Recently, Clarivate Analytics officially released the 2023 (2022 edition) Journal Citation Reports® (JCR). The 2022 Journal Impact Factor (JIF) of Communication and the Public stands at 3.6, making it the highest-impact journal of the year in the Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI) category!

In the latest SCOPUS CiteScore, the score of Communication and the Public has risen from last year’s 1.7 to 3.2. Among the 417 journals in the field of communication, it now ranks 102nd, thereby entering the Q1 ranking of communication journals.

• JIF stands for Journal Impact Factor.

• JCI refers to Journal Citation Indicator.

• ESCI journals have adopted JIF for the first time in the 2022 report.

  
  

Communication and the Public was launched in the Spring of 2016, co-published by Zhejiang University and SAGE, and distributed globally. It is the first truly peer-reviewed English academic journal in the field of journalism and communication from mainland China. Since its inception, the journal has organized seven Communication and the Public international academic seminars, garnering widespread attention in the academic community both domestically and internationally. The journal was included in the Scopus and ESCI databases in 2018 and 2019 respectively, and in 2022, it was recognized in the French communication journal rating, being indexed in the core journal index and core queue of French Information and Communication Sciences.

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