Church, Communication and Culture (CC&C) is an international Open Access journal indexed by Scopus. The journal is published by the School of Church Communications at the Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Rome, Italy) in partnership with Routledge, Taylor & Francis (UK).
CC&C is dedicated to deepening knowledge and understanding of the dialogue between religion, communication and culture in the public arena, based on comprehensive data analysis with a theoretical framework or a relation to current events, and paying special attention to the Catholic Church.
The following list of examples of topics that are of enduring interest in the journal is by no means exhaustive:
Cultural studies on Christian faith and religion
Christian identity in mass media history
Public opinion regarding the Church and Christian values
Church institutional communications
Theology of communications
Media ethics
Bioethics and defence of life
Representation of family in the media
Case studies on crisis management in the Church
Case studies on public events in the Church
Case studies on media analysis
Religious tourism
Christianity in the visual arts
Image of man and God in literature
Image of man and God in film and TV series
Secularization and religious identity
Dialogue between religions
Religious inculturation and transculturation
Management of the Cultural Heritage of Christianity
Religion in social and digital media
Church, Communication and Culture operates a double-anonymized peer review policy.
There are no charges for submitting an article, but there is an Article Publishing Charge if the paper is accepted. Waivers and other funding options are available.
Read the Instructions for Authors for further information on publishing charges, how to obtain waivers and funding, and how to submit your article.
Journal metrics
Usage
142K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
1.3 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
0.837 (2023) SNIP
0.278 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
69% acceptance rate
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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
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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 Enrique Fuster - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy)
Associate Editor Jordi Pujol - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy) José María Díaz-Dorronsoro - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy)
Editorial Assistant Dominic Nalpon - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy)
Contact Church, Communication & Culture Library - Pontifical University of the Holy Cross Via dei Farnesi, 83 00186 Roma - Italy [email protected] Tel.: +39 / 06.68.681500 (front desk) +39 / 06.68.164.530 (direct office)
Editorial Board Daniel Arasa - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy) Ralf van Bühren - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy) Lorenzo Cantoni - Università della Svizzera Italiana (Switzerland) José María Díaz-Dorronsoro - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy) Armando Fumagalli - Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore (Italy) Enrique Fuster - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy) Alberto Gil - Universität des Saarlandes (Germany) Guido Gili – Università degli Studi del Molise (Italy) Norberto González Gaitano - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy) José María La Porte - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy) Andrea Maccarini - Università di Padova (Italy) Jordi Pujol - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy) Karen Sanders - St Mary's University, Twickenham (UK)
Advisory Board Alan Albarran - University of North Texas (USA) Jaime Antúnez Aldunate - Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile (Chile) Ronald Arnett - Duquesne University (USA) Enrique Banús - Universidad de Piura (Peru) Heidi Campbell - Texas A&M University (USA) María José Canel Crespo - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) Manuel Casado Velarde - Universidad de Navarra (Spain) Clifford C. Christians - University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (USA) Emmanuel Derieux - Université Panthéon-Assas, Paris II (France) Pierpaolo Donati - Università di Bologna (Italy) Luciano Elizalde - Universidad Austral (Argentina) Gianpiero Gamaleri - Università degli Studi Roma Tre (Italy) Juan José García-Noblejas - Pontificia Università della Santa Croce (Italy) Ari Goldman - Columbia University (USA) Jerry Kliatchko - University of Asia and the Pacific (Philippines) María José Lecaros - Universidad de los Andes (Chile) Rafael Llano - Universidad Complutense de Madrid (Spain) Esteban López-Escobar - Universidad de Navarra (Spain) Debra Mason - University of Missouri (USA) Maxwell McCombs - University of Texas at Austin (USA)
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Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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