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Technical Communication Quarterly

Routledge · United States · Est. 1992

ISSN1542-7625

SJR Q2✓ WOS ESCI✓ Scopus / SJR

Impact Factor & Quartile · Web of Science (JCR)

✓ Indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection (ESCI) — Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor and JCR quartile for this journal.

See the official Impact Factor & quartile on the journal’s page ↗

The Impact Factor & JCR quartile are licensed by Clarivate — we link you to the official source instead of reprinting a number that can go out of date. Open metrics below: SCImago Q2. Source: Clarivate Journal Citation Reports.

📊 Standing in its field

Where this journal ranks among others in the same subject area.

SJR · Scopus

Top 50% in field

Clarivate’s JCR quartile is a separate ranking and may differ

SJR Scorei

0.397

H-Indexi

SNIPi

1.324

Total Worksi

1,149

Total Citationsi

18,115

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.71

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Subject areas: Communication; Education.

General Information

Country / RegionUnited States

Primary LanguageEnglish

1st Year Published1992

Annual Volume~ 39 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2026)

Total Publications1,149

Publisher OrgRoutledge

Visit Journal Website

Submission Info

Peer Review—

OA License—

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

6/11 · 55%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Routledge

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1542-7625

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Indexed in a trusted database?

WoS, Scopus

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Peer review process documented?

N/A

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Follows ethical publishing standards (COPE)?

N/A

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Not on predatory/blacklists?

✓ Clean

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Long-term digital preservation?

N/A

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Plagiarism detection in place?

N/A

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Listed in DOAJ (verified OA)?

N/A

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Primary language documented?

English

A twelfth criterion — whether APC fees are clearly disclosed — is not scored here; it is left out of the total rather than counted as a failure. Publication charges appear in the metrics card above.

Based on the Think.Check.Submit framework by DOAJ, COPE & OASPA. All data from verified open sources.

Publication & Citation Trend

Articles published

Citations received

769

2019

511

2020

328

2021

430

2022

119

2023

2024

2025

2026

Source: OpenAlex · Each year’s green bar = citations earned by that year’s papers, counted to date — so recent years look lower simply because their papers haven’t had time to be cited yet.

SJR Quartile by Discipline

Scimago ranks this journal separately in each subject category — its quartile can differ by discipline.

CommunicationQ2

EducationQ2

Subject Classification

Web of Science Categories

Communication

Scopus Categories

CommunicationEducation

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Discourse Analysis in Language StudiesRhetoric and Communication StudiesDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluationLiteracy, Media, and EducationCommunication in Education and HealthcareDigital Communication and LanguageOnline and Blended LearningEngineering Education and Curriculum DevelopmentInnovative Teaching and Learning Methods

Frequently asked questions about Technical Communication Quarterly

Is Technical Communication Quarterly a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Technical Communication Quarterly: it is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus, and is not on DOAJ's withdrawn list. Indexing is a transparency signal, not a guarantee — always confirm fit and policies before submitting.

What is the impact factor of Technical Communication Quarterly?

Technical Communication Quarterly is indexed in the Web of Science Core Collection, so Clarivate publishes an official Journal Impact Factor for it (since the 2023 Journal Citation Reports, every Core Collection journal — including Arts & Humanities and Emerging Sources titles — receives one). PubScope links to Clarivate's official source rather than reprinting the number, which can be out of date. Its open 2-year mean citedness is 0.71.

Is Technical Communication Quarterly indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Technical Communication Quarterly is indexed in Web of Science, Scopus.

What is the aims and scope of Technical Communication Quarterly?