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Human Communication Research is Scopus-indexed (Q1, CiteScore 8), formerly ABDC A, WoS SSCI. It is covered by India's One Nation One Subscription scheme for reading access. Published by Wiley-Blackwell.
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ISSN 0360-3989Verify ISSN ↗1468-2958Verify ISSN ↗
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Cost to publish: About US$4,235 to publish open access (publisher list price, via OpenAlex) — subscription publishing may be free
| Subject area | Rank | Pctile | Q |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anthropology | 4 / 536 | 99th | Q1 |
| Linguistics and Language | 34 / 1221 | 97th | Q1 |
| Communication | 33 / 541 | 93rd | Q1 |
| Developmental and Educational Psychology | 31 / 380 | 91st | Q1 |
Not listed in: DOAJ, ABS / AJG, FT50, UT Dallas, ONOS (APC covered)
Yes — actively indexed in Scopus, coverage 1974–present, best quartile Q1, CiteScore 8.
Human Communication Research is Q1 in Anthropology (rank 4 of 536), Q1 in Linguistics and Language (rank 34 of 1221) and Q1 in Communication (rank 33 of 541), by CiteScore 2025. It is ranked in 4 subject areas in all.
Human Communication Research is indexed in the Social Sciences 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 8, which places it in quartile Q1 at the 99th percentile of its subject. Its SCImago Journal Rank (SJR, a free Scopus-based metric) is 1.751, quartile Q1, with an H-index of 119.
The publisher lists an article processing charge of about US$4,235 for open access (source: OpenAlex). Many journals also publish by the subscription route at no cost to the author, so confirm on the journal's own website.
Human Communication Research is published by Wiley-Blackwell. Its print ISSN is 0360-3989 and its online ISSN is 1468-2958.
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 Social Sciences Citation Index.
It was rated A in the 2022 ABDC list but is not in the current 2025 Journal Quality List.
No — it is not registered as an open-access journal in DOAJ or Scopus.
Human Communication Research has an h-index of 174 and a 2-year mean of 4.6 citations per paper (OpenAlex). Its Scopus CiteScore is 8, quartile Q1. On 2-year citations it ranks #7 of 497 Scopus journals in Anthropology.
Human Communication Research published 32 papers in 2025; its busiest recent year was 2023 with 57. 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 100 research articles (2023–2026), authors are most often from United States (65.7%), Germany (10.8%) and South Korea (5%). 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.
Index data is curated from public sources (Scopus, Web of Science, ABDC, FT50, UT Dallas, DOAJ). CiteScore and quartiles reflect the latest available Scopus release. Always verify a journal's current status on its official source before submitting.
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