 0.76 0.33 up from 2013 | 30 | 0% | — | ||
39Nordicom review/NORDICOM reviewOADe Gruyter Open · Sweden | 1.24Q3 | 0.62 0.15 up from 2013 | 87 | 100% | — | ||
40Journal of Teaching in International BusinessTaylor & Francis · United States | 1.13Q3 | 0.66 0.46 down from 2013 | 60 | 0% | — | ||
41Journal of International StudentsOAEditors of the journals · United States | 1.09Q3 | 0.78 0.15 down from 2013 | 70 | 100% | — | ||
42Australian journal of communicationAustralia | 1.03Q3 | 0.38 0.19 up from 2013 | 46 | — | — | ||
43El Profesional de la InformacionOAEdiciones Profesionales de la Informacion SL · Spain | 0.95Q3 | 0.88 0.12 up from 2013 | 248 | 100% | — | ||
44Studies in Communication and MediaOANomos · Germany | 0.93Q3 | 0.19 0.91 down from 2013 | 37 | 100% | — | ||
45Newspaper Research JournalSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.91Q3 | 0.35 0.29 down from 2013 | 104 | 7% | $3,200 | ||
46International Journal of Knowledge ManagementOAIGI Global · United States | 0.87Q3 | 1.25 0.22 up from 2013 | 57 | 22% | — | ||
47Journal of Mass Media EthicsTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.80Q3 | 0.46 0.02 up from 2013 | 98 | 8% | — | ||
48Electronic NewsSAGE Publishing · United States | 0.80Q3 | 0.55 0.09 down from 2013 | 53 | 12% | $3,650 | ||
49CommunicatioRoutledge · United Kingdom | 0.78Q3 | 0.45 0.05 up from 2013 | 82 | 26% | — | ||
50Journal of Radio & Audio MediaTaylor & Francis · United States | 0.67Q3 | 0.65 0.35 up from 2013 | 75 | 3% | — |
Subfields of Social Sciences, with Communication highlighted.
- Sociology and Political Science1,140
- Education637
- Political Science and International Relations294
- Communication66
- Gender Studies59
- Public Administration50
- Safety Research50
- Health45
- Law45
- Library and Information Sciences43
- Linguistics and Language41
- Transportation40
- Urban Studies38
- Anthropology36
- Demography36
- Geography, Planning and Development25
- Cultural Studies10
- Development4
- General Social Sciences2
- Human Factors and Ergonomics1
- Archeology0
- Life-span and Life-course Studies0
Journals
Citations made in 2014. Corpus-wide, 77.7% of core-journal articles and reviews published that year have at least one matched reference; the share varies by journal and field.
16 additional Communication journals with metrics are unranked under this release’s eligibility rules: a journal needs at least 30 citable documents in 2011–2013, 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: 2014. Publication window: 2011–2013. How these summaries are calculated
- Ranked journals
- 66
- Window papers (baseline)
- 29,419 +30.6% from indicator year 2011
- Median OJR
- 1.49 -19.7% from indicator year 2011
- Rising journals (2025)
- 3
Window papers are the baseline paper population: citable papers (articles, reviews and conference papers) from 2011–2013 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.