International Journal of Communication

The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world.

Funding for the journal has been made possible through the generous commitment of the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism. Public access to articles in the International Journal of Communication is free of charge, at no charge to authors, and is available to all readers under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 license.

The International Journal of Communication is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study.

We encourage readers to REGISTER now. The International Journal of Communication is proud to be indexed on the following indexing sources: 

• Thompson Reuters Social Sciences Indexing to include SSCI, SCI, ISI
• EBSCOhost (EBSCO)
• Elsevier (Scopus)
• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
• Genamics Journal Seek (GJS)
• Google Scholar
• International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR)
• IGT Knowledge Center
• Scholarly Exchange
• Univerciencia
• ERIH PLUS
• International Institute of Organized Research (I2OR)
• Scimago (SJR)

According to the latest statistics from Google Scholar, IJoC ranks 7th among all Humanities, Literature & Arts journals, and 9th among Communication journals.