Annals of the International Communication Association

Annals of the International Communication Association is published by Taylor & Francis and is classed under Sociology in the CAS Journal Ranking. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Media Studies and Communication, Communication Studies and Media and Media and Communication Studies, together about 42.9% of its articles. Its main subfields are Communication. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Published by Oxford University Press from January 2025. The Annals of the International Communication Association is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal publishing state-of-the-discipline literature reviews and essays, including: descriptive reviews; meta-analyses; and theoretical essays. Please note that the journal does not accept submissions which are based on single-country or single-case empirical studies. Submissions to the Annals are broadly defined as follows: Reviews – retrospective reviews, helping readers understand the development of current knowledge within the discipline over a defined period in the past, or prescriptive reviews, creating a roadmap for future direction of research on communication Communication Insights – examining a set of predetermined topics that provide a degree of continuity across the years and indicate how a specific research topic has developed. A set of predetermined topics will rotate over five year periods Book Reviews – reviewing a set of recently published books that focus on a central theme within the discipline. The goal of the Annals book reviews is to provide a critical review and synthesis of published books. The Editor encourages authors from non-English language speaking countries to consider submitting topical reviews of books not available in the English language in order to increase the reach of communication studies research globally. The Annals is both international and interdisciplinary in scope, with authors and chapters representing the broad global interests of the International Communication Association. These interests are represented in the various divisions and interest groups of the ICA: Children, Adolescents and the Media Communication and Technology Communication History Communication Law and Policy Computational Methods Environmental Communication Ethnicity and Race in Communication Feminist Scholarship Game StudiesGlobal Communication and Social Change Health Communication Information Systems Instructional and Developmental Communication Intercultural Communication Interpersonal Communication Journalism Studies Language and Social Interaction Mass Communication Mobile Communication Organizational Communication Philosophy, Theory and Critique Political Communication Popular Media and Culture Public Relations Visual Communication Studies Activism, Communication and Social Justice Communication Science and Biology Human-Machine Communication Intergroup Communication Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Tra

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Research area (LetPub): Social Sciences-Communication

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

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Impact

CiteScore 2026-06

10.1LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR 2026-06

1.71LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP 2026-06

2.87LetPub · 2026-09-13

h-index

92OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

637OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

4.38OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Self-citation rate

1.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

29.17%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

30LetPub · 2026-09-13

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A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.

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Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

2380-8985

Electronic ISSN

2380-8977

Latest issue on the website

Volume 48, Issue 4 (2024)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Special issues ↗Publisher website