This outstanding journal is devoted to stimulating and contributing to reasoned discussions of media ethics and morality among academic and professional groups in the various branches and subdisciplines of communication and ethics. By bridging the gap between academicians and professionals interested in issues concerning mass media, the journal stimulates mutually beneficial dialogues between these two groups. It publishes original essays exploring the philosophical bases of decisions, reports from empirical studies, and literature searches and reviews dealing with mass media content and the behavior of practitioners in journalism, broadcasting, public relations, advertising, and other mass communication disciplines.
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Journal metrics
Usage
73K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.9 (2023) Impact Factor
1.6 (2023) 5 year IF
2.1 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.625 (2023) SNIP
0.444 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
56 days avg. from submission to first
decision
125 days avg. from submission to first
post-review decision
9 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
24% acceptance rate
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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.
Editor Patrick Lee Plaisance - The Pennsylvania State University, USA ( [email protected])
Associate Editors Christopher Meyers - California State University, Bakersfield, USA ([email protected])
Founding Co-Editors, Emeritus Jay Black - University of South Florida, USA Ralph Barney - Brigham Young University, USA
Cases and Commentaries Editor Virginia “Ginny” Whitehouse - Eastern Kentucky University, USA ( [email protected])
Trends Editor Yayu Feng - University of St. Thomas, USA ([email protected])
Editorial Advisory Board David Allen - University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, USA
Sherry Bake - Brigham Young University, USA
Kati Berg - Marquette University, USA
Tom Bivins - University of Oregon, USA
Sandra Borden - Western Michigan University, USA
Nicholas Browning - Indiana University, USA
Kris Bunton - Texas Christian University, USA
Clifford Christians - University of Illinois, USA
Raphael Cohen-Almagor - University of Hull, USA
Renita Coleman - University of Texas, USA
Nick Couldry - London School of Economics, UK
Stephanie Craft - University of Illinois, USA
David Craig - University of Oklahoma, USA
Deni Elliott - University of South Florida, USA
John P. Ferré - University of Louisville, USA
Kathy Fitzpatrick - American University, USA
Cherian George - Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong
Theodore L. Glasser - Stanford University, USA
David Gunkel - Northern Illinois University, USA
Thomas Hove - Hanyang University, South Korea
Joy Jenkins - University of Tennessee, USA
Robert Logan - National Library of Medicine, USA
Charles Marsh - University of Kansas, USA
Thaddeus Metz - University of Pretoria, South Africa
Christopher Meyers - California State University-Bakersfield, USA
Julieanne Newton - University of Oregon, USA
Margaret Patterson - Duquesne University, USA
Katie Place - Quinnipiac University, USA
Patrick Lee Plaisance - Pennsylvania State University, USA
Aaron Quinn - California State University-Chico, USA
Chris Roberts - University of Alabama, USA
Ed Spence - Charles Sturt University, Australia
Burton S. John III - University of Colorado, USA
Ryan J. Thomas - University of Missouri, USA
Bastiaan Vanacker - Loyola University-Chicago, USA
Anita Varma - University of Texas, USA
Fred Vultee - Wayne State University, USA
Stephen J.A. Ward - University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Kim Walsh-Childers - University of Florida, USA
Edward Wasserman - University of California-Berkeley, USA
Herman Wasserman - University of Cape Town, South Africa
Virginia Whitehouse - Eastern Kentucky University, USA
Lee Wilkins - University of Missouri, USA
Wendy N. Wyatt - University of St. Thomas, USA
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/Indexed in: Current Contents, Web of Science, EBSCOhost, Scopus, E-psyche, Social Sciences Index, OCLC Sociological Abstracts (Online), ProQuest online research databases.
Open access
Journal of Media Ethics 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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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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