Communication Research Reports

Communication Research Reports is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering communication studies. It was established in 1984 and is published by Routledge.

Communication Research Reports

Discipline	Communication studies
Language	English
Edited by	Dave Keating
Publication details
History	1984-present
Publisher	Routledge
Frequency	Quarterly
Open access	Hybrid
Impact factor	1.3 (2022)
Standard abbreviations ISO 4 (alt) · Bluebook (alt) NLM (alt) · MathSciNet (alt )
ISO 4	Commun. Res. Rep.
Indexing CODEN (alt · alt2) · JSTOR (alt) · LCCN (alt) MIAR · NLM (alt) · Scopus
ISSN	0882-4096 (print) 1746-4099 (web)
LCCN	sn85001024
OCLC no.	321019859
Links
Journal homepage Online access Online archive

The journal specializes in the publication of reports-style manuscripts using social scientific methods (such as quantitative data analysis). The most common type of manuscripts published are research reports, which often feature "scales, causal models, novel correlations, and immediate observations — constitute the 'nuts and bolts' of human communication..."^[1]

In 2016, the journal was rated as the third-most central to the field of human communication.^[2]

Since April 2019, the journal supports several of the open science initiatives sponsored by the Center for Open Science, including the use of badges on certain articles that allow readers unfettered access to research materials, sharing copies of study materials (questionnaires or stimulus materials used in experiments), as well as sharing data analysis files.^{[3][failed verification]}

Abstracting and indexing

The journal is abstracted and indexed in EBSCO databases, PsycINFO,^[4] and Scopus.^[5]

Editors-in-chief

The founding editor-in-chief of the journal was James C. McCroskey (Pennsylvania State University).^[6][7] Dave Keating (University of New Mexico) is currently serving as the editor of vols. 40–42.^[8]

Past editors

Years	Editor	Institution (at time of Editorship)
1984-1988	James C. McCroskey	West Virginia University[9]
1988-1992	Michael J. Beatty	Cleveland State University[10]
1995	James C. McCroskey	West Virginia University
1996-1998	Jerry L. Allen	University of New Haven
1999-2001	Andrew S. Rancer	University of Akron
2002-2004	John C. Sherblom	University of Maine
2005-2007	Lisa Sparks	George Mason University
2008-2010	Wendy Samter	Bryant University
2011-2013	Theodore Avtgis	West Virginia University/Ashland University
2014-2016	Don Stacks	University of Miami[11]
2017-2019	Nicholas David Bowman	West Virginia University (until August 2019)/Texas Tech University (as of September 2019)
2020-2022	Keith Weber	Chapman University

References

1. Bowman, Nicholas (13 April 2016). "Research Reports as the "Nuts and Bolts" of Communication Research". Communication Research Reports. 33 (2): 87. doi:10.1080/08824096.2016.1174536.
2. Griffin, Darrin J; Bolkan, San; Holmgrem, Jennifer; Tutzauer, Frank (October 2015). "Central journals and authors in communication using a publication network". Scientometrics. 106 (1): 91–104. doi:10.1007/s11192-015-1774-4. S2CID 14069862.
3. "Open Science Badges". Center for Open Science. Center for Open Science. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
4. "PsycINFO Journal Coverage". American Psychological Association. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
5. "Source details: Communication Research Reports". Scopus preview. Elsevier. Retrieved 2018-03-25.
6. Bolkan, San; Griffin, Darrin; Holmgren, Jennifer; Hickson III, Mark (2012). "Prolific Scholarship in Communication Studies: Five Years in Review". Communication Education. 61 (4): 380–394. doi:10.1080/03634523.2012.699080. S2CID 144842729.
7. "In Memoriam: James McCroskey". International Communication Association. February 2013. Retrieved 2018-04-04.
8. Keating, David. "The value of research reports for how we conduct and draw conclusions from quantitative communication science".
9. McCroskey, James (1988). "From the editor". Communication Research Reports. 5 (2): 3. doi:10.1080/08824098809359807.
10. McCroskey, James (1988). "From the editor". Communication Research Reports. 5 (2): 3. doi:10.1080/08824098809359807.
11. Bowman, Nicholas (2017). "The Importance of Effect Size Reporting in Communication Research Reports". Communication Research Reports. 34 (3): 187–190. doi:10.1080/08824096.2017.1353338.

External links

• Official website