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Communications
The European Journal of Communication Research
Edited by:
Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz and Leen d'Haenens
Call for papers
Special Issue: Children and Media: Emerging Issues, planned for publication in August-September 2021.
Abstracts of two pages should be sent by email to the guest editors: Brian O'Neill and Veronika Kalmus by March 15, 2020. For further details, please see the PDF 'Call for Papers' in the Supplementary Information section below.
Special Issue: Children and Media: Emerging Issues, planned for publication in August-September 2021.
Abstracts of two pages should be sent by email to the guest editors: Brian O'Neill and Veronika Kalmus by March 15, 2020. For further details, please see the PDF 'Call for Papers' in the Supplementary Information section below.
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- European perspective on communication research
- Specialized expertise on communication processes
- Societal references of the research
- Broad topics
- Interdisciplinary approach to journal’s subject matter
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Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research is an established forum for scholarship and academic debate in the field of communication science and research from a European perspective. Communication science is concerned with the investigation of the structure and function of communication processes and their impact on society, social groups and individuals. Communications highlights the concerns of this discipline through the publication of articles, research reports, review essays and book reviews on theoretical and methodological developments considered from a European perspective. The journal encompasses the entire field of communication science as its domain of interest. The contributions published in the journal cover a wide range of subfields in communication science.
- Communication reseach
- Structure and function of communication
- Impact on society, social groups and individuals
- Interpersonal communication
- Intercultural communication
- Mass communication
- Communication theory
- Philosophy of communication
- Media history
- Media development and communication technology
Article formats
Original articles, research reports, review essays, and book reviews
5-year Impact Factor
1.151
Cite Score
0.86
European Reference Index for the Humanities
Impact Factor
0.707
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Volume 44 (2019): Issue 4 (Nov 2019)
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Editors
Stefanie Averbeck-Lietz
ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, Germany
Leen d'Haenens
Centre for Media Culture and Communication Technology, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Associate Editors
Auksė Balcytienė, Department of Public Communications, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania
Philippe J. Maarek, Université Paris Est-UPEC, CECCOPOP, France
Tristan Mattelart, Université Paris-2, France
Hillel Nossek, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel
Christian Pentzold, Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
Cristina Ponte, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Book Review Editors
Stijn Joye, University of Ghent, Belgium
Heidi Vandebosch, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Olivier Driessens, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Editorial Management
Viviane Harkort, ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, Germany
Editorial Board
Hanna Adoni, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya, Israel
Akiba Cohen, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Andreas Hepp, University of Bremen, Gemany
John L. Hochheimer, Southern Illinois University, USA
Klaus Bruhn Jensen, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Leif Kramp, Universität Bremen, ZeMKI
Klaus Krippendorff, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Friedrich Krotz, University of Bremen, Germany
Ivan Lacasa, International University of Catalonia, Spain
Ekkehard Mochmann, German Society for Communication Research (DGKF), Cologne, Germany
Beata Ociepka, University of Wrocław, Poland
Irena Reifová, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republich
Keith Roe, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Jan Servaes, City University of Hong Kong, China
Laura Vandenbosch, K. U. Leuven, Belgium
Katrin Voltmer, School of Media and Communications, University of Leeds, United Kingdom
Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Cardiff University, UK
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Annalena Oeffner Ferreira, ZeMKI, Centre for Media, Communication and Information Research, University of Bremen, Germany
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