Academic Journal
Q1Communication Research
About Communication Research
Communication Research is a scholarly journal published by SAGE Publications Inc.. SCImago 2025 lists it in Q1, with an SJR of 2.304 and H-index of 140.
Coverage: 1974-2026. Research categories: Communication (Q1); Linguistics and Language (Q1).
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When Past Hurt Meets Present Care: How Family History Shapes Adult Caregivers’ Communal Coping With Siblings in Their Caregiving for Parents With Health Challenges
Abdullah S. Salehuddin, Andy J. Merolla, Tamara D. Afifi
2026-09-19 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261484417Investigating Conditional Macro-Level Media Effects Over a Long-Term: How Crisis Periods Moderate the Effects of Suicide Coverage on Suicide Rate Change (1861–2007)
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2026-09-03 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261480405Experimental Research on Stereotype Expression in Freely Generated Language: A Systematic Literature Review
Kim T. Beenen, Camiel J. Beukeboom, Christian Burgers, Pia Sommerauer et al.
2026-09-01 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261478981Sex, Romance, or Recreation? An Experiment Testing the Effects of Cannabis Brand-generated Social Media Ads on College Students’ Expectancies and Intentions to Use Cannabis Prior to Sex
Jessica Fitts Willoughby, Stacey J. T. Hust, Leticia Couto, Jiayu Li et al.
2026-08-31 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261480401Less Effort to Believe and More Effort to Disbelieve: Examining the Interplay between News-Finds-Me and Affective Polarization in Political Fake News Susceptibility in the United States
Yu Tian, Lars Willnat, Baohua Zhou
2026-08-26 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261472023From Exposure to Creation: Cultivating Narrative Ownership to Reduce Stigma
Xun Zhu
2026-08-24 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261478972What Do We Mean by Transparency? Conceptualizing and Operationalizing Transparency in Communication
Wenjia Yan, Li Crystal Jiang, Yiqian Gao, Pingping Jia et al.
2026-08-17 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261470088Twitter Conversations: Gendered Issue Publics Among Women
Caley Hewitt, Ayla Oden, Nichole M. Bauer
2026-08-03 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261470086The Bio-Functional Audience: Shared Physiological Alignment to Narrative Media
Ralf Schmälzle, Hee Jung Cho, Monique Mitchell Turner
2026-07-28 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261472026Music Was My First Love: Biographic Resonance Makes Everyday Music Listening Meaningful
Felix Dietrich, Alicia Ernst, Benedikt Rohr, Michael Scharkow et al.
2026-07-26 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261468400Chatbots and Loneliness: How Linguistic Dynamics in Conversations with Chatbots Shape Young Adults’ Loneliness
Jinyoung Choi, Catalina L. Toma
2026-07-10 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261466012Do Profile Photos Enhance Vicarious Intergroup Contact? Testing Theoretical Perspectives from Social Identity, the Social Identity Model of Deindividuation Effects (SIDE), and Social Presence
Yue (Nancy) Dai, Lunrui Fu, Wufan Jia
2026-07-06 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261466759Partisanship in Context: The (A)symmetric Influence of Local Newspaper Availability and Selective Exposure on Political Misperceptions in the U.S.
Jianing Li, Michael W. Wagner
2026-06-29 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261463581Memorable Messages About Retirement, Own Communication About Financial Preparations for Retirement, and Successful Aging: Testing Theoretical Mechanisms in the Communicative Ecology Model of Successful Aging
Quinten S. Bernhold, Cole Jagger Lazerus Burns, Kylie Julius, Peyton Mills et al.
2026-06-28 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261463578Fifty Years of Diversity in Communication and Media Studies (1974–2023): The Intertwined Trends in Geographic, Gender, and Methodological Representation
Mark Boukes, Irina Lock, Shujun Liu
2026-06-22 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261454813When the Algorithm Understands You (or Doesn’t): LGBTQ+ Youth’s Identity-Related Interactions with Algorithmic Media
Y. Anthony Chen, Samuel Hardman Taylor
2026-06-13 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261459750Co-Opetition in Crowdsourcing Challenges: Comment Network Dynamics and Relational Homophily Among Contestants in Crowdsourcing Challenge Communities
Yiqi Li, Peter Monge, Janet Fulk
2026-06-13 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261458941Two Forms of Media Distrust: Cynicism, Skepticism, and Online News Exposure
Lukas P. Otto, Frank Mangold, Michaela Maier
2026-06-10 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261458955The Effects of Individual Coping, Communal Coping, and Person-Centered Support on Depression Management
Xi Tian, Erin Basinger
2026-05-15 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261452885A Longitudinal and Dyadic Study of Communal Coping and Relational Turbulence Among Surviving Parents and Emerging Adult Children After the Death of a Partner/Parent
Hannah E. Jones, Jennifer A. Theiss
2026-05-09 · DOI: 10.1177/00936502261449286Reviews
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