Journal profile · COMMUNICATION
New Media & Society
ISSN 1461-4448 · eISSN 1461-7315 · SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD · ENGLAND · Monthly · Founded 1999
New Media & Society: CAS Zone 1 · Literature (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal); impact factor 4.4; hybrid open access; APC about USD 3,900; review about 205 days (submission to acceptance, publisher); acceptance rate 8.2% (journal website); 257 articles in 2025; indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Scope
Aims, scope and focus
New Media & Society is published by SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD and is in Zone 1 of Literature in the CAS Journal Ranking (2025 upgraded edition, Top journal). By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Social Media and Politics, Media Studies and Communication and Impact of Technology on Adolescents, together about 41% of its articles. Its main subfields are Sociology and Political Science. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)
We are currently onboarding new EiCs; so, your article's turnaround time and communication may be slower than usual. Please direct queries to our editorial office: nmsjournal@sagepub.com. Contact the EiCs by emailing: NMSJournalEditorCrystal@sagepub.com and NMSJournalEditorChristian@sagepub.com.View full journal description This journal is a member of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).
From the journal's Aims & Scope
Research area (LetPub): COMMUNICATION
Editor-in-chief Crystal AbidinPublisher website
Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named United States 36, United Kingdom 12, Australia 5, Denmark 4, Canada 3 (92 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website ·
Main research topics OpenAlex counts of recent articles; shares are approximate
- Social Media and PoliticsSocial Sciences23.6%
- Media Studies and CommunicationSocial Sciences8.9%
- Impact of Technology on AdolescentsSocial Sciences8.6%
- Gender, Feminism, and MediaSocial Sciences7.4%
- Digital Games and MediaSocial Sciences7.2%
- Misinformation and Its ImpactsSocial Sciences4.9%
- Hate Speech and Cyberbullying DetectionComputer Science4.8%
- Digital Marketing and Social MediaSocial Sciences3.2%
Rankings & indexing
CAS ranking and database indexing
CAS Journal Ranking
CAS Journal Ranking, upgraded edition (March 2025)Literature Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Communication | Zone 2 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
CAS Xinrui Journal Ranking (March 2026)Literature Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Communication | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: not marked
CAS Journal Ranking, previous upgraded edition (December 2023)Literature Zone 1
| Level | Category | Zone |
|---|---|---|
| Major | Literature | Zone 1 |
| Minor | Communication | Zone 1 |
Top journal: yesReview journal: no
Database indexing
SSCIScopusLetPub
International journal early-warning lists: not listed in any editionLetPub
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.
Metrics
Impact metrics and publication volume
Impact
- Impact factor
- 4.4LetPub ·
- Impact factor (publisher)
- 4.6Publisher website ·
- 5-year impact factor (publisher)
- 7Publisher website ·
- CiteScore 2026-06
- 14.3LetPub ·
- SJR 2026-06
- 2.72LetPub ·
- SNIP 2026-06
- 3.3LetPub ·
- h-index
- 94LetPub ·
- h-index
- 214OpenAlex ·
- i10-index
- 2,429OpenAlex ·
- 2-year mean citedness
- 5.24OpenAlex ·
- Self-citation rate
- 6.5%LetPub ·
- Share of gold OA articles
- 51.94%LetPub ·
Volume
- Articles per year
- 253LetPub ·
- Articles per year (publisher)
- 3Publisher website ·
Articles by year OpenAlex count · 3,939 in total · the current year is incomplete
| Year | Articles | Open access | Citations |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 201 | 132 | 78 |
| 2025 | 257 | 179 | 851 |
| 2024 | 239 | 167 | 2,721 |
| 2023 | 281 | 175 | 4,080 |
| 2022 | 314 | 154 | 8,039 |
| 2021 | 278 | 136 | 10,260 |
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.
Review & acceptance
Review time and acceptance
Publisher-reported review time from the journal's website
205 dayssubmission to acceptance
The publisher's own definition applies; dates from this journal's articles in the last 24 months are not available yet, so the publisher's figure is used.
Figures by source
- Acceptance rate (publisher)
- 8.2%Publisher website ·
- Submission to first decision
- 15 daysPublisher website ·
- Submission to acceptance
- 205 daysPublisher website ·
- Acceptance to publication
- 40 daysPublisher 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.
Fees & open access
APC and open-access policy
Hybrid open accessLetPub
A subscription journal in which authors can pay to publish their article open access.
| Source | APC | Fee waiver | License | Observed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| OpenAlex | USD 3,900 / GBP 2,859 | — | — | |
| Publisher website | Yes, amount not published | — | — |
A hybrid journal charges the APC only when the author chooses open access; publishing under the subscription model is usually free.
Other charges and waivers (author guidelines)
- Other fees
- No other fees
- Submission fee
- No submission fee
The journal's website is authoritative for fees; sources were observed at different times and each keeps its own value, without averaging.
Submission
Article types and submission policies (journal website)
What to prepare9 items from the author guidelines
- Abstract
- ≤ 150 words
- Manuscript length
- ≤ 8,000 words
- Reference style
- Harvard
- Templates
- Word
- First submission
- Free format: the journal's layout is not required
- Suggested reviewers
- Optional
- Highlights
- Required
- Graphical abstract
- Optional
- Cover letter
- Required
Article types accepted7
- editorialPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the…Length not stated
- perspectivePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the…Length not stated
- research articleThe maximum wordcount for both research and review articles is 8,000.Length not stated
- reviewPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the…Length not stated
- review articlePlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the…Length not stated
- reviewsReviews: New Media & Society includes a section in which books and other significant contributions to the field are reviewed.Length not stated
- surveyPlease visit the Sage Journal Author Gateway for guidance on producing visual and/or video abstracts. New Media & Society engages in critical discussions of the…Length not stated
Policy excerpts from the journal's websiteAI use, Authorship, Data availability, Publication ethics, Open access, Peer review, Plagiarism, Preprints
- AI use The governance of AI-generated pornography platforms: A content analysis
Valerie A Lapointe Simon Dubé Aurélie Petit Tinhinane Kessai Sophia Rukhlyadyev Vivianne Gravel David Lafortune
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Authorship Author contributions
You will be asked to list the contribution of each author as part of the submission process. Please include the Author Contributions heading within your submission after the Acknowledgements section. The information you give on submission will then show under the Author Contributions heading later at the proofing stage.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Data availability Data availability
The Journal is committed to facilitating openness, transparency and reproducibility of research, and has the following research data sharing policy. For more information, including FAQs please visit the Sage Research Data policy pages. Subject to appropriate ethical and legal considerations, authors are encouraged to: Share your research data in a relevant public data repository Include a data ava…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Publication ethics Ethical considerations
Please include your ethics approval statements under this heading, even if you have already included ethics approval information in your methods section. If ethical approval was not required, you need to explicitly state this. All papers reporting studies involving human participants, human data or human tissue must state that the relevant Ethics Committee or Institutional Review Board approved th…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Open access Publishing fees and open access
There are no fees payable to submit or publish in this journal. Figures submitted in color will be published in color in the online version of the journal at no cost. If you wish to have color figures in the printed version, to be determined at production stage. Optional open access publishing is available for a fee via the Sage Choice program, and Open Access agreements, where authors can publish…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Peer review Peer review policy
Peer review policy Model summary
The following summary describes the peer review process for this journal: Identity transparency: Double-anonymized Reviewer interacts with: Associate EditorReview information published: None Your manuscript will undergo an initial evaluation. If it does not conform to the requirements laid out in these guidelines, it will be returned to you for amendments prior to peer review. Manuscripts may be d…
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Plagiarism Plagiarism
The journal and Sage take issues of copyright infringement, plagiarism or other breaches of best practice in publication very seriously. Please read Sage's complete policy on plagiarism and the actions we may take.
Source ↗Publisher website ·- Preprints Preprints
Preprint policy Model summary
The journal will consider submissions of manuscripts that have been posted on preprint servers. Please enter the preprint DOI in the designated field when submitting your manuscript. We advise that you inform the Journal Editorial office about your posted preprint at submission. Note that you should not post an updated version of your manuscript on a preprint server while it is being peer reviewed…
Source ↗Publisher website ·
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.
Profile
Publication details and official links
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
- Country or region
- ENGLAND
- Language
- English
- Frequency
- Monthly
- Founded
- 1999
- ISSN
- 1461-4448
- Electronic ISSN
- 1461-7315
- Official links
- Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex
- Submission system ↗LetPub
- Author guidelines ↗LetPub
- Special issues ↗Publisher website
FAQ
Frequently asked questions about New Media & Society
What CAS zone is New Media & Society in?
In the 2025 upgraded edition of the CAS Journal Ranking, New Media & Society is in Zone 1 of Literature, and in Zone 2 of the minor category Communication; it is a Top journal. In the 2026 Xinrui edition it is in Zone 1 of Literature. Zones from different editions, and from major and minor categories, are not interchangeable.
What is the impact factor of New Media & Society?
The latest impact factor listed by LetPub is 4.4; CiteScore 14.3, h-index 214.
How long does peer review take at New Media & Society?
The publisher reports about 205 days (submission to acceptance); the journal's website gives an acceptance rate of 8.2%. Article statistics cover accepted papers only, publisher figures follow the journal's own definitions, and community reports come from authors' own submissions; none is a promise from the journal.
What are the manuscript requirements of New Media & Society?
According to the journal's author guidelines: Abstract: ≤ 150 words; Manuscript length: ≤ 8,000 words; Reference style: Harvard; Templates: Word; First submission: Free format: the journal's layout is not required; Suggested reviewers: Optional; Highlights: Required; Graphical abstract: Optional; Cover letter: Required. A model extracted these from the author guidelines and each was checked against the text; check the latest version on the journal's website before submitting.
Where are the editorial board members of New Media & Society based?
Of the 92 board members whose country the journal's board page names, none are in mainland China; the countries named most often are United States (36), United Kingdom (12) and Australia (5). Counted from the institutions listed on the board page; for reference only.
Which databases index New Media & Society?
According to LetPub and DOAJ records, New Media & Society is indexed in SSCI and Scopus.
Is New Media & Society open access, and what is the APC?
New Media & Society is a hybrid journal. For open-access publication: APC about USD 3,900.
Sources and updates
The facts on this page come from LetPub, Publisher website, OpenAlex; every figure is tagged with its source and the date it was observed, and conflicting values are kept per source. LetPub source page: view ↗ (archived 2026-08-25). Last updated: .