Media and Communications 2026
118 journals in P5.08 Media and Communications (Social Sciences), ranked by PNCI. Snapshot September 2026. How the ranking works.
| Rank | Journal | PNCI | Percentile | Citation Quartile | POSI Zone | AJR | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1/118 | Digital Journalism Taylor & Francis, ISSN 2167-0811 | 3.45 | 99.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 2/118 | Public Relations Review Elsevier BV, ISSN 0363-8111 | 3.05 | 98.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 3/118 | Journal of Communication Oxford University Press, ISSN 0021-9916 | 2.93 | 97.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 4/118 | Political Communication Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1058-4609 | 2.86 | 97.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 5/118 | Journal of Public Relations Research Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1062-726X | 2.82 | 96.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 6/118 | Annals of the International Communication Association Taylor & Francis, ISSN 2380-8977 | 2.73 | 95.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 1 | – | Official |
| 7/118 | Media Culture & Society SAGE Publishing, ISSN 0163-4437 | 2.42 | 94.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 8/118 | Media and Communication Cogitatio, ISSN 2183-2439 | 2.17 | 93.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 9/118 | The International Journal of Press/Politics SAGE Publishing, ISSN 1040-1620 | 2.10 | 92.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 10/118 | Journalism Studies Routledge, ISSN 1461-670X | 1.90 | 91.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 11/118 | Journalism & Mass Communication Educator SAGE Publishing, ISSN 0022-5517 | 1.79 | 91.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 12/118 | Journalism and Media Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, ISSN 2673-5172 | 1.77 | 90.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 13/118 | International Journal of Strategic Communication Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1553-118X | 1.71 | 89.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 14/118 | Journalism Practice Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1751-2786 | 1.50 | 88.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 15/118 | Revista de Ciencias de la Comunicación e Información ISSN 2695-5016 | 1.49 | 87.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 16/118 | Journal of Information Technology & Politics Routledge, ISSN 1933-1681 | 1.46 | 86.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 17/118 | Journalism SAGE Publishing, ISSN 1464-8849 | 1.45 | 86.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 18/118 | Nordicom review/NORDICOM review De Gruyter Open, ISSN 1403-1108 | 1.34 | 85.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 19/118 | Mass Communication & Society Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1520-5436 | 1.30 | 84.3 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 20/118 | Public Relations Inquiry SAGE Publishing, ISSN 2046-147X | 1.25 | 83.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 21/118 | Journal of Deliberative Democracy ISSN 1937-2841 | 1.17 | 82.6 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 22/118 | Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly SAGE Publishing, ISSN 1077-6990 | 1.11 | 81.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 23/118 | Communication Research and Practice Taylor & Francis, ISSN 2204-1451 | 1.06 | 80.9 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 24/118 | Revista Latina de Comunicación Social University of La Laguna, ISSN 1138-5820 | 0.98 | 80.1 | C-Q1 | Zone 2 | – | Official |
| 25/118 | Communication & Society University of Navarre, ISSN 0214-0039 | 0.98 | 79.2 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 26/118 | Javnost - The Public Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1318-3222 | 0.96 | 78.4 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 27/118 | International Communication Gazette SAGE Publishing, ISSN 1748-0485 | 0.94 | 77.5 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 28/118 | Journal of Political Marketing Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1537-7857 | 0.91 | 76.7 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 29/118 | Revista de Comunicación ISSN 1684-0933 | 0.85 | 75.8 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 30/118 | Global Media and Communication SAGE Publishing, ISSN 1742-7665 | 0.84 | 75.0 | C-Q1 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 31/118 | Revista ICONO14 Icono 14, ISSN 1697-8293 | 0.82 | 74.2 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 32/118 | Journal of Media Ethics Taylor & Francis, ISSN 2373-6992 | 0.76 | 73.3 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 33/118 | The Communication Review Routledge, ISSN 1071-4421 | 0.76 | 72.5 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 34/118 | Revista de Comunicación de la SEECI Sociedad Española de Estudios sobre la Comunicación Iberoamericana (SEECI), ISSN 2695-5156 | 0.74 | 71.6 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 35/118 | Revista Mediterránea de Comunicación University of Alicante, ISSN 1989-872X | 0.70 | 70.8 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 36/118 | Journalism & Communication Monographs SAGE Publishing, ISSN 1522-6379 | 0.69 | 69.9 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 37/118 | Revista de Comunicación y Salud Forum XXI, ISSN 2173-1675 | 0.68 | 69.1 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 38/118 | MedieKultur Journal of media and communication research Society of Media Researchers In Denmark, ISSN 0900-9671 | 0.67 | 68.2 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 39/118 | Communications De Gruyter Mouton, ISSN 0341-2059 | 0.66 | 67.4 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 40/118 | African Journalism Studies Taylor & Francis, ISSN 2374-3670 | 0.65 | 66.5 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 41/118 | Electronic News SAGE Publishing, ISSN 1931-2431 | 0.64 | 65.7 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 42/118 | European Journal of Communication SAGE Publishing, ISSN 0267-3231 | 0.61 | 64.8 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 43/118 | Journal of Radio & Audio Media Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1937-6529 | 0.60 | 64.0 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 44/118 | INDEX COMUNICACIÓN King Juan Carlos University, ISSN 2174-1859 | 0.60 | 63.1 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 45/118 | Doxa Comunicación Revista interdisciplinar de estudios de comunicación y ciencias sociales CEU Ediciones, ISSN 1696-019X | 0.53 | 62.3 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 46/118 | Cuadernos info ISSN 0716-162X | 0.49 | 61.4 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 47/118 | Journal of International Communication Taylor & Francis, ISSN 1321-6597 | 0.48 | 60.6 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 48/118 | Estudios sobre el Mensaje Periodístico Complutense University of Madrid, ISSN 1134-1629 | 0.45 | 59.7 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 49/118 | Newspaper Research Journal SAGE Publishing, ISSN 0739-5329 | 0.44 | 58.9 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 50/118 | Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies Intellect, ISSN 2001-0818 | 0.43 | 58.1 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 51/118 | Comunicación y Sociedad University of Guadalajara, ISSN 0188-252X | 0.41 | 57.2 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 52/118 | Palabra Clave University of La Sabana, ISSN 0122-8285 | 0.40 | 56.4 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 53/118 | Tripodos Facultad de Comunicación y Relaciones Internacionales Blanquerna, Universidad Ramon Llull, ISSN 1138-3305 | 0.39 | 55.5 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 54/118 | Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications ISSN 2407-9499 | 0.39 | 54.7 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 55/118 | Studies in Communication Sciences Elsevier BV, ISSN 1424-4896 | 0.38 | 53.8 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 56/118 | IROCAMM-International Review Of Communication And Marketing Mix Editorial Universidad de Sevilla, ISSN 2605-0447 | 0.37 | 53.0 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 57/118 | News Research Journal ISSN 3049-7841 | 0.35 | 52.1 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 58/118 | adComunica revista científica de estrategias tendencias e innovación en comunicación adComunica. Asociación para el Desarrollo de la Comunicación, ISSN 2174-0992 | 0.34 | 51.3 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 59/118 | Textual & Visual Media ISSN 1889-2515 | 0.34 | 50.4 | C-Q2 | Zone 3 | – | Official |
| 60/118 | Ámbitos Revista Internacional de Comunicación University of Seville, ISSN 1139-1979 | 0.33 | 49.6 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 61/118 | The Australian Journalism Review ISSN 0810-2686 | 0.32 | 48.7 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 62/118 | Journalistica - Tidsskrift for forskning i journalistik Aarhus University Library, ISSN 1901-6220 | 0.32 | 47.9 | Provisional C-Q3 | No zone | – | Provisional |
| 63/118 | VISUAL REVIEW International Visual Culture Review / Revista Internacional de Cultura Visual ISSN 2530-4666 | 0.31 | 47.0 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 64/118 | Hipertext net Revista Académica sobre Documentación Digital y Comunicación Interactiva Pompeu Fabra University, ISSN 1695-5498 | 0.29 | 46.2 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 65/118 | Austral Comunicación ISSN 2313-9129 | 0.28 | 45.3 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 66/118 | Redmarka Revista de Marketing Aplicado University of A Coruña, ISSN 1852-2300 | 0.28 | 44.5 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 67/118 | Central European Journal of Communication ISSN 1899-5101 | 0.26 | 43.6 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 68/118 | URU Revista de Comunicación y Cultura Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar, ISSN 2631-2514 | 0.26 | 42.8 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 69/118 | Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies Intellect, ISSN 1757-1898 | 0.25 | 41.9 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 70/118 | Canadian Journal of Communication Jilin Academy of Agricultural Sciences, ISSN 0705-3657 | 0.25 | 41.1 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 71/118 | Observatorio (OBS*) OberCom (Observatorio da Comunicação), ISSN 1646-5954 | 0.24 | 40.3 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 72/118 | Anuario electrónico de estudios en Comunicación Social Disertaciones Universidad del Rosario; Universidad de los Andes de Venezuela; Universidad Complutense de Madrid, ISSN 1856-9536 | 0.23 | 39.4 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 73/118 | Brazilian Journalism Research Associação Brasileira de Pesquisadores em Jornalismo, ISSN 1808-4079 | 0.22 | 38.6 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 74/118 | Miguel Hernández Communication Journal ISSN 1989-8681 | 0.22 | 37.7 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 75/118 | REVISTA ESPAÑOLA DE COMUNICACIÓN EN SALUD Carlos III University of Madrid, ISSN 1989-9882 | 0.22 | 36.9 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 76/118 | Global Media Journal México Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León, ISSN 2007-2031 | 0.22 | 36.0 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 77/118 | Sintaxis Universidad Anáhuac México Norte, ISSN 2594-1682 | 0.21 | 35.2 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 78/118 | Revista Panamericana de Comunicación Panamerican University, ISSN 2683-2208 | 0.21 | 34.3 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 79/118 | aDResearch ESIC International Journal of Communication Research ISSN 1889-7304 | 0.21 | 33.5 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 80/118 | Revista Dígitos Departamento Teoría de los Lenguajes y Ciencias de la Comunicación, Universidad de Valencia, ISSN 2444-0132 | 0.20 | 32.6 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 81/118 | Communication Papers ISSN 2014-6752 | 0.19 | 31.8 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 82/118 | Radio Journal International Studies in Broadcast & Audio Media Intellect, ISSN 1476-4504 | 0.19 | 30.9 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 83/118 | Intersecciones en Comunicación ISSN 1515-2332 | 0.18 | 30.1 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 84/118 | Questiones Publicitarias Autonomous University of Barcelona, ISSN 1133-6870 | 0.18 | 29.2 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 85/118 | Revista Internacional de Relaciones Públicas IIPR, ISSN 2174-3681 | 0.16 | 28.4 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 86/118 | InMediaciones de la Comunicación Universidad ORT Uruguay, ISSN 1510-5091 | 0.16 | 27.5 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 87/118 | Journal of Alternative & Community Media Intellect, ISSN 2206-5857 | 0.16 | 26.7 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 88/118 | DOCA - Database of Variables for Content Analysis ISSN 2673-8597 | 0.15 | 25.8 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 89/118 | Revista de la Asociación Española de Investigación de la Comunicación ISSN 2341-2690 | 0.15 | 25.0 | C-Q3 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 90/118 | The Journal of Public Interest Communications George A. Smathers Libraries, ISSN 2573-4342 | 0.14 | 24.2 | C-Q4 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 91/118 | Anagramas - Rumbos y sentidos de la comunicación Universidad de Medellín, Sello Editorial, ISSN 1692-2522 | 0.14 | 23.3 | C-Q4 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 92/118 | Perspectivas de la comunicación University of La Frontera, ISSN 0718-4867 | 0.14 | 22.5 | C-Q4 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 93/118 | International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics Intellect, ISSN 1740-8296 | 0.14 | 21.6 | C-Q4 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 94/118 | Comhumanitas Universidad de Los Hemisferios, ISSN 1390-5619 | 0.12 | 20.8 | C-Q4 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 95/118 | Obra digital University of Vic, ISSN 2014-5039 | 0.11 | 19.9 | C-Q4 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 96/118 | Comunicación y Hombre ISSN 1885-365X | 0.11 | 19.1 | C-Q4 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 97/118 | CM Communication and Media Faculty of Agronomy in Čačak, ISSN 1452-7405 | 0.11 | 18.2 | C-Q4 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 98/118 | Southwestern Mass Communication Journal Texas State University System, ISSN 0891-9186 | 0.11 | 17.4 | C-Q4 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 99/118 | Communication & Methods ISSN 2659-9538 | 0.11 | 16.5 | C-Q4 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
| 100/118 | Norsk medietidsskrift Universitetsforlaget, ISSN 0804-8452 | 0.11 | 15.7 | C-Q4 | Zone 4 | – | Official |
CITATION-RANK-1.0. Provisional rankings (dashed) have 10–19 eligible items or items from a single publication year, and carry no zone. 180 further journals in this category have citation data but no rank (too few items, incomplete citation coverage, or category too small); their PNCI is shown on their journal pages.