Communication Booknotes Quarterly

Aims & Scope

Communication Booknotes Quarterly (CBQ) is an annotated review service for recent books, reports, documents, and electronic publications on all aspects of communication designed for an audience of scholars and librarians in the United States and around the world.

Subject areas of interest include, but are not limited to: advertising, public relations, journalism, telecommunications, media effects, media economics, media regulation and policy, media ethics, critical and cultural studies, popular culture, books and publishing, film studies, interpersonal communication, and organizational communication.

This journal enjoys the talents of a dozen members who make up an active board of contributors.

These topical and regional experts share the quarterly production of hundreds of descriptive and critical reviews.

The contributors cover English-, and foreign-language publications from the United States and around the world.

CBQ publishes three kinds of reviews: (1) topical review essays comparing and integrating multiple publications about a given subject; (2) longer single book reviews that evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a single book in a given area of communication; and (3) brief annotated reviews across a variety of subjects.

Issues often begin with a topical review essay concerning publications about a specific topic.

Individual reviews are assigned and open submissions are also welcome.

The final issue of each year includes an author index and a cumulative book title index to the year's reviews.

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Metrics & Ranking

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	26023

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.133

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q4

h-index

Year	Value
2024	1

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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

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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.

• Political communication

  Citation: 6

  Authors: Joohan

• 1. CBQ REVIEW ESSAY:<i>Reality Television: Scholarly Treatments Since 2000</i>

  Citation: 4

  Authors:

• 9. CINEMA IN GENERAL

  Citation: 2

  Authors:

• ETHICS

  Citation: 2

  Authors:

• CBQ REVIEW ESSAY: Histories of Computers...From Aiken to Zuse

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Christopher H.

• INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY

  Citation: 2

  Authors:

• CODEBREAKING HISTORY REDUX

  Citation: 2

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• CBQ ESSAY REVIEW: Recent Books on Focus Group Interviewing and Mass Communication

  Citation: 2

  Authors: Graham R.

• Comics, cartoons, and animation

  Citation: 1

  Authors: John A., Christopher

• CBQ CURRENTS Topical Essays about Contemporary Issues

  Citation: 1

  Authors: Meta G.

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