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Communication Reports is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 3.1), WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Routledge.
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ISSN 0893-4215Verify ISSN ↗1745-1043Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Routledge
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Language and Linguistics | 145 / 1137 | 87th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 168 / 1221 | 86th | Q1 |
| Communication | 158 / 541 | 70th | Q2 |
| Education | 613 / 1698 | 63rd | Q2 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABDC, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2005–present (also 1988–1995), best quartile Q1, CiteScore 3.1.
Communication Reports is Q1 in Language and Linguistics (rank 145 of 1137), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 168 of 1221) and Q2 in Communication (rank 158 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Communication Reports is indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index, so it may have a Journal Impact Factor in Clarivate's Journal Citation Reports. JCR is paid, so check it for the current value. The closest free measure is its Scopus CiteScore 3.1, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 87th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.620, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 32.
Communication Reports is published by Routledge. Its print ISSN is 0893-4215 and its online ISSN is 1745-1043.
Yes. It is part of the One Nation One Subscription (ONOS) national subscription, so readers at participating Indian institutions get its full text. ONOS does not cover its article processing charge.
Yes — indexed in the Emerging Sources Citation Index.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Communication Reports has an h-index of 56 and a 2-year mean of 1.61 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 3.1, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #128 of 1,037 Scopus journals in Language and Linguistics.
Communication Reports published 24 papers in 2025. 2026* is the year so far.
h-index, i10-index and 2-year mean citedness are open, licence-clear metrics from OpenAlex — not a proprietary impact factor. The subject rank counts only journals that OpenAlex has a figure for; it is not a Scopus or Clarivate ranking. Updated 2026-10-14.
In its latest 39 research articles (2021–2026), authors are most often from United States (80.8%), United Kingdom (2.6%) and Canada (2.6%). More than half of recent authorship comes from one country.
Countries are counted fractionally, so a paper by authors from two countries counts half to each.
Scopus status: Active. No retracted papers are recorded. The Problematic Paper Screener flags none of its papers. These are indicators to check, not findings against the journal.
Retractions from OpenAlex; flags from the Problematic Paper Screener (Cabanac, Labbé & Magazinov, CC BY), 2026-09-21 export. A flag marks a paper for a closer look; it is not a finding against the journal.
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