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Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG · Germany · Est. 2000

ISSN1615-634XeISSN2942-3317

SJR Q1✓ Scopus / SJR✓ DOAJ✓ Open Access

Journal Impact Factor

Not on record at PubScope. The Journal Impact Factor is published by Clarivate for Web of Science (JCR)–indexed journals. If this journal has one, it appears on the journal’s page ↗

📊 Standing in its field

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

SJR · Scopus

Top 25% in field

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

SJR Scorei

0.477

H-Indexi

SNIPi

0.557

Total Worksi

2,743

Total Citationsi

12,880

2yr Mean Citednessi

0.38

Open Impact Factor alternative

Aims & Scope

Das Open-Access-Journal Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft (M&K) wird seit 1953 vom Leibniz-Institut für Medienforschung │ Hans-Bredow-Institut (HBI) herausgegeben und redaktionell betreut. M&K bietet ein Forum zur Diskussion medien- und kommunikationsbezogener Fragen sowie für Analysen der Medienentwicklungen aus unterschiedlichen Perspektiven und Disziplinen und für alle Medien. Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft spiegelt damit die Trends der Forschung und der öffentlichen Diskussion um di

General Information

Country / RegionGermany

Primary LanguageGerman, English

1st Year Published2000

Annual Volume~ 39 articles / year

StatusActive (last: 2025)

Total Publications2,743

Publisher OrgNomos

OA Since2020

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Submission Info

Peer ReviewDouble anonymous peer review

OA LicenseCC BY

OA Rate—

Ethics & Quality

COPE Member✗ No

OASPA Member✗ No

Not on Predatory Lists✓ Yes

Think.Check.Submit Compliance

thinkchecksubmit.org

8/11 · 73%

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Do you know the journal / publisher?

Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG

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Does the journal have a website?

✓ Linked

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Is the ISSN verified?

1615-634X / 2942-3317

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Indexed in a trusted database?

Scopus, DOAJ

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Peer review process documented?

Double anonymous peer review

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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)?

DOAJ verified

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Primary language documented?

German, 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

131

2019

149

2020

155

2021

2022

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.

Linguistics and LanguageQ1

CommunicationQ2

Subject Classification

Research Topics (OpenAlex)

Media Studies and CommunicationSociology and Education StudiesLinguistic research and analysisIntellectual Property Rights and MediaPublic Administration and Political AnalysisDiverse Scientific and Economic StudiesLibraries and Information ServicesEuropean history and politicsGerman Literature and Culture StudiesHuman auditory perception and evaluation

Frequently asked questions about Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft

Is Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft a predatory journal?

PubScope has no integrity flags on record for Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft: it is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ, 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 Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft?

Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft is not in the Web of Science Core Collection, so it has no official Clarivate Journal Impact Factor. Its SCImago SJR score is 0.477.

Is Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft indexed in Scopus and Web of Science?

Medien & Kommunikationswissenschaft is indexed in Scopus, DOAJ.