Social Communication

Social Communication is published by Sciendo. By OpenAlex counts of its recent articles, its largest topics are Media Studies and Communication, Journalism and Media Studies and Media and Digital Communication, together about 37.1% of its articles. Its main subfields are Communication. (generated from OpenAlex topic counts and CAS ranking data)

Social Communication. Online Journal is a scientific online double-blind peer-reviewed journal, published since March 2012 by the University of Information Technology and Management in Rzeszow (to 2014 published under the title Komunikacja Społeczna. Czasopismo elektroniczne). We publish in areas of Communication, Linguistics, Media Studies, New Technologies and Society, Cultural Studies, Social Sciences, Public Relations, Visual Communication, Visual Arts, Marketing Communication, Political Communication, Social Communication, Gender, and ICT. The editors of Social Communication. Online Journal welcome research and theoretical articles only in English, in doc files, and submitted after registration on our site. We also accept scientific reviews of books and reports on scientific conferences and seminars. All articles submitted to Social Communication. Online Journal are going to be reviewed. Sending an article in is treated as accepting the rules of reviewing. All articles accepted by the editors-in-chief are double-blinded peer-reviewed. The editors do not pay for unsolicited articles and reserve the right to make editorial changes. Responsibility for the views presented in an article is solely that of the author. The editors accept submissions on a continuous basis. This journal provides immediate open access to its content under the Creative Commons BY 4.0 license. Authors who publish with this journal retain all copyrights and agree to the terms of the CC BY 4.0 license. This Journal was financed by the Ministry of Education and Science in Poland in 2022 and 2024 under the program “Support for scientific journals” nr RCN/SN/0406/2021/1. The ministry has supported the journal since 2017.

From the journal's Aims & Scope

Editor-in-chief Iwona Leonowicz-BukałaPublisher website

Editorial board by country: none in mainland China; most named Poland 6, Slovakia 4, Greece 2, Czechia 2, Italy 1 (18 members with a country) Editorial board ↗Publisher website · 2026-11-01

CAS Journal Ranking

Database indexing

Indexed in: no record yet.

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

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Impact

h-index

9OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

i10-index

7OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

2-year mean citedness

1.08OpenAlex · 2026-11-01

Share of gold OA articles

0%LetPub · 2026-11-01

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Average review time (community reports)

about 8 weeksLetPub · 2026-11-01

Peer review

Double anonymous peer reviewPublisher website

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Publisher

Sciendo

Country or region

Poland

Language

English

ISSN

2299-5382

Electronic ISSN

2450-7563

Latest issue on the website

Volume 28, Issue 1 (2026)

Official links

• Journal homepage ↗OpenAlex