Communication Teacher

Communication Teacher is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 4 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Communication in Education and Healthcare, Online and Blended Learning and Discourse Analysis in Language Studies, together about 39.5% of its articles. Its main subfields are Education. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Communication Teacher is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. Communication Teacher publishes original scholarship that considers the practice and assessment of the teaching of communication across K-12, university/college, and other educational contexts. Communication Teacher welcomes submissions in three categories: original teaching activities, communication education assessment and a reflection forum. Original Teaching Activities are instructional activities that can be conducted in either the K-12 or college classroom, including Activities that can be implemented in any communication course, across single classes or units Outlines of a semester-long project or approach to an entire course Educational Assessment Articles are data-driven, systematic reflections on instructional practices that provide communication educators across the educational spectrum with opportunities to: Monitor student learning Improve the quality of specific courses or overall programs Modify their instructional practices based on the results of such studies The reflection forum offers a space for teachers to reflect on 1) their passions and practice more broadly (as opposed to a specific classroom activity) and 2) on the ways that teaching and learning about communication reflects our current social and political climates and 3) the potential to prepare students to participate more fully as critical thinkers in a rapidly shifting society. “ In many cases, original teaching activities can be assessed for their efficacy in meeting student needs and teacher goals. With this in mind, authors may create a series of articles that create a link between practice and assessment. For this series, the author may submit articles simultaneously, or the editor may invite the author to submit an assessment activity based on the original published teaching activity (single, unit, or semester-long). For more details regarding the formal requirements for submissions to Communication Teacher , please consult our Instructions for Authors. Unless specifically indicated otherwise, all research articles in this journal have undergone rigorous peer review, including screening by the editor and review by at least two anonymous referees. Forum submissions are reviewed by the journal editor (and forum editor if applicable for that forum), not by double anonymized peer review as with reseach articles.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): COMMUNICATION

Editor-in-chief Leda CooksPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

ESCIScopusLetPub

International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub

Indexing the journal's website claims

OCLC, Communication and Mass Media Complete, Current Abstracts, Electronic Collections OnlinePublisher website

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Impact

Impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

0.6Publisher website · 2026-09-29

CiteScore 2026-06

1.3LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

1.3Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SJR 2026-06

0.23LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.23Publisher website · 2026-09-29

SNIP 2026-06

0.43LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

0.43Publisher website · 2026-09-29

h-index

25OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

94OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.07OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

16.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

5%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

45LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

77,000Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Sources count differently and were observed at different times, so each source's own value is kept; "publisher" marks figures from the journal's website.

Other sources

Acceptance rate (publisher)

33%Publisher website · 2026-09-29

Submission to first decision

20 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

First decision after review

73 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Acceptance to publication

27 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-29

Community reports come from authors' own submissions (confidence 0.5) and are not a promise from the journal; for publisher figures, the journal's own definitions apply.

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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Excerpts are quoted from the journal's website; "model summary" lines are written by Workers AI and checked against the text. The journal's website is authoritative.

Publisher

Taylor & Francis

ISSN

1740-4622

Electronic ISSN

1740-4630

Society / sponsor

National Communication Association

Latest issue on the website

Volume 40, Issue 3 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗LetPub
• Submission system ↗Publisher website
• Special issues ↗Publisher website