About this journal
Aims and scope
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 Measures have undergone rigorous editor and peer review.
Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
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
Journal metrics can be a useful tool for readers, as well as for authors 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.
For more details, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
Journal metrics in brief
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.
For more details on the data above, please read the Author Services guide to understanding journal metrics.
*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
Lijiang Shen - Pennsylvania State University, USA
ASSOCIATE EDITORS
Pascal Jürgens - Trier University, Germany
Ye Sun - City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Baohua Zhou - Journalism School at Fudan University, China
EDITORAL ASSISTANT
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 Kleinnijenhui s - 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
Open access
Communication Methods and Measures is a hybrid open access journal that is part of our Open Select publishing program, giving you the option to publish open access. Publishing open access means that your article will be free to access online immediately on publication, increasing the visibility, readership, and impact of your research.
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