2004 ISI Journal Citation Reports for Communication
The 2004 ISI Rankings were published at the end of June. These rankings showed a marked increase in the impact factor for each of the National Communication Association Journals listed in the Communication area of the Social Science Journal Citation Reports.
Impacts factors allow for comparison between journals of varying sizes and frequencies, although journals with fewer articles published during the year are more prone to fluctuations in impact factor. Furthermore, careful attention should be paid to the many conditions that can influence citation rates such as language, journal history and format, publication schedule and subject speciality.
Nevertheless, some comparison and evaluation of journals based on citations is possible.
The impact factor of a journal measures how frequently articles (not including editorials, news items and letters) in the journal are cited in the previous two years - the impact factor is calculated by dividing the number of citations of articles in 2002 and 2003 by the total number of articles published in the journal in the same period.
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4 NCA Journals are included in the Communication subject area of the ISI Social Science Journal Citation Reports.
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Communication Monographs showed the strongest improvement, more than doubling its impact factor to 1.214, putting it 4th on the list of journals in the Communication subject area of the ISI Social Science Journal Citation Reports. This continues a general upward trend for the journal over the past 4 years.
Communication Monographs, edited by Alan Sillars, reports original, theoretically grounded research dealing with human symbolic exchange across the broad spectrum of interpersonal, group, organizational, cultural and mediated contexts in which such activities occur. The scholarship reflects diverse modes of inquiry and methodologies that bear on the ways in which communication is shaped and functions in human interaction.
The Journal endeavours to publish the highest quality communication social science manuscripts that are grounded theoretically. The manuscripts aim to expand, qualify or integrate existing theory or additionally advance new theory. The Journal is not restricted to particular theoretical or methodological perspectives. Manuscripts reflecting diverse issues, scholarly modes of inquiry, and innovative thinking about the ways in which communication is shaped and functions in human interaction are presented.
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Quarterly Journal of Speech demonstrated similar growth, rising to 10th with an impact factor 0.976, a climb of sixteen places compared with the previous year.
Quarterly Journal of Speech, edited by David Henry, includes articles, research reports, and book reviews of interest to persons across a broad spectrum of the communication arts. QJS tends to be humanistic in its orientation, and presents research that is original, significant, and designed to further understanding of the processes of human communication, particularly in its rhetorical and cultural dimensions. Essays in the journal generally consider the theory and criticism of situated discourse in its various forms and venues, including the oral and written, public and private, direct and mediated, historical and contemporary. Although research in the journal is generally humanistic, the journal's mission and focus are not limited to any particular methodology or set of methodologies. Issues, texts, and research questions significant to improved understanding of discourse practices are featured.
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Critical Studies in Media Communication in 2003 the highest ranked NCA journal, showed a more modest improvement but still raised it's impact factor to 0.902, placing it 12th on the list, continuing the journal's consistently high placing in the field.
Critical Studies in Media Communication, edited by Linda Steiner, focuses exclusively on the range of critical perspectives which help define the expanding area of mediated communication research. It provides an academic forum for interpretive approaches to mass communication theory and research. Several specialized journals represent particular critical traditions, but CSMC seeks to enrich the broad debate among them and shape the parameters of this genre.
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Journal of Applied Communication Research rounded off the strong display by the NCA journals by significantly increasing it's impact factor to 0.517, giving it the 27th highest impact in terms of citations of the journals accepted by ISI in the Communication discipline.
Journal of Applied Communication Researchh, edited by Joann Keyton, seeks to showcase the best theoretically-driven research the focuses on problems, practical solutions and practices. JACR supports the study of communication that identifies, analyzes, and implicates the problems and practices emanating from the personal, social, cultural, global, and professional areas of society. It publishes publish important and relevant applied research emphasizing rigorous methodology and demonstrates that the theoretical and applied areas of communication inquiry are mutually compatible and interdependent.
View sample articles from the following National Communication Journals ranked in ISI Social Science Journal Citation Report 2004 (Communication) here.
Communication Monographs
Critical Studies in Media Communication
Quarterly Journal of Speech
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