This web page aims to provide a latest list of top Communication Studies journals. The journals are Web of Science (SCI) indexed with high impact factor. Moreover, the listed journals are UGC CARE approved, Scopus indexed. The journals are sorted based on Scopus SJR score.
| S. No. | Journal Title | Publisher | ISSN | SJR |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Communication Methods and Measures | Routledge | 19312466, 19312458 | 3.757 |
| 2 | Journal of Urban Economics | Academic Press Inc. | 10959068, 00941190 | 3.076 |
| 3 | Political Communication | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10584609, 10917675 | 3.061 |
| 4 | Journal of Vocational Behavior | Academic Press Inc. | 10959084, 00018791 | 2.926 |
| 5 | Child Development Perspectives | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 17508606, 17508592 | 2.844 |
| 6 | Communication Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00936502, 15523810 | 2.779 |
| 7 | Digital Journalism | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 2167082X, 21670811 | 2.634 |
| 8 | Journal of Advertising | M.E. Sharpe Inc. | 15577805, 00913367 | 2.606 |
| 9 | Journal of Communication | Wiley-Blackwell | 00219916, 14602466 | 2.605 |
| 10 | Journal of the American Planning Association | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 1944363 | 2.572 |
| 11 | Journal of Interactive Advertising | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 15252019 | 2.505 |
| 12 | Annals of the International Communication Association | Routledge | 23808977, 23808985 | 2.499 |
| 13 | International Journal of Press/Politics | SAGE Publications Inc. | 19401612, 19401620 | 2.412 |
| 14 | Big Data and Society | SAGE Publications Ltd | 20539517 | 2.389 |
| 15 | Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences | Gerontological Society of America | 10795014, 17585368 | 2.311 |
| 16 | Journal of Peasant Studies | Routledge | 03066150, 17439361 | 2.277 |
| 17 | Gender, Work and Organization | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 14680432, 09686673 | 2.237 |
| 18 | International Journal of Urban and Regional Research | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 03091317, 14682427 | 2.149 |
| 19 | Public Opinion Quarterly | Oxford University Press | 0033362X, 15375331 | 2.129 |
| 20 | Journal of Public Transportation | Elsevier BV | 1077291X | 2.118 |
| 21 | Urban Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 00420980, 1360063X | 2.1 |
| 22 | New Media and Society | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14614448, 14617315 | 2.084 |
| 23 | International Journal of Advertising | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17593948, 02650487 | 2.081 |
| 24 | Journal of Urban Health | Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH | 10993460, 14682869 | 2.076 |
| 25 | Landscape and Urban Planning | Elsevier | 1692046 | 2.065 |
| 26 | Research on Language and Social Interaction | Routledge | 08351813, 15327973 | 2.013 |
| 27 | National Vital Statistics Reports | Public Health Services, US Dept of Health and Human Services | 15518922, 15518930 | 16.495 |
| 28 | Transactions of the Association for Computational Linguistics | MIT Press Journals | 2307387X | 1.985 |
| 29 | Biology of Sex Differences | BioMed Central Ltd. | 20426410 | 1.961 |
| 30 | Social Media and Society | SAGE Publications Ltd | 20563051 | 1.95 |
| 31 | Human Communication Research | Wiley-Blackwell | 03603989, 14682958 | 1.88 |
| 32 | Telematics and Informatics | Elsevier Ltd. | 7365853 | 1.878 |
| 33 | Gender and Society | SAGE Publications Inc. | 08912432, 15523977 | 1.866 |
| 34 | Vehicular Communications | Elsevier Inc. | 22142096 | 1.846 |
| 35 | Applied Developmental Science | Psychology Press Ltd | 1532480X, 10888691 | 1.818 |
| 36 | Information Communication and Society | Routledge | 1369118X | 1.807 |
| 37 | Digital Communications and Networks | Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications | 23528648, 24685925 | 1.796 |
| 38 | Crime Science | SpringerOpen | 21937680 | 1.755 |
| 39 | Developmental Psychology | American Psychological Association | 19390599, 00121649 | 1.731 |
| 40 | Journal of Aging and Social Policy | Routledge | 15450821, 08959420 | 1.721 |
| 41 | Cities | Elsevier Ltd. | 2642751 | 1.718 |
| 42 | Applied Linguistics | Oxford University Press | 01426001, 1477450X | 1.71 |
| 43 | Television and New Media | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15274764 | 1.708 |
| 44 | Work, Aging and Retirement | Oxford University Press | 20544650 | 1.699 |
| 45 | Urban Geography | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 02723638, 19382847 | 1.688 |
| 46 | Sociology of Religion | Association for the Sociology of Religion | 10694404 | 1.651 |
| 47 | Internet Research | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 10662243 | 1.65 |
| 48 | Media, Culture and Society | SAGE Publications Ltd | 01634437, 14603675 | 1.641 |
| 49 | Group Processes and Intergroup Relations | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14617188, 13684302 | 1.631 |
| 50 | Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives | Elsevier Ltd. | 25901982 | 1.629 |
| 51 | Journal of Professional Capital and Community | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 20569548, 20569556 | 1.618 |
| 52 | Quantitative Science Studies | MIT Press Journals | 26413337 | 1.612 |
| 53 | Journalism Studies | Routledge | 1461670X, 14699699 | 1.592 |
| 54 | Environment and Urbanization | SAGE Publications Ltd | 09562478, 17460301 | 1.57 |
| 55 | Urban Education | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00420859, 15528340 | 1.57 |
| 56 | Computers, Environment and Urban Systems | Elsevier Ltd. | 1989715 | 1.567 |
| 57 | Media Psychology | Routledge | 1532785X, 15213269 | 1.545 |
| 58 | Feminist Economics | Routledge | 14664372, 13545701 | 1.534 |
| 59 | Journal of Research on Adolescence | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Ltd | 10508392, 15327795 | 1.518 |
| 60 | Journalism | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14648849, 17413001 | 1.511 |
| 61 | Communication Theory | Wiley-Blackwell | 14682885, 10503293 | 1.505 |
| 62 | Internet Policy Review | Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society | 21976775 | 1.473 |
| 63 | Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking | Mary Ann Liebert Inc. | 21522715, 21522723 | 1.466 |
| 64 | Journal of Urban Technology | Routledge | 10630732, 14661853 | 1.457 |
| 65 | Health and Place | Elsevier Ltd. | 13538292 | 1.448 |
| 66 | Public Relations Review | Elsevier BV | 3638111 | 1.432 |
| 67 | Psychology of Women Quarterly | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14716402, 03616843 | 1.417 |
| 68 | Comunicar | Grupo Communicar Ediciones | 11343478 | 1.412 |
| 69 | Public Understanding of Science | SAGE Publications Ltd | 09636625, 13616609 | 1.408 |
| 70 | Habitat International | Elsevier Ltd. | 1973975 | 1.403 |
| 71 | Men and Masculinities | SAGE Publications Inc. | 1097184X | 1.397 |
| 72 | Race Ethnicity and Education | Routledge | 1470109X, 13613324 | 1.388 |
| 73 | Politics and Gender | Cambridge University Press | 1743923X, 17439248 | 1.359 |
| 74 | Advances in Life Course Research | Elsevier | 10402608 | 1.356 |
| 75 | European Urban and Regional Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 09697764, 14617145 | 1.356 |
| 76 | Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly | SAGE Publications Inc. | 2161430X, 10776990 | 1.348 |
| 77 | Review of Black Political Economy | Springer New York | 00346446, 19364814 | 1.345 |
| 78 | Mass Communication and Society | Routledge | 15205436 | 1.333 |
| 79 | Sex Roles | Springer New York | 03600025, 15732762 | 1.314 |
| 80 | Gender and Education | Routledge | 13600516, 09540253 | 1.312 |
| 81 | Chinese Journal of Communication | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 17544769, 17544750 | 1.305 |
| 82 | Mobile Media and Communication | SAGE Publications Inc. | 20501579, 20501587 | 1.303 |
| 83 | Annual Review of Anthropology | Annual Reviews Inc. | 15454290, 00846570 | 1.284 |
| 84 | International Journal of Behavioral Development | SAGE Publications Ltd | 01650254, 14640651 | 1.268 |
| 85 | Technology, Pedagogy and Education | Routledge | 17475139, 1475939X | 1.261 |
| 86 | Journal of Sex Research | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 00224499, 15598519 | 1.25 |
| 87 | Housing, Theory and Society | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 16512278, 14036096 | 1.249 |
| 88 | Regional Science and Urban Economics | Elsevier | 18792308, 01660462 | 1.247 |
| 89 | Health Communication | Routledge | 10410236, 15327027 | 1.243 |
| 90 | Journal of Broadcasting and Electronic Media | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 08838151, 15506878 | 1.229 |
| 91 | Communication and Sport | SAGE Publications Ltd | 21674809, 21674795 | 1.204 |
| 92 | Social Movement Studies | Routledge | 14742837 | 1.195 |
| 93 | Innovation in Aging | Oxford University Press | 23995300 | 1.191 |
| 94 | European Journal of Communication | SAGE Publications Ltd | 02673231, 14603705 | 1.19 |
| 95 | Learning Environments Research | Springer Netherlands | 15731855, 13871579 | 1.187 |
| 96 | Urban Climate | Elsevier BV | 22120955 | 1.185 |
| 97 | Poetics | Elsevier | 0304422X | 1.173 |
| 98 | Target | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 9241884 | 1.138 |
| 99 | International Journal of Transgender Health | Routledge | 26895269, 26895277 | 1.13 |
| 100 | Transgender Health | Mary Ann Liebert Inc. | 2380193X | 1.13 |
| 101 | Signs | University of Chicago | 15456943, 00979740 | 1.128 |
| 102 | Urban Affairs Review | SAGE Publications Inc. | 10780874 | 1.128 |
| 103 | Journal of Aging and Health | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15526887, 08982643 | 1.119 |
| 104 | Chinese Sociological Review | M.E. Sharpe Inc. | 21620555, 21620563 | 1.117 |
| 105 | Translation, Cognition and Behavior | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 25425285, 25425277 | 1.109 |
| 106 | Journal of Social and Personal Relationships | SAGE Publications Ltd | 2654075 | 1.091 |
| 107 | American Behavioral Scientist | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15523381, 00027642 | 1.088 |
| 108 | Journal of Planning Education and Research | SAGE Publications Inc. | 0739456X, 15526577 | 1.088 |
| 109 | Ethnic and Racial Studies | Routledge | 01419870, 14664356 | 1.076 |
| 110 | Journalism & communication monographs | Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication | 15226379 | 1.076 |
| 111 | Perspectives: Studies in Translation Theory and Practice | Routledge | 0907676X, 17476623 | 1.066 |
| 112 | Tourism Recreation Research | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 02508281, 23200308 | 1.066 |
| 113 | Games and Culture | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15554139, 15554120 | 1.065 |
| 114 | Journal of Health Communication | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10810730, 10870415 | 1.064 |
| 115 | Psychology of Sexual Orientation and Gender Diversity | American Psychological Association | 23290382, 23290390 | 1.061 |
| 116 | Convergence | SAGE Publications Inc. | 17487382, 13548565 | 1.056 |
| 117 | Online Social Networks and Media | Elsevier BV | 24686964 | 1.051 |
| 118 | Ethnicity and Health | Routledge | 14653419, 13557858 | 1.045 |
| 119 | Housing Studies | Routledge | 14661810, 02673037 | 1.043 |
| 120 | Journal of Advertising Research | The Advertising Research Foundation | 00218499, 17401909 | 1.041 |
| 121 | Discourse Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14614456, 14617080 | 1.04 |
| 122 | European Journal of Cultural Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 13675494 | 1.04 |
| 123 | Journal of Urban Management | Elsevier BV | 25890360, 22265856 | 1.032 |
| 124 | Environment and Planning B: Urban Analytics and City Science | SAGE Publications Ltd | 23998083, 23998091 | 1.026 |
| 125 | Past and Present | Oxford University Press | 00312746, 1477464X | 1.016 |
| 126 | Smart Cities | MDPI AG | 26246511 | 1.015 |
| 127 | Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22131272 | 1.007 |
| 128 | City and Community | SAGE Publications Ltd | 15356841 | 1.005 |
| 129 | Journal of Homosexuality | Routledge | 15403602, 00918369 | 0.997 |
| 130 | Research in Globalization | Elsevier BV | 2590051X | 0.995 |
| 131 | Journalism Practice | Routledge | 17512786, 17512794 | 0.989 |
| 132 | Journal of Urban Affairs | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 07352166, 14679906 | 0.98 |
| 133 | Agrarian South | SAGE Publications Inc. | 23210281, 22779760 | 0.979 |
| 134 | Social and Cultural Geography | Routledge | 14701197, 14649365 | 0.979 |
| 135 | Review of Communication Research | 22554165 | 0.97 | |
| 136 | Psychology of Men and Masculinity | American Psychological Association | 1939151X, 15249220 | 0.968 |
| 137 | Feminism and Psychology | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14617161, 09593535 | 0.966 |
| 138 | Housing Policy Debate | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10511482, 2152050X | 0.963 |
| 139 | Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology | SAGE Publications Inc. | 00220221, 15525422 | 0.95 |
| 140 | Journal of Business and Technical Communication | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15524574, 10506519 | 0.945 |
| 141 | Communication Monographs | Routledge | 03637751, 14795787 | 0.939 |
| 142 | Evolutionary Human Sciences | Cambridge University Press | 2513843X | 0.939 |
| 143 | Management Communication Quarterly | SAGE Publications Inc. | 8933189 | 0.937 |
| 144 | International Journal of Strategic Communication | Routledge | 1553118X, 15531198 | 0.932 |
| 145 | Surveillance & Society | Surveillance Studies Network | 14777487 | 0.93 |
| 146 | Communication and the Public | SAGE Publications Inc. | 20570481 | 0.926 |
| 147 | Information Society | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 01972243, 10876537 | 0.926 |
| 148 | Area Development and Policy | Routledge | 23792957 | 0.919 |
| 149 | Journal of Child and Family Studies | Springer New York | 15732843, 10621024 | 0.918 |
| 150 | Written Communication | SAGE Publications Inc. | 7410883 | 0.916 |
| 151 | International Journal of Cultural Studies | SAGE Publications Ltd | 13678779 | 0.91 |
| 152 | Gender in Management | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 17542413 | 0.907 |
| 153 | Cyberpsychology | Masaryk University Press | 18027962 | 0.903 |
| 154 | Education and Training | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 400912 | 0.896 |
| 155 | LGBTQ+ Family: An Interdisciplinary Journal | Routledge | 27703371, 2770338X | 0.884 |
| 156 | Multilingua | De Gruyter Mouton | 01678507, 16133684 | 0.884 |
| 157 | Public Culture | Duke University Press | 15278018, 08992363 | 0.884 |
| 158 | Journal of Contemporary Asia | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 00472336, 17527554 | 0.88 |
| 159 | Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion | Wiley-Blackwell | 218294 | 0.874 |
| 160 | City | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 13604813, 14703629 | 0.873 |
| 161 | International Journal of Listening | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 10904018, 1932586X | 0.873 |
| 162 | Profesional de la Informacion | El Profesional de la Informacion | 16992407, 13866710 | 0.872 |
| 163 | Journal of Positive Psychology and Wellbeing | Gokmen Arslan | 25870130 | 0.868 |
| 164 | Journal of Transport and Land Use | University of Minnesota | 19387849 | 0.865 |
| 165 | Media and Communication | Cogitatio Press | 21832439 | 0.865 |
| 166 | Social Text | Duke University Press | 01642472, 15271951 | 0.865 |
| 167 | Journal of Children and Media | Routledge | 17482801, 17482798 | 0.864 |
| 168 | Psychology of Religion and Spirituality | American Psychological Association | 19411022 | 0.864 |
| 169 | Cultural Studies | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 14664348, 09502386 | 0.859 |
| 170 | Journal of Global Fashion Marketing | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 20932685, 23254483 | 0.858 |
| 171 | Technical Communication Quarterly | Routledge | 15427625, 10572252 | 0.857 |
| 172 | Cultural Studies of Science Education | Springer Netherlands | 18711502 | 0.855 |
| 173 | IATSS Research | International Association of Traffic and Safety Sciences | 3861112 | 0.854 |
| 174 | Translation Spaces(Netherland) | John Benjamins Publishing Company | 22113711, 2211372X | 0.848 |
| 175 | Feminist Criminology | SAGE Publications Ltd | 15570851, 1557086X | 0.844 |
| 176 | Discourse, Context and Media | Elsevier BV | 22116958 | 0.842 |
| 177 | Journal of Early Adolescence | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15525449, 02724316 | 0.84 |
| 178 | Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development | Routledge | 1434632 | 0.832 |
| 179 | Urban Review | Springer Netherlands | 15731960, 00420972 | 0.832 |
| 180 | Communication Education | Routledge | 03634523, 14795795 | 0.83 |
| 181 | Media International Australia | SAGE Publications Inc. | 1329878X, 2200467X | 0.829 |
| 182 | Applied Research in Quality of Life | Springer Netherlands | 18712584, 18712576 | 0.823 |
| 183 | International Journal for the Psychology of Religion, The | Routledge | 10508619 | 0.823 |
| 184 | Feminist Media Studies | Routledge | 14680777 | 0.82 |
| 185 | Journal of Family Communication | Routledge | 15327698, 15267431 | 0.819 |
| 186 | Sexuality Research and Social Policy | Springer New York | 15536610, 18689884 | 0.817 |
| 187 | Feminist Theory | SAGE Publications Ltd | 14647001 | 0.816 |
| 188 | Pedagogy, Culture and Society | Routledge | 14681366 | 0.811 |
| 189 | Urban Ecosystems | Kluwer Academic Publishers | 15731642, 10838155 | 0.811 |
| 190 | City and Environment Interactions | Elsevier BV | 25902520 | 0.808 |
| 191 | Cultural Trends | Routledge | 14693690, 09548963 | 0.806 |
| 192 | Journal of Urban Design | Routledge | 14699664, 13574809 | 0.806 |
| 193 | Discourse Processes | Taylor and Francis Ltd. | 0163853X, 15326950 | 0.796 |
| 194 | Emerging Adulthood | SAGE Publications Ltd | 21676984, 21676968 | 0.795 |
| 195 | Journal of Religion and Health | Kluwer Academic/Human Sciences Press Inc. | 15736571, 00224197 | 0.793 |
| 196 | Journal of Technical Writing and Communication | SAGE Publications Inc. | 15413780, 00472816 | 0.792 |
| 197 | Journal of Politeness Research | Walter de Gruyter GmbH | 16125681 | 0.791 |
| 198 | Smart and Sustainable Built Environment | Emerald Group Publishing Ltd. | 20466102, 20466099 | 0.791 |
| 199 | Urban Design International | Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. | 13575317, 14684519 | 0.79 |
| 200 | Journal of Aging Studies | Elsevier BV | 08904065, 1879193X | 0.788 |