Communication Theory
Wiley-Blackwell
United States
journal
SJR by Edition
Subject Categories
- CommunicationQ1
- Linguistics and LanguageQ1
Areas: Social Sciences
Most published research topics
Source: OpenAlex
Publication Statistics
Documents per Year
Detailed Information
ISSN
1468-2885, 1050-3293
SJR Best Quartile
Q1
Region
Northern America
Citations per Document (2 years)
9.48
References per Document
99.84
Coverage
1991-2026
Scope
Communication Theory is an international forum publishing high quality, original research into the theoretical development of communication from across a wide array of disciplines, such as communication studies, sociology, psychology, political science, cultural and gender studies, philosophy, linguistics, and literature. A journal of the International Communication Association, Communication Theory especially welcomes work in the following areas of research, all of them components of ICA: Communication and Technology, Communication Law and Policy, Ethnicity and Race in Communication, Feminist Scholarship, Global Communication and Social Change, Health Communication, Information Systems, Instructional/Developmental Communication, Intercultural Communication, Interpersonal Communication, Journalism Studies, Language and Social Interaction, Mass Communication, Organizational Communication, Philosophy of Communication, Political Communication, Popular Communication, Public Relations, Visual Communication Studies, Children, Adolescents and the Media, Communication History, Game Studies, Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Studies, and Intergroup Communication. The journal aims to be inclusive in theoretical approaches insofar as these pertain to communication theory.
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