Communication Studies 18.2k citations
1.1k papers ·
indexed · active since 1950
Topics Rhetoric and Communication Studies Communication in Education and Healthcare Attachment and Relationship Dynamics Overview Impact Peers Geography Research Space Peers Communication Studies
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Sociology and Political Science 7.7k Social Psychology 6.4k Communication 4.3k Literature and Literary Theory 2.4k Clinical Psychology 2.0k Communication Research Reports United States
Journal of Applied Communication Research United States
Western Journal of Communication United States
Annals of the International Communication Association United States
Social Science Information France
Communication Quarterly United States
Journal of Language and Social Psychology United States
Sociological Inquiry United States
Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour United States
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This network shows the impact of papers published in Communication Studies. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers published in Communication Studies.
About Communication Studies The 1.1k papers published in Communication Studies in the last decades have received a total of 18.2k indexed citations . Papers published in Communication Studies usually cover Communication (310 papers), Philosophy (249 papers) and Literature and Literary Theory (241 papers) specifically the topics of Rhetoric and Communication Studies (235 papers), Communication in Education and Healthcare (163 papers) and Attachment and Relationship Dynamics (137 papers). The most active scholars publishing in Communication Studies are William L. Benoit , Kimberly Powell , Hee Sun Park , Keith Michael Hearit , Jeffrey W. Kassing , Patricia M. Sias , Leanne K. Knobloch , Denise Haunani Solomon , Mary Anne Fitzpatrick and Ascan F. Koerner .
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