Human-Machine Communication

Aims & Scope

Designed as an international, interdisciplinary hub, Human-Machine Communication will publish high-impact scholarship examining human-machine communication from a breadth of methodological, theoretical, and philosophical/critical angles to bring further visibility, legitimacy, and community to this newly emergent locus of scholarly and public interest.

The journal is the result of collective organizing around recent pre-conferences and workshops at the International Communication Association (ICA), Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), and ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

It is clear there is tremendous scholarly energy converging around this topic matter.

Metrics & Ranking

Abstracting & Indexing

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

• Scopus
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• Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

Subjects & Keywords

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

Licensing & Copyright

This journal operates under an Open Access model. Articles are freely accessible to the public immediately upon publication. The content is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), allowing users to share and adapt the work with proper attribution.

Copyright remains with the author(s), and no permission is required for non-commercial use, provided the original source is cited.

Policy Links

This section provides access to essential policy documents, guidelines, and resources related to the journal’s publication and submission processes.

• Aims scope
• Homepage
• Oa statement
• Author instructions
• License terms
• Review url
• Board url
• Copyright url
• Plagiarism url
• Apc url
• License

Plagiarism Policy

This journal follows a plagiarism policy. All submitted manuscripts are screened using reliable plagiarism detection software to ensure originality and academic integrity. Authors are responsible for proper citation and acknowledgment of all sources, and any form of plagiarism, including self-plagiarism, will not be tolerated.

For more details, please refer to our official: Plagiarism Policy.

APC Details

The journal’s Article Processing Charge (APC) policies support open access publishing in Social Sciences, ensuring accessibility and quality in research dissemination.

This journal does not charge a mandatory Article Processing Charge (APC). However, optional open access publication may incur fees based on the publisher’s policies.

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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.

• Building a Stronger CASA: Extending the Computers Are Social Actors Paradigm

  Citation: 350

  Authors: Andrew, Jesse, Rabindra

• Social Responses to Media Technologies in the 21st Century: The Media are Social Actors Paradigm

  Citation: 112

  Authors: Matthew, Kun

• Ontological Boundaries between Humans and Computers and the Implications for Human-Machine Communication

  Citation: 89

  Authors: Andrea

• The Robot Privacy Paradox: Understanding How Privacy Concerns Shape Intentions to Use Social Robots

  Citation: 86

  Authors: Christoph, Aurelia

• Opening Space for Theoretical, Methodological, and Empirical Issues in Human-Machine Communication

  Citation: 42

  Authors: Leopoldina, Autumn

• Toward an Agent-Agnostic Transmission Model: Synthesizing Anthropocentric and Technocentric Paradigms in Communication

  Citation: 38

  Authors: Jamie, Maartje

• ChatGPT, LaMDA, and the Hype Around Communicative AI: The Automation of Communication as a Field of Research in Media and Communication Studies

  Citation: 34

  Authors: Andreas, Wiebke, Stephan, Juliane, Sigrid, Christian, Rainer, Michaela Pfadenhauer, Cornelius, Wolfgang

• Out with the Humans, in with the Machines?: Investigating the Behavioral and Psychological Effects of Replacing Human Advisors with a Machine

  Citation: 30

  Authors: Andrew, Lyn

• Voice-Based Agents as Personified Things: Assimilation and Accommodation as Equilibration of Doubt

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Katrin, Sven

• Moving Ahead With Human-Machine Communication

  Citation: 26

  Authors: Leopoldina, Autumn