Popular Communication

Aims & Scope

Popular Communication provides a forum for scholarly investigation, analysis and dialogue about communication symbols, forms, materiality, systems and networks within the context of transnational and globalized popular culture and communication.

It is an international journal of media and culture that publishes articles on all aspects of popular communication in everyday life, including legacy media and new media, the Internet, advertising and consumer culture, games, print, radio, music, dance, sports, film and television, fandom, and social media.

Popular Communication engages with cultural forms and texts, artifacts, events, technologies, industries, policies and audiences through critical methods and standpoints.

Popular Communication addresses these practices and phenomena in relationship to gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, and class in the political (economic), social, historical and cultural contexts in which they are a part and to which they contribute.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.8
2024	1.50

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.572

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	31

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	10154

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	146

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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.

• “Sharenting,” parent blogging, and the boundaries of the digital self

  Citation: 226

  Authors: Alicia, Sonia

• Fandom in the Digital Era

  Citation: 97

  Authors: Roberta

• Race, Ethnicity, and Cultural Production

  Citation: 87

  Authors: David, Anamik

• House of Netflix: Streaming media and digital lore

  Citation: 87

  Authors: Benjamin

• Mobile Phones, Popular Media, and Everyday African Democracy: Transmissions and Transgressions

  Citation: 85

  Authors: Herman

• Symbolic bordering: The self-representation of migrants and refugees in digital news

  Citation: 76

  Authors: Lilie

• Connected migrants: Encapsulation and cosmopolitanization

  Citation: 75

  Authors: Koen, Sandra

• Does the subaltern speak? Migrant voices in digital Europe

  Citation: 71

  Authors: Myria

• Performing the Looking-Glass Self: Avatar Appearance and Group Identity in<i>Second Life</i>

  Citation: 70

  Authors: Rosa Mikeal, Mia

• News Parody in Global Perspective: Politics, Power, and Resistance

  Citation: 69

  Authors: Geoffrey, Jeffrey P.

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