Communication Studies

The Business and Professional Communication Quarterly is a peer reviewed Journal published by the Association for Business Communication. The journal publishes scholarship that advances knowledge about business communication pedagogy in both academic and workplace settings. Articles in BPCQ present a variety of theoretical, applied, and practical approaches and perspectives, including program design and assessment, the impact of technology, global and multicultural issues, qualitative and quantitative research on classroom teaching, and case studies of best practices.

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Communication and Medicine is a peer reviewed journal published by the University of Toronto Press. The journal focuses on providing a leading forum in critical debate over health communication. The journal focuses on issues in practice, clinical, and public health domains. Issues covered in the journal include social psychology, conversation analysis, medical education, health care, and discourse analysis.

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Communication Theory is a peer reviewed journal published by the International Communication Association. The journal publishes research articles, theoretical essays, and reviews on topics of broad theoretical interest from across the range of communication studies. Essays, regardless of topic or methodological approach, must make a significant contribution to communication theory. Data-based papers are appropriate only insofar as they advance new theoretical developments in communication. Communication Theory recognizes that approaches to theory development and explication are diverse. No single approach or set of approaches is privileged.

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The Journal of Communication Inquiry is a peer reviewed journal published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication and the University of Iowa. The journal explores communication and mass communication phenomena within cultural and historical perspectives. Publishing cutting-edge research and analysis, the Journal of Communication Inquiry emphasizes philosophical, evaluative, empirical, legal, historical and critical inquiry into relationships between mass communication and society across time and culture. The journal is interdisciplinary in scope, focusing on scholars in various fields such as mass communication, cultural studies, journalism, sociology, philosophy, and political science.

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Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly is a peer reviewed journal published by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The journal focuses on original articles and book reviews on topics including but not limited to theoretical and methodological developments in journalism and mass communication, international communication, media technologies and society, advertising, public relations, journalism history, media law and policy, media management and economics, political communication and health communication.

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Technical Communication is the peer reviewed journal of the Society for Technical Communication. The journal publishes articles about the practical application of technical communication theory and serves as a common arena for discussion by practitioners. Technical Communication includes both quantitative and qualitative research while showcasing the work of some of the field’s most noteworthy writers. Among its most popular features are the helpful book reviews.

Note: The Society for Technical Communication recently disbanded, leaving this journal's future in limbo.

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The Western Journal of Communication is a peer reviewed journal of the Western States Communication Association. The journal is dedicated to the publication of original scholarship that enhances our understanding of human communication. The Western Journal of Communication has a longstanding commitment to multiple approaches, perspectives, and issues as well as diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives.

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Women's Studies in Communication is a peer reviewed journal published by the Organization for Feminist Research on Gender and Communication. The journal focuses on provides a feminist forum for diverse research, reviews, and commentary addressing the relationships between communication and gender. WSIC invites contributions that advance our understanding of the intersections of gender and race, ethnicity, nationality, ability, sexuality, and class, as well as the articulations between gendered performances, power, and representation in public culture. Topically and methodologically inclusive, WSIC publishes quantitative, qualitative, and critical communication scholarship drawing from a variety of areas including but not limited to interpersonal, organizational, performance, rhetoric, media, and cultural studies.

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