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Increasing Impact Factors—
SAGE Communication & Media Studies Journals

Dear Colleague,

SAGE is committed to developing the quality and impact of the journals we publish. We are pleased to highlight the following from the 2006 Journal Citation Reports® recently released by Thomson Scientific.

Communication & Media Studies Highlights

27% of the journals included in the Communication category are published by SAGE, including one quarter of the journals ranked in the top 20.

Communication Research, currently ranked 10/44 with an Impact Factor (IF) of 1.056, has been ranked in the top 10 since 1999.

European Journal of Communication saw its IF increase by more than 60% over last year, from 0.262 to 0.429. It is now ranked 35/44.

Written Communication saw its IF increase by more than 50% over last year, from 0.394 to 0.594.

Management Communication Quarterly is now indexed in the Social Sciences Citation Index® (IF pending).

SAGE's Top 10 Communication & Media Studies Journals

Communication Research – ranked 10/44 (IF: 1.056)
Journal of Social and Personal Relationships – ranked 13/44 (IF: 0.989)
New Media & Society – ranked 14/44 (IF: 0.988)
Public Understanding of Science – ranked 15/44 (IF: 0.978)
Science Communication – ranked 18/44 (IF: 0.800)
Discourse & Society – ranked 21/44 (IF: 0.714)
Written Communication – ranked 26/44 (IF: 0.594)
The Harvard International Journal of Press/Politics – ranked 27/44 (IF: 0.525)
Published for Harvard University's Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy
Discourse Studies – ranked 31/44 (IF: 0.471)
Journal of Business and Technical Communication – ranked 33/44 (IF: 0.448)

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