About this journal
Aims and scope
Launched in 2013, Digital Journalism is the premier outlet for advancing international research into digital journalism studies (DJS). The journal aims to maintain its position as a leader of cutting-edge journalism research, providing a critical forum to advance scholarship that intersects with numerous disciplines. The Digital Journalism editorial team welcomes interdisciplinary research in the forms of original articles (7000-9,000 words), conceptual articles (4,000 words, exl. references), review articles (8-000-12,000 words), and advancing methods articles (4,000 words, exl. references). The Digital Journalism editorial team publishes novel research from all corners of the world and is committed to excellence, relevance, and diversity. We employ the Digital Journalism Studies Compass (Eldridge, Hess, Tandoc & Westlund, 2019) in navigating the scholarly terrain.
Digital Journalism pursues a significant and exciting editorial agenda including but not limited to:
- The interrelationship with and dependence on platforms
- Mobility and mobile media
- Algorithms and code
- Analytics and metrics
- Audiences: everyday news use, engagement, avoidance
- Digital news storytelling
- Social media as sources and drivers of news
- The changing ‘places’ and ‘spaces’ of news production and consumption
- The personalisation of news and news recommenders
- Business- and revenue models for funding digital journalism
- Data journalism and data visualization
- Advancing methods to analyze and explore digital journalism
- Local news, hyperlocalism and community journalism
- Misinformation, disinformation, and “fake news”
- Changing relationships between journalists, sources, and audiences
- Citizen and participatory journalism
- Innovation and entrepreneurship
- Automation and AI in digital journalism
- Changing journalism ethics in digital settings
- Digital journalism, activism, protest and democracy
- Digital coverage of underrepresented groups
- Alternative news media and digital press/media criticism
- Digital news production and journalists' changing role perceptions
- Digital journalism amid mob censorship and online harassment
All articles published in Digital Journalism have undergone rigorous peer review, based on initial screening by the Editor-in-Chief and members of the Digital Journalism editorial team, and anonymised refereeing by at least two anonymous and qualified reviewers. Additionally, special issue articles are systematically assessed by highly qualified guest editors. Instructions for authors can be found here.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 677K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 5.2 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q1 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 7.2 (2023) 5 year IF
- 11.2 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 2.342 (2023) SNIP
- 2.640 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 13 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 112 days avg. from submission to first post-review decision
- 23 days avg. from acceptance to online publication
- 20% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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
Oscar Westlund, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway & University of Gothenburg, Sweden
Associate Editors
Jan Lauren Boyles, Iowa State University, USA
Lei Guo , Fudan University, China
Magdalena Saldaña, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
International Engagement Editors
Admire Mare , University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Ramón Salaverría, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Shangyuan Wu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Honorary editorial board members
Scott Eldridge II, University of Groningen, The Netherlands (Associate editor 2018-2021; book reviews editor 2013-2021)
Bob Franklin, Cardiff University, UK (Editor-in-Chief, 2013-2017)
Kristy Hess, Deakin University, Australia (Associate Editor)
Edson Tandoc Jr, Nanyang University, Singapore (Associate Editor)
Editorial board
Laura Ahva, Tampere University, Finland
Stuart Allan, Cardiff University, UK
Ahmed Al-Rawi, Simon Fraser University, Canada
Ester Appelgren, Södertörn University College, Sweden
Ingrid Bachmann, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Hanan Badr, Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Austria
Sandra Banjac, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Saba Bebawi, University of Technology Sydney, Australia
Anja Bechmann, Aarhus University, Denmark
Valerie Belair-Gagnon, University of Minnesota, USA
Karin Boczek, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt, Germany
Marcel Broersma, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Meredith Broussard, New York University, USA
Axel Bruns, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
João Canavilhas, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal
Matt Carlson, University of Minnesota, USA
Kalyani Chadha, Northwestern University, USA
Michael Chan, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
David Cheruiyot, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Sujin Choi, Kyung Hee University, South Korea
Jihyang Choi, Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Sherwin Chua, Independent, Sweden
Barış Çoban, Doğuş University, Turkey
Mark Coddington, Washington and Lee University, USA
Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Nicholas Diakopoulos, Northwestern University, USA
Matías Dodel, Universidad Católica del Uruguay, Uruguay
Stephanie Edgerly, Northwestern University, USA
Patrick Ferrucci, University of Colorado-Boulder, USA
Lena Frischlich, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
Jose Garcia Aviles, Universitas Miguel Hernández de Elche, Spain
Víctor García-Perdomo, Universidad de La Sabana, Colombia
Anna Gladkova, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Lucas Graves, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
Tim Groot Kormelink, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Agnes Gulyas, Canterbury Christ Church University, UK
Mario Haim, Ludwig Maximillian University of Munich, Germany
Michael Hameleers, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Basyouni Ibrahim Abdelhalim Hamada, Qatar University, Qatar
Folker Hanusch, University of Vienna, Austria
Jannie Møller Hartley , Roskilde University, Denmark
Valerie Hase, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Kaori Hayashi, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Natali Helberger, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Alfred Hermida, University of British Columbia, Canada
Avery Holton, University of Utah, USA
Edda Humprecht, University of Jena, Germany
Sadia Jamil, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
Pedro Jerónimo, University of Beira Interior, Portugal
Michael Karlsson, Karlstad University, Sweden
Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Claudia Kozman, Northwestern University, Qatar
Sanne Kruikemeier, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Anna Sophie Kümpel, TUD Dresden University of Technology, Germany
Sophie Lecheler, University of Vienna, Austria
Eun-Ju Lee, Seoul National University, South Korea
Seth C. Lewis, University of Oregon, USA
Juliane Lischka, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Phoebe Maares, University of Vienna, Austria
Hayes Mabweazara, University of Glasgow, UK
Admire Mare, University of Johannesburg, South Africa
Fiona Martin, The University of Sydney, Australia
Gina M. Masullo, The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Eva Mayerhöffer, Roskilde University, Denmark
James Meese, RMIT University, Australia
Claudia Mellado, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Valparaíso, Chile
Lisa Merten, Hans-Bredow-Institut, Germany
Logan Molyneux, Temple University, USA
Rachel Mourão, Michigan State University, USA
Bruce Mutsvairo, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Merja Myllylahti, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand
Jacob Nelson, University of Utah, USA
Joyce Nip, University of Sydney, Australia
Jakob Ohme, Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society Berlin, Germany
Henrik Örnebring, Karlstad University, Sweden
Ragnhild Kristine Olsen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Paromita Pain, University of Nevada Reno, USA
Bella Palomo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Sora Park, University of Canberra, Australia
Steve Paulussen, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Gregory Perreault, University of South Florida, USA
Thomas Poell, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Thorsten Quandt, University of Münster, Germany
Stephen Reese, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Zvi Reich, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Ramón Salaverría, Universidad de Navarra, Spain
Yoonmo Sang, Sungshin Women's University, South Korea
Mathias Felipe de Lima Santos, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Annika Sehl, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt , Germany
Ignacio Siles, Universidad de Costa Rica, Costa Rica
Steen Steensen, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Talia Stroud, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Joëlle Swart, University of Groningen, The Netherlands
Ori Tenenboim , University of British Columbia, Canada
Ryan J. Thomas, Washington State University, USA
Hong Tien Vu, University of Kansas, USA
Neil Thurman, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany
Damian Trilling, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Melissa Tully, University of Iowa, USA
Tine Ustad Figenschou, Oslo Metropolitan University, Norway
Sebastián Valenzuela, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Chile
Peter Van Aelst, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Mikko Villi, University of Jyväskylä, Finland
Igor Vobič, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia
Maria Celeste Wagner , University of Florida, USA
Silvio Waisbord, George Washington University, USA
Haiyan Wang, University of Macau, Macau SAR China
Kate Wright, University of Edinburgh, UK
Shangyuan Wu, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Rodrigo Zamith, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA
Jing Zeng, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
Xinzhi Zhang, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Shixin Ivy Zhang, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, China
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
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- Rigorous peer review for every open access article
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