Javnost - The Public

Javnost - The Public is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 3 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Social Media and Politics, Media Studies and Communication and Populism, Right-Wing Movements, together about 46% of its articles. Its main subfields are Communication. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Published by European Institute for Communication and Culture (EURICOM) from 2026 Javnost—The Public, Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture was established in 1994 as a platform for social scientists all over the world to address, promote, share, and discuss problems, issues and developments of publicness on international and interdisciplinary levels, to stimulate the development of theory and research in the field, and to help understand and bridge the differences between cultures. Javnost—The Public publishes original research papers on all aspects of publicness with strong theoretical foundations. The research presented must transcend the limits of single case studies. Nevertheless, both empirical and theoretical studies are accepted if they offer insights into issues related to the public sphere theories and debates, such as: the role of (media) communication in fostering human freedom and social change; public service broadcasting; media democratization in East-Central Europe, South-East Asia and China; digitization of broadcasting; new developments in journalism; the importance of communication for class relationships; public opinion and political representation; perspectives of small-scale media and community media; tabloidization of the media; globalization of media and media policies; popular culture as political communication; media (in) war and peace; democratic rhetoric and duty of liberation; transformations in the public sphere(s) and the development of a European public sphere; E-networks and democratic life; “forgotten” communication scholars, and many others. Although the primary objective of the journal is to contribute to intellectual understanding of transformations in the democratic process, it is also meant to contribute to improved political practice, policy, and action. Euricom’s quarterly is named after the Slovene noun “ javnost,” which has the same complex meaning(s) as the German concept, Öffentlichkeit (the Slovene language is one of not very many languages that have a perfect conceptual equivalent to the German term Öffentlichkeit). Due to the multi-dimensionality of the concept “javnost,” its comprehensive and all-embracing translation into English and many other languages is not possible. The conceptual capacity of the traditional English term, “the public”, the English co-title of the journal, is one of its meanings in English, much narrower than its German/Slovene counterpart Öffentlichkeit/javnos

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): COMMUNICATION

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2024
• CiteScore Q2 · 2024

Publisher-reported: JCR figures are Clarivate's and CiteScore figures Scopus's to confirm; both are a different system from the CAS zones.Publisher website

Database indexing

SSCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

Current ContentsPublisher website

Other: CNKI

As the journal's website lists them, not checked against each database; for Web of Science editions the records above apply.

Editions, and major and minor categories, are shown separately and never merged into one zone; check which edition your institution uses before you submit or report.

Impact

Impact factor

1.71LetPub · 2026-09-13

Impact factor (publisher) 2024

1.5Publisher website · 2026-10-01

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2024

1.7Publisher website · 2026-10-01

CiteScore 2026-06

3.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2024

3.2Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SJR 2026-06

0.65LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2024

0.6Publisher website · 2026-10-01

SNIP 2026-06

1.27LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2024

1.11Publisher website · 2026-10-01

h-index

54OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

340OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

2.92OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

0%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

24.27%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

37LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

139,000Publisher website · 2026-10-01

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.

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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.

No source has fee information yet; check the journal's website.

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

The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.

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

1318-3222

Electronic ISSN

1854-8377

Latest issue on the website

Volume 32, Issue 4 (2025)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
• Special issues ↗Publisher website