Top Communication Journals - Updated 2019 "Impact Factor" (JCR)

* This post (from May 2015) was updated with the newest rankings.

 

 

Throughout the years, I've registered for various communication (& Information Science) journals for their TOC (Table of Content) Alerts. Finally, I decided to arrange them in a list and check their "impact factor" (in the Journal Citation Report {JCR}, Web of Science Group). The following table is the result :-)

 

Dear colleagues, for your convenience, I'm publishing it online with all the URLs of the journals.

 

I hope to update it when needed (impact factor changes), and you are more than welcome to share additional journals.

 

 

#	Journal	2019 Impact Factor	Publisher
1	Journal of Advertising	6.302	Taylor & Francis
2	Political Communication	5.912	Taylor & Francis
3	Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication	5.366	Oxford Academic
4	Communication Methods and Measures	5.281	Taylor & Francis
5	Journal of Communication	4.846	Oxford Academic
6	New Media & Society	4.577	SAGE
7	Big Data & Society	4.577	SAGE
8	Information, Communication & Society	4.559	Taylor & Francis
9	Digital Journalism	4.476	Taylor & Francis
10	Communication Monographs	3.843	Taylor & Francis
11	Communication Research	3.758	SAGE
12	International Journal of Advertising	3.606	Taylor & Francis
13	Human Communication Research	3.540	Oxford Academic
14	Journalism	3.179	SAGE
15	Social Media + Society	2.807	SAGE
16	Social Science Computer Review	2.696	SAGE
17	The International Journal of Press/Politics	2.612	SAGE
18	Public Opinion Quarterly	2.494	Oxford Academic
19	Journal of Information Science	2.410	SAGE
20	Journalism Studies	2.345	Taylor & Francis
21	Science Communication	2.328	SAGE
22	Public Relations Review	2.321	Elsevier
23	Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly	2.121	SAGE
24	Media, Culture & Society	2.000	SAGE
25	Health Communication	1.965	Taylor & Francis
26	Communication Theory	1.905	Oxford Academic
27	Journal of Public Relations Research	1.897	Taylor & Francis
28	International Communication Gazette	1.877	SAGE
29	Mass Communication and Society	1.792	Taylor & Francis
30	International Journal of Public Opinion Research	1.779	Oxford Academic
31	Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies	1.714	SAGE
32	Critical Studies in Media Communication	1.616	Taylor & Francis
33	Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media	1.616	Taylor & Francis
34	Journal of Health Communication	1.596	Taylor & Francis
35	Journalism Practice	1.542	Taylor & Francis
36	Management Communication Quarterly	1.453	SAGE
37	International Journal of Business Communication	1.326	SAGE
38	Journal of Business and Technical Communication	1.207	SAGE
39	International Journal of Communication	1.194	USC Annenberg Press
40	Journal of Applied Communication Research	0.959	Taylor & Francis
--	Corporate Communications: An International Journal	----	Emerald
--	International Journal of Strategic Communication	----	Taylor & Francis
--	Public Relations Journal	----	PRSA