About this journal
Aims and scope
Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JMD) is a premier international journal in discourse studies which aims to enhance cultural diversity, equality and prosperity in social life as well as in scholarship. A forerunner in the cultural politics of language, communication or discourse research, the journal has published over the past five years numerous articles on Asian, African, Latin American, as well as western, approaches to discourses in diverse cultural settings. To consolidate its multicultural-intellectual project and to answer to the challenges of the contemporary times, the journal welcomes papers especially, though not exclusively, on the following subject matters:
- Cultural dialogue and critique on research perspectives and frameworks
- Culturally unique, or innovative, approaches
- Culturally inclusive or pluralist approaches
- Discourses of cultural marginalization, repression or imperialism
- Discourses of (under-)development
- Discourses of cultural transformation
- Discourses of cultural cooperation or harmony
Thoughts on Journal of Multicultural Discourses
"The Journal of Multicultural Discourses has become a valuable platform for interdisciplinary debates in today’s multicultural world, featuring contributions from prestigious scholars from around the world. The Journal has published contributions about a range of theories and arguments embedded in a wide array of theoretical and philosophical frameworks that have helped to move debates beyond conventional Western ideas. The Journal has been open to vigorous and lively debates across the social sciences. Editor Shi-xu should be highly commended for deftly editing an important resource for cultural and communication scholars from around the world." - Silvio Waisbord, Editor, Journal of Communication, George Washington University, USA
"Few journals have so quickly become standards in their fields as Journal of Multicultural Discourses. In fact, it is almost impossible for any international scholar to be considered seriously in the intellectual mix of contemporary communication questions and issues without reference to the writers who have been assembled in the ten years of outstanding leadership represented by Professor Shi-xu. JMD is well-edited, timely, and a center for discussion. Its trajectory will bring it into further discourse and engagement with the leading scholars in the fields of culture and communication." - Molefi Kete Asante, Editor, Black Studies, Temple University, USA
"The Journal of Multicultural Discourses (JMD) is a highly-important academic journal with significant international reach. As a journal created for and committed to providing a platform for advancing Cultural Discourse Studies, JMD consciously considers issues of cultural diversity and Western-centrism. Consistent themes in the journal circulate around ways Western societies implicitly and explicitly discriminate against non-Western societies. As well, articles explore the implications of discrimination on policies, power, and relationships. As JMD authors expose and critique Western-centric biases and power relations at multiple levels—from society to academia alike—they offer a holistic, cultural view with global values in their place. This is one of the many important contributions JMD makes as it works to create a forum for discussion of discourse analysis research that is culturally-conscious, reflexive, and critical. Such an approach promotes a more culturally-inclusive world, nationally, transnationally, and within academia. JMD provides a space in which to do this. To be sure, JMD has developed its own niche, one with very little overlap with other journals, and thus, should be an SSCI journal. In fact, I already think of it as such." - Kent Alan Ono, Editor, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, University of Utah, USA
"The Journal of Multicultural Discourses was founded only a matter of years ago, but it has quickly achieved a prominent position in the field of discourse studies. This field is traditionally organized on the basis of main oppositions between micro and macro, sociological and psychological, critical and descriptive approaches, European and North-American trends, etc. The whole point of the journal is to bring to the fore the ethnocentric dimension of some basic assumptions of discourse study researchers. This allows it to provide greater visibility to new authors, new topics and to open new perspectives. I therefore believe the journal fulfils an essential role, given its critical function in our field of research." - Dominique Maingueneau, University of Paris Sorbonne
"The Journal of Multicultural Discourses serves several distinct needs for those interested studying the world as a discursive phenomenon. It does so deeply by providing a space for theoretical discussion of what a “cultural discourse” indeed is; it does so methodologically as it wrestles with ways of accumulating discursive data and their analyses; it does so empirically as it demonstrates how cultural discourses are indeed highly localized practices that are shaped and patterned in their own contexts of use; it does so critically as it demonstrates how any one cultural discourse provides affordances for some but inevitably disadvantages others. It is the attention to the study of cultural discourse as theoretically demanding, methodologically complex, empirically deep, and critically negotiable that distinguishes this journal as not only significant, but as timely and profoundly important in the world today." - Donal Carbaugh, University of Massachusetts
Peer Review Integrity
All submitted manuscripts are subject to initial appraisal by the Editor, and, if found suitable for further consideration, to peer review by independent, anonymous expert referees. All peer review is double anonymized and submission is online via ScholarOne Manuscripts. Journal of Multicultural Discourses also accepts and publishes papers in French/ La revue Journal of Multicultural Discourses accepte et publie aussi des articles en français.
Journal metrics
Usage
- 57K annual downloads/views
Citation metrics
- 1.0 (2023) Impact Factor
- Q2 Impact Factor Best Quartile
- 1.3 (2023) 5 year IF
- 4.0 (2023) CiteScore (Scopus)
- Q1 CiteScore Best Quartile
- 1.379 (2023) SNIP
- 0.450 (2023) SJR
Speed/acceptance
- 6 days avg. from submission to first decision
- 29% acceptance rate
Understanding and using journal metrics
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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.
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*Copyright: Journal Citation Reports®, Clarivate Analytics
†Copyright: CiteScore™, Scopus
Editorial board
Editor-in-Chief
Shi-xu - Hangzhou Normal University/Communication University of Zhejiang, China
Review Article Editors
Gwen Bouvier - Shanghai International Studies University, China
Maria Manuela Guilherme - University of Coimbra, Portugal
Jens Maesse – Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Editorial Board
Johannes Angermuller - The Open University, UK
Rima Bahous - Labanese American University, Lebanon
Felix Banda - University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Zvi Bekerman - Hebrew University, Israel
Adriana Bolivar - Central University of Venezuela, Venezuela
David Boromisza-habashi - University of Colorado Boulder, USA
Antonia Candela - CINVESTAV, Mexico
Donal Carbaugh - University of Massachusetts, USA
Innocent Chiluwa - Covenant University, Nigeria
Teun A. van Dijk - Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Hakan Ergul - University College London, UK
Giuliana Garzone - University of Milan, Italy
Anna Gladkova - Lomonosov Moscow State University, Russia
Monica Heller - University of Toronto, Canada
Yi-Hui Christine Huang - City University of Hong Kong, China
Ludmilla Konstantinova Kostova - University of Veliko Turnovo, Bulgaria
Tony Liddicoat - University of Warwick, UK
Busi Makoni - The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Yoshitaka Miike - University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA
Luiz Paulo Moita-Lopes - Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Mantoa Motinyane - University of the Western Cape, South Africa
Kent Alan Ono - University of Utah, USA
Laura Pardo - University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Ian Roderick - Wilfrid Laurier University, Canada
Luisa Martin Rojo - Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain
Udaya Narayana Singh - Amity University Haryana, India
T T Sreekumar - The English and Foreign Languages University, Hyderabad
Nara Hiroko Takaki - Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil
Elena Vartanova - Moscow State University, Russia
Jing Yin- University of Hawaii at Hilo, USA
Yuan Zhoumin - Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China
Editorial Assistant:
Lou Shihang - Hangzhou Normal University
Updated 12-04-2024
Abstracting and indexing
Open access
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News, offers and calls for papers
News and offers
- Journal of Multicultural Discourses is included in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
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