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Communication Research and Practice is Scopus-indexed (Q2, CiteScore 2.4), ABDC C, WoS ESCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Taylor & Francis Online.
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ISSN 2204-1451Verify ISSN ↗2206-3374Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Online
Cost to publish: No APC data — check the publisher
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Political Science and International Relations | 238 / 745 | 68th | Q2 |
| Communication | 202 / 541 | 62nd | Q2 |
| Computer Networks and Communications | 301 / 568 | 47th | Q3 |
| Marketing | 144 / 221 | 35th | Q3 |
| Human-Computer Interaction | 131 / 196 | 33rd | Q3 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 2018–present (also 2016), best quartile Q2, CiteScore 2.4.
Communication Research and Practice is Q2 in Political Science and International Relations (rank 238 of 745), Q2 in Communication (rank 202 of 541) and Q3 in Computer Networks and Communications (rank 301 of 568), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 5 subject areas in all.
Communication Research and Practice 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 2.4, which places it in quartile Q2 at the 68th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 0.551, quartile Q2, with an H-index of 23.
Communication Research and Practice is published by Taylor & Francis Online. Its print ISSN is 2204-1451 and its online ISSN is 2206-3374.
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.
It is rated C in the ABDC Journal Quality List 2025 under Marketing.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Communication Research and Practice has an h-index of 35 and a 2-year mean of 2.86 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 2.4, quartile Q2. On 2-year citations it ranks #62 of 704 Scopus journals in Political Science and International Relations.
Communication Research and Practice published 37 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2024 with 44. 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 97 research articles (2024–2026), authors are most often from Australia (48.6%), United States (7.2%) and Indonesia (5.2%).
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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