The aims of Communication Methods and Measures are to bring developments in methodology, both qualitative and quantitative, to the attention of communication scholars, to provide an outlet for discussion and dissemination of methodological tools and approaches to researchers across the field, to comment on practices with suggestions for improvement in both research design and analysis, and to introduce new methods of measurement useful to communication scientists or improvements on existing methods. Submissions focusing on methods for improving research design and theory testing using quantitative and/or qualitative approaches are encouraged. Articles devoted to epistemological issues of relevance to communication research methodologies are also appropriate. This journal welcomes well-written manuscripts on the use of methods as well as articles illustrating the advantages of newer or less widely known methods over those traditionally used in communication.
Please refer to more specific methodological standards for submissions here.
Readership: Scholars and researchers in communication, sociology, psychology, political science, and other areas, who are interested in the methodologies used in the study of communication.
Peer Review Policy: All articles in Communication Methods and Measureshave undergone rigorous editor and peer review.
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Journal metrics
Usage
133K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
6.3 (2023) Impact Factor
Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
12.3 (2023) 5 year IF
21.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
6.846 (2023) SNIP
4.060 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
0 days avg. from submission to first
decision
113 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
13% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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who are deciding where to submit their next manuscript for publication.
However, any one metric only tells a part of the story of a journal’s
quality and impact. Each metric has its limitations which means that it
should never be considered in isolation, and metrics should be used to
support and not replace qualitative review.
We strongly recommend that you always use a number of metrics, alongside
other qualitative factors such as a journal’s aims & scope, its
readership, and a review of past content published in the journal. In
addition, a single article should always be assessed on its own merits and
never based on the metrics of the journal it was published in.
Usage and acceptance rate data above are for the last full calendar year
and are updated annually in February. Speed data is updated every six
months, based on the prior six months. Citation metrics are updated
annually mid-year. Please note that some journals do not display all of
the following metrics
(find out why).
Usage:
the total number of times articles in the journal were viewed by users
of Taylor & Francis Online in the previous calendar year, rounded to the
nearest thousand.
Citation Metrics
Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles published in the
journal within a two-year window. Only journals in the Clarivate Science
Citation Index Expanded (SCIE), Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI),
Arts and Humanities Citation Index (AHCI) and the Emerging Sources
Citation Index (ESCI) have an Impact Factor.
Impact Factor Best Quartile*:
the journal’s highest subject category ranking in the Journal Citation
Reports. Q1 = 25% of journals with the highest Impact Factors.
5 Year Impact Factor*:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal
within a five-year window.
CiteScore (Scopus)†:
the average number of citations received by articles in the journal over
a four-year period.
CiteScore Best Quartile†:
the journal’s highest CiteScore ranking in a Scopus subject category. Q1
= 25% of journals with the highest CiteScores.
SNIP
(Source Normalized Impact per Paper):
the number of citations per paper in the journal, divided by citation
potential in the field.
SJR
(Scimago Journal Rank):
Average number of (weighted) citations in one year, divided by the
number of articles published in the journal in the previous three years.
Speed/acceptance
From submission to first decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision. Based on manuscripts receiving a
first decision in the last six months.
From submission to first post-review decision:
the average (median) number of days for a manuscript submitted to the
journal to receive a first decision if it is sent out for peer review.
Based on manuscripts receiving a post-review first decision in the last
six months.
From acceptance to online publication:
the average (median) number of days from acceptance of a manuscript to
online publication of the Version of Record. Based on articles published
in the last six months.
Acceptance rate:
articles accepted for publication by the journal in the previous
calendar year as percentage of all papers receiving a final decision.
Pascal Jürgens -Trier University, Germany Ye Sun - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baohua Zhou - Journalism School at Fudan University, China
EDITORAL ASSISTANT
Shaochun Li - Pennsylvania State University, USA
EDITORIAL BOARD
Theo Araujo - University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Forian Arendt -University of Vienna, Austria Wouter van Atteveldt- Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Marko Bachl -Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Christian Baden -Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Matthew Barnidge - University of Alabama, USA Steven Bellman -University of South Australia, Australia Joseph Bonito - University of Arizona, USA Li Cai - University of California at Los Angeles, USA Joseph Cappella - University of Pennsylvania, USA Kaiping Chen -University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Jonathan Cohen - University of Haifa, Israel Christine Davis -University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Travis Dixon - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Emese Domahidi- Ilmenau University of Technology, Germany Alan Goodboy - West Virginia University, USA Andrew F. Hayes-University of Calgary, Canada Lance Holbert- University of Pennsylvania, USA Robert Hornik - University of Pennsylvania, USA Lee Humphreys- Cornell University, USA Myiah Hutchens - University of Florida, USA Nuri Kim - Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Yong-Chan Kim- Yonsei University, South Korea Jan Kleinnijenhuis - VU University Amsterdam, Netherlands Chul-joo Lee - Seoul National University, South Korea Neil A. Lewis, Jr.- Cornell University, USA Siyue April Li- Zhejiang University, China Drew Margolin -Cornell University, USA Andy Merolla- University of California Santa Barbara, USA Peter Monge - University of Southern California, USA Jeff Niederdeppe- Cornell University, USA Daniel O’Keefe- Northwestern University, USA Mary Beth Oliver- Pennsylvania State University, USA Hye-Jin Paek- Hanyang University, South Korea Jennifer Pan- Stanford University, USA Tai-Quan "Winson" Peng- Michigan State University, USA Jochen Peter- University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Rob Potter- Indiana University, USA Kristopher J. Preacher- Vanderbilt University, USA Scott Reid -University of California, Santa Barbara, USA Gabriel Rossman- University of California at Los Angeles, USA Michael Scharkow -University of Mainz, Germany Sebastian Scherr -University of Augsburg, Germany Bertram Scheufele -University of Hohenheim, Germany Dietram Scheufele -University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Fei 'Chris' Shen -City University of Hong Kong, HK Christian Schemer -Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany Christian von Sikorski -University of RPTU Kaiserslautern-Landau, Germany Michael Slater -The Ohio State University, USA Hyunjin Song -Yonsei University, South Korea S. Shyam Sundar -Pennsylvania State University, USA Jens Vogelgesang -University of Hohenheim, Germany Annie Waldherr -University of Vienna, Austria Zheng Joyce Wang -The Ohio State University, USA Rene Weber -University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Werner Wirth -University of Zurich, Switzerland Itzhak Yanovitzky -Rutgers University, USA Mike Zhengyu Yao -University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA Xun Zhu -University of Kentucky, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/Indexed in: ESCI, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, Scopus, PubMed, ProQuest online research databases.
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