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Frontiers in Communicationopen access

Country

Switzerland

Universities and research institutions in Switzerland
Media Ranking in Switzerland

Subject Area and Category

Publisher

Frontiers Media SA

H-Index

31

Publication type

Journals

ISSN

2297900X

Coverage

2016-2023

Information

Homepage

How to publish in this journal

communication.editorial.office@frontiersin.org

Scope

Communication is integral to contemporary life. The structure and content of our communications systems will define our understanding of the world, our identities, and, ultimately, the strength of our democracies. There are few domains—whether politics, science, or culture—that are not shaped by the way they are communicated. Over the last thirty years, the most conspicuous global revolution—cutting across social, economic, and cultural spheres—has been in communication. New communication technologies have transformed the way we interact and the media we consume. They have profoundly altered the way we work, and the consumption of digital media now dominates our leisure time. It is imperative that our understanding of communication keeps pace with these changes: indeed, our ability to progress will depend upon it. Frontiers in Communication fosters the best cross-disciplinary research to inform our understanding of a rapidly changing field. It publishes rigorously peer-reviewed research in a range of key areas, including political, health, culture, and science and environmental communication. Communication is all-encompassing, and we are now expanding our focus to new areas, such as multimodality of communication and advertising. Led by an outstanding editorial board of international experts, this multidisciplinary open-access journal is at the forefront of disseminating and communicating knowledge and impactful discoveries to researchers, academics, policy makers, and the public worldwide. Join the conversation about this journal
Quartiles

The set of journals have been ranked according to their SJR and divided into four equal groups, four quartiles. Q1 (green) comprises the quarter of the journals with the highest values, Q2 (yellow) the second highest values, Q3 (orange) the third highest values and Q4 (red) the lowest values.

CategoryYearQuartile
Communication2022Q1
Communication2023Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2022Q1
Social Sciences (miscellaneous)2023Q1
SJR

The SJR is a size-independent prestige indicator that ranks journals by their 'average prestige per article'. It is based on the idea that 'all citations are not created equal'. SJR is a measure of scientific influence of journals that accounts for both the number of citations received by a journal and the importance or prestige of the journals where such citations come from It measures the scientific influence of the average article in a journal, it expresses how central to the global scientific discussion an average article of the journal is.

YearSJR
20220.572
20230.589
Total Documents

Evolution of the number of published documents. All types of documents are considered, including citable and non citable documents.

YearDocuments
201615
201724
201862
201978
2020139
2021270
2022284
2023284
Citations per document

This indicator counts the number of citations received by documents from a journal and divides them by the total number of documents published in that journal. The chart shows the evolution of the average number of times documents published in a journal in the past two, three and four years have been cited in the current year. The two years line is equivalent to journal impact factor ™ (Thomson Reuters) metric.

Cites per documentYearValue
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20160.000
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20170.867
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20180.923
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20191.366
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20201.866
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20212.634
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20222.521
Cites / Doc. (4 years)20232.551
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20160.000
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20170.867
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20180.923
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20191.366
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20201.811
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20212.699
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20222.423
Cites / Doc. (3 years)20232.368
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20160.000
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20170.867
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20180.923
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20191.291
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20201.793
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20212.627
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20222.164
Cites / Doc. (2 years)20231.709
Total Cites 
Self-Cites

Evolution of the total number of citations and journal's self-citations received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years.
Journal Self-citation is defined as the number of citation from a journal citing article to articles published by the same journal.

CitesYearValue
Self Cites20160
Self Cites20170
Self Cites20182
Self Cites201910
Self Cites202033
Self Cites202178
Self Cites202247
Self Cites202368
Total Cites20160
Total Cites201713
Total Cites201836
Total Cites2019138
Total Cites2020297
Total Cites2021753
Total Cites20221180
Total Cites20231641
External Cites per Doc 
Cites per Doc

Evolution of the number of total citation per document and external citation per document (i.e. journal self-citations removed) received by a journal's published documents during the three previous years. External citations are calculated by subtracting the number of self-citations from the total number of citations received by the journal’s documents.

CitesYearValue
External Cites per document20160
External Cites per document20170.867
External Cites per document20180.872
External Cites per document20191.267
External Cites per document20201.610
External Cites per document20212.419
External Cites per document20222.326
External Cites per document20232.270
Cites per document20160.000
Cites per document20170.867
Cites per document20180.923
Cites per document20191.366
Cites per document20201.811
Cites per document20212.699
Cites per document20222.423
Cites per document20232.368
% International Collaboration

International Collaboration accounts for the articles that have been produced by researchers from several countries. The chart shows the ratio of a journal's documents signed by researchers from more than one country; that is including more than one country address.

YearInternational Collaboration
20166.67
201725.00
201820.97
201925.64
202021.58
202124.07
202227.11
202332.04
Citable documents 
Non-citable documents

Not every article in a journal is considered primary research and therefore "citable", this chart shows the ratio of a journal's articles including substantial research (research articles, conference papers and reviews) in three year windows vs. those documents other than research articles, reviews and conference papers.

DocumentsYearValue
Non-citable documents20160
Non-citable documents20170
Non-citable documents20180
Non-citable documents20191
Non-citable documents20203
Non-citable documents20216
Non-citable documents202214
Non-citable documents202339
Citable documents20160
Citable documents201715
Citable documents201839
Citable documents2019100
Citable documents2020161
Citable documents2021273
Citable documents2022473
Citable documents2023654
Cited documents 
Uncited documents

Ratio of a journal's items, grouped in three years windows, that have been cited at least once vs. those not cited during the following year.

DocumentsYearValue
Uncited documents20160
Uncited documents20178
Uncited documents201820
Uncited documents201938
Uncited documents202059
Uncited documents202189
Uncited documents2022179
Uncited documents2023238
Cited documents20160
Cited documents20177
Cited documents201819
Cited documents201963
Cited documents2020105
Cited documents2021190
Cited documents2022308
Cited documents2023455
% Female Authors

Evolution of the percentage of female authors.

YearFemale Percent
201650.00
201758.46
201856.43
201947.42
202056.20
202157.20
202258.83
202359.24
Documents cited by public policy (Overton)

Evolution of the number of documents cited by public policy documents according to Overton database.

DocumentsYearValue
Overton20163
Overton20170
Overton201810
Overton201910
Overton202030
Overton202117
Overton20226
Overton20232
Documents related to SDGs (UN)

Evoution of the number of documents related to Sustainable Development Goals defined by United Nations. Available from 2018 onwards.

DocumentsYearValue
SDG201819
SDG201929
SDG202071
SDG202193
SDG202289
SDG202394
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