Communication and Critical/ Cultural Studies

Aims & Scope

Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (CC/CS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association.

CC/CS publishes original scholarship that situates culture as a site of struggle and communication as an enactment and discipline of power.

The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic and theoretical boundaries.

CC/CS welcomes a variety of methods including textual, discourse, and rhetorical analyses alongside auto/ethnographic, narrative, and poetic inquiry.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.4
2024	1.10

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	12217

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	142

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.469

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	30

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Abstracting & Indexing

Journal is indexed in leading academic databases, ensuring global visibility and accessibility of our peer-reviewed research.

• Scopus
• Google Scholar
• Web of Science

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Subjects & Keywords

Journal’s research areas, covering key disciplines and specialized sub-topics in Social Sciences, designed to support cutting-edge academic discovery.

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Most Cited Articles

The Most Cited Articles section features the journal's most impactful research, based on citation counts. These articles have been referenced frequently by other researchers, indicating their significant contribution to their respective fields.

• Cultural studies, public pedagogy, and the responsibility of intellectuals

  Citation: 265

  Authors: Henry A.

• When facts, truth, and reality are God‐terms: on journalism's uneasy place in cultural studies

  Citation: 164

  Authors: Barbie

• The Rhetoric of Nuclear Colonialism: Rhetorical Exclusion of American Indian Arguments in the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Siting Decision

  Citation: 113

  Authors: Danielle

• Agency: Promiscuous and Protean

  Citation: 108

  Authors: Karlyn Kohrs

• Me too, #MeToo: countering cruelty with empathy

  Citation: 107

  Authors: Michelle

• New Materialism as Media Theory: Medianatures and Dirty Matter

  Citation: 100

  Authors: Jussi

• Spaces of Remembering and Forgetting: The Reverent Eye/I at the Plains Indian Museum An earlier version of this essay was presented at the 2002 convention of the Western States Communication Association.

  Citation: 94

  Authors: Greg, Brian L., Eric

• The Theatricality of Humanitarianism: A Critique of Celebrity Advocacy

  Citation: 80

  Authors: Lilie

• White lies: a racial history of the (post)truth

  Citation: 73

  Authors: Robert, Kay, Curtis

• Resistant Matters: Tents, Tear Gas and the “Other Media” of Occupy

  Citation: 70

  Authors: Anna

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