Ready to submit? Start a new submission or continue a submission in progress

Go to submission site (link opens in a new window)

Journal overview

The Review of Communication is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. The Review of Communication publishes original scholarship that advances the discipline and practice of communication through the study of major themes that cross disciplinary subfields. Following the intellectually and academically cosmopolitan tradition of the journal, we invite substantive essays that not only review controversies and trajectories in communication scholarship, but also contribute to the major issues that span our discipline. Such macro-interpretive studies may be historical, theoretical, philosophical, qualitative, quantitative, rhetorical, or syncretic. The Review of Communication welcomes essays that build theory, advance our understanding of a method, extend or challenge a current paradigm, bridge a divide, clarify a term or concept, or demonstrate a pragmatic function.

To accomplish this mission, beginning with Vol. 20, Review of Communication will publish four themed issues a year. Future submissions to the journal should either respond to a call for articles for one of the upcoming themed issues, or should consist of proposals to guest edit an issue with a detailed rationale for the issue, a 20–25 item bibliography of relevant works on the theme, and a draft of a call for papers inviting authors to address the proposed theme.

For more details about how to submit your research to Review of Communication , please review our Instructions for Authors.

A list of all current calls for upcoming themes issues can be found here.

Unless specifically indicated otherwise, articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, including screening by the editor and review by at least two anonymous referees.

Authors can choose to publish gold open access in this journal.

Read the Instructions for Authors for information on how to submit your article.

Read full aims and scope

Explore articles

Latest issues

Associated journals

Journal cover image for Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies publishes articles situating culture as a site of struggle and communication as an enactment and discipline of power

Partial Access
Journal cover image for Communication and Democracy

Communication and Democracy

Communication and Democracy publishes research on the methodologies and aspects of free speech within culture, media and legal contexts.

Partial Access