Journal of Creative Communications

The Journal of Creative Communications is published three times a year by SAGE Publications (New Delhi, India) in collaboration with MICA,^[1] Shela, Ahmedabad, India. It is an international double-blind peer-reviewed journal.

Journal of Creative Communications (JOCC)

Discipline	Communication & Media Studies | Marketing Communications
Language	English
Edited by	Manisha Pathak-Shelat
Publication details
History	March 2006–present
Publisher	Sage Publications India Pvt. Ltd.
Frequency	Triannually
Impact factor	1.5 (2018)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	J. Creat. Commun.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus · W&L
ISSN	0973-2586 (print) 0973-2594 (web)
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

JOCC is a journal in the field of communication theory and practice. It describes itself as a journal that 'promotes inquiry into contemporary communication issues within wider social, economic, cultural, technological and management contexts, and provides a forum for the discussion of theoretical and practical insights emerging from such inquiry.' ^[2]

This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).^[3] JOCC is currently^[when?] edited by Dr Manisha Pathak-Shelat, MICA.^{[4][citation needed]}

Abstracting and indexing

The Journal of Creative Communications^[5] is abstracted and indexed in:

• Emerging Sources Citation Index
• DeepDyve
• Dutch-KB
• Portico
• EBSCO
• Indian Citation Index
• J-Gate
• OCLC
• Ohio
• SCOPUS
• University Grants Commission (India)
• Clarivate Analytics: Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
• CABELLS Journalytics
• ProQuest: IBSS
• ProQuest: Social Science Premium Collection

News

Research and case studies published by JOCC have appeared across multiple new sites. The paper 'Materiality and Discursivity of Cyber Violence Against Women in India' ^[6] by Sahana Sarkar and Benson Rajan was cited in various articles.,^[7][8][9] outlining the online abuse faced by women in India. The paper titled 'The Twitter Revolution in the Gulf Countries'^[10] by Badreya Al-Jenaibi was cited by an article in The Washington Post.^[11]

Editor

• Dr Manisha Pathak Shelat - MICA (institute)

Associate Editors

• Kallol Das – MICA (institute)
• Kjerstin Thorson – Michigan State University
• Rajat Roy – Bond University^[12]