Media History is an interdisciplinary journal which welcomes contributions addressing media and society from the fifteenth century to the present. Its perspective is both historical and international. It explores all forms of serial publication in manuscript, print and electronic media and encourages work which crosses the boundaries of politics, culture and communications. The journal includes contributions covering a wide area of Media History, and welcomes contributions from across the globe. Contributors are encouraged to submit related visual material where appropriate.
All articles in Media History have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and anonymised refereeing by two anonymous referees. Instructions for Authors can be found here.
Journal metrics
Usage
66K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
0.4 (2023) Impact Factor
0.4 (2023) 5 year IF
1.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.842 (2023) SNIP
0.223 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
92 days avg. from submission to first
decision
10 days avg. from acceptance to online
publication
51% 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.
Editors: Mark Hampton -Lingnan University, Hong Kong Stephanie Jones - Aberystwyth University, UK Jason McElligott - Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Jamie Medhurst - Aberystwyth University, UK Stephanie Seul - University of Bremen, Germany Mark Turner - King’s College, London, UK
Editorial Board: Patricia Anderson - University of British Columbia, Canada Gabriele Balbi - Università della Svizzera, Switzerland Virginia Berridge - London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK Adrian Bingham- University of Sheffield, UK Jeremy Black - University of Exeter, UK Laurel Brake - Birkbeck College, University of London, UK Michael Bromley - City University of London, UK Jane Chapman - University of Lincoln, UK Hugh Chignell - Bournemouth University, UK Martin Conboy - University of Sheffield, UK Denis Cryle - Central Queensland University, Australia James Curran - Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK Kate Egan - Northumbria University, UK Hans Fredrik Dahl - University of Oslo, Norway Christine Ferdinand - Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK David Finkelstein - University of Edinburgh, UK Victoria Gardner - Wellington College, UK Bridget Griffen-Foley - Macquarie University, Australia Patrick Hagopian - Lancaster University, UK David Hendy -University of Sussex, UK Nicholas Hiley - Independent Scholar, UK Michele Hilmes- University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA Aled Jones - Aberystwyth University, UK Garth Jowett -University of Houston, USA Chandrika Kaul - University of St Andrews, UK Fritz Levy - University of Washington, Seattle, USA Jason McElligott - Marsh's Library, Dublin, Ireland Anthony McNicholas - University of Westminster, UK Darrell M. Newton -Salisbury University, USA Siân Nicholas - Aberystwyth University, UK Tom O’Malley - Aberystwyth University, UK Michael Palmer - Université de la Sorbonne Nouvelle, France Jason Peacey- - University College London, UK Simon Potter - University of Bristol, UK Peter Putnis- University of Canberra, Australia Joad Raymond - Queen Mary University of London, UK Paddy Scannell - University of Michigan, USA Jean Seaton - University of Westminster, UK Stephanie Seul -Universität Bremen, Germany Joanne Shattock - University of Leicester, UK Jonathan Silberstein-Loeb -Independent Scholar, USA John Steel - University of Derby, UK Dafydd Sills-Jones- Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Jeremy Tunstall - City University, UK Glenn Wilkinson - University of Calgary, Canada Kevin Williams - Swansea University, UK Yuwen Zhang - Northwest University (NU), People’s Republic of China
Abstracting and indexing
Abstracted/ Indexed in: America: History and Life; C S A Worldwide Political Science Abstracts; Communication Abstracts; Communication and Mass Media Complete; Emerging Sources Citation Index, Historical Abstracts; International Bibliography of the Social Sciences; OCLC; R I L M Abstracts of Music Literature; Scopus; Sociological Abstracts and Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts.
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Increase the discoverability and readership of your article
Make an impact and reach new readers, not just those with easy access to a research library
Freely share your work with anyone, anywhere
Comply with funding mandates and meet the requirements of your institution, employer or funder
Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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