Review of Communication Research

Aims & Scope

Review of Communication Research publishes comprehensive and authoritative reviews of the current state of the main topics and the most significant developments in the field of Communication. These comprehensive critical reviews summarize the latest advances in the field, but also root out errors and will provoke intellectual discussions among scholars. The journal seeks both evaluative (theoretical literature reviews, systematic reviews) and quantitative (meta-analyses) papers that make a state of the art of issues in scientific communication. Integrative review articles that connect different areas of research are of special interest. We do not publish empirical articles. The journal does not publish scope-local articles (e.g., focused on a specific country like Peru, Korea, or Australia). If a manuscript limits its focus geographically, it is expected to focus on a global region (e.g., South Asia, Europe, South America) or countries with a large population (e.g., USA, China).

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.

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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

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