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Focus and Scope
The International Journal of Communication is an online, multi-media, academic journal that adheres to the highest standards of peer review and engages established and emerging scholars from anywhere in the world. The International Journal of Communication is an interdisciplinary journal that, while centered in communication, is open and welcoming to contributions from the many disciplines and approaches that meet at the crossroads that is communication study.
We are interested in scholarship that crosses disciplinary lines and speaks to readers from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. In other words, the International Journal of Communication will be a forum for scholars when they address the wider audiences of our many sub-fields and specialties, rather than the location for the narrower conversations more appropriately conducted within more specialized journals.
Section Policies
Articles
Editors- Manuel Castells, USC Annenberg School for Communication
- Larry Gross, USC Annenberg School for Communication
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Book Reviews
Editors- Gustavo Cardoso, University of Lisbon
- Manuel Castells, USC Annenberg School for Communication
- Larry Gross, USC Annenberg School for Communication
- Josh Kun, USC Annenberg School
- Jack Qiu, Chinese University of Hong Kong
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
 Peer Reviewed |
Features
Editors- Manuel Castells, USC Annenberg School for Communication
- Larry Gross, USC Annenberg School for Communication
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Open Access Policy
Open Access enables authors to obtain the maximum possible exposure for their work. Freely available papers are read more, cited more, and have more impact than ones available only to paid subscribers. As an experiment, enter a research topic into a search engine like Google and see how many links you obtain to papers published in traditional journals. You will find that most references are to working papers, not to published papers, because working papers are freely available.
The advent of the web has made free dissemination of research feasible and financially viable. Because existing specialty journals obtain revenues from selling subscriptions, primarily to libraries, access to the research they publish is limited. The attractive revenue stream that such subscriptions provide makes it unlikely that these journals will convert to Open Access. Thus a need exists for new refereed Open Access journals to replace existing journals. We believe that the establishment of a major Open Access journal in communication study will lead others to establish Open Access journals for many sub-fields and specialities in communcation, reclaiming full control for the profession of its research output. We hope that this will lead the profession to a new norm in which all research is freely available.
Archiving
This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration. More...
Archiving in D-Space
Papers published in International Journal of Communication are stored on the server of the Annenberg School for Communication, currently located at the University of Southern California. We take the preservation of the papers very seriously. We are working to permanently archive the content of the journal in D-Space.
Disseminating
We are making efforts to disseminate the journal content as widely as possible.
The journal is listed in the Directory of Open Access Journals, maintained by Lund University Libraries. This listing may mean that the journal is listed also in the catalog of your institution's library. If the journal is not listed in the catalog of your institution's library, we encourage you to request that it be listed.
The journal is listed also in NewJour, a resource used by librarians, and on Registry of Embedded Multimedia Electronic Journals.
Turnaround time
An important goal of IJoC is to speed the review process. In particular, we aim to have papers go through at most two rounds of refereeing. In light of this goal, a paper judged to be unlikely to be acceptable by a second round will be rejected, either without consultation with referees or in response to referee reports.
We aim to turn around papers as quickly as is consistent with a thorough evaluation of their contribution. We aim to adhere to the following standards for turnaround time.
* For papers of 25 pages or less: 10 weeks.
* For all other papers: at most 15 weeks.
