Communication Research (journal)

Communication Research is a bimonthly peer-reviewed academic journal that covers the field of communication studies and explores the processes, antecedents, and consequences of communication in a broad range of societal systems. The editors-in-chief are Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick (Ohio State University) and Jennifer Gibbs (University of California, Santa Barbara). It was established 1974 and is published by SAGE Publishing.

Communication Research

Discipline	Communication studies
Language	English
Edited by	Silvia Knobloch-Westerwick and Jennifer Gibbs
Publication details
History	1974–present
Publisher	SAGE Publishing
Frequency	Bimonthly
Impact factor	3.391 (2017)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Commun. Res.
NLM	Communic Res
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0093-6502 (print) 1552-3810 (web)
LCCN	74642099
OCLC no.	818904882
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO databases, ERIC, ProQuest databases, Scopus, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. According to the Journal Citation Reports, its 2017 impact factor is 3.391, ranking it 3rd out of 84 journals in the category "Communication".^[1]