Quarterly Journal of Speech

Aims & Scope

The Quarterly Journal of Speech (QJS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association.

QJS publishes original scholarship and book reviews that take a rhetorical approach to diverse texts, discourses, and cultural practices through which public beliefs, norms, identities, institutions, affects, and actions are constituted, empowered, enacted, and circulated.

Rhetorical scholarship traverses and mobilizes many different intellectual, archival, disciplinary, and political vectors, traditions, and methods, and QJS seeks to honor and engage such differences.

Accordingly, QJS welcomes the full array of scholarship produced under rhetoric’s broad purview, including work that advances and enriches longstanding traditions in rhetorical theory and criticism, as well as research and writing that maps new frontiers.

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Metrics & Ranking

Impact Factor

Year	Value
2025	1.5
2024	1.30

SJR (SCImago Journal Rank)

Year	Value
2024	0.394

Quartile

Year	Value
2024	Q1

h-index

Year	Value
2024	48

Journal Rank

Year	Value
2024	13919

Journal Citation Indicator

Year	Value
2024	88

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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.

• Genre as social action

  Citation: 1424

  Authors: Carolyn R.

• Interpretive themes in relational communication

  Citation: 911

  Authors: William Foster

• The “ideograph”: A link between rhetoric and ideology

  Citation: 456

  Authors: Michael Calvin

• Whiteness: A strategic rhetoric

  Citation: 428

  Authors: Thomas K., Robert L.

• The rhetoric of identification and the study of organizational communication

  Citation: 414

  Authors: George

• Constitutive rhetoric: The case of the<i>peuple québécois</i>

  Citation: 409

  Authors: Maurice

• Fantasy and rhetorical vision: The rhetorical criticism of social reality

  Citation: 341

  Authors: Ernest G.

• They spoke in defense of themselves: On the generic criticism of apologia

  Citation: 339

  Authors: B. L., Wil A.

• <i>TOPOI</i>and rhetorical competence

  Citation: 241

  Authors: Ruth Anne, Jesse G.

• Group decision‐making as a structurational process

  Citation: 228

  Authors: Marshall Scott, David R., Robert D.

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