Journal of Family Communication

Journal of Family Communication is published by Taylor & Francis and is in Zone 2 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Attachment and Relationship Dynamics, Family Dynamics and Relationships and Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development, together about 44.8% of its articles. Its main subfields are Clinical Psychology and Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Journal of Family Communication JFC Volumes 24-26 will publish three types of articles: Original Research Articles, Replication Articles, Brief Research Reports, and Pre-Registered + Analysis Plan Articles. Original Research articles are 8000-word articles, excluding references, tables, figures, and appendices. (Authors of Original Research Article submissions that require an additional word allowance should contact the editor prior to submitting the article through the ScholarOne system.) Original research articles, including articles that focus on measurement development and validation, should adhere to the traditional research study format (i.e., an Introduction that presents a rationale for the study followed by a Literature Review/Theoretical Background, Method, Results, Discussion, and Practical Implications sections). Please note, measurement development and validation pieces must focus solely on family communication. The practical implications section should provide several practical or social contributions or implications for audiences outside academia (e.g., preK-12 instruction, counselors, social service agencies) as a way to apply the study results to “real” families or “real” family situations. Replication articles are 8000-word articles, excluding references, tables, figures, and appendices that replicate important findings in the field of family communication. Ideally, replications will be direct or statistical replications with identical measures, samples, and procedures (Hunter, 2001), but conceptual replications (e.g., adding an additional variable) will be considered. Replication articles should: Contain a strong warrant for the replication, including why it is necessary and important to the field. Summarize how the original study was carried out and detail how the current study will adhere to and/or deviate from the original (e.g., additional variable as a mediator or moderator; more sophisticated analyses). Discuss how findings replicate, fail to replicate, or extend the original results. Brief Research reports are 4000 to 5500-word articles, including references, tables, figures, and appendices. The research report is an abbreviated version of a traditional research article, with a focus on the interpretation and explication of the results. The research report does not require an extensive literature review and is ideal for scholarship that is grounded in or based on content with which JFC readers are highly familiar. Research reports

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Research area (LetPub): COMMUNICATION

Editor-in-chief Sylvia L. Mikucki-EnyartPublisher website

CAS Journal Ranking

JCR / CiteScore quartiles on the journal's website

• JCR Q2 · best quartile · 2025
• CiteScore Q2 · 2025

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

ESCIScopusLetPub

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

Indexing the journal's website claims

Web of SciencePsycINFOPublisher website

Other: ProQuest, OCLC, EBSCOhost, E-psyche, OCLC Sociological Abstracts (Online), ProQuest online research databases

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 (publisher) 2025

1.8Publisher website · 2026-09-30

5-year impact factor (publisher) 2025

2.5Publisher website · 2026-09-30

CiteScore 2026-06

3.2LetPub · 2026-09-13

CiteScore (publisher) 2025

3.2Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SJR 2026-06

0.73LetPub · 2026-09-13

SJR (publisher) 2025

0.73Publisher website · 2026-09-30

SNIP 2026-06

1.16LetPub · 2026-09-13

SNIP (publisher) 2025

1.16Publisher website · 2026-09-30

h-index

57OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

i10-index

329OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

2-year mean citedness

1.59OpenAlex · 2026-10-01

Self-citation rate

16.7%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Share of gold OA articles

4.48%LetPub · 2026-09-13

Volume

Articles per year

24LetPub · 2026-09-13

Downloads per year (publisher)

61,000Publisher website · 2026-09-30

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)

11%Publisher website · 2026-09-30

Submission to first decision

64 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

First decision after review

67 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

Acceptance to publication

8 daysPublisher website · 2026-09-30

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.

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

1526-7431

Electronic ISSN

1532-7698

Latest issue on the website

Volume 26, Issue 4 (2026)

Official links

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