Interkulturelles Forum der deutschchinesischen Kommunikation

Interkulturelles Forum der deutschchinesischen Kommunikation is published by De Gruyter. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Comparative and World Literature, German Literature and Culture Studies and Language, Communication, and Linguistic Studies, together about 39.3% of its articles. Its main subfields are Literature and Literary Theory and Language and Linguistics. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

About this journal Interkulturelles Forum der deutsch-chinesischen Kommunikation is an academic forum for exchange between academics in the field of intercultural communication between China and German-speaking countries. Among international experts, it is the only German-language journal to date that focuses primarily on research into this intercultural exchange. This journal is aimed at academics who theorize in a practice-oriented way and put a strong focus on theory in order to contribute to the scientific promotion of intercultural understanding between China and the German-speaking countries. It publishes original research articles with methodical and methodological approaches from linguistics, literary studies, educational science and sociology. In addition, it is also open to interculturally oriented studies in fields such as political science, history, philosophy, management, economics and psychology. Interdisciplinary contributions focusing on relevant intercultural issues are expressly welcomed. Research articles are assigned to the following regular sections: Intercultural academic communication (e.g. studying in an intercultural context, styles of academic communication in comparison, evaluation of intercultural competencies, etc.), Intercultural media communication (e.g. strategies, media impact research, etc.), Intercultural business communication (e.g. intercultural management, intercultural conflict management, intercultural training, etc.), Intercultural political communication (e.g. diplomatic discourses, public diplomacy as intercultural communication, etc.). The publication of reviews and interviews is also possible. The language of publication is German. English-language contributions may be published in exceptional cases. Only original publications will be accepted. The editorial office is managed by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (China). The journal is published jointly by Foreign Language Teaching and Research Press (China) and De Gruyter (Germany). It is published twice a year (in March and September).

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Editor-in-chief Wenjian JiaPublisher website

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Database indexing

DOAJLetPub

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Indexing the journal's website claims

EBSCO, ProQuest, Baidu, OCLC, Baidu Scholar, CNKI Scholar (China National Knowledge Infrastructure), CNPIEC - cnpLINKer, Dimensions, EBSCO Discovery Service, Google Scholar, J-Gate, Linguistics Abstracts Online, MLA International Bibliography, Naver Academic, Naviga (Softweco), Primo Central (ExLibris), ReadCube, Scilit, Semantic Scholar, Summon (ProQuest), TDNet, WorldCat (OCLC), X-MOL, Yewno DiscoverPublisher website

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Impact

h-index

4OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

0OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

0.05OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Average review time (community reports)

about 24 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Submission to publication (journal-reported)

about 24 weeksDOAJ · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewDOAJ

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Publisher

De Gruyter

Country or region

Germany

Language

English, German

ISSN

2747-7495

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